Webinar Schedule
Wish List (24)
- October 2025
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SmartPanel Cybersecurity Awareness 101: How to Stay Secure Year-Round
While Cybersecurity Awareness Month highlights the significance of cybersecurity, organizations must remain vigilant year-round. This webinar will discuss key strategies and practices, along with emerging trends, to help organizations effectively guard against cyberthreats.
Vendor Fit: Any company specializing in cybersecurity and IT solutions.
- 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." -
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." -
SmartPanel Cutting-Edge Tech Innovations Shaping the Future of the Travel and Hospitality Industries
As the travel and hospitality industry evolves, staying ahead of technological trends is crucial for success. This webinar will bring together industry leaders, innovators and enthusiastic participants eager to discover how advancements in innovations like AI, blockchain and sustainable technologies are transforming guest experiences and operational efficiencies. Our audience will consist of key decision-makers, including hotel executives and travel agency leaders, all seeking actionable insights to drive their businesses forward. By sponsoring this event, you'll position your brand at the forefront of innovation, connect with influential industry players, and gain invaluable visibility in a rapidly evolving market. Don't miss the chance to be part of this pivotal conversation — be a catalyst for change in the travel and hospitality sector!
- June 2026
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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." -
MegaCast Keeping up with Ransomware: Evolving Defenses to Counter Changing Attacks
"Ransomware continues to evolve, with attackers employing new tactics that bypass traditional defenses, exploit cloud services, and target backups. Enterprises can no longer rely on static strategies—they need adaptive, layered approaches that combine prevention, detection, and rapid recovery. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that reduce risk, minimize downtime, and protect critical data from increasingly destructive attacks. This MegaCast provides your company the opportunity to connect directly with decision-makers who are prioritizing ransomware defense as a top security investment. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies and services deliver resilient protection, from immutable backups and AI-driven threat detection to automated response and recovery. Attendees will be evaluating solutions that strengthen security postures, simplify operations, and enable business continuity even under attack. Sponsorship ensures your brand is top-of-mind with organizations ready to invest in ransomware defense.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cybersecurity vendors, backup and recovery providers, ransomware detection platforms, incident response service providers, and cloud security innovators." - July 2026
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EcoCast Securing Identity with Passwordless Authentication
Passwords have long been the weakest link in enterprise security, fueling phishing attacks, credential theft, and user frustration. Organizations are increasingly turning to passwordless authentication methods—such as biometrics, hardware keys, and mobile-based authenticators—to strengthen identity security while improving the user experience. IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring these solutions to align with zero trust strategies, reduce risk, and simplify access management. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to an engaged audience making critical investments in identity security. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its solutions help enterprises replace passwords with stronger, more convenient authentication methods. Attendees will be evaluating technologies that deliver seamless login experiences, reduce administrative overhead, and protect sensitive systems against evolving threats. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers committed to advancing their identity and access management programs.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include identity and access management vendors, passwordless authentication providers, multi-factor authentication platforms, biometric security companies, and zero trust solution providers. -
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
- August 2026
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EcoCast The Cloud-Powered Enterprise: Securing Your Cloud
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.
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. -
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. -
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. -
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 Elevating Retail Shopping Experience With AI-Powered Visual Search
Shopper expectations for seamless product discovery are rapidly evolving. Help us explore how AI-driven visual search and image recognition enhance user experience, product findability and engagement in the shopping journey by allowing customers to upload photos.
Target Audience: Ecomnmerce managers, digital merchandising, UX /UI designers and product managers
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EcoCast Best Practices Series: Implementing Advanced Threat Detection
Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated, faster, and harder to detect using traditional defenses. Enterprises need advanced detection capabilities that leverage automation, analytics, and threat intelligence to identify suspicious activity before it escalates into full-blown incidents. IT buyers and influencers are actively evaluating tools and strategies that strengthen detection across networks, endpoints, cloud services, and identities. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of decision-makers who are making critical investments in advanced security solutions. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies improve visibility, shorten response times, and reduce risk. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches that integrate SIEM, XDR, AI-powered analytics, and automation into cohesive detection strategies. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of IT professionals committed to elevating their security capabilities.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include SIEM and XDR vendors, threat intelligence providers, MDR and SOC service providers, and AI-driven security analytics platforms. - October 2026
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Expert Series Protecting and Optimizing Team Collaboration Software: Keeping Slack, Teams, Google and Other Users and Data Safe
Collaboration platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Workspace have become essential to business productivity—but they also present new avenues for cyberattacks, data loss, and compliance risks. IT leaders are under pressure to secure these tools without slowing down communication or user experience. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking solutions for protecting and optimizing their collaboration environments. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, sharing best practices for safeguarding users, data, and integrations while ensuring reliable performance. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide one slide and a short message. We'll take care of the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers focused on securing collaboration platforms.
Vendor Fit
Best for security vendors, SaaS protection providers, and compliance-focused companies supporting collaboration platforms. -
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. -
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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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. -
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 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."