May 18, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, May 16 - August 31, 2026

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for May 16 - August 31, 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. 

Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc., your events are all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. If you are interested in listing your solution-specific webinar or event, please contact me about placing and highlighting your event. 

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IG, RM, DM, AI, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jwilkins13@gmail.com.

No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

May

May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales 

May 18 - ARMA Boise, Governing the Ungovernable

May 19 - Atlanta ARMA, Emergency Planning and Response for Records

May 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Using Microsoft 365 to Improve Collaboration & RM

May 19 - ARMA San Antonio, A Records Manager's Greatest Asset...And Liability: A Lawyer's Perspective

May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies

May 19 - RIMPA Global, Aligning Information Management and Data Management Practices

May 19 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 1: Understanding the AI Landscape

May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference

May 20, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Crafting Your Elevator Pitch

May 20 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Records Reimagined: Where "The Principles" Meet Security

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 - AIIM, Getting the Data House in Order for More Effective AI: Implementing Defensible Disposal in Practice

May 20 - ILTA, Boring AI is the Best AI

May 20 - Today's General Counsel and Contoural, You've Just Been Handed Ownership of the Records Program. Now What? 

May 20 - Box, Content + AI Virtual Summit

May 21 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Mindfulness for the RIM Mind

May 21 - ARMA Keystone PA, Navigating the Digital Future of Records Information and Data

May 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, From Paper to Practical: Building a Scanning and Indexing Workflow That Actually Works

May 21 - ARMA Utah, Andrew Ysasi

May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making

May 21 - ILTA, Chasing AI ROI

May 26 - ARMA Calgary, IMX 2026: Principles to Practice

May 26 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Zen and the Art of Public Records Management

May 26 - ARMA Hawai'i, Cybersecurity: Protecting Digital Records & Information

May 26 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts

May 26 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Building the foundation: Records retention before AI

May 27 - Information Governance Community Roundtable, A Governance 'Ask Us Anything!'

May 27 - ARMA Houston, IGIM 2.1: From Framework to Action

May 28 - RIMPA Global, Ballarat Regional Catch-up

May 27 - WesternIM, IMConnectCanada, Are you a smaller organization? This is for you.

May 28 - IAPP and Securiti AI, Consent by proxy: When AI agents start deciding for us

May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

May 28 - ILTA Ohio, From Chaos to Catalog: Governing Legal Data for AI

May 28 - ILTA, Team IG: Walking the Tightrope Between AI & IG

May 28 - Access, Flying Solo: Survival Strategies for the One-Person Records Management Department

May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS

June

June 1 - ARMA, Public Transit & Transportation Industry Group

June 1-4 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2026, Dublin, IRL

June 2 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Exchange: Ottawa

June 2 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Governance for Multimodal AI: Text, Vision, Voice, and Beyond

June 3 - ARMA North Dakota, Spring Seminar

June 3 - Leadership Through Data, Information Management, AI & Microsoft 365 - The 7-Pillar Framework to Make Governance Stick

June 4 - ARMA Greater Columbus, Year End Chapter Meeting

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 4 - IAPP and Contoural, Creating a data retention policy for personal information and AI

June 4 - ILTA, Best Practices for Documenting Your Power Platform

June 9 - ARMA Dallas, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage: Use EQ to boost your professional and personal relationships

June 9 - Dataversity, Data Integration Demystified: Enabling AI-Driven Interoperability

June 9 - ILTA, Zero-Trust Data Governance: Aligning Information Governance & Security Strategy

June 9 - NAGARA and Feith, The Same as it Never Was: Embracing Change to Meet Goals and Empower Teams

June 9-11 - Info-Tech, LIVE Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

June 10 - ARMA Cascadia, Boosting Engagement with Monthly Forums

June 10 - IRMS, Legal Roundtable Hybrid Event

June 10 - Future of Privacy Forum, DC Privacy Forum 2026

June 11 - InfoGovANZ, AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work – Opportunities and Risks

June 11 - IAPP, Your path into privacy: Career strategies, honest advice, and real talk from the people who hire and coach

June 11 - Dataversity and Reltio, The Master Data Management Dilemma: To Buy or Build, That Is the Question: Benchmark Completed

June 11 - Contoural, We’re Using AI for Everything. What Are the Steps to Get Ready?

June 11 - Leadership Through Data, Information Management, AI & Microsoft 365 - The 7-Pillar Framework to Make Governance Stick

June 15-18 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

June 15-18 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, CA and virtual

June 16 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage

June 16 - RIMPA Global and AvePoint, Shining a Light on Waste: How Poor Information Costs You Millions

June 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Managing the Digital Heap

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 17 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Build an AI gov framework that actually gets adopted

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 18 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 2: Using AI Professionally and Safely

June 18 - Digital Government Institute and Casepoint, Applying AI to FOIA: Improving Efficiency, Consistency, and Defensibility Across Agencies

June 23 - ARMA Michigan, The Great Unwinding: Dealing with Information Governance Aspects of Closures, Location changes and Spin-Offs

June 23, ARMA Energy Industry Group, Benchmarking

June 23 - ILTA, Information Governance and Records Management Roundtable|London

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

July

July 2 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 7 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Synthetic Truth: Governing Generative AI in High-Stakes Domains

July 9 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2026

July 14 - Dataversity and Reltio, AI-Powered Data Modeling Essentials

July 15 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, RIM 101, But in an Entertaining Way

July 15 - Contoural, A Dozen Ways to Save Money on Your Records Program

July 15 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Shining a light on shadow AI

July 16 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne | Roadshow

July 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Linking the ROPA, Retention Schedule & IAR

July 16 - ILTA and Legal-RM, Beyond the Foundations: Agents, Tools and Your Questions

July 16 - Dataversity, Ethics, Privacy, and Policy: Building Trust Through Governance

July 21-23 - CDOIQ Symposium, Boston, MA

July 21-24 - 2026 NAGARA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

July 22-23 - IAPP, Asia Forum 2026, Singapore

July 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

July 27-29 - NIRMA, Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX

July 28 - Digital Government Institute, 930gov 2026

August

August 4 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, AI Governance Meets Cybersecurity: Aligning Trust, Safety, and Resilience

August 6 - NAGARA and Iron Mountain, Leading AI Readiness: Essential Skills for Records and Information Professionals

August 10 - IRMS Midlands Group: Future Perfect? Digital Preservation in the Real World

August 11 - Dataversity, Mastering Reference Data: An AI Essential for Reliable Business Information

August 11 - NAGARA and Kodak Alaris, Digital Evidence Management and Ensuring the Timeliness for Prosecution Purposes

August 13 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Mastery: William Answers Your Questions

August 20 - Dataversity, Data Storytelling for Governance Leaders: Influence Through Insight

August 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN

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.

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