Webinar Schedule
Wish List (23)
- September 2025
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SmartPanel Leading the Workforce of the Future
The workforce of the future is developing rapidly, thanks to emerging technologies, shifting employee expectations, and the adoption of remote and hybrid work models. This webinar will discuss how leaders can adjust to these changes and effectively manage an agile, multigenerational workforce. Discussion points include getting more from technologies like AI and automation, nurturing continuous upskilling and reskilling, and creating flexible workplace policies that draw and retain top talent.
- 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. - March 2026
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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
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EcoCast Security Automation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Better Security
"As cyber threats grow in speed and complexity, manual processes are no longer enough to keep organizations protected. Security automation has become essential for reducing response times, minimizing human error, and allowing IT teams to focus on higher-value work. From automating repetitive tasks to orchestrating complex incident response, organizations are actively exploring solutions that strengthen security while improving efficiency. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are seeking actionable insights and proven technologies to advance their automation strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises accelerate detection and response, streamline operations, and improve overall resilience. Attendees will be evaluating practical tools and real-world best practices that make automation achievable and impactful in everyday security operations. Sponsorship places your brand in front of decision-makers eager to invest in smarter, faster defenses.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include SOAR providers, SIEM vendors, AI-driven security platforms, managed detection and response providers, and automation tool vendors focused on security operations." -
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." -
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"
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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
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SmartPanel Designing an Open AV/IT Ecosystem
Increasingly, software is defining the AV ecosystem. This panel discusses how AV/IT departments can evolve their current systems and products and newly purchased devices to interoperate in an open ecosystem. Whether adding displays, microphones, room control, scheduling, or any networked AV device, ensuring everything is interoperable is paramount. An open AV ecosystem works toward that end goal.
+ Open architecture AV platforms
+ AV in the cloud
+ Interoperability between legacy and networked AV
+ Mitigating security vulnerabilities
+ Deploy, manage and monitor
- August 2026
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EcoCast The Cloud-Powered Enterprise: Securing Your Cloud
Enterprises are embracing cloud services to drive agility, innovation, and cost efficiency—but with this shift comes new security challenges. Misconfigurations, unauthorized access, compliance gaps, and evolving threats can put sensitive data and applications at risk. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking strategies and technologies that protect workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are making critical investments to secure their cloud-powered enterprises. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions provide visibility, enforce governance, secure identities, and defend against cloud-native threats. Attendees will be evaluating tools and approaches that simplify compliance, strengthen resilience, and ensure business continuity. Sponsorship places your brand at the center of conversations about securing the enterprise cloud.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for cloud security vendors, identity and access management providers, compliance and governance platforms, workload protection specialists, and managed cloud security service providers. -
EcoCast Upleveling Your Identity and Access Management Solutions
Identity and access management (IAM) sits at the heart of enterprise security, yet many organizations are finding that traditional tools no longer meet the needs of hybrid workforces, multicloud environments, and escalating compliance requirements. IT leaders are searching for advanced IAM solutions that provide stronger security, simplify user experiences, and scale with business growth. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating how to modernize and strengthen their identity strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions support zero trust initiatives, streamline authentication, protect privileged accounts, and reduce risk. Attendees will be exploring proven technologies and best practices that improve governance, enable passwordless access, and deliver both security and efficiency. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers preparing their next IAM investments.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include IAM vendors, authentication and passwordless technology providers, privileged access management specialists, zero trust platforms, and governance and compliance solution providers. -
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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SmartPanel The Human Edge: Succeeding with an AI-Powered Workforce
Connect with organizational leaders eager to unlock the future of HR. Join us at the 2026 AI Impact Summit to showcase your tools and solutions that are transforming hiring, talent development, and workforce management. Don't miss this prime opportunity to position your brand as a strategic partner in the AI revolution shaping the workforce of tomorrow. Elevate your reach—partner with us and lead the conversation.
Target Audience: Executives running companies and leading workteams
- September 2026
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SmartPanel Zero Trust: What Does It Take to Get It Right?
Zero Trust has become a necessity, but many companies struggle to move from concept to execution. Do you have what it takes to get zero trust right and offer practical advice on the steps and technologies needed to build (or refine) an effective Zero Trust strategy?
Target Audience: IT security managers/architects, CISOs, infrastructure managers, risk managers
- 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. -
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. -
EcoCast Supporting and Enabling Modern Applications
Modern applications—built on containers, microservices, and cloud-native architectures—are driving innovation and agility across enterprises. Yet supporting these environments brings challenges around scalability, observability, security, and cost control. IT buyers and influencers are actively evaluating solutions that streamline application delivery, improve resilience, and align infrastructure with fast-paced development cycles. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers who are seeking proven tools and strategies to fully enable modern applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions enhance developer productivity, secure application environments, and optimize performance. Attendees will be exploring practical approaches that reduce operational complexity, support rapid release cycles, and deliver better end-user experiences. Sponsorship places your brand in front of IT professionals making critical investments in the future of enterprise applications.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include container and Kubernetes platform providers, application security vendors, observability and monitoring platforms, DevOps tool providers, and cloud infrastructure innovators. -
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
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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. -
MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Cutting Edge Tech 2027
Enterprises are moving quickly to identify and adopt the technologies that will define IT success in the years ahead. From AI-driven automation and advanced cybersecurity to hybrid cloud optimization, observability, and data-powered innovation, IT leaders are seeking solutions that provide agility, efficiency, and resilience. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its products, services, and thought leadership to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next wave of innovations shaping the enterprise. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions address real-world challenges and deliver measurable business outcomes. Attendees will be exploring forward-looking tools and strategies that help them optimize operations, strengthen security, and prepare for the future. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers driving enterprise technology adoption.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, cybersecurity innovators, automation platforms, cloud and infrastructure vendors, and data-driven technology companies. -
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. - 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."