Webinar Schedule
Wish List (18)
- October 2025
-
EcoCast Supporting and Enabling Modern Applications
About This EcoCast
In today's fast-paced digital environment, supporting and enabling modern applications requires advanced tools and strategies that ensure performance, scalability, and security. This event will explore the latest innovations in application development, deployment, and management, with a focus on enhancing the efficiency of cloud-native and hybrid applications. IT professionals and decision-makers will gain valuable insights into automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques that drive success in modern application environments. Sponsoring this webinar provides a unique opportunity to engage with a targeted audience of IT buyers, developers, and infrastructure leaders looking for solutions to support and enhance their modern application ecosystems. As a sponsor, your company can highlight its expertise, demonstrate product capabilities, and connect with decision-makers who are actively seeking the latest technologies to enable their application infrastructure.Vendor Fit
This event is ideal for vendors offering solutions in cloud services, application performance management, DevOps tools, or security platforms tailored to modern, scalable applications. -
MegaCast Enterprise Lockdown 2026: Everything to Know About Securing Everything from Endpoints to the Cloud to your Supply Chain to APIs
About This MegaCast
As organizations face increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, understanding how to secure every facet of the enterprise has never been more critical. Join us for this MegaCast, "Enterprise Lockdown 2026," where industry experts will discuss essential strategies for protecting endpoints, cloud environments, supply chains, and APIs. Attendees will gain insights into implementing Zero Trust frameworks, enhancing endpoint security, and ensuring secure access throughout their networks. This event presents an opportunity for your company to establish itself as a leader in the cybersecurity space, reaching an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers actively seeking solutions to strengthen their security posture. By participating in this MegaCast, you will showcase your expertise and innovative offerings to decision-makers focused on comprehensive security strategies for their organizations.Vendor Fit
This event is ideal for companies providing security solutions across various domains, including endpoint protection, cloud security, supply chain security, identity management, and API security technologies designed to enhance enterprise resilience against cyber threats. - December 2025
-
EcoCast AI Strategies for 2026 You Should Plan for Now
About This EcoCast
AI innovation is accelerating—and forward-thinking IT leaders are already planning for the next wave. As we approach 2026, success with AI will hinge on the ability to scale pilot projects, operationalize models, and align AI efforts with measurable business goals. This EcoCast will explore strategic priorities IT teams should act on today to be ready for what's next: building robust data pipelines, implementing effective governance, adopting agentic systems, and evaluating platforms for automation, analytics, and generative AI. Sponsors will have the opportunity to present solutions that help enterprises future-proof their AI strategies while addressing current challenges in performance, security, and integration. This event connects vendors with an audience of IT buyers and influencers committed to using AI to drive lasting transformation across the business.Vendor Fit
Ideal for AI platform providers, MLOps vendors, automation firms, or companies supporting enterprise AI readiness and scalability. - March 2026
-
SmartPanel Day 2: AV/IT Interoperability
You've completed the installation and everything is running smoothly—until it's not. "Day 2" explores how to mitigate interoperability issues once a new firmware is pushed out or a new device gets added to the AV/IT network. We address whether networked AV should be on its own dedicated network.
+ An update on AV standards and protocols
+ What's new in Dante
+ The security talk
+ Wi-Fi 7
+ What AV folks need to know about IT
+ What IT folks need to know about AV
- May 2026
-
EcoCast Getting Storage Under Control: Simplifying On-Prem and Cloud-Based Storage Architectures
"Explosive data growth is straining both on-premises and cloud-based storage systems, leaving IT teams struggling with rising costs, management complexity, and performance bottlenecks. Organizations are actively seeking solutions that streamline storage architectures, ensure scalability, and enable predictable performance across hybrid environments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating strategies to modernize and simplify storage. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies and services deliver unified management, data protection, cost optimization, and flexibility across on-prem and cloud storage. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches to reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and gain visibility into their storage environments. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers who are ready to invest in next-generation storage strategies.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for storage solution providers, hybrid cloud storage vendors, backup and recovery innovators, data management platforms, and storage optimization specialists." -
MegaCast Supercharging IT Summit
"IT organizations are being asked to do more than ever—deliver higher performance, embrace cloud innovation, strengthen security, empower users, and integrate artificial intelligence into daily operations—all while managing tighter budgets and leaner teams. Leaders are seeking solutions that supercharge efficiency, resilience, and agility across every layer of IT, from infrastructure and applications to security and data management. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to connect directly with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating the tools, services, and strategies that will power their organizations into 2026 and beyond. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how it helps enterprises accelerate transformation, reduce complexity, and achieve more with less. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches to automation, AI adoption, cloud optimization, observability, cybersecurity, and data protection. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers looking for the next generation of IT innovation.
