Webinar Schedule
Wish List (26)
- February 2026
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EcoCast Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Enterprises are increasingly reliant on hybrid cloud models to balance flexibility, performance, and cost. Yet managing workloads across public, private, and on-premises environments introduces significant challenges—ranging from visibility gaps and performance bottlenecks to compliance requirements and escalating costs. IT leaders are actively seeking solutions that deliver unified monitoring, actionable insights, and optimization strategies that drive measurable business value. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to present its expertise to a highly engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating tools to make hybrid environments more efficient, secure, and predictable. By sponsoring, you'll demonstrate how your solutions help organizations achieve end-to-end visibility, reduce complexity, and proactively manage resources. Attendees will be decision-makers looking for technologies that optimize workloads, strengthen governance, and maximize ROI across distributed infrastructure. This EcoCast places your brand directly in front of enterprises determined to modernize and streamline their hybrid cloud operations.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include cloud monitoring providers, observability platforms, cost optimization vendors, security and compliance solution providers, and hybrid cloud management innovators. -
Expert Series Mastering Data Management: Tips, Tricks, and Emerging Techniques
Organizations today are generating and storing data at unprecedented scale, but turning that data into actionable value requires mastery of modern management practices. This Expert Series event gives your company the opportunity to align with IT buyers and influencers eager to learn how to organize, govern, protect, and optimize their data environments. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the session, providing practical insights into strategies, tools, and emerging approaches for data-driven success. The format is streamlined for sponsors: simply provide one slide and a short message, and ATM handles the rest —including the expert speaker, audience recruitment, and production. With minimal effort, your brand will gain visibility alongside trusted expertise and reach a highly engaged audience seeking solutions.
Vendor Fit
Data management solution providers, storage and backup vendors, cloud service platforms, and analytics tool providers would benefit from presenting at this event. - March 2026
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EcoCast Navigating Next-Gen Network Security: Choosing the Right Fit
Enterprises today are evaluating critical shifts in how they secure and connect their users, applications, and data. With SD-WAN, SASE, and SSE all vying for attention, IT leaders need clear guidance on which approaches deliver the best balance of performance, security, and scalability for their environments. This EcoCast gives your company the opportunity to put its message in front of a highly engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively researching their options. The sessions will deliver expert insights into the strengths, tradeoffs, and use cases of each model, helping organizations make smarter, faster decisions.
Vendor Fit
Networking vendors, cloud security providers, managed service providers, and zero-trust solution companies would benefit from presenting at this event. -
Expert Series Protecting AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud: Real World Best Practices
Enterprises increasingly rely on multi-cloud environments, but with great flexibility comes great risk. Protecting data, applications, and workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud requires proven strategies and practical solutions. This Expert Series webinar offers your company the chance to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who need guidance on building effective defenses in the cloud. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will lead the session, sharing actionable best practices, key pitfalls to avoid, and strategies that real organizations use to strengthen security. For sponsors, participation couldn't be simpler. All you need to provide is one slide and a short message—
ATM handles everything else, including the speaker, production, and audience recruitment.Vendor Fit
Cloud security providers, identity and access management vendors, backup and disaster recovery firms, and managed security service providers would benefit from presenting at this event. -
Expert Series Game-changing Hardware on the Near Horizon: Storage, Processors, Memory, Networking, and More
Breakthroughs in IT infrastructure are happening faster than ever, with storage, processors, memory, and networking all poised for significant leaps. These innovations promise new efficiencies, improved performance, and expanded capabilities that enterprises will soon need to evaluate and adopt. This Expert Series webinar offers your company the chance to showcase its brand in front of IT buyers and influencers eager to learn what's next. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will present the session, sharing insights into near-term advancements and the opportunities they create for modern enterprises. The sponsorship format is designed to be a very light lift. All you need to provide is a single slide and a brief message, while ATM handles the speaker, audience recruitment, and production.
