Webinar Schedule
Wish List (30)
- September 2025
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EcoCast Enterprise Architecture: The Emerging Leader Landscape
About This EcoCast
Enterprise architecture plays a crucial role in driving organizational success through strategic IT alignment. This EcoCast will explore the emerging landscape of enterprise architecture and its impact on networking, cloud, and data protection. Attendees will gain insights into best practices and frameworks that facilitate innovation and agility. As a presenting sponsor, your company will connect with a focused audience of IT buyers and influencers seeking to enhance their enterprise architecture capabilities. This event positions your brand as a leader in strategic IT solutions.Vendor Fit
Companies specializing in enterprise architecture consulting, IT strategy development, or cloud integration services would benefit from sponsoring this event. - October 2025
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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. - 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." -
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
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Expert Series Securing What's Outside Your Control: Supply Chain Security, Shadow AI, SBOM, and More
"Today's enterprises rely on an intricate web of vendors, partners, and technologies that extend well beyond direct control. This creates exposure to supply chain compromises, unmanaged "shadow AI" projects, and vulnerabilities hidden within software components. Addressing these risks requires visibility, governance, and proactive security strategies. This Expert Series provides your company with the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating solutions to these challenges. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the presentation, covering real-world practices for strengthening supply chain defenses, managing AI-driven risks, and leveraging SBOMs to mitigate hidden threats. As a sponsor, all you'll need to do is provide a single slide and a short message. Everything else—expert presentation, production, and audience recruitment—will be managed for you, ensuring maximum exposure with minimal effort.
Vendor Fit
Security vendors, compliance solution providers, AI governance platforms, and supply chain risk management companies would benefit from sponsoring this event.
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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"
- July 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Expert Series The 101 Course: Keeping Data Safe and Recoverable
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. -
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
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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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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. -
MegaCast Cloud Security Fest 2026!
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
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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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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 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. -
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.
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MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Master of Disaster 2027
Disruptions from ransomware, outages, human error, and natural events can strike at any time, and enterprises are under pressure to ensure they can withstand and recover from the unexpected. Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies are being reimagined with cloud-based recovery, immutable backups, AI-driven automation, and faster failover capabilities. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that help them minimize downtime, reduce data loss, and maintain resilience across hybrid and multicloud environments. This MegaCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its innovations and expertise to an engaged audience preparing for the next generation of disaster recovery and data protection. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and simplify management for enterprises determined to be ready for anything. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches to ensure continuity and security in the face of disruption.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery vendors, DRaaS providers, cloud storage innovators, cybersecurity companies, and automation platforms focused on business continuity and resilience. - November 2026
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EcoCast Taking Identity and Access Management to the Next Level
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. -
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.
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EcoCast Guide to Cloud Tools: The Products and Services Critical to Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success
Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of cloud services, but success requires more than simply moving workloads. IT leaders must ensure secure migrations, maintain compliance, optimize performance, and meet growing expectations around cost efficiency and sustainability. Organizations are actively seeking products and services that provide visibility, reduce risk, and enable long-term value from cloud investments. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its solutions to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are planning, refining, or expanding their cloud strategies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its offerings help enterprises migrate with confidence, strengthen cloud security, reduce operational costs, and enable more sustainable IT operations. Attendees will be exploring practical tools and services designed to simplify complexity, drive efficiency, and support innovation. Sponsorship ensures your brand is directly in front of decision-makers prioritizing cloud success.
Vendor Fit: Best suited for cloud migration service providers, security vendors, optimization platforms, and managed service providers supporting hybrid and multicloud environments.
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SmartPanel Your Pain Points Answered
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
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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.