Wish List (10)

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.

February 2026

Mastering Data Management: Tips, Tricks, and Emerging Techniques

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200

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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.

April 2026

Recovering Microsoft Environments: Top Considerations for Cloud and On-Premises

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200

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6

From Microsoft 365 to on-premises Active Directory and hybrid Azure deployments, Microsoft platforms sit at the heart of most enterprise operations. When outages, attacks, or misconfigurations strike, the ability to quickly recover these environments can make the difference between business continuity and costly disruption. IT buyers and influencers are actively searching for solutions that ensure recovery readiness across both cloud and on-premises systems. In this Expert Series, a Microsoft infrastructure expert provided by ActualTech Media will discuss techniques, best practices, and tool categories that help enterprises safeguard critical Microsoft environments and reduce downtime. By sponsoring, your organization can associate itself with best practices and proven solutions for restoring data, applications, and configurations after incidents ranging from ransomware to accidental deletions. Your brand will be positioned directly in front of decision-makers responsible for protecting their most critical systems.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for backup and recovery vendors, cloud and hybrid management providers, identity and access management specialists, and cybersecurity companies supporting Microsoft environments.

Agentic AI: Supporting, Managing, Securing, and Optimizing the Next Phase of Artificial Intelligence

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800

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8

As enterprises move beyond pilot projects and integrate AI more deeply into operations, attention is shifting to the rise of agentic AI—systems capable of autonomously performing tasks, making decisions, and coordinating workflows. While the potential for efficiency and innovation is enormous, IT leaders must also grapple with new challenges around governance, observability, security, compliance, and cost management. This MegaCast offers your company the opportunity to showcase its solutions to an engaged audience of IT buyers and influencers who are exploring how to responsibly manage and maximize value from the next phase of artificial intelligence. By sponsoring, your organization can demonstrate its expertise in enabling enterprises to safely adopt agentic AI through effective controls, monitoring, optimization, and security measures. Attendees will be evaluating strategies and technologies that help them harness AI-driven agents while ensuring trust, resilience, and business alignment. Your brand will be positioned at the center of discussions shaping the future of enterprise AI.

Vendor Fit
Best suited for AI infrastructure providers, governance and compliance platforms, security vendors, observability and optimization tools, and service providers supporting large-scale AI adoption.

June 2026

Keeping up with Ransomware: Evolving Defenses to Counter Changing Attacks

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800

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8

"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."

Backing up, Securing, and Optimizing Kubernetes/Containerized Environments

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400

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6

"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."

August 2026

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.

October 2026

Transforming Backup and Disaster Recovery with AI and Emerging Techniques

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400

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6

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.

Tech Showcase Day: Master of Disaster 2027

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800

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8

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

Taking Identity and Access Management to the Next Level

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400

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6

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.