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 Integration of AI in the Financial Services Industry

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Paystand

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The integration of AI in the Financial Services Industry is shifting from experimental, isolated use cases to core, strategic implementation. This event will focus on key topics impacting the Financial Services industry as it relates to AI including Risk Management & Fraud Detection, Regulatory Compliance, and other emerging trends.

Cloud Security Unlocked: Tips, Tools and Trends

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As businesses scale their cloud operations, the demand for secure, smart cloud infrastructure is
skyrocketing. Tech innovators, like you, can help us explore strategies, tools, tactics and look ahead to trends that are shaping cloud security

Target Audience: IT security managers, CISOs, cloud security engineers

Where foodservice meets retail: Strategy, innovation and winning formats

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Datassential

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As retail and foodservice converge, the most successful operators are rethinking formats, forging new partnerships and creating hybrid experiences that meet consumers wherever they are. In this session, industry leaders unpack the strategies, innovations and real-world examples driving growth in grocery foodservice, convenience and beyond.

Target Audience: Foodservice and food retail industry professionals

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.

The Cloud-Powered Enterprise: Securing Your Cloud

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Enterprises are embracing cloud services to drive agility, innovation, and cost efficiency—but with this shift comes new security challenges. Misconfigurations, unauthorized access, compliance gaps, and evolving threats can put sensitive data and applications at risk. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking strategies and technologies that protect workloads across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are making critical investments to secure their cloud-powered enterprises. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions provide visibility, enforce governance, secure identities, and defend against cloud-native threats. Attendees will be evaluating tools and approaches that simplify compliance, strengthen resilience, and ensure business continuity. Sponsorship places your brand at the center of conversations about securing the enterprise cloud.

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Best suited for cloud security vendors, identity and access management providers, compliance and governance platforms, workload protection specialists, and managed cloud security service providers.

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

The Human Edge: Succeeding with an AI-Powered Workforce

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Connect with organizational leaders eager to unlock the future of HR. Join this panel to demonstrate your thought leadership and showcase your tools and solutions that can transform hiring, talent development and workforce management. Show them that you understand their challenges and can offer ideas and strategies to move them forward. Talking points for this panel include:
• The "deskless workplace"
• Create great work - not just efficient work
• Hire who you need - not just who looks good on paper

Target Audience: Executives running companies and leading workteams

The Future of Television and Streaming Video

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AJA Video, Evertz Microsystems Ltd

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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

Upleveling Your Identity and Access Management Solutions

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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.