August 31, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, September 1 - November 30, 2026

Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for September 1 - November 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. 

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. I also  generally don't include purely social events with no educational component, or book review sessions.

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 (educational) event or to access the list. 

September

September 1 - AIIM, The State of the Information Management Industry

September 1 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, The Right to Explanation: Meeting Regulatory Demands for Interpretable AI

September 1 - LexShift, Buckets, Functions, Content Types – Oh My! New Ways to Rethink Your Retention Schedule

September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows

September 3 - ARMA Chattanooga, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

September 3 - NAGARA, Counting Down to Zero: Steps for Achieving Zero-Click Recordkeeping

September 4 - IRMS Scotland, Professional Development and Advocacy

September 8 - ARMA Mile High Denver, AI Note Taking Apps & User Privacy

September 8 - ARMA Dallas, The Value of ARMA, ICRM, and the benefits of certifications

September 8 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

September 8 - ARMA Chicago, Information Governance and AI

September 8 - InfoGov World and Triad Executive Advisors, What's Next for AI Governance After Recent Developments? 

September 8 - IAPP and Feroot Security, Findings from the field: Consent audits reveal top 5 CMP policy gaps and root causes

September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale

September 8 - Access, Tag, you're it! Ownership and Accountability in AI Implementation

September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation. 

September 9 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Records Management: The Foundation of AI Governance

September 9 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Less Data is More Than Ever: Privacy & Data Security Compliance as a New Impetus for Defensible Data Disposal. Hybrid meeting; click here for in-person registration or here for virtual registration

September 9 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Ottowa, ON. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

September 9 - InfoGovANZ, From Fragmented Information Management to Enterprise Information Governance

September 10 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Pipeline Engineering Strategies

September 10 - RIMPA Global, M365 Community of Practice

September 10 - ILTA and LegalRM, Information Governance for Cyber Resilience: Preparing for the Inevitable

September 10 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, You've got mail: From a serial privacy plaintiff - a privacy pro's CIPA playbook

September 10 - ILTA, Vancouver Innovation Roundtable: Legal Tech & GenAI

September 14 - IAPP and DataGrail, Does your AI count: Scoping ADMT before California's Jan 1 deadline

September 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo On-site Presentation

September 15 - IAPP, A privacy-enhancing technologies primer

September 16 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Seattle, WA. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

September 16 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Women in eDiscovery Iowa, and Exterro, From Chaos to Control: Bridging Information Governance and eDiscovery

September 16 - ARMA Nebraska, More Than Old Stuff: Why Documentation is as Important as the Artifact

September 16 - ARMA Greater Seattle, “It’s Been A Long Time Coming”: Your CRM Credential Quest, Swifties’ Edition

September 16 - InfoGovANZ, AI Governance Essentials: The Latest Developments in Agentic AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy and ADM

September 16 - RecordPoint, Why are enterprises hesitating when it comes to AI?

September 17 - ARMA Greater Columbus, What Would You Do? A RIM/IG Round Table

September 17 - ARMA Palmetto, The New Foundation for Records & Information Management

September 17 - ARMA Utah, From Records to Health Information: What RIM Professionals Can Learn from Healthcare's Information Governance Journey

September 17 - ILTA, From Information Governance to Information Operations: A New Respect for IG

September 17 - IAPP, From backlog to breakthrough: Using AI in privacy work and governing it across the enterprise

September 17 - ARMA and Access, Flying Solo, Moving Forward: Practical Lessons for Lean Records Teams

September 17 - Dataversity, Governance at Scale: Lessons from the Enterprise Frontlines

September 20-25 - TDWI, Transform 26, Anaheim, CA

September 21-24 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-in

September 22 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Dallas, TX. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor! 

September 22 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Managing data retention schedules during M&A, relocations and bankruptcy

September 22 - ARMA and Morae, AI is Only as Smart as Your Records: Why Information Governance Determines AI Success

September 23 - ARMA Houston, The Safe Path to AI

September 23 -AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, Washington, DC. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

September 23 - ILTA Atlanta, Successful AI Integration: How Leading Law Firms are Winning with Technology and AI

September 23 - Contoural, How to Define a Record

September 23 - Collibra, Context Governance 201: How do you govern unstructured data for AI agents?

September 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

September 24 - IAPP and TrustArc, The AI you didn't build: From black box to defensible risk

September 24 - ILTA, The Trigger that Never Fires: Disposition Rules You Can Actually Act On

September 24 - ILTA New York, Is AI Architecture the Foundation for AI Adoption in Law Firms? 

September 25 - ARMA New England, Empower 26, Providence, RI

September 28-30 - OneTrust, TrustWeek, Las Vegas, NV

September 29 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

September 29 - ARMA Golden State, The Value and Build of a Retention Schedule

September 29 - IRMS Schools Group, Safeguarding in the Age of AI

September 29 - RIMPA Global and RecordPoint, AI Roundtable

September 29 - Oct 1 - The AI Conference 2026, San Francisco, CA

September 30 - AIIM, 2026 AIIM Industry Watch: Work, Skills, and Identity of the Information Professional

September 30 - ILTA Dallas, The Right Model for the Right Matter: A Strategic Framework for AI in Law Firms

October

October 1 - NAGARA and Access Sciences, Records Management in Microsoft Purview: Building the Foundation for AI Governance

October 6 - AIIM, Critical Conversation - Data Literacy and AI

October 6 - ILTA and LegalRM, Making the Case for IG: Securing Buy-In & Demonstrating Value

October 6 - RIMPA Global, SharePoint Data Disposal Without a Net

October 6 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Building a Framework for AI Assurance

October 6 - NAGARA, Enhancing Access to Legacy Slavery Records Using Generative AI

October 6 - Collibra, AI Summit, New York City

October 6-7 - DAMA-MN, Data Conference

October 6-8 - Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, Orlando, FL

October 6-9 - IAPP, Privacy.Security.Risk + AI Governance Global 2026, Seattle, WA

October 7 - ILTA Africa, AI Impact on Legal Practice

October 8 - AIIM Southeast + LATAM, AI Leadership Compass: A Conversation with Dr Priya Sarathy

October 8 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, How to Work with Open Table Formats

October 8 - Digital Government Institute, Relativity, Feith, Veritone, and Casepoint, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices

October 8 - ILTA Minneapolis, Logically Drafted: Proof not Promise: A Peer Roundtable

October 9 - DAMA LA, DAMA Days 2026: Data & AI: Building the Intelligent Enterprise

October 12-14 - InfoGov World, AIGov World 2026, Las Vegas, NV

October 13 - ARMA Chicago, Creating a Modern, Compliant, and Easier-to-Execute Retention Schedule for Privacy and AI

October 13 - RIMPA Global, Records Management and Information Governance Power AI Governance

October 13 - Dataversity, Metadata Matters: Powering AI Data Discovery and Context

October 14 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation. 

October 14 - Collibra, Context Governance 301: How do you keep AI agents from acting on stale context?

October 14 - InfoGovANZ, Information Assets, Ownership and the Enterprise Information Asset Register

October 15 - Dataversity, AI Meets Governance: Ethics, Oversight, and Automation

October 19-22 - OpenText World 2026, Orlando, FL

October 20 - AIIM and ibml, Harnessing AI Without Compromising Trust

October 20 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, London, UK. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

October 20 - RIMPA Global, Local Government Community of Practice Meeting

October 20-22 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live 2026, Sydney, AUS

October 21 - IRMS Ireland, Before the Algorithm, After the Prompt: records, data, and the real work of AI governance

October 21 - Collibra, AI Summit, London, UK

October 22 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

October 22 - Digital Government Institute, Digitization Update: Bridging Policy, Technology, and Practice

October 25-28 - ARMA InfoCon, Savannah, GA

October 27 - AIIM, Critical Conversation on IT, Data Management and RIM Speaking the Same Language

October 27 - Cloudera, Evolve26, New York City, NY

October 30 - NAGARA, 2026 Fall Online Forum: Ghouls, Goblins, and Governance: Mastering the Horrors of Information Management

November

November 3 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, The Future of AI Governance: Forecasting the Next Five Years

November 4-6 - Privacy + Security Forum Fall Academy, Washington, DC

November 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI Implementation Success Stories

November 10 - IAPP and filerskeepers, The right to keep vs. the obligation to delete: Navigating data retention, data minimization and legal holds

November 10 - Dataversity and Reltio, Data Quality by Design: Ensuring Reliable Inputs for AI Systems

November 11 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.

November 11 - IRMS Public Sector Group, Implementing Records Management in M365 Including Purview

November 11-12 - TWAIN, TWAIN Converge 2026, Safety Harbor, FL

November 12 - ILTA and LegalRM, Data Provenance & Traceability: Building Trust in High-Velocity Data Environments

November 12 - Dataversity, Reltio, and Informatica, The ROI of Agentic AI: Strategies for Success

November 16-17 - ILTA, ILTACON Europe 2026, London, UK

November 16-19 - IAPP, IAPP Europe Congress 2026, Brussels, BEL

November 16-19 - Dataversity, DGIQ + AIGOV, Providence, RI

November 16-19 - KMWorld, KMWorld 2026, Washington, DC

November 17 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Toronto, ON. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

November 18 - ARMA Houston, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

November 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Case Study

November 18 - InfoGovANZ, Information Risk, Reporting and Assurance - What Management and Boards Need to Know

November 19 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

November 19 - Dataversity, Governance as a Business Enabler: Driving ROI and Innovation

November 19 - Digital Government Institute and Knox, AI to Support Cybersecurity

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