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July 2026

Tech Showcase: Assessing and Improving Backup, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery Capabilities

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Data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, and protecting it against outages, cyberattacks, and accidental loss is a top priority for IT leaders. Yet many organizations still struggle with fragmented backup systems, slow recovery times, and gaps in data protection strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that deliver speed, reliability, and resiliency while simplifying management across hybrid and multicloud environments. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers evaluating the next generation of backup, disaster recovery, and data protection technologies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and ensure business continuity. Attendees will be exploring practical tools and proven strategies that reduce risk, meet compliance demands, and protect critical business assets. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with IT professionals ready to invest in modern data protection.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors, cloud storage innovators, and data protection companies focused on resiliency and continuity.

Managing AI: Tools and Techniques to Secure, Optimize, and Maximize Your AI Initiatives

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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

Navigating Privacy-First Targeting 101

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As traditional marketing faces increasing scrutiny, reduced budgets and limitations, contextual targeting is experiencing a powerful resurgence. This panel will move beyond basic keyword matching to explore advanced contextual strategies leveraging AI, machine learning and semantic analysis. Discover how marketers can effectively reach audiences based on content relevance, brand safety and evolving consumer interests, ensuring impactful campaigns in a privacy-centric world.

Target Audience: Data privacy officers, CDPs, advertising tech specialists, data strategists

October 2026

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.

Supporting and Enabling Modern Applications

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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.

November 2026

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

December 2026

Developing Your 2027 Data Security Plan

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Data continues to grow in volume, variety, and value—making its protection more critical than ever. With rising ransomware attacks, evolving compliance requirements, and increasing reliance on cloud services, IT leaders must proactively design forward-looking strategies to secure sensitive information. Organizations are actively seeking solutions that not only defend against today's threats but also anticipate the risks of tomorrow. This EcoCast provides your company the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are building comprehensive data security plans for 2027 and beyond. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies and services help enterprises secure critical data, streamline compliance, and ensure resilience. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that combine prevention, detection, backup, and recovery to deliver end-to-end data protection. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers driving long-term security investments.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include data security vendors, backup and recovery providers, compliance and governance platforms, cloud security innovators, and cybersecurity companies focused on data resilience.

Database Bakeoff: Exploring Modern Database Structures

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Databases remain the foundation of every business, but the structures and strategies behind them are undergoing massive change. SQL, NoSQL, distributed, cloud-native, and hybrid models all promise unique benefits, leaving IT leaders searching for trusted guidance on which approach best fits their needs. This Expert Series from ActualTech Media gives your company the chance to connect with a highly engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively comparing modern database approaches. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, breaking down the trade-offs, use cases, and performance considerations in ways that resonate with decision-makers. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide a single slide and a brief message. We'll handle everything else, ensuring your brand gains visibility and recognition in front of professionals who are making critical data platform decisions.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for database providers, cloud service companies, and data management vendors seeking to build awareness with IT decision-makers.