Webinar Schedule
Wish List (16)
- December 2025
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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. - May 2026
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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." - June 2026
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SmartPanel Countering Ransomware Threats: Tactics to Mitigate Phishing Attacks
"As ransomware evolves, having a robust strategy and tactics to counteract phishing campaigns is more critical than ever. As a leading industry expert, join us to explore the latest trends in ransomware, providing actionable insights into how attackers can override traditional security measures and share strategies for enhanced detection, proactive defense and rapid response against malware.
Target Audience: IT security managers, CISOs, cloud security engineers"
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EcoCast Empowering Distributed Workforces: DEX, DaaS, VDI and Other Tools to Level up Your Organization's Productivity
"As distributed and hybrid work models become the norm, enterprises are challenged to deliver secure, reliable, and seamless digital experiences that keep employees productive no matter where they work. From digital employee experience (DEX) platforms to desktop as a service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), IT leaders are actively seeking solutions that optimize performance, strengthen security, and simplify management at scale. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next generation of tools designed to empower today's distributed workforce. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase its expertise in enabling high-quality digital experiences, integrating productivity-enhancing technologies, and supporting business agility. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches that reduce friction, boost end-user satisfaction, and ensure secure, consistent access to business-critical applications. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of decision-makers shaping the future of work.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include DEX platform providers, DaaS and VDI vendors, endpoint management specialists, collaboration tool providers, and cloud or security vendors enabling distributed workforce productivity." -
EcoCast Protecting Your Data: A Holistic Approach to Data Security, Data Loss, PII Protection, and More
"Enterprises today face relentless pressure to protect sensitive data from theft, loss, misuse, and regulatory non-compliance. From intellectual property and customer records to personally identifiable information (PII), the risks extend across on-premises systems, cloud services, and distributed workforces. IT leaders are actively searching for integrated strategies that combine strong prevention, rapid detection, and reliable recovery. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next generation of tools and services to safeguard critical data assets. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver holistic protection—combining encryption, access controls, monitoring, backup, and compliance automation into unified approaches. Attendees will be exploring proven methods that reduce exposure, streamline governance, and ensure data remains both secure and accessible. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers prioritizing investments in data security.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for data security vendors, data loss prevention (DLP) providers, compliance and privacy specialists, backup and recovery innovators, and cloud security platforms." -
SmartPanel AI Strategies to Optimize Stock and Supply Chain Operations
"Join our panel to discuss how AI applications transform inventory management and demand forecasting, enabling retailers to reduce stockouts, overstock situations and anticipate future demand spikes, ensuring product availability and efficiency. As an expert, help us teach how to leverage predictive analytics software and AI applications to improve operations.
Target Audience: Supply chain directors, inventory managers, operations managers/directors, logistics and warehouse managers"
- August 2026
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SmartPanel Displays: The New Pitch
There has never been a more exciting and opportune time to implement displays into your corporate, education, museum, healthcare, hospitality, government, or transportation environment. The cost of displays has come down, content management and workflows have become easier to use, and there's no better way to engage audiences.
Whether a massive wrap-around video wall in the lobby to set the tone and brand identity, a virtual studio for announcing new products or hosting a town hall, large displays for classrooms and collaboration spaces, strategically placed displays throughout campuses for wayfinding, kiosks, critical messaging, dynamic content in cafeterias, projection-mapped immersive experiences and so much more, it's an exciting time.
+ AVoIP and SoC play a major role in the hybrid environment
+ All-In-One displays for flexibility
+ Utilizing near-field communications (NFC)
+ Sustainability and ESG
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EcoCast The Power of Data: Enabling Automation and Operational Efficiencies
Data has become the engine driving smarter operations and business agility. Enterprises are looking beyond traditional reporting to harness data for automation, predictive insights, and improved efficiency across IT and business processes. From streamlining workflows and optimizing resources to enhancing decision-making, data-driven strategies are reshaping how organizations operate. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them unlock the full potential of their data while maintaining security, governance, and scalability. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are planning investments in data-driven automation. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies help enterprises transform data into actionable intelligence, automate repetitive tasks, and drive measurable business outcomes. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that reduce operational costs, increase agility, and deliver more value from existing systems. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with organizations ready to maximize their data.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include data analytics providers, automation and orchestration platforms, AI/ML solution vendors, governance and compliance specialists, and cloud service providers focused on operational efficiency. - September 2026
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Expert Series Exploring the Intersection of Data, Storage, and Artificial Intelligence
The relationship between data, storage, and artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most important areas for IT leaders to understand. From ensuring high-performance access to massive datasets, to enabling AI-driven automation and analytics, organizations are rethinking how storage and data strategies work hand-in-hand with emerging AI initiatives. This Expert Series event from ActualTech Media gives your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively exploring this critical intersection. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering practical approaches for managing, securing, and optimizing data and storage infrastructures to support AI-driven innovation. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a brief message. We'll manage the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers investing in next-generation data and AI solutions.
