August 17, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 16 - November 30, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 16 - November 30, 2025. 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. 

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. 

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. 

August

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 19 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Charting Your IG Career: Wisdom from the Frontlines

August 19 - InfoGov World Magazine, AI's Greatest Risk is Immature Data Governance

August 20 - ARMA Industry Group: Financial Services - Coffee and Chat 

August 20 - IAPP and Feroot, HIPAA compliance alert: Avoid breaches from online trackers on health websites 

August 20, ILTA, Building A Strong Business Case for Legal Tech for Corporate Legal Teams: Automation and AI 

August 21 - ARMA, From Retention Rules to Risk Reduction: Operationalizing Defensible Disposition at Scale

August 21 - ILTA, Why Now Matters: Rethinking the Role of a DMS in the Age of AI

August 21 - Zasio, Buckets, Benefits, and Boundaries: HR Records in a Growing Privacy Climate

August 21 - Dataversity, RWDG Webinar, Enhancing Metadata Governance for Better Data Quality

August 26 - InfoGov World Magazine, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide

August 27 - Digital Government Institute, Dominating the Fight: Real-Time Data and GenAI for Cognitive Overmatch

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - ARMA, Retention & Resilience: Building a Future-Ready IG Program

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

August 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - August

August 28 - Dataversity, DAS Webinar: Data Quality Best Practices

August 29 - IAPP, Anticipating and preparing for changes in AI policy

September

September 2 - ARMA and Filerskeepers, Back to Basics: Managing Retention During Mergers, Splits, and Shifts

September 2 - RIMPA Global, Managing the Information Security Risks of Procurement in WA Government

September 3 - Dataversity, WDMG Webinar, Voices in Data - Women Leading with Insight, Impact, and Inclusion

September 4 - NAGARA, Not Just a Plan, It's a Culture for Success - Succession Planning for the 21st Century

September 4 - IAPP and Securiti, The EU AI Act is here: Are global organizations ready? 

September 8 - IRMS North Group, Are we the guardians of responsible AI

September 9 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Disrupting the Silos: RIM, IG, and IT in Strategic Collaboration

September 9 - ARMA Dallas, AI and Information Governance

September 9 - ARMA Palmetto, South Carolina Department of Archives & History (SCDAH) Legislative Trends, State Archive Tour & Networking

September 9 - ARMA Chicago, Go From Good to Great, From Great to Exceptional! It's All About Soft Skills. More Specifically, Emotional Intelligence! 

September 9 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation, Relational Power: How We Rise, Relate, and Reshape Work 

September 9 - IAPP and BigID, You have been tracked: Consent, AI and the new privacy frontier

September 9 - Dataversity, Data-Ed Webinar: Engineering Data Quality - A Framework for Effective Data Management

September 10 - ARMA Edmonton, Records Management 101

September 10 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, Chapter Networking Event, Information Sharing and Lunch

September 10 - ARMA Cascadia, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

September 10 - Access, School's in Session: Lessons in Data Minimization and Risk Reduction

September 11 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Achieving RIM/IG Professional Certification: CRA / CRM / IGP

September 11-12 - Boxworks, San Francisco, CA

September 15-17 - Georgia Records Association, GRA 2025 Annual Conference, Peachtree City, GA

September 15-17 - IRM UK, Business Analysis Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

September 16 - AIIM, Member Book Club: "Blooming Good Information Management" 

September 16 - Twin Cities ARMA, AI 2.0

September 16 - Feith, RMU: Understanding RIM Challenges

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Retention Ramifications: AI Prompts and Outputs

September 17 - ARMA New Jersey, Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Work Life and Records Management

September 17 - ARMA Nebraska, NE Records in Practice: How Olssen Engineers Information Governance

September 17 - AIIM and Microsoft, You Built a Data Fortress. AI Just Found the Back Door to Your Data Estate.

September 17 - IRMS Public Sector Group, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 17 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Data Minimisation, Storage and Recordkeeping: The M365 Showdown

September 17-18 - The AI Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA

September 18 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

September 18 - ILTA, Team IG: Mastering information governance: Strategies for integrating IG in...

September 18 - Access and ARMA, Autumn Audit: Preparing Your Programs for the Year Ahead

September 18 - Dataversity, RWDG Webinar: Data and AI Governance in the Age of Data Democratization

September 22-25 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

September 24 - IAPP, Data domino effect: How one missed data point can threaten your privacy program

September 25 - ARMA Jacksonville, Creating a Modern, Compliant, and Easier to Execute Records Retention

September 25 - ARMA New England, Archiving with - and for - Your Community

September 25 - Western IM, IMCanadaConnect - Information Management - We are all in this together! 

