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May 2026

Security Automation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Better Security

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"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."

Backupalooza 2026! New Tools Using AI, Immutability, Air Gapping, Automation, and More

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"Backup and recovery are no longer back-office functions—they are front-line defenses against ransomware, outages, and data loss. With AI, immutable storage, air-gapped protection, and advanced automation redefining what's possible, IT leaders are actively searching for the next generation of tools that keep their data secure and their businesses resilient. This MegaCast gives your company the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are exploring innovative approaches to modern backup and disaster recovery. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver smarter protection, faster recovery, and simpler management for today's hybrid and cloud environments. Attendees will be evaluating tools that ensure business continuity, reduce risk, and streamline operations—placing your brand front and center with decision-makers making critical data protection investments.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery vendors, cloud storage providers, cybersecurity companies focused on ransomware defense, data management platforms, and automation tool providers."

Supercharging IT Summit

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"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

Countering Ransomware Threats: Tactics to Mitigate Phishing Attacks

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"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"

Empowering Distributed Workforces: DEX, DaaS, VDI and Other Tools to Level up Your Organization's Productivity

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"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."

Protecting Your Data: A Holistic Approach to Data Security, Data Loss, PII Protection, and More

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"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."

AI Strategies to Optimize Stock and Supply Chain Operations

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"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"

July 2026

Securing Identity with Passwordless Authentication

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Passwords have long been the weakest link in enterprise security, fueling phishing attacks, credential theft, and user frustration. Organizations are increasingly turning to passwordless authentication methods—such as biometrics, hardware keys, and mobile-based authenticators—to strengthen identity security while improving the user experience. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring these solutions to align with zero trust strategies, reduce risk, and simplify access management. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to an engaged audience making critical investments in identity security. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions help enterprises replace passwords with stronger, more convenient authentication methods. Attendees will be evaluating technologies that deliver seamless login experiences, reduce administrative overhead, and protect sensitive systems against evolving threats. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers committed to advancing their identity and access management programs.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include identity and access management vendors, passwordless authentication providers, multi-factor authentication platforms, biometric security companies, and zero trust solution providers.

Designing an Open AV/IT Ecosystem

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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

Boosting IT Efficiency: How to Do More with Less

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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.

The 101 Course: Keeping Data Safe and Recoverable

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Data protection remains a top priority for every IT team, but the fundamentals are often overlooked or misunderstood. From ensuring backups are complete and reliable to validating recovery strategies, organizations need a clear understanding of how to keep data both safe and recoverable. This Expert Series event offers your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking foundational best practices. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will guide attendees through core principles, practical safeguards, and recovery techniques that every organization must master. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by IT decision-makers focused on strengthening their data protection strategy.

Vendor Fit
Well-suited for backup providers, disaster recovery vendors, and data protection specialists seeking visibility with IT professionals.

Displays: The New Pitch

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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

The Power of Data: Enabling Automation and Operational Efficiencies

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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.

Cloud Security Fest 2026!

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Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, but with it comes new risks—from misconfigurations and compliance gaps to ransomware, identity breaches, and API vulnerabilities. IT leaders are urgently seeking innovative approaches to secure multicloud and hybrid environments without slowing business agility. This MegaCast offers your company the chance to showcase its solutions to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively exploring the next generation of cloud security tools and strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies and services deliver stronger visibility, governance, and protection across cloud platforms. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches for identity security, workload protection, compliance automation, and AI-enhanced defenses. Sponsorship ensures your brand is highlighted directly in front of decision-makers who are prioritizing cloud security as a top investment for 2026 and beyond.

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.

September 2026

Zero Trust: What Does It Take to Get It Right?

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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

Artificial Intelligence Showcase: Looking at Now and Into the Future of AI

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Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into enterprise-wide adoption, driving innovation across security, operations, customer engagement, and beyond. Organizations are eager to understand how to implement AI responsibly, optimize infrastructure, and prepare for what's coming next. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking proven solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes today while positioning them for the future. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to highlight its expertise and showcase cutting-edge AI solutions to an engaged audience ready to evaluate technologies that enhance efficiency, scalability, and competitiveness. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its offerings help enterprises accelerate AI adoption, secure AI systems, govern data, and achieve tangible ROI. Attendees will be exploring strategies and tools that balance innovation with accountability, ensuring AI deployments align with business and compliance requirements. Sponsorship places your brand directly in front of decision-makers investing in the future of AI.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, infrastructure and cloud vendors, governance and compliance platforms, data management innovators, and security companies enabling safe and scalable AI adoption.

