Webinar Schedule
Wish List (17)
- 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.
- May 2026
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EcoCast Getting Storage Under Control: Simplifying On-Prem and Cloud-Based Storage Architectures
"Explosive data growth is straining both on-premises and cloud-based storage systems, leaving IT teams struggling with rising costs, management complexity, and performance bottlenecks. Organizations are actively seeking solutions that streamline storage architectures, ensure scalability, and enable predictable performance across hybrid environments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating strategies to modernize and simplify storage. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies and services deliver unified management, data protection, cost optimization, and flexibility across on-prem and cloud storage. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches to reduce complexity, increase efficiency, and gain visibility into their storage environments. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers who are ready to invest in next-generation storage strategies.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for storage solution providers, hybrid cloud storage vendors, backup and recovery innovators, data management platforms, and storage optimization specialists." -
MegaCast Supercharging IT Summit
"IT organizations are being asked to do more than ever—deliver higher performance, embrace cloud innovation, strengthen security, empower users, and integrate artificial intelligence into daily operations—all while managing tighter budgets and leaner teams. Leaders are seeking solutions that supercharge efficiency, resilience, and agility across every layer of IT, from infrastructure and applications to security and data management. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to connect directly with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating the tools, services, and strategies that will power their organizations into 2026 and beyond. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how it helps enterprises accelerate transformation, reduce complexity, and achieve more with less. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches to automation, AI adoption, cloud optimization, observability, cybersecurity, and data protection. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers looking for the next generation of IT innovation.
Vendor Fit
This event is an ideal platform for any provider of IT solutions or services." - June 2026
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SmartPanel Countering Ransomware Threats: Tactics to Mitigate Phishing Attacks
"As ransomware evolves, having a robust strategy and tactics to counteract phishing campaigns is more critical than ever. As a leading industry expert, join us to explore the latest trends in ransomware, providing actionable insights into how attackers can override traditional security measures and share strategies for enhanced detection, proactive defense and rapid response against malware.
Target Audience: IT security managers, CISOs, cloud security engineers"
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SmartPanel AI Strategies to Optimize Stock and Supply Chain Operations
"Join our panel to discuss how AI applications transform inventory management and demand forecasting, enabling retailers to reduce stockouts, overstock situations and anticipate future demand spikes, ensuring product availability and efficiency. As an expert, help us teach how to leverage predictive analytics software and AI applications to improve operations.
Target Audience: Supply chain directors, inventory managers, operations managers/directors, logistics and warehouse managers"
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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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MegaCast Managing AI: Tools and Techniques to Secure, Optimize, and Maximize Your AI Initiatives
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
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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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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. - 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
- October 2026
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EcoCast Supporting, Securing, and Enhancing Microsoft-centric Environments
From Azure to Microsoft 365 and hybrid Active Directory, Microsoft platforms are the foundation of IT operations for most enterprises. Yet supporting these environments at scale introduces challenges around identity and access management, data protection, compliance, and performance optimization. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that simplify operations, enhance security, and ensure reliability across Microsoft-centric ecosystems. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of decision-makers seeking technologies and services that help them get the most out of their Microsoft investments. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions secure sensitive data, improve productivity, and strengthen governance across Microsoft workloads. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches that address real-world pain points while enabling agility and business continuity. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned directly in front of IT leaders shaping Microsoft strategies.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Microsoft-focused security vendors, identity and access management providers, backup and recovery specialists, compliance solution providers, and managed service partners supporting Microsoft environments. -
SmartPanel Beyond Awareness Month: Building Year-Round Cyber Resilience
Cybersecurity Awareness Month serves as an annual reminder, but with today's evolving threats, thinking about cybersecurity once a year is not enough. In this webinar, help us discuss practical strategies, emerging trends and real-world examples that will help IT organizations build year-round cyber resilience.
Target Audience: IT security leaders, compliance professionals, training managers and cybersecurity strategists
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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. -
MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Master of Disaster 2027
Disruptions from ransomware, outages, human error, and natural events can strike at any time, and enterprises are under pressure to ensure they can withstand and recover from the unexpected. Business continuity and disaster recovery strategies are being reimagined with cloud-based recovery, immutable backups, AI-driven automation, and faster failover capabilities. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that help them minimize downtime, reduce data loss, and maintain resilience across hybrid and multicloud environments. This MegaCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its innovations and expertise to an engaged audience preparing for the next generation of disaster recovery and data protection. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its technologies strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and simplify management for enterprises determined to be ready for anything. Attendees will be evaluating proven approaches to ensure continuity and security in the face of disruption.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery vendors, DRaaS providers, cloud storage innovators, cybersecurity companies, and automation platforms focused on business continuity and resilience. - 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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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