September 25 - ARMA and ZLTech, LLMs Destroyed My Records – All You Need to Know About AI!

September 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - September

September 25 - IAPP, AI governance in the agentic era

September 25 - Dataversity, DAS Webinar: Modern Data Architecture: Practical Options for Today’s Data-Driven Organization

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower 25 

September 29 - ARMA Industry Group: Public Transit/Transportation, Coffee and Chat

September 29-30 - Generative AI World 2025, Boston, MA

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks

September 30 - RIMPA Global, Data Processes and Data Cultures

September 30 - Constellation Research, AI Forum September 2025, Arlington, VA

September 30 - Feith, RMU: Artificial Intelligence and You

September 30 - Zasio and ARMA, Beyond the One-Dimensional Retention Schedule 

October

October 1 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Records Management and LGR Focus Group

October 2 - NAGARA, Emergency Preparedness for Archivists and Records Managers

October 3 - IRMS North & Wales: in person event, Manchester

October 7 - RIMPA Global, Information & Records Management 2025 Sector Survey – An Industry Profile

October 7 - NAGARA, AI Tools for Improving Access and Discovery with Archival Collections

October 8 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, Data Privacy Programs: Know Thy Data, Then Take Action! 

October 9 - Digital Government Institute, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices

October 9 - Dataversity, AArch Webinar: From Pre-Trained to Fine-Tuned – How to Get the Most Out of Vector, RAG, and Small Language Models

October 13-17 - IRM UK and The Data Governance Institute, Data & AI Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

October 14 - ARMA Chicago, Information Coordinator Programs: Building And Sustaining an IC Network for IG Success

October 14 - Twin Cities ARMA, The Retooling of the RIM Professional

October 14 - Feith, RMU: Stepping Into the Digital Age

October 14 - Dataversity, Data-Ed Webinar: Data Strategy – Where Data Architecture and Data Governance Collide

October 14-16 - AIIM and Epiq Global, CIP Accelerated Virtual Prep Workshop

October 16 - ARMA Greater Columbus, Records Retention with 3rd Party Software Vendors - A Panel Discussion

October 16 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Exchange, London, UK

October 16 - AIIM, Preparing Your Organization for GenAI: Policies, Governance, and Change Management

October 16 - IRMS and Leadership Through Data, A Practical Session on Managing Records in M365

October 16 - Dataversity, RWDG Webinar: The Role of Data Governance in Facilitating AI and Digital Transformation

October 19-22 - ARMA InfoCon, Phoenix, AZ

October 21 - AIIM, BIPOC Community Conversation, ECM: Migration to Modernization 

October 22 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Governing Generative AI - Latest Developments, Risks & Best Practices

October 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - October

October 23 - Digital Government Institute, Public Sector Digitization Best Practices

October 23 - Dataversity, DAS Webinar: Best Practices in Metadata Management

October 27-28 - RIMPA Global, Hackathon 2025

October 27-29 - InfoGov World, San Diego, CA

October 28 - Feith, RMU: Maintaining Excellence Through Change

October 28-30 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live Convention 2025, Melbourne, AUS

October 28-31 - IAPP, Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025, San Diego, CA

October 29 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Washington, DC

October 31 - NAGARA, 2025 Fall Online Forum: No Tricks, All Treats. BOOsting Advocacy for Archives

November

November 4 - Twin Cities ARMA, Fall Conference

November 6 - AI+IM Regional Exchange, The Hague, Netherlands

November 6 - Digital Government Institute, AI Implementation Success Stories

November 11 - ARMA Chicago, Managing Outlook as a System of Records

November 12 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, The Emerging Privacy Litigation Landscape

November 12 - ILTACON Europe 2025, London, UK

November 12-13 - TWAIN Converge, Safety Harbor, FL

November 13 - Digital Government Institute, Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Cybersecurity

November 14 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable

November 17-20 - OpenText World, Nashville, TN

November 17-20 - IAPP, Europe Data Protection Congress 2025, Brussels, BEL

November 17-21 - Microsoft Ignite, San Francisco, CA

November 18 - AI+IM Regional Forum, Toronto, ON

November 18 - Feith, RMU: Developing a Records Management Framework

November 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - November

November 20 - Dataversity, RWDG Webinar: Advanced Techniques for Metadata-Driven Data Governance

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.