Vendor Fit
Hardware manufacturers, infrastructure solution providers, component innovators, and performance optimization vendors would benefit from participating in this event. - June 2026
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MegaCast Tech Showcase Day: Addressing Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Needs
"Enterprises face unrelenting pressure to protect their data and ensure resilience against outages, cyberattacks, and human error. From ransomware defense and immutable backups to rapid disaster recovery and cloud-based continuity, IT leaders are searching for reliable solutions that safeguard business-critical information and minimize downtime. This MegaCast provides your company with the opportunity to present directly to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating the next generation of data protection and recovery technologies.
By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its solutions deliver resilience, enable fast recovery, and simplify operations across hybrid and multicloud environments. Attendees will be looking for proven tools and strategies that reduce risk, meet compliance requirements, and ensure business continuity in the face of disruption. Sponsorship places your brand in front of decision-makers ready to invest in modern data protection.Vendor Fit
Best suited for backup and recovery providers, disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) vendors, cloud storage innovators, data security platforms, and continuity-focused managed service providers." -
EcoCast Empowering Distributed Workforces: DEX, DaaS, VDI and Other Tools to Level up Your Organization's Productivity
"As distributed and hybrid work models become the norm, enterprises are challenged to deliver secure, reliable, and seamless digital experiences that keep employees productive no matter where they work. From digital employee experience (DEX) platforms to desktop as a service (DaaS) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), IT leaders are actively seeking solutions that optimize performance, strengthen security, and simplify management at scale. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are evaluating the next generation of tools designed to empower today's distributed workforce. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase its expertise in enabling high-quality digital experiences, integrating productivity-enhancing technologies, and supporting business agility. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches that reduce friction, boost end-user satisfaction, and ensure secure, consistent access to business-critical applications. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned in front of decision-makers shaping the future of work.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include DEX platform providers, DaaS and VDI vendors, endpoint management specialists, collaboration tool providers, and cloud or security vendors enabling distributed workforce productivity." -
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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EcoCast Supporting, Securing, & Improving Azure, M365 & Microsoft-centric Environments
Microsoft environments—spanning Azure, Microsoft 365, and hybrid deployments—are at the core of most enterprises' IT strategies. Yet ensuring these environments remain secure, optimized, and easy to manage presents ongoing challenges for IT leaders. From identity protection and compliance to performance monitoring and backup, organizations are seeking solutions that strengthen operations and safeguard critical business systems. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating tools and services for Microsoft-centric environments. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its solutions help enterprises streamline management, secure sensitive data, and optimize performance across Microsoft platforms. Attendees will be exploring best practices and proven technologies that address security risks, improve governance, and support evolving business needs. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers planning their next Microsoft investments.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include Microsoft-focused security vendors, backup and recovery providers, compliance and governance specialists, performance optimization platforms, and managed service providers. -
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 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. - September 2026
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EcoCast Transforming IT in Healthcare Environments
Healthcare organizations face unique IT demands: protecting sensitive patient data, complying with strict regulations, modernizing electronic health record systems, and enabling clinicians with reliable, user-friendly technologies. At the same time, they must defend against rising cyberattacks, manage hybrid infrastructures, and deliver seamless digital experiences for staff and patients. IT buyers and influencers in healthcare are actively seeking innovative solutions that streamline operations, improve security, and enhance care delivery. This EcoCast provides your company with the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers navigating the complexities of healthcare IT.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for healthcare IT solution providers, cybersecurity vendors, EHR optimization specialists, cloud and infrastructure innovators, and compliance-focused service providers. -
Expert Series Exploring the Intersection of Data, Storage, and Artificial Intelligence
The relationship between data, storage, and artificial intelligence is quickly becoming one of the most important areas for IT leaders to understand. From ensuring high-performance access to massive datasets, to enabling AI-driven automation and analytics, organizations are rethinking how storage and data strategies work hand-in-hand with emerging AI initiatives. This Expert Series event from ActualTech Media gives your company the opportunity to reach an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively exploring this critical intersection. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will deliver the content, covering practical approaches for managing, securing, and optimizing data and storage infrastructures to support AI-driven innovation. As a sponsor, your role is simple: provide a single slide and a brief message. We'll manage the rest, ensuring your brand is recognized by decision-makers investing in next-generation data and AI solutions.
