April 15, 2024

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - April 16-May 15, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for April 16-May 15, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through July 31, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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.

Note also that I generally don't include training courses as the volume is simply too high. I'm working on a better/different way to highlight industry training - watch this space. 

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

Also note that 16 ARMA chapters have come together for the 4th Annual Spring Seminar Mania. The individual events are listed on the applicable date below, but you can see the entire list and learn about possible prizes at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2024/

April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Bridging the Digital Divide

April 16 - ARMA San Antonio, I Don't Want to Talk About AI - But Change is in the Air

April 16 - Florida Gulf Coast ARMA, An End Users Guide to Online Document Management

April 16 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of American Archaeology Division, University of Missouri

April 16 - Greater New Orleans ARMA, The New Detective in Crime Fighting

April 16 - AIIM and AvePoint, AIIM+ Insight Exchange: The Data Problem That’s Halting AI Success

April 16 - Microsoft, Achieving Success with the Microsoft Maturity Model: Using Copilot as an Example

April 16 - Zasio, CPR for Information Governance: The Convergence of Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Retention

April 16-17 - ARMA Houston Spring Conference

April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL

April 17 - ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar, Gamification: Putting the Fun in RIM Fundamentals

April 17 - ARMA Arizona Spring Seminar

April 17 - Southern California Inland Empire ARMA, Data Migration:What Records Managers Need to Know

April 17 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '24 - Back to Basics

April 17 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Unlocking the Power of Persuasion - A Playful Journey into Marketing Your IG Program

April 17 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Building Bridges: Data Governance 1.0 to 2.0

April 17 - ARMA Saskatchewan, Meet the Board

April 17 - ARMA and AIIM Old Dominion, Data Literacy for Knowledge Workers

April 17 - Meru Data, Mitigating and Managing Third Party Risk

April 17 - Contoural, Embarking on AI Governance: Getting Started Quickly

April 17 - ACMP Midwest, Midwest Change Conference 2024 - Innovate, Adapt, Succeed

April 17 - ACMP UK, Why Do We Create Change Tribes Rather Than Communities? 

April 17 - IAPP, The role consumer consent plays in the future of trusted commerce (members only)

April 17 - DocPoint and QAI, M365: The Center of Your Records and Compliance Strategy

April 17 - OneTrust, Data privacy in the age of AI

April 17 - RecordPoint, How privacy laws around the world are changing records management

April 18 - ARMA Winnipeg, City of Saskatoon: Bringing Information Governance to Life

April 18 - ARMA Jacksonville, Thirsty Thursday

April 18 - ARMA St. Louis, A Design Thinking Approach to Difficult Conversations

April 18 - ARMA Oklahoma, What is Your Conflict Management Style?

April 18 - ARMA Keystone PA, Art Tour and Privacy

April 18 - ARMA Utah, Have the Contours of Your Landscape Changed? Time to Evolve Your Retention Schedule Too! 

April 18 - AIIM Florida, The best predictor of Information Management Success is your Staff's ability to find the Content they need

April 18 - RIMPA Global, Townsville | Roadshow

April 18 - IAPP and Osano, How to become a trusted brand in the age of data privacy (members only)

April 18 - Leadership Through Data, Value of Records - Unpacking the Significance of Vegetables vs. Flowers (Panel Discussion)

April 18 - KIK Consulting, RDWG Webinar: Metadata Management's Impact on Data Governance

April 18 - Iron Mountain, Information Governance in the Age of AI

April 18 - AIIM+, CIP Futurist Think Tank (members/CIPs only)

April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO

April 19 - IAPP and RadarFirst, Highway to the regulation zone: The Intersection of cyber and privacy (members only)

April 19 - ARMA Hawai'i, Site Tour of the Hawai’i State Records Center

April 19 - Boise ARMA, Open House at Idaho Records Management

April 22-25 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 23 - Twin Cities ARMA Spring Seminar

April 23 - ARMA Golden State, Reassessing Success: Refocusing on the Needs of End Users with Real Microsoft 365 Change Management

April 23 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, Information Governance and Artificial Intelligence 

April 23 - Valora Technologies, How to Manage Data Privacy While Managing Records

April 23 - 2toLead, Tech-Forward: Achieving Business Readiness for Copilot in Microsoft 365

April 24 - Austin ARMA April Workshop, Records and Information Management (RIM) 101

April 24 - Austin ARMA, Finding the Courage to Move Forward

April 24 - ARMA Madison, Best Practices for Long-Term File Preservation

April 24 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, RIM Certifications Overview 2024

April 24 - AIIM and Microsoft, How to Drive Productivity and Make Better Business Decisions with AI

April 24 - IMCanadaConnect, RIM Month - Electronic records as documentary evidence

April 24 - OneTrust, Integrating privacy strategically into your business

April 24 - ACEDS and Onna, No Longer Amateur Hour: The New Normal of Data Preservation

April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online

April 25 - ARMA Milwaukee, Records Management in the Age of Privacy

April 25 - AIIM, The AIIM24 Experience: A Recap and Discussion

April 25 - ACMP, Creating Micro-connections That Build Trust and Influence (members only)

April 25 - ACMP New England, Harnessing the Power of Data-driven Decision-making in Change Measurement

April 25 - IAPP and OneTrust, Bringing your AI policy to life: Operationalizing key strategies for governance (members only)

April 26 - NAGARA, 2024 Spring Online Forum: Data Detox

April 27 - ARMA Vancouver, RIM Month Social

April 29 - RIMPA Global, Document Controllers Focus Group

April 29 - ACMP, Using Fan Fiction to Test and Apply the Standard for Change Management (members only)

April 29 - May 1 - ILTA Evolve, Charleston, NC 

April 30 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 30 - ARMA Northern Virginia, How's Your IG/IT Relationship?

April 30 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Community Conversation: Navigating Information Management Challenges (members only)

April 30 - IAPP and Osano, AI and data privacy: Minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity (members only)

April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 2 - ARMA and Neostek, Unlocking Dynamic Records and Information Management

May 2 - IAPP and Securiti, Navigating compliance in the era of AI (members only