August 7, 2025

AIIM Opens Call for Speakers for AI+IM Global Summit 2026

AIIM has opened its call for speakers for the AI+IM Global Summit 2026, scheduled for April 28-30, 2026 in Baltimore, MD. There are no restrictions on who can submit, but they indicate that priority will be given to end user-led sessions. 4 90-minute workshop slots and 15-18 45-minute slots are available. 

Proposals are due by September 26, 2025. For more information or to submit, visit 

August 4, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 1 - October 31, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 1 - October 31, 2025. 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. 

If you know of a webinar or in-person 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. 

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. 

August

August 5 - ARMA and ZL Tech, LLMs Destroyed My Records – All You Need to Know About AI!

August 5 - InfoGov World Magazine, Information Governance Challenges with Modern and Evolving Data Sources

August 7 - ARMA, Foundations of Retention: The Essentials of a Fit-For-Purpose Retention Schedule

August 7 - TWAIN Working Group and Linux Foundation, The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AI

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 7 - NAGARA, Five Mistakes that Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them

August 8 - ILTA, IG & You - Building a Career in an Evolving Field 

August 8 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group - Quarterly Roundtable 

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? 

August 12 - RIMPA Global, NSW Local Government Community of Practice

August 12 - Access, From Due Diligence to Integration: Records & Data That Drive M&A

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 14 - ARMA, Automated Retention in Action: Managing Records Throughout Their Lifecycle

August 14 - RIMPA Global, Classify, Consolidate and Govern for Smarter AI

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 19 - InfoGov World Magazine, AI's Greatest Risk is Immature Data Governance

August 20 - ARMA Industry Group: Financial Services - Coffee and Chat 

August 20 - IAPP and Feroot, HIPAA compliance alert: Avoid breaches from online trackers on health websites 

August 20, ILTA, Building A Strong Business Case for Legal Tech for Corporate Legal Teams: Automation and AI 

August 21 - ARMA, From Retention Rules to Risk Reduction: Operationalizing Defensible Disposition at Scale

August 21 - ILTA, Why Now Matters: Rethinking the Role of a DMS in the Age of AI

August 21 - Zasio, Buckets, Benefits, and Boundaries: HR Records in a Growing Privacy Climate

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - ARMA, Retention & Resilience: Building a Future-Ready IG Program

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

August 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - August

August 29 - IAPP, Anticipating and preparing for changes in AI policy

September

September 2 - ARMA and filerskeepers, Back to Basics: Managing Retention During Mergers, Splits, and Shifts

September 2 - RIMPA Global, Managing the Information Security Risks of Procurement in WA Government

September 4 - NAGARA, Not Just a Plan, It's a Culture for Success - Succession Planning for the 21st Century

September 8 - IRMS North Group, Are we the guardians of responsible AI

September 9 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation, Relational Power: How We Rise, Relate, and Reshape Work 

September 9 - IAPP and BigID, You have been tracked: Consent, AI and the new privacy frontier

September 10 - ARMA Edmonton, Records Management 101

September 11-12 - Boxworks, San Francisco, CA

September 15-17 - Georgia Records Association, GRA 2025 Annual Conference, Peachtree City, GA

September 15-17 - IRM UK, Business Analysis Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

September 16 - AIIM, Member Book Club: "Blooming Good Information Management" 

September 16 - Twin Cities ARMA, AI 2.0

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - ARMA New Jersey, Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Work Life and Records Management

September 17 - IRMS Public Sector Group, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 17-18 - The AI Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA

September 18 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

September 18 - ILTA, Team IG: Mastering information governance: Strategies for integrating IG in...

September 22-25 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

September 25 - ARMA New England, Archiving with - and for - Your Community

September 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - September

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower 25 

September 29 - ARMA, Industry Group: Public Transit/Transportation Coffee and Chat

September 29-30 - Generative AI World 2025, Boston, MA

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks

September 30 - RIMPA Global, Data Processes and Data Cultures

September 30 - Constellation Research, AI Forum September 2025, Arlington, VA

October

October 2 - NAGARA, Emergency Preparedness for Archivists and Records Managers

October 7 - RIMPA Global, Information & Records Management 2025 Sector Survey – An Industry Profile

October 7 - NAGARA, AI Tools for Improving Access and Discovery with Archival Collections

October 9 - Digital Government Institute, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices

October 13-16 - IRM UK, Data & AI Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