Vendor Fit
Best for storage providers, data management vendors, and AI infrastructure companies seeking visibility with IT decision-makers. - October 2026
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EcoCast Building a Proactive PC Upgrade Strategy
As workforce demands evolve, enterprises can no longer rely on reactive hardware refresh cycles. Aging PCs reduce productivity, increase security risks, and raise support costs—yet many organizations still struggle with planning effective, long-term upgrade strategies. IT buyers and influencers are actively looking for solutions that help them modernize their fleets with the right mix of performance, security, and manageability. This EcoCast provides your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who are preparing to align PC lifecycle management with business goals. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate how its products and services enable smarter refresh planning, enhance endpoint security, and optimize total cost of ownership. Attendees will be exploring proven approaches for streamlining procurement, deploying modern devices, and supporting hybrid and remote work environments. Sponsorship ensures your brand is in front of enterprises ready to invest in their next wave of PC upgrades.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include PC manufacturers, device management solution providers, endpoint security vendors, lifecycle services companies, and resellers focused on modern workplace technology. -
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. -
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. - November 2026
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EcoCast Taking Identity and Access Management to the Next Level
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. -
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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EcoCast Solutions and Tools that Use AI to Get More from Your Existing Data
Enterprises are generating more data than ever, yet many struggle to fully unlock its value. Artificial intelligence is transforming how organizations analyze, manage, and act on information—delivering deeper insights, improved decision-making, and operational efficiencies. From predictive analytics to automated workflows and anomaly detection, IT buyers and influencers are actively exploring solutions that help them maximize returns on existing data investments. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its expertise directly to decision-makers who want to leverage AI to turn raw information into actionable intelligence. By sponsoring, your organization can highlight how its technologies empower enterprises to improve performance, streamline operations, and uncover new opportunities. Attendees will be evaluating practical AI-driven tools and approaches that enhance governance, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable business impact. Sponsorship ensures your brand is positioned at the center of data-driven transformation discussions.
Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI and analytics vendors, data management platforms, automation providers, cloud service companies, and governance solutions that enable smarter use of enterprise data. -
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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Expert Series Tracking the Attackers: Ransomware
"Ransomware remains one of the most disruptive and costly threats to organizations, with attackers constantly refining their tactics to outpace defenses. IT leaders need a clear understanding of how adversaries operate, how campaigns unfold, and what strategies work best to detect, contain, and recover from these devastating incidents. This Expert Series event provides your company the opportunity to connect with an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are actively seeking insights into ransomware defense. An expert speaker provided by ActualTech Media will lead the session, offering guidance on attacker behavior, emerging detection techniques, and proven response strategies. As a sponsor, your participation is simple: provide one slide and a short message. We'll handle the rest, ensuring your brand gains visibility with decision-makers focused on improving ransomware resilience.
Vendor Fit
Well-suited for security vendors, backup and recovery providers, and threat intelligence companies targeting enterprise IT buyers." -
EcoCast Building a Governance, Risk, and Compliance Framework
"Enterprises are under increasing pressure to demonstrate accountability, manage risk, and comply with a growing set of regulations across industries and geographies. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks provide the structure organizations need to align policies, mitigate threats, and build trust with stakeholders. Yet many IT and security leaders struggle with fragmented tools, manual processes, and evolving requirements. This EcoCast offers your company the opportunity to engage directly with IT buyers and influencers who are actively evaluating solutions to strengthen their GRC programs. By sponsoring, your organization can showcase how its technologies and services help enterprises unify risk management, streamline compliance reporting, and embed governance across IT operations. Attendees will be exploring approaches that improve efficiency, reduce exposure, and support strategic decision-making. Sponsorship ensures your brand is front and center with decision-makers prioritizing investments in governance and compliance.
Vendor Fit
Ideal sponsors include GRC platform providers, compliance automation vendors, risk management solution providers, security governance specialists, and consulting firms supporting regulatory readiness."