Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for March 16 - June 30, 2026. I don't have anything to do with any of these from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions.
April
April 2 - NAGARA, Proof of Concept: Planning Your Approach
April 3 - ARMA New Jersey, From Retention Rules to Risk Reduction
April 7 - ARMA Madison, From Influence to Implementation: Achieving Executive Buy-In to Advance Your IG Program
April 7 - Dataversity, Human Oversight in AI: Designing Accountability for High-Stakes Decisions
April 7 - IAPP and Securiti, Future-proofing for the privacy professional
April 8 - ARMA Metro Maryland, IG at a Crossroads: What's Next for ARMA and the Profession?
April 9 - Dataversity, Building Effective RAG Applications
April 9 - Digital Government Institute, CUI Marking, Metadata & Lifecycle Management
April 9 - RIMPA Global, Information Governance in the United States
April 9 - IAPP and BigID, Compliance without borders: Privacy, AI and risk across global markets
April 9 - Contoural, Information Governance 101
April 10 - ARA, An Introduction to Developing a Digital Asset Register
April 14 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Professional Certifications: What's in it for me?
April 14 - ARMA Houston, 2026 Spring Conference
April 14 - ARMA Boise Valley, AI Governance Through the Lens of Risk
April 14 - ARMA Chicago, Explore the CRM Certification
April 14 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, From Paper to Power: Mastering Digital Migration. For more information or to register, please contact Eileen Cook at eileen_cook@progressive.com.
April 14 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Seminar
April 14 - Dataversity, Data Stewards: Conquering Data Debt in the Age of AI
April 14 - ILTA, Team IG: From Vision to Reality: Building Information Governance in Big Law
April 14 - ILTA, Modern eDiscovery in the Era of Cloud & AI: Microsoft Purview
April 14 - Access, Keeping Retention Schedules Current: A Practical Approach to Regulatory Review
April 15 - ARMA Nebraska, 2026 Spring Seminar
April 15 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, The Power of Soft Skills in Records and Information Management
April 15 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Information Governance @ Machine Speed What's Next for IG? Navigating the Agentic AI Revolution
April 15 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp – Building Trust in the Public Record to 2028: Practical Implications for AI, Records, and Information Governance
April 15 - Meru Data, California Delete Act and the Data Rights Online Portal (DROP) System
April 16 - ARMA Northern Virginia, A Practitioner's Guide to AI Readiness in RIM
April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose
April 16 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Outlook is Not a Repository
April 16 - ARMA Keystone PA, Philadelphia Archives In-Person Tour
April 16 - ARMA Oklahoma, Five Mistakes That Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them
April 16 - Dataversity, Mastering Metadata: Strategies for Sustainable Governance
April 16 - Iron Mountain, Risk-proofing the AI supply chain: Building trust and integrity in an automated world
April 16 - Colligo, Why Legal Teams Are Rethinking Their DMS—and How to Make Microsoft 365 Actually Work
April 17 - Jesse Wilkins, RIG Playbook Office Hours
April 19-22 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Phoenix, AZ
April 19-24 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL
April 21 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Best Practices to Operationalize AI Governance for Information Leaders
April 21 - ARMA Central Missouri, Missouri University Research Reactor Tour
April 21 - ILTA, Information Governance 101: What Firms Need to Know (And Why It Matters Now)
April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL
April 22 - AIIM and Feith, Leveraging AI for Mission-Ready Records Management
April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines
April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
April 24 - NAGARA, 2026 Spring Online Forum: Sync or Sink: Finding Flow in Times of Change
April 27-30 - AI+IM Global Summit 2026, Baltimore, MD
April 27-30 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV
April 28 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, Purview Records Management - What's the Deal?
April 28 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, The Oversharing Epidemic: Rethinking SharePoint Governance for Copilot
April 28 - IAPP and TrustArc, Beyond the button: Consent as a regulatory entry point
April 29 - ARMA New Jersey, Information Coordinator Programs
April 29 - ARMA Madison, From Influence to Implementation: Achieving Executive Buy-In to Advance Your IG Program
April 29 - Filerskeepers and Cadence Solutions, From Governance to Intelligence: How Data Governance Prepares for AI
April 30 - Zasio, Retention Is Governance: Using Records Schedules as the Backbone of IGIM
May
May 4-7 - IAPP, Canada Symposium 2026, Toronto, ON
May 4-8 - Dataversity, DGIQ + EDW 2026, San Diego, CA
May 5 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO
May 5 - Dataversity, Governance in the Wild: Managing Shadow AI and Decentralized Models
May 5 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee — From Algorithms to Audit Trails: Managing AI Records End to End
May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo
May 6-7 - Data Summit, Boston, MA
May 6-8 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC
May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works
May 7 - ILTA, AI Governance for Law Firms: Moving from Experimentation to Enterprise Control
May 7-8 - ARMA Ontario, InfoConnect 2026, Waterloo, ON
May 12 - ARMA Chicago, Leveraging IG & Risk Management
May 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Federal Reserve Bank Tour
May 12 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '26
May 12 - RIMPA Global, AI Roundtable
May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance
May 13-15 - ARMA Palmetto, ARMAste Annual Conference
May 14 - Dataversity, Data Professionals in the AI Age: What’s Next?
May 14 - IAPP and Optro, Scaling responsible innovation with AI governance
May 14-15 - M365 Community Days DC 2026, Arlington, VA
May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting
May 15 - IAPP, The great pivot: From career transition to thriving as a privacy professional
May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales
May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies
May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference
May 20, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Crafting Your Elevator Pitch
May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Talk Nerdy to Me: Prompting for Results
May 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Essential Records for Trademark and Servicemark Registration
May 20 - Box, Content + AI Virtual Summit
May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making
May 26 - ARMA Calgary, IMX 2026: Principles to Practice
May 26 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat
May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts
May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
May 28 - ILTA, Team IG: Walking the Tightrope Between AI & IG
May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS
June
June 1-4 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2026, Dublin, IRL
June 2 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Governance for Multimodal AI: Text, Vision, Voice, and Beyond
June 4 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow
June 4 - NAGARA, See Dead Records: Identifying the Unknown, Ancient, and Miscellaneous
June 4 - Digital Government Institute, AI & ML in Records Management
June 9 - Dataversity, Data Integration Demystified: Enabling AI-Driven Interoperability
June 9 - ILTA, Zero-Trust Data Governance: Aligning Information Governance & Security Strategy
June 9-11 - Info-Tech, LIVE Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
June 10 - Future of Privacy Forum, DC Privacy Forum 2026
June 11 - Dataversity and Reltio, The Master Data Management Dilemma: To Buy or Build, That Is the Question: Benchmark Completed
June 15-18 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In
June 16 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage
June 17 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Mixing Your IG Mission and Message for the Crowd
June 17 - ARMA Nebraska, 10 Practical Ways RIM & IG Professionals Can Use AI Today
June 18 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow
June 18 - Dataversity, Responsible Data Sharing: Balancing Access, Privacy, and Trust
June 18 - IAPP and Integreon, Data mining in the age of class actions: What privacy teams need to know
June 23, ARMA Energy Industry Group, Benchmarking
June 24-25 - IAPP, Navigate 2026, Portsmouth, NH
June 25 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow
June 25 - ILTA, From Intent to Action: Building and Delivering an Information Governance Strategy
June 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
June 25-26 - ARMA California Chapters, 4th Annual California Summer Conference
If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html or email me at jwilkins13@gmail.com.
