Webinars

November 19, 2026, noon EST

Stop the Scroll: The Strategy Behind Better B2B Content for Social Media

In the world of B2B marketing, you have mere seconds to capture attention before your audience scrolls past. With buyers relying on trusted social channels for research and video content playing a crucial role in purchase decisions, the question isn't whether to create social videos, it's how to make them count.  Join experts from Informa TechTarget as they explore what makes social videos different from traditional long-form content and share tips on how to optimize every piece you create. From understanding the unique power of short-form content to fighting the algorithm and maximizing engagement, our panelists will share actionable strategies for creating videos that resonate with your audience.

Steve Madeja, Senior Creative Director, Studios, Sabrina Polin, Social Media Strategy Manager, and Kate Murray, Editor, Reader Engagement & Outreach (Informa TechTarget)

November 17, 2026, 2 p.m. EST

Talent or Tailwind? Using Direct AI to Look Past a Portfolio Manager's Hot Streak

When certain investment styles or macro drivers soar, even average managers can look brilliant. Join Robby Greengold, Principal for Equity Strategies, and learn how Direct AI shows what's behind a fund's winning run, or whether an outstanding manager's underperforming fund is simply out of favor.

Robby Greengold, Principal for Equity Strategies; Kyle Lalonde, Customer Success Specialist

November 17, 2026, 10 a.m. EST

The Active ETF Landscape in 2026

In the last few years alone, over 1,800 new actively managed ETFs hit the US market. In 2025, active ETFs recorded over $475 billion in inflows. But what’s next for active ETFs? Join us for an in-depth exploration of active ETFs and their growing influence on the investment landscape. Our experts will also showcase how Morningstar’s powerful data and tools can be used to generate deeper insights and analysis, including the new ETF pre-launch datapoints and ETF share class discovery. You will learn about: - Key trends fueling demand for active ETFs, with insights from a seasoned Morningstar research analyst. - Active ETF growth and performance across the US, EMEA, and other markets. - How to use Morningstar Direct, our comprehensive investment application, to access active ETF data and perform custom analysis.

Jack Shannon, Principal, Equity Strategies | Tom Nations, Director of Research Products | Ousha Beezadhur, Direct Sales Specialist

ON-DEMAND 31 mins

Enterprise Expectations, Mid-Market Reality: Modernizing Your Network for What's Next

Today’s mid-market organizations are expected to deliver enterprise-level performance, security, reliability, and user experience—often with smaller IT teams and tighter budgets. At the same time, cloud adoption, AI, cybersecurity requirements, connected devices, hybrid work, and new business initiatives continue to place more demands on the network. The challenge is not simply deciding whether your network is “old.” The more important question is whether the infrastructure you have today can support where your organization is going next. Learning Outcomes: - Recognize signs that your network may be limiting business growth or increasing risk. - Connect future business initiatives to infrastructure requirements. - Evaluate the hidden operational cost of your current environment. - Identify where enterprise networking capabilities may make sense. - Determine where internal resources, outside partners, or a hybrid approach are appropriate. - Leave with a short list of practical modernization priorities.

Dan Dulac, VP, Solutions Strategy at Extreme Networks, Patrick Vest, IT Operations Manager at World Outreach Church, and Sam Sexton, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Logically

ON-DEMAND 50 mins

2027 State of the Network Study: NetSecOps, Pre-Deployment Testing and Strategies for Improving Performance & Security

Join Omdia and VIAVI panelists for an engaging, research-driven discussion on the top network and security trends shaping enterprise IT. The State of the Network study, now in its 18th edition, reveals the essential strategies organizations have adopted to stay ahead as network environments become more complicated and the attack surface scales rapidly. Learn how organizations are: • Planning and implementing NetSecOps convergence, structured testing and other initiatives while balancing network performance and security • Seeing tangible, cross-functional benefits including reduced service disruptions and security incidents, improved application performance, and faster detection and resolution • Using organizational and tool alignment to improve efficiency and reduce complexity Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from top industry analysts as they share enterprise IT trends and how your peers are proactively addressing business, performance and security challenges. Watch now to stay ahead of the curve!

Jim Frey, Principal Analyst, Omdia | John Grady, Principal Analyst, Omdia | Chris Labac, VP/GM Network Performance and Threat Solutions, VIAVI Solutions | Sashi Jeyaretnam, Senior Director, Network Security, VIAVI Solutions

ON-DEMAND 53 mins

OT Risks in Manufacturing: A conversation with Aberdeen Strategy & Research

This webinar explores how to effectively communicate and quantify operational technology (OT) risk to senior leadership, moving beyond intuition and traditional "red/yellow/green" reporting. The Importance of Quantifying OT Risk Context: Manufacturing environments are increasingly risky due to three converging trends: the disappearance of the air gap as OT/IT converge, the rapid advancement of AI used by attackers to chain vulnerabilities, and rising geopolitical threats leading to sabotage and supply chain disruption. Methodology: To provide concrete data for budget justification, speakers recommend using Monte Carlo modeling. This technique uses three primary factors—frequency of incidents, duration of downtime, and financial impact per unit of time—to generate a range of potential outcomes. Decision Making: While the entire range is valuable, senior leaders should focus on the "long tail" of the risk curve, specifically the 5% likelihood to exceed a certain value, as this represents the serious incidents that require business decisions. Practical Strategies for Risk Reduction When stakeholders ask how to mitigate identified risks, practitioners should frame solutions around the levers of frequency, duration, and implication: Reduce Frequency: Utilize a zero-trust architecture to hide the attack surface, eliminating VPNs and firewalls that attackers exploit to pivot into OT environments. Reduce Duration: Deploy decoys (honeypots) that mimic real OT systems. Because attackers cannot distinguish between real and decoy systems, tripping these "tripwires" significantly reduces dwell time by alerting the security operations center (SOC) to an intruder’s presence. Limit Implication: Implement granular network segmentation and monitoring to reduce the "blast radius" of an incident, allowing for the isolation of specific devices or production lines rather than shutting down an entire plant.

Umang Barman, Senior Director, Product Marketing Zscaler

ON-DEMAND 37 mins

SCC and HPE: Navigating 'The Perfect Storm': Building a Hybrid Cloud Strategy for Cost, Control and AI Readiness

Join SCC and HPE for a discussion that tackles how leading organisations are responding with with a more intentional hybrid cloud strategy due to the increasing pressures. These include rising infrastructure costs, evolving virtualisation strategies and growing AP ambitions and require a delicate balance of innovation with governance, resilience and financial control

Andrew Ayres PhD - Hybrid Cloud Strategy & Channel Leader, UKIMEA HPE | Stuart Wareham - HPE International Alliance Manager, SCC