October 14 - Twin Cities ARMA, The Retooling of the RIM Professional

October 14-16 - AIIM, CIP Accelerated Virtual Prep Workshop

October 16 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Exchange, London, UK

October 16 - IRMS and Leadership Through Data, A Practical Session on Managing Records in M365

October 19-22 - ARMA InfoCon, Phoenix, AZ

October 21 - AIIM, BIPOC Community Conversation, ECM: Migration to Modernization 

October 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - October

October 23 - Digital Government Institute, Public Sector Digitization Best Practices

October 27-28 - RIMPA Global, Hackathon 2025

October 27-29 - InfoGov World, San Diego, CA

October 28-30 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live Convention 2025, Melbourne, AUS

October 28-31 - IAPP, Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025, San Diego, CA

October 29 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Washington, DC

October 31 - NAGARA, 2025 Fall Online Forum: No Tricks, All Treats. BOOsting Advocacy for Archives

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.

July 15, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, July 16 - October 31, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for July 16 - October 31, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

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. 

July

July 16 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Ethics and Data/Records/Information Governance: Remember the Human Impacts

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 16 - ARMA, Financial Services Industry Group Coffee & Chat (members only)

July 17 - Meru Data, Best Practices and Tips: Conducting PIA/DPIA

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 17 - ILTA, The AI Policy Paradox: Cutting Through the Hype to Confront the Risk

July 18 - ARMA Vancouver Island, In the Same Boat: Sharing Information Governance Expertise

July 21 - ILTA, The Implications of Agentic AI for Corporate Legal Departments

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 22 - ILTA, Modern Legal Workflows: Built for People, Powered by AI

July 22 - ILTA, Agentic AI in Action: Document Review Strategies, Successes and Lessons

July 22 - ILTA, The 5 Most Important Things to Know about Microsoft 365 Copilot for Legal

July 23 - ARMA Upstate New York, Tour of Gaylord Archival

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 23 - IAPP and OneTrust, Agentic AI: Navigating the tension between privacy and the next generation of AI (members only)

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - July

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 25 - ILTA, Copilot Secrets Everyone Should Know

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generative AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 5 - InfoGov World Magazine, Information Governance Challenges with Modern and Evolving Data Sources

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 7 - NAGARA, Five Mistakes that Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them

August 8 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group - Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTA, ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 14 - RIMPA Global, Classify, Consolidate and Govern for Smarter AI

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 21 - Zasio, Buckets, Benefits, and Boundaries: HR Records in a Growing Privacy Climate

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

August 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - August

September

September 2 - RIMPA Global, Managing the Information Security Risks of Procurement in WA Government

September 4 - NAGARA, Not Just a Plan, It's a Culture for Success - Succession Planning for the 21st Century

September 9 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation, Relational Power: How We Rise, Relate, and Reshape Work 

September 10 - ARMA Edmonton, Records Management 101

September 11-12 - Boxworks, San Francisco, CA

September 15-17 - Georgia Records Association, GRA 2025 Annual Conference, Peachtree City, GA

September 15-17 - IRM UK, Business Analysis Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

September 16 - AIIM, Member Book Club: "Blooming Good Information Management" (members only)

September 16 - Twin Cities ARMA, AI 2.0

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - IRMS, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 17-18 - The AI Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA

September 18 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

September 18 - ILTA and LegalRM, Team IG: Mastering information governance: Strategies for integrating IG in modern law firms

September 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - September

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower! 

September 29-30 - Generative AI World 2025, Boston, MA

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

September 30 - RIMPA Global, Data Processes and Data Cultures

September 30 - Constellation Research, AI Forum September 2025, Arlington, VA

October

October 2 - NAGARA, Emergency Preparedness for Archivists and Records Managers

October 7 - NAGARA, AI Tools for Improving Access and Discovery with Archival Collections

October 9 - Digital Government Institute, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices

October 13-16 - IRM UK, Data & AI Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

October 16 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Exchange, London, UK

October 16 - IRMS and Leadership Through Data, A Practical Session on Managing Records in M365

October 19-22 - ARMA InfoCon, Phoenix, AZ

October 21 - AIIM, BIPOC Community Conversation, ECM: Migration to Modernization (members only)

October 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - October

October 23 - Digital Government Institute, Public Sector Digitization Best Practices

October 27-28 - RIMPA Global, Hackathon 2025

October 27-29 - InfoGov World, San Diego, CA

October 28-30 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live Convention 2025, Melbourne, AUS

October 28-31 - IAPP, Privacy. Security. Risk. 2025, San Diego, CA

October 29 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Washington, DC

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.

