Wish List (13)

December 2025

Database Bakeoff: Exploring Modern Database Structures

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Couchbase, Pure Storage, Rubrik

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200

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About This Expert Series
Databases remain the basic building block of modern business and commerce, but the menu of options when it comes to which database to use is becoming increasingly diverse. This Expert Series is a premier opportunity for an audience of highly engaged IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking their next database solution to get an overview of the state of the art and the state of play. Attendees will hear from an independent database expert who can guide them on a tour of the latest benefits and advantages of database technologies ranging from relational to NoSQL to cloud-native to other database architectures. As a sponsor, you'll only need to provide a promotional slide, while ATM will handle all aspects of audience development, event production, and lead delivery. Don't miss this opportunity to establish your brand as a thought leader in the database market.

Vendor Fit
This event is ideal for companies offering database technologies that prioritize performance, scalability, and integration, particularly in the cloud, big data, or analytics sectors.

January 2026

Ransomware Recap: Heroes, Villains, and Lessons from 2025

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NetApp, Rubrik

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200

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Ransomware made headlines again in 2025, testing the resilience of enterprises across every sector. In this Expert Series, your company has the opportunity to showcase its brand to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking effective ways to defend, respond, and recover. The session will be delivered by an expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media, ensuring a high-quality, credible presentation that resonates with decision-makers. Participation is simple and streamlined. As a sponsor, all you need to do is provide one slide and a brief message. ATM handles everything else—speaker, production, and audience recruitment—giving your team maximum visibility with minimal effort. This is your chance to stand alongside trusted experts while positioning your company as part of the solution in the fight against ransomware.

Vendor Fit
Backup and recovery providers, cybersecurity solution vendors, threat detection platforms, and managed security service providers would benefit from presenting at this event.

February 2026

How to Responsibly Improve Operations with AI in Public Sector and Education

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400

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Public sector organizations and educational institutions are under pressure to modernize operations while ensuring transparency, accountability, and compliance. Artificial intelligence offers powerful opportunities to streamline services, enhance learning outcomes, and optimize resource management—but only when deployed responsibly. This EcoCast provides your company with a unique opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers from government agencies, higher education, and K-12 institutions who are actively exploring AI solutions that balance innovation with trust and governance. By sponsoring, you'll demonstrate how your solutions can help organizations responsibly adopt AI to improve service delivery, strengthen security, ensure equitable access, and maintain regulatory compliance. Attendees will be looking for proven approaches to enhance operations and decision-making with AI, while avoiding risk and protecting sensitive data. This is your chance to showcase thought leadership and influence technology strategies in critical mission-driven environments.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI solution providers, data governance specialists, cloud and analytics vendors, edtech innovators, and cybersecurity companies supporting AI adoption in regulated and mission-driven organizations.

March 2026

Detecting, Investigating, and Responding to Threats: Best Practices

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Enterprises today face an onslaught of sophisticated attacks, from ransomware and insider threats to advanced persistent intrusions. To stay ahead, IT and security leaders need solutions that not only detect threats quickly but also investigate their scope and respond effectively to minimize damage. This EcoCast offers your company a direct opportunity to connect with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating tools and services to strengthen their detection and response capabilities. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight its expertise in delivering advanced capabilities—whether through AI-driven analytics, threat intelligence integration, automated workflows, or managed detection and response services. Attendees will be looking for proven solutions that reduce dwell time, streamline investigations, and accelerate response, ensuring they are better prepared to handle tomorrow's challenges. Sponsorship places your brand directly in front of decision-makers planning their next security investments.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include SIEM and XDR vendors, MDR service providers, SOAR platforms, threat intelligence firms, and cybersecurity innovators focused on detection and response.

May 2026

Security Automation: Tips, Tricks, and Tools for Better Security

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400

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"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."

