Webinar Schedule
Wish List (21)
- September 2025
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SmartPanel Leading the Workforce of the Future
The workforce of the future is developing rapidly, thanks to emerging technologies, shifting employee expectations, and the adoption of remote and hybrid work models. This webinar will discuss how leaders can adjust to these changes and effectively manage an agile, multigenerational workforce. Discussion points include getting more from technologies like AI and automation, nurturing continuous upskilling and reskilling, and creating flexible workplace policies that draw and retain top talent.
- 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
- 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 Protecting Your Data: A Holistic Approach to Data Security, Data Loss, PII Protection, and More
"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." -
EcoCast Backing up, Securing, and Optimizing Kubernetes/Containerized Environments
"Kubernetes and containerized environments have become essential for modern application development and deployment, offering flexibility and scalability across hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. Yet these environments also introduce new challenges—ensuring data is backed up and recoverable, maintaining strong security controls, and optimizing performance across dynamic, distributed workloads. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that can help them manage and protect these complex environments without slowing innovation. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are planning and scaling their container strategies.
By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies safeguard containerized applications, automate recovery, and secure workloads while streamlining operations. Attendees will be evaluating tools and best practices that combine backup, security, monitoring, and optimization into unified approaches. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with enterprises ready to invest in resilient container ecosystems.Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Kubernetes backup and recovery providers, container security platforms, observability and optimization vendors, and cloud-native infrastructure solution providers." - July 2026
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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 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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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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EcoCast Transforming IT in Healthcare Environments
Healthcare organizations face unique IT demands: protecting sensitive patient data, complying with strict regulations, modernizing electronic health record systems, and enabling clinicians with reliable, user-friendly technologies. At the same time, they must defend against rising cyberattacks, manage hybrid infrastructures, and deliver seamless digital experiences for staff and patients. IT buyers and influencers in healthcare are actively seeking innovative solutions that streamline operations, improve security, and enhance care delivery. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers navigating the complexities of healthcare IT.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for healthcare IT solution providers, cybersecurity vendors, EHR optimization specialists, cloud and infrastructure innovators, and compliance-focused 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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EcoCast Turning Your Log and Incident Data into Real-time Security Insights
Security teams are drowning in logs and incident data, yet many still struggle to transform that raw information into actionable intelligence. With threats evolving rapidly, organizations need tools that provide real-time visibility, automated correlation, and meaningful insights to accelerate detection and response. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them cut through the noise, improve efficiency, and strengthen their defenses. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to a highly engaged audience looking for technologies that maximize the value of their security data. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions deliver real-time analytics, streamline investigations, and provide actionable intelligence that reduces risk. Attendees will be exploring strategies and tools that integrate SIEM, XDR, threat intelligence, and automation to achieve smarter, faster security operations. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of decision-makers making critical investments.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for SIEM and XDR providers, security analytics platforms, threat intelligence vendors, and automation tool providers focused on real-time detection and response. -
MegaCast Defense in Depth: Building a Robust Ransomware Prevention and Recovery Strategy
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. -
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.
- November 2026
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Expert Series Unlocking Business Value: AI in Enterprise IT
Artificial intelligence is moving from experimentation to practical deployment in enterprise IT, where it is being applied to optimize operations, enhance security, and drive measurable business outcomes. IT leaders want to know how to leverage AI responsibly and effectively to gain real value from their infrastructure investments. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers eager to understand where AI fits into their strategies. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, highlighting best practices, real-world applications, and emerging opportunities where AI is driving tangible improvements in IT efficiency, reliability, and innovation. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a short message. We'll take care of the rest, ensuring your brand is seen by decision-makers actively exploring AI adoption.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, enterprise software vendors, and infrastructure companies enabling AI-driven innovation in IT. -
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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EcoCast Building a Robust Security Awareness Program
Human error remains one of the leading causes of security incidents, making employee awareness a critical layer of defense. From phishing attacks and credential theft to insider threats, organizations need structured programs that educate users, change behaviors, and reinforce security best practices. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that combine engaging training, continuous reinforcement, and measurable outcomes to reduce risk. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers who are prioritizing security awareness as part of their overall defense strategy. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions improve user resilience, strengthen compliance, and create a security-first culture. Attendees will be evaluating practical tools and services that help enterprises reduce vulnerability, improve reporting, and drive lasting behavioral change. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of organizations investing in awareness and training.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include security awareness training vendors, phishing simulation platforms, compliance training providers, and managed security service providers focused on user education. - December 2026
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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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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."