July 9, 2025

ICRM Opens Call for Nominations for 2026 Board of Regents

The Institute for Certified Records Managers (ICRM) has announced it is seeking nominations to serve on the ICRM Board of Regents. Active CRMs (not CRAs) are eligible to serve. Nominations are being accepted for the following positions: 

  • President-Elect/Treasurer (2026 - 2028)
  • Regent, Exam Administration and Member Relations (2026 - 2027)
  • Regent, Legislation and Appeals (2026 - 2027)
You can self nominate by going to https://www.icrm.org/board-application and logging in. All application materials are due no later than July 21, 2025. For more information, contact Melissa Dederer, Chair of the ICRM Board of Regents, at admin@icrm.org.


July 2, 2025

Career Update: I've Joined Epiq Global

I thought I'd already written this, but apparently not! In June, I made the decision to join Epiq Global.

Who is Epiq Global?

Epiq is a large, multinational professional services firm with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. They are very well-known in the legal industry and have deep expertise in law firm administration and support services. 

They also offer a variety of business services in the areas of administration, document processing, marketing, hospitality, digital mailroom, and records & information governance, among others, via their Global Business Transformation Services division. This is the division I joined as a Senior Consultant, Records & Information Governance. While I haven't even been there a month, I will say that everyone I have met has been uniformly welcoming, amazingly smart, and passionate about the work they do for Epiq and ultimately their clients. 

While Epiq is more recognized in the legal industry, they also do work for 76 of the Fortune 100, and regularly provide business support services to organizations of all types and sizes. You can find out more about their service offerings at https://www.epiqglobal.com/en-us/services. I'd be happy to have, or facilitate, conversations about how Epiq can contribute to improving your organization's operational excellence. 

What About The IG/RIM Industry? 

At the same time, I'll still be contributing to and supporting the broader records & IG industry, doing things like: 

  • Publishing my semi-monthly IG/RM/DM/AI-related events listings
  • Speaking at local chapters
  • Speaking at industry conferences
  • Doing other presentations
  • Cohosting the IG Community Roundtables with Steve Weissman of Holly Group and Donda Young of Helias Consulting
  • Volunteering with ARMA Mile High Denver Chapter, AIIM International, ARMA International, and the Institute for Credentialing Excellence
  • Etc. 
I'll just generally be doing these things under the Epiq brand - or my own name for some of the more esoteric stuff like the events listing. And you'll probably see me at more legal industry events like ILTACon and Legal Week.  

What's the Future of Athro Consulting? 

The short answer is, I don't know yet. When I join an organization, like Epiq, I firmly believe that I owe them my undivided time, attention, and loyalty. And anyone who knows my career knows that I am *not* a job hopper. But you never know what the future holds.  

So what this means is that Athro will be going dormant for the foreseeable future. I'll still pay the taxes and file the annual report, but anything I do work-wise will be going through Epiq. 

Again, I'm very excited by this change and for the opportunity to join such a large and well-respected firm. 

June 30, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, July 1 - September 30, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for July 1 - September 30, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

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. 

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - ARMA, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

July 8 - ARMA, Public Transit/Transportation Group (members only)

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 9 - TeachPrivacy, The Future of AI Regulation and Governance

July 9 - IRMS, Legal Roundtable Discussion

July 10 - IAPP and Securiti, AI agents and agentic AI: What privacy and AI governance leaders must know now (members only)

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Mastering Data Migration: Aligning IT and Governance for Strategic Success

July 15 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

July 15 - ILTA and LegalRM, Team IG: Secure, compliant and ready for AI: Rethinking your data strategy

July 15 - ILTA, Artificial Intelligence and Automation: The Difference Between Them & How They Can Be Used Together

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Ethics and Data/Records/Information Governance: Remember the Human Impacts

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 16 - ARMA, Financial Services Industry Group Coffee & Chat (members only)

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 17 - ILTA, The AI Policy Paradox: Cutting Through the Hype to Confront the Risk

July 18 - ARMA Vancouver Island, In the Same Boat: Sharing Information Governance Expertise

July 21 - ILTA, The Implications of Agentic AI for Corporate Legal Departments

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 22 - ILTA, Agentic AI in Action: Document Review Strategies, Successes and Lessons

July 23 - ARMA Upstate New York, Tour of Gaylord Archival

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 23 - IAPP and OneTrust, Agentic AI: Navigating the tension between privacy and the next generation of AI (members only)

