September 30, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, October 1 - December 31, 2026

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

October

October 1 - ARMA, From Back Office to Backbone: How Shell Modernized Records Governance

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

October 1 - ILTA, Team IG: Quantum Computing: - The Next Information Governance Challenge

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

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 - ARMA Palmetto & Keystone PA, Building an AI-Ready Records Management Program

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 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Mastering Purview Retention

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 - CIGOA, 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 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Under the Radar: Lesser-Known Microsoft 365 Applications Every IG Professional Should Know

October 13 - ARMA Dallas, Achieving Buy-In and Adoption for Your RIM Program

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 15 - ILTA, The Destruction Backlog: Reduce Risk, Regain Control & Build a Sustainable Plan

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

October 20 - AIIM, WIIM, 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 - IAPP and Exterro, The defensibility imperative: Transforming complex DSR operations across the enterprise

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

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

October 21 - ARMA Nebraska, The Evidence Left Behind - How Records Help Us Reconstruct History

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 - AIIM, AI+IM ASEAN Forum

October 22 - LexShift, Making Governance Work in the Real World

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

October 22 - Contoural, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

October 25-28 - ARMA InfoCon, Savannah, GA

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

October 27 - ILTA Ohio and Columbus ALA, Beyond the Buzz: Practical AI Playbooks for Law

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 2-6 - KARMA, 10th KARMA Records Management Conference 2026, Mombasa, Kenya

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

November 4 - RIMPA Global, AI & IM CoP

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

November 5 - RIMPA Global and Castlepoint, Retain, Remove, Redact: Remediating PII at Scale

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 - RIMPA Global, Monarch360, and Ideagen, SharePoint Chaos: Why Email is Your Records Management Blind Spot

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 17 - RIMPA Global, From Retention to Relevance: Repositioning Records & Information Management for the Age of AI

November 17 - IAPP and Privado AI, Your website scan flagged a privacy risk. Now what?

November 17-20 - Microsoft, Microsoft Ignite, San Francisco, CA

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 18 - Contoural, You've Just Been Handed Your Company's Records Program. Now What?

November 19 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

November 19 - LexShift, The Governance Investment: Building the Case and Funding the Roadmap

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

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

November 19 - RIMPA Global, It's All Too Hard, Until Someone Loses Their Life

November 24 - RIMPA Global, When Data Moves but Meaning Disappears: The Story Behind AS5393:2025

December

December 1 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Scaling AI Governance: Enterprise Playbooks for Data and IT Leaders

December 1 - ILTA Edinburgh, Information Governance and Records Management Roundtable + Networking

December 1 - ILTA Vancouver, Information Governance & Compliance Roundtable + Networking

December 1-4 - IAPP, ANZ Summit 2026, Sydney, AUS

December 7-10, Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-in

December 8 - NAGARA and The Crowley Company, Shoe String and Boot Strap Records Management for Small Places

December 8 - RIMPA Global, Where IM Meets AI: Considering IM Governance Before Things Get Weird

December 8 - Dataversity, Governance/Stewardship in Action: Governing AI’s Data for Long-Term Value

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

December 9 - IRMS Public Sector Group, Introduction to Records Management (Records Management 101)

December 10 - Digital Government Institute and Feith, Electronic Records Transfer Best Practices

December 10 - Dataversity and Informatica, Data Architecture 2027: What Enterprises Are Building Today and Why

December 15 - AIIM, Critical Conversation - The Optimum AI Policy: Standalone or Integrated?

December 17 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

December 17 - Dataversity, 2026 Wrap-Up: What We Learned and Where We’re Headed

December 17 - LexShift, Governing Information in the Age of AI

If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. I don't charge speaking fees to non-profit groups. 

For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2026/09/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html or email me at jwilkins13@gmail.com.

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