Vendor Fit
This event is an ideal platform for any provider of IT solutions or services." - June 2026
-
MegaCast Keeping up with Ransomware: Evolving Defenses to Counter Changing Attacks
"Ransomware continues to evolve, with attackers employing new tactics that bypass traditional defenses, exploit cloud services, and target backups. Enterprises can no longer rely on static strategies—they need adaptive, layered approaches that combine prevention, detection, and rapid recovery. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that reduce risk, minimize downtime, and protect critical data from increasingly destructive attacks. This MegaCast provides your company the opportunity to connect directly with decision-makers who are prioritizing ransomware defense as a top security investment. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies and services deliver resilient protection, from immutable backups and AI-driven threat detection to automated response and recovery. Attendees will be evaluating solutions that strengthen security postures, simplify operations, and enable business continuity even under attack. Sponsorship ensures your brand is top-of-mind with organizations ready to invest in ransomware defense.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cybersecurity vendors, backup and recovery providers, ransomware detection platforms, incident response service providers, and cloud security innovators." -
EcoCast Backing up, Securing, and Optimizing Kubernetes/Containerized Environments
"Kubernetes and containerized environments have become essential for modern application development and deployment, offering flexibility and scalability across hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. Yet these environments also introduce new challenges—ensuring data is backed up and recoverable, maintaining strong security controls, and optimizing performance across dynamic, distributed workloads. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that can help them manage and protect these complex environments without slowing innovation. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are planning and scaling their container strategies.
By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies safeguard containerized applications, automate recovery, and secure workloads while streamlining operations. Attendees will be evaluating tools and best practices that combine backup, security, monitoring, and optimization into unified approaches. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with enterprises ready to invest in resilient container ecosystems.Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Kubernetes backup and recovery providers, container security platforms, observability and optimization vendors, and cloud-native infrastructure solution providers." - July 2026
-
SmartPanel Agentic AI: Unveiling Cyberrisks and Reimagining Defense
Join our panel to examine the potential and risks of agentic AI in multiple industries and the potential for enhanced cyberattacks and advanced defense capabilities. We will discuss potential vulnerabilities, new threat vectors and innovative ways agentic AI can help with proactive threat detection, automated response and enhanced cyber resilience.
Target Audience: IT security managers, CISOs, cloud security engineers, threat intelligence analysts, AI/ML engineers, Security operations
-
MegaCast Managing AI: Tools and Techniques to Secure, Optimize, and Maximize Your AI Initiatives
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimental pilots to enterprise-critical deployments. But as adoption accelerates, IT leaders face new challenges in securing models, governing data, optimizing infrastructure, and ensuring AI delivers measurable business value. Organizations are searching for practical tools and proven approaches that help them maximize ROI while managing risk and complexity. This MegaCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are building and scaling AI initiatives. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions support enterprises in securing AI workloads, optimizing performance, streamlining governance, and enabling responsible adoption. Attendees will be evaluating strategies and technologies that improve operational efficiency, accelerate deployment, and align AI with business goals. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of decision-makers investing in the future of enterprise AI.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include AI infrastructure providers, security and governance platforms, optimization tool vendors, data management companies, and service providers enabling enterprise-scale AI adoption. - August 2026
-
EcoCast Boosting IT Efficiency: How to Do More with Less
IT teams are expected to deliver greater business value while facing tighter budgets, talent shortages, and growing complexity. From cloud optimization and process automation to AI-driven support and smarter infrastructure management, organizations are searching for ways to reduce costs, streamline operations, and maximize productivity without compromising performance or security. This EcoCast gives your company a direct opportunity to connect with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating solutions that help them achieve more with fewer resources. By sponsoring, your organization will demonstrate how its solutions improve efficiency, reduce waste, and unlock innovation in environments constrained by budgets and staffing. Attendees will be exploring practical approaches that include automation platforms, observability tools, AI-powered assistants, cost optimization strategies, and integrated service delivery models. Your brand will be positioned in front of decision-makers determined to reimagine efficiency for 2026 and beyond.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include automation vendors, observability and monitoring providers, AI-powered IT operations platforms, cost optimization specialists, and cloud or infrastructure management innovators. -
SmartPanel The Future of Television and Streaming Video
Dive into three of the most important trends shaping the future of television and streaming media: Over-the-top (OTT), Free Ad-supported Streaming TV (FAST) channels, and ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV). We'll examine how the advanced advertising and interactive technologies these advanced platforms provide can help your customers' bottom line.