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - July

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generative AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 7 - NAGARA, Five Mistakes that Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them

August 8 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 14 - RIMPA Global, Classify, Consolidate and Govern for Smarter AI

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 21 - Zasio, Buckets, Benefits, and Boundaries: HR Records in a Growing Privacy Climate

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

August 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - August

September

September 4 - NAGARA, Not Just a Plan, It's a Culture for Success - Succession Planning for the 21st Century

September 11-12 - Boxworks, San Francisco, CA

September 15-17 - Georgia Records Association, GRA 2025 Annual Conference, Peachtree City, GA

September 15-17 - IRM UK, Business Analysis Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

September 16 - Twin Cities ARMA, AI 2.0

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - IRMS, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 17-18 - The AI Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA

September 18 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

September 18 - ILTA, Team IG: Mastering information governance: Strategies for integrating IG in...

September 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - September

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower! 2025

September 29-30 - Generative AI World 2025, Boston, MA

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm 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.

June 15, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, June 16 - September 30, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for June 16 - September 30, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

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. 

June

June 17 - ARMA Edmonton, Annual General Meeting

June 17 - Atlanta ARMA, State of the Chapter

June 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, ARMA Auction/Swearing in of Officers

June 17 - ARMA San Antonio, From Governance to Guardrails: Bridging information Management and Security

June 17 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Coffee & Chat: Mergers & Acquisitions (members only)

June 17 - ARMA and Access, Breaking Silos & Bridging Gaps: Aligning Teams for Success

June 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, ECM Best Practices

June 18 - ARMA Northern Virginia, The Rise of AI in RIM

June 18 - ARMA New England, ARMA NE Appreciation Event 

June 18 - ARMA St. Louis, Member Appreciation Event

June 18 - ARMA Palmetto, Records - Out of Basement, Into Clouds

June 18 - ARMA Financial Services, Coffee and Chat (members only)

June 18 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation: Copilot Readiness for the Real World (members only)

June 18 - IAPP and Osano, Privacy for risk management: Bridge the business, technology and compliance gaps (members only)

June 19 - ARMA San Diego, The Ethical Imperatives Behind Records and Information Governance

June 19 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

June 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, Chapter Member Appreciation Luncheon

June 19 - RIMPA Global, Canberra Breakfast | Guardians of Data in an AI driven world: Securing PII in the Public Sector

June 19 - Dataversity, The Future of Data Stewardship – Trends and Innovations

June 20 - ARMA Orlando, Chapter Appreciation Luncheon

June 23 - Leadership Through Data, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 23-27 - Microsoft TechCon365, Seattle, WA

June 24 - AIIM, AI Strategy for Managing Regulatory and Economic Unpredictability (members only)

June 24 - ARMA, Ethics: Where to Begin? A Primer on Records and Information Management Practices

June 24 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 24 - IAPP and BigID, Built to scale: Privacy and AI risk frameworks (members only)

June 25 - IAPP, From global principles to APAC practice: Governing AI responsibly 

June 25 - ACEDS Central Texas, Summer Sizzle: Exploring Hot Technology for Case Strategy with GenAI

June 25-26 - IAPP and Berkley Klein Center, Navigate: A Digital Policy Leadership Retreat

June 26 - ACEDS Ohio, AI in the Legal Industry: Enhancing Efficiency & Managing Risk

June 26 - RIMPA Global, Archiving Doesn’t Cut It: Future of Information Governance

June 26 - Iron Mountain, Changing attitudes toward defensible disposition

June 26 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Where Data Models Fit in Today’s Modern Data Architecture

June 26 - Access, AI & You: Real Talk on Regulations and Future-Proofing Your Information Governance

June 26 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 1: Microsoft 365 Modules and Governance Overview

June 26 - Today's Managing Partner and Relativity, Smarter Case Strategy: Leveraging Technology to Unlock Legal Insights

June 28 - ARMA Vancouver, Annual General Meeting

June 29-July 2, SHRM, SHRM25, San Diego, CA

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - ARMA, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 10 - IAPP and Securiti, AI agents and agentic AI: What privacy and AI governance leaders must know now (members only)

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

July 15 - ILTA and LegalRM, Team IG: Secure, compliant and ready for AI: Rethinking your data strategy

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 18 - ARMA Vancouver Island, In the Same Boat: Sharing Information Governance Expertise

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generative AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 8 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

September

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - IRMS, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower! 2025

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm 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.