Webinar Schedule
Wish List (19)
- 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.
- 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." - 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"
- 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. -
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
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EcoCast Tech Showcase: Assessing and Improving Backup, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery Capabilities
Data is the lifeblood of every enterprise, and protecting it against outages, cyberattacks, and accidental loss is a top priority for IT leaders. Yet many organizations still struggle with fragmented backup systems, slow recovery times, and gaps in data protection strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that deliver speed, reliability, and resiliency while simplifying management across hybrid and multicloud environments. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise to decision-makers evaluating the next generation of backup, disaster recovery, and data protection technologies. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, and ensure business continuity. Attendees will be exploring practical tools and proven strategies that reduce risk, meet compliance demands, and protect critical business assets. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with IT professionals ready to invest in modern data protection.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include backup and recovery providers, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors, cloud storage innovators, and data protection companies focused on resiliency and continuity. - August 2026
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Expert Series The 101 Course: Keeping Data Safe and Recoverable
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. -
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 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. - September 2026
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MegaCast Artificial Intelligence Showcase: Looking at Now and Into the Future of AI
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into enterprise-wide adoption, driving innovation across security, operations, customer engagement, and beyond. Organizations are eager to understand how to implement AI responsibly, optimize infrastructure, and prepare for what's coming next. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking proven solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes today while positioning them for the future. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to highlight its expertise and showcase cutting-edge AI solutions to an engaged audience ready to evaluate technologies that enhance efficiency, scalability, and competitiveness. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its offerings help enterprises accelerate AI adoption, secure AI systems, govern data, and achieve tangible ROI. Attendees will be exploring strategies and tools that balance innovation with accountability, ensuring AI deployments align with business and compliance requirements. Sponsorship places your brand directly in front of decision-makers investing in the future of AI.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, infrastructure and cloud vendors, governance and compliance platforms, data management innovators, and security companies enabling safe and scalable AI adoption. - 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. -
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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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 AI's Role in Loss Prevention and Retail Security in Modern Stores
Retail shrink is a persistent challenge, but cutting-edge AI technologies are transforming the landscape of loss prevention and security. Our panel will explore how retailers are leveraging AI-powered video analytics and predictive analytics for fraud detection and intelligent access control systems to minimize theft and enhance store safety. Your company can be one of the experts to discuss real-time monitoring solutions, AI-driven insights, and loss mitigation strategies for operations and to create a secure shopping environment.
Target Audience: Loss prevention directors / managers, operations leaders, asset protection specialists.
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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. -
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.
- 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