Featured Guest: Madeleine Noland, President, ATSC
- September 2026
-
Expert Series Cloud Security Posture: Shrinking the Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Attack Surface
As organizations expand their use of public, private, and hybrid cloud services, their attack surfaces continue to grow in complexity. From misconfigurations and weak identity controls to exposed data and vulnerable APIs, IT leaders are urgently searching for proven strategies to reduce risk and strengthen defenses. This Expert Series event offers your company the opportunity to connect with a highly engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are prioritizing cloud security posture. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will lead the session, breaking down best practices for identifying risks, implementing controls, and maintaining visibility across multi-cloud environments. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. ActualTech Media handles the rest, ensuring your brand gains exposure with professionals making critical cloud security decisions.
Vendor Fit
Best for cloud security vendors, identity management providers, and compliance solution companies supporting multi-cloud strategies. - October 2026
-
EcoCast Supporting, Securing, and Enhancing Microsoft-centric Environments
From Azure to Microsoft 365 and hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft platforms are the foundation of IT operations for most enterprises. Yet supporting these environments at scale introduces challenges around identity and access management, data protection, compliance, and performance optimization. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that simplify operations, enhance security, and ensure reliability across Microsoft-centric ecosystems. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of decision-makers seeking technologies and services that help them get the most out of their Microsoft investments. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions secure sensitive data, improve productivity, and strengthen governance across Microsoft workloads. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that address real-world pain points while enabling agility and business continuity. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of IT leaders shaping Microsoft strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Microsoft-focused security vendors, identity and access management providers, backup and recovery specialists, compliance solution providers, and managed service partners supporting Microsoft environments. -
SmartPanel AV/IT Manager Higher Ed Classroom AV Roundtable
AV Technology invites six AV/IT technology managers from various colleges and universities to discuss classroom AV challenges and successes.
+ What new classroom tech have they installed that is making a difference?
+ What new tech are they planning for next year?
+ The enrolment cliff. Real or not?
+ Best practices for instructor training?
+ AI, AR, VR, AND XR
It is not a requirement, but sponsors can suggest an AV/IT manager from a specific university.
This panel will be end-users only.
- November 2026
-
SmartPanel Retail 2027: Navigating the Next Wave of Consumer Shopping Experiences
Our panel of experts, like you, will look ahead at what's to come for consumer and technology innovations. It will explore key trends and industry advancements that will redefine retail in 2027. Topics discussed will include AI for personalized experiences, immersive shopping environments with AR and VR and the evolving role of physical stores as experience hubs. Help usl forecast the changing consumer behaviors and emerging opportunities that will shape the successful retail strategies of tomorrow.
Target Audience: Retail CEOs, CMOs, CIOs, heads of innovation, digital strategy leads ecommerce directors, business development managers, loss prevention specialists, operations and warehouse management.
-
Expert Series Unlocking Business Value: AI in Enterprise IT
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to practical deployment in enterprise IT, where it is being applied to optimize operations, enhance security, and drive measurable business outcomes. IT leaders want to know how to leverage AI responsibly and effectively to gain real value from their infrastructure investments. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers eager to understand where AI fits into their strategies. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, highlighting best practices, real-world applications, and emerging opportunities where AI is driving tangible improvements in IT efficiency, reliability, and innovation. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll take care of the rest, ensuring your brand is seen by decision-makers actively exploring AI adoption.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, enterprise software vendors, and infrastructure companies enabling AI-driven innovation in IT. -
EcoCast Building a Robust Security Awareness Program
Human error remains one of the leading causes of security incidents, making employee awareness a critical layer of defense. From phishing attacks and credential theft to insider threats, organizations need structured programs that educate users, change behaviors, and reinforce security best practices. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that combine engaging training, continuous reinforcement, and measurable outcomes to reduce risk. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers who are prioritizing security awareness as part of their overall defense strategy. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions improve user resilience, strengthen compliance, and create a security-first culture. Attendees will be evaluating practical tools and services that help enterprises reduce vulnerability, improve reporting, and drive lasting behavioral change. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of organizations investing in awareness and training.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include security awareness training vendors, phishing simulation platforms, compliance training providers, and managed security service providers focused on user education.