Exploring the Intersection of Data, Storage, and Artificial Intelligence

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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.

Cloud Security Posture: Shrinking the Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud Attack Surface

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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.

Discovery Day: Products and Services That Support Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success

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Enterprises are embracing the cloud to unlock agility, scalability, and innovation—but success requires more than migration. IT leaders are actively searching for solutions that ensure secure workloads, enable sustainable operations, and deliver measurable business value. From optimizing cloud migrations and improving visibility to strengthening security and advancing AI initiatives, organizations want practical tools that help them thrive in competitive markets. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating new technologies and services to support their cloud-driven strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its offerings accelerate cloud adoption, improve security postures, and enable sustainable, efficient operations. Attendees will be exploring products and services designed to simplify complexity, reduce risk, and ensure long-term success. Sponsorship positions your brand directly in front of decision-makers prioritizing cloud innovation.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cloud migration service providers, security vendors, sustainability-focused IT solution providers, cloud optimization platforms, and managed service providers.

October 2026

Building a Proactive PC Upgrade Strategy

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As workforce demands evolve, enterprises can no longer rely on reactive hardware refresh cycles. Aging PCs reduce productivity, increase security risks, and raise support costs—yet many organizations still struggle with planning effective, long-term upgrade strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that help them modernize their fleets with the right mix of performance, security, and manageability. This EcoCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are preparing to align PC lifecycle management with business goals. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its products and services enable smarter refresh planning, enhance endpoint security, and optimize total cost of ownership. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches for streamlining procurement, deploying modern devices, and supporting hybrid and remote work environments. Sponsorship ensures your brand is in front of enterprises ready to invest in their next wave of PC upgrades.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include PC manufacturers, device management solution providers, endpoint security vendors, lifecycle services companies, and resellers focused on modern workplace technology.

Defense in Depth: Building a Robust Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Strategy

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Ransomware remains one of the most pressing threats to enterprise security, with attacks growing more sophisticated, frequent, and costly. To defend against these risks, IT leaders are adopting a defense-in-depth approach that combines layered prevention, rapid detection, and resilient recovery. From protecting endpoints and identities to ensuring data backups are immutable and quickly recoverable, organizations need integrated solutions that minimize downtime and financial loss. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are prioritizing ransomware prevention and recovery in 2026 and beyond. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions strengthen defenses, streamline response, and ensure business continuity. Attendees will be evaluating tools and services that protect against evolving threats while enabling fast, reliable recovery. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers making critical security investments.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for endpoint protection vendors, backup and disaster recovery providers, identity security specialists, incident response service providers, and cybersecurity innovators focused on ransomware defense.

Beyond Awareness Month: Building Year-Round Cyber Resilience

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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

Kubernetes and Containers: New Ways to Secure, Back up and Optimize Modern App Environments

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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.

November 2026

Taking Identity and Access Management to the Next Level

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Identity and access management (IAM) is central to enterprise security, but traditional solutions often struggle to keep up with today's hybrid infrastructures, distributed workforces, and ever-tightening compliance requirements. Organizations are seeking more advanced approaches that combine strong authentication, granular access controls, and seamless user experiences with simplified administration. IT buyers and influencers are actively evaluating tools that enable zero trust initiatives, reduce risk, and improve agility. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its IAM innovations directly to a highly engaged audience that is planning its next stage of identity modernization. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies strengthen identity security, streamline access, and ensure compliance. Attendees will be exploring practical, proven solutions that improve governance, protect sensitive assets, and deliver stronger business outcomes. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers making critical IAM investments.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for IAM vendors, authentication and passwordless technology providers, privileged access management specialists, zero trust platforms, and compliance-focused identity solution providers.

Unlocking Business Value: AI in Enterprise IT

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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.

Your Pain Points Answered

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During the live AV/IT Summit we ran a special interactive panel where the audience and AV/IT expert panelists asked questions and provided solutions. We will gather some questions ahead of time and give the audience an open-mic period to ask questions. Here's a sample:
+ How do you reduce the number of components in your AV ecosystem without losing functionality?

+ Cross-platform meetings still have interoperability challenges - what can we do to fix this?

+ Are open standards the solution, and how do we get there?

+ What does the future of AV service look like given the fact that trouble calls are increasingly IT related

Tech Showcase Day: Cutting Edge Tech 2027

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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.

Building a Robust Security Awareness Program

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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.