Webinar Schedule
Wish List (18)
- October 2025
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SmartPanel The Great IP Production Transition
- May 2026
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MegaCast Backupalooza 2026! New Tools Using AI, Immutability, Air Gapping, Automation, and More
"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." - July 2026
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EcoCast Securing the Enterprise with Endpoint Protection Platforms
With endpoints serving as the front line for cyberattacks, enterprises need advanced defenses to protect against malware, ransomware, phishing, and other evolving threats. Endpoint protection platforms (EPPs) now go far beyond traditional antivirus—integrating threat intelligence, behavioral analysis, machine learning, and automated response capabilities to safeguard users and data wherever they work. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that simplify endpoint security while strengthening resilience across diverse devices and environments. This EcoCast provides your company the opportunity to present directly to decision-makers who are prioritizing endpoint protection as a critical part of their security strategy. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its solutions prevent, detect, and respond to endpoint threats with speed and precision. Attendees will be evaluating tools that unify endpoint security, streamline management, and deliver measurable improvements to enterprise protection. Sponsorship ensures your brand is in front of organizations ready to modernize their endpoint defenses.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for endpoint protection platform vendors, EDR/XDR providers, managed detection and response services, and security companies delivering advanced endpoint defense. - August 2026
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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
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EcoCast API Security: Monitoring and Securing Application Programming Interfaces
APIs have become the backbone of modern applications, enabling connectivity, innovation, and digital transformation. But as their use grows, so does their appeal to attackers. From misconfigurations and weak authentication to malicious exploitation, APIs present a growing attack surface that enterprises must address proactively. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them monitor, secure, and govern APIs across hybrid and multicloud environments. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to connect directly with decision-makers who are prioritizing API security as a central component of their enterprise strategy.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include API security vendors, application protection platforms, identity and access management providers, observability tool vendors, and cloud-native security specialists. -
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. -
EcoCast Discovery Day: Products and Services That Support Cloud Migration, Security, Sustainability, and Success
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. -
Expert Series The Complete Ransomware Protection Stack: From Prevention to Detection to Response to Recovery
Ransomware remains one of the most damaging and persistent threats organizations face today, and IT leaders know that no single tool or tactic is enough. They need a comprehensive protection stack that spans prevention, detection, response, and recovery. This Expert Series event provides your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are seeking practical guidance for building end-to-end ransomware resilience. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, exploring best practices for hardening defenses, monitoring activity, orchestrating response plans, and ensuring fast recovery after an attack. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide one slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand gains recognition with decision-makers determined to strengthen their ransomware defenses.
Vendor Fit
Ideal for security solution vendors, backup and recovery providers, and incident response specialists focused on ransomware resilience. - October 2026
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SmartPanel Hypersonalization at Scale, Delivering Immersive Experiences
Moving beyond basic personalization, this panel will explore the art and science of hyper-personalization at scale. Discover how marketers can leverage AI, real-time data and advanced analytics to deliver individualized immersive experiences across every customer touchpoint. Our panel will explore strategies for dynamic content optimization, personalized product recommendations and tailored customer journeys that drive engagement, loyalty and conversions. Industry leaders will discuss overcoming technical challenges and achieving meaningful personalization that resonates with individual consumers.
Target Audience: Customer experience leaders, CRM specialists, PMOs, automation specialists
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Expert Series Kubernetes and Containers: New Ways to Secure, Back up and Optimize Modern App Environments
Kubernetes and container technologies are transforming how modern applications are deployed, scaled, and managed. Yet with this agility comes new challenges: securing containerized workloads, ensuring reliable backups, and optimizing performance across complex environments. IT leaders are seeking clear guidance on how to keep these environments secure, resilient, and cost-effective. This Expert Series event offers your company the chance to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively investing in modern app infrastructures. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering emerging best practices for protecting, backing up, and fine-tuning containerized environments. As a sponsor, your involvement is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand gains visibility with decision-makers charting their container strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal for container security vendors, backup providers, and optimization solution companies focused on Kubernetes environments. -
EcoCast Transforming Backup and Disaster Recovery with AI and Emerging Techniques
Traditional backup and disaster recovery strategies are no longer enough to protect against today's evolving threats and complex IT environments. Organizations now demand solutions that incorporate artificial intelligence, automation, immutability, and other advanced techniques to ensure data resilience and business continuity. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring tools that reduce recovery times, improve detection of anomalies, and strengthen protection against ransomware and outages. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to present directly to decision-makers who are evaluating the next generation of backup and disaster recovery solutions. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies harness AI and emerging innovations to deliver smarter protection and faster recovery. Attendees will be seeking practical, proven approaches to simplify management, strengthen resilience, and safeguard critical systems. Sponsorship ensures your brand is visible to enterprises prioritizing modern data protection strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, AI-driven data protection vendors, cloud storage innovators, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) providers, and cybersecurity firms focused on resilience. -
SmartPanel AV/IT Manager Higher Ed Classroom AV Roundtable
AV Technology invites six AV/IT technology managers from various colleges and universities to discuss classroom AV challenges and successes.
+ What new classroom tech have they installed that is making a difference?
+ What new tech are they planning for next year?
+ The enrolment cliff. Real or not?
+ Best practices for instructor training?
+ AI, AR, VR, AND XR
It is not a requirement, but sponsors can suggest an AV/IT manager from a specific university.
This panel will be end-users only.
- November 2026
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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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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
- December 2026
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SmartPanel Cyber 2027: The Future Is Already Hacked!
As we close out 2026 and look to 2027, the pace of cyberrisks will only accelerate. As technology advances, staying ahead of the curve is crucial for information security professionals. Your company's leading experts can help forecast the biggest trends, challenges and opportunities as we explore the future of cybersecurity and IT trends that will shape 2027.
Target Audience: CISOs, CTOs, risk and compliance leaders, IT architects, business leaders
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SmartPanel Higher Ed UC&C: Beyond the Classroom
Some colleges and universities have a larger footprint than many corporate enterprises but have unique needs for unified communications and collaboration.
Offices and meeting spaces for administration and instructors must be equipped for collaboration across campus and accommodating hybrid workers. Public spaces are often used for ad hoc lessons and study with engaging video walls, and wayfinding has become a staple on many campuses.
+ Critical UC systems link virtually every communications device
+ The higher-ed meeting space
+ Mobile device for emergency alerts throughout every space within the campus.
+ Mitigating security vulnerabilities
+ Deploy, manage, and monitor
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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."