Common Pitfalls of Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

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"Even the most well-intentioned IT teams can stumble when it comes to safeguarding data and ensuring rapid recovery. From misconfigured backups and inadequate testing to overlooked dependencies, the risks are real—and costly when disaster strikes. This Expert Series webinar will reach a highly engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who want to avoid these mistakes. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will lead the session, offering insights into common pitfalls, practical fixes, and strategies for building stronger resilience. As a sponsor, all that's required is a single slide and a podcast-style ad message. Production, expert presentation, and audience recruitment are handled for you by ActualTech Media.

Vendor Fit
Backup and recovery vendors, disaster recovery service providers, cloud data protection platforms, and business continuity solution companies would benefit from presenting at this event."

June 2026

Best Practices: Supercharging Your Hybrid Cloud Environment

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400

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"Hybrid cloud strategies are now central to how enterprises balance performance, flexibility, and cost. Yet managing workloads across on-premises and multiple cloud providers brings challenges around visibility, security, compliance, and cost optimization. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that not only address these pain points but also unlock greater efficiency and innovation. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are building the next generation of hybrid cloud environments.
By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies and services help enterprises improve workload placement, strengthen governance, automate processes, and integrate AI-driven optimization. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches for accelerating transformation, simplifying management, and maximizing ROI in complex, distributed infrastructures. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of organizations prepared to invest in hybrid cloud success.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include hybrid cloud management providers, automation and orchestration vendors, cost optimization specialists, cloud security platforms, and infrastructure innovators."

July 2026

Tech Showcase: Assessing and Improving Backup, Data Protection, and Disaster Recovery Capabilities

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400

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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

Boosting IT Efficiency: How to Do More with Less

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400

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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.

Upleveling Your Identity and Access Management Solutions

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400

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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.

Emerging Best Practices for Defending Microsoft Cloud, AD, and Databases

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200

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Microsoft technologies form the backbone of countless enterprise environments, from Active Directory and Microsoft 365 to Azure services and mission-critical databases. As attackers increasingly target these systems, IT leaders are seeking proven strategies to harden defenses, detect intrusions, and maintain resilience across their Microsoft-based infrastructure. This Expert Series event offers your company the chance to reach an audience of engaged IT buyers and influencers who are focused on protecting their most widely used platforms. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will lead the discussion, covering emerging best practices for securing Active Directory, defending Microsoft cloud resources, and safeguarding databases against evolving threats. As a sponsor, your participation is straightforward: simply provide one slide and a short message. ActualTech Media handles everything else, ensuring your brand gains visibility with professionals making key security and technology decisions.

Vendor Fit
Ideal for security vendors, cloud protection providers, and identity management companies supporting Microsoft-centric environments.

September 2026

API Security: Monitoring and Securing Application Programming Interfaces

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400

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APIs have become the backbone of modern applications, enabling connectivity, innovation, and digital transformation. But as their use grows, so does their appeal to attackers. From misconfigurations and weak authentication to malicious exploitation, APIs present a growing attack surface that enterprises must address proactively. IT buyers and influencers are actively seeking solutions that help them monitor, secure, and govern APIs across hybrid and multicloud environments. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to connect directly with decision-makers who are prioritizing API security as a central component of their enterprise strategy.

Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include API security vendors, application protection platforms, identity and access management providers, observability tool vendors, and cloud-native security specialists.

November 2026

Taking Identity and Access Management to the Next Level

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400

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Identity and access management (IAM) is central to enterprise security, but traditional solutions often struggle to keep up with today's hybrid infrastructures, distributed workforces, and ever-tightening compliance requirements. Organizations are seeking more advanced approaches that combine strong authentication, granular access controls, and seamless user experiences with simplified administration. IT buyers and influencers are actively evaluating tools that enable zero trust initiatives, reduce risk, and improve agility. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to showcase its IAM innovations directly to a highly engaged audience that is planning its next stage of identity modernization. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies strengthen identity security, streamline access, and ensure compliance. Attendees will be exploring practical, proven solutions that improve governance, protect sensitive assets, and deliver stronger business outcomes. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers making critical IAM investments.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for IAM vendors, authentication and passwordless technology providers, privileged access management specialists, zero trust platforms, and compliance-focused identity solution providers.