Vendor Fit
Best for storage providers, data management vendors, and AI infrastructure companies seeking visibility with IT decision-makers. -
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
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Expert Series Protecting and Optimizing Team Collaboration Software: Keeping Slack, Teams, Google and Other Users and Data Safe
Collaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Workspace have become essential to business productivity—but they also present new avenues for cyberattacks, data loss, and compliance risks. IT leaders are under pressure to secure these tools without slowing down communication or user experience. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking solutions for protecting and optimizing their collaboration environments. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, sharing best practices for safeguarding users, data, and integrations while ensuring reliable performance. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide one slide and a short message. We'll take care of the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers focused on securing collaboration platforms.
Vendor Fit
Best for security vendors, SaaS protection providers, and compliance-focused companies supporting collaboration platforms. -
SmartPanel Beyond Awareness Month: Building Year-Round Cyber Resilience
Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as an annual reminder, but with today's evolving threats, thinking about cybersecurity once a year is not enough. In this webinar, help us discuss practical strategies, emerging trends and real-world examples that will help IT organizations build year-round cyber resilience.
Target Audience: IT security leaders, compliance professionals, training managers and cybersecurity strategists
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Expert Series Kubernetes and Containers: New Ways to Secure, Back up and Optimize Modern App Environments
Kubernetes and container technologies are transforming how modern applications are deployed, scaled, and managed. Yet with this agility comes new challenges: securing containerized workloads, ensuring reliable backups, and optimizing performance across complex environments. IT leaders are seeking clear guidance on how to keep these environments secure, resilient, and cost-effective. This Expert Series event offers your company the chance to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively investing in modern app infrastructures. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering emerging best practices for protecting, backing up, and fine-tuning containerized environments. As a sponsor, your involvement is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand gains visibility with decision-makers charting their container strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal for container security vendors, backup providers, and optimization solution companies focused on Kubernetes environments. -
EcoCast Transforming Backup and Disaster Recovery with AI and Emerging Techniques
Traditional backup and disaster recovery strategies are no longer enough to protect against today's evolving threats and complex IT environments. Organizations now demand solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence, automation, immutability, and other advanced techniques to ensure data resilience and business continuity. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring tools that reduce recovery times, improve detection of anomalies, and strengthen protection against ransomware and outages. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to present directly to decision-makers who are evaluating the next generation of backup and disaster recovery solutions. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies harness AI and emerging innovations to deliver smarter protection and faster recovery. Attendees will be seeking practical, proven approaches to simplify management, strengthen resilience, and safeguard critical systems. Sponsorship ensures your brand is visible to enterprises prioritizing modern data protection strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, AI-driven data protection vendors, cloud storage innovators, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) providers, and cybersecurity firms focused on resilience. -
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.
- December 2026
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EcoCast Supercharging Public Sector and Education Technology and Security
"Public sector agencies and educational institutions are under growing pressure to modernize technology, secure sensitive data, and deliver seamless digital experiences for users—all while facing budget constraints and compliance requirements. From strengthening cybersecurity and protecting personal information to adopting cloud-based services and supporting remote access, IT leaders in these sectors are actively seeking solutions that drive efficiency, reliability, and resilience. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are tasked with advancing public sector and education technology initiatives. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions enable secure digital services, modernize IT infrastructure, and empower faculty, staff, and citizens alike. Attendees will be evaluating proven tools that improve performance, reduce risk, and align technology investments with mission-critical goals. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers shaping the future of public sector and education IT.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cybersecurity vendors, cloud service providers, identity and access management specialists, data protection companies, and IT service providers supporting government and education."