August 16, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 16 - November 30, 2026

Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 16 - 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. 

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. 

August

August 18 - AIIM True North, IM Assessments - A Case Study for Addressing AI Risks

August 18 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group - Coffee & Chat

August 18 - IRMS South West, Let's discuss - when the horse won't be led to water

August 18 - RIMPA Global and Recordkeeping Innovation, AI Doesn't Replace Governance. It Makes It Essential

August 18 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: How Mentorloop got started with AI Governance

August 19 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Records Management - The Power Behind AI Governance

August 19 - InfoGovANZ, Information Management in Government: Progress, priorities and the road ahead

August 19 - ILTA, Internal & External Threat Monitoring for AI

August 20, ARMA and filerskeepers, One Retention Schedule, Multiple Systems: Is Fully Automated Records Management Possible?

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

August 20 - NAGARA and Access Sciences, AI Readiness, Risk, and Governance: A Practical Framework for RIM Professionals

August 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

August 20 - Contoural, A Practical and Manageable Approach for Governing AI

August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN

August 25 - InfoGov World and Kiteworks, Everyone Has an AI Policy. Almost Nobody Has AI Data Governance. 

August 26 - Boise Valley ARMA, Retooling the Information Professional for 2027 and Beyond

August 26 - ARMA Houston, Building a Common Language for Complex Industrial Asset Information

August 26 - TWAIN and AIIM, Getting It Right at the Source: Capture’s New Role in the AI Era

August 26 - Zasio, The AI Readiness Recipe: Six Information Governance Pillars Every Organization Needs

August 26 - Collibra, Context Governance 101: Semantics, ontologies, knowledge graphs — and why context needs governing at all

August 26 - Denodo, Securing and Governing Data in the Age of Agentic AI

August 27 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Your Content Already Knows What It Is — Auto-Classification Unleashed

August 27 - Access, Truth or Dare: Can AI Really Clean Up Your Records? 

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 Northeast Ohio, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

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

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

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

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

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

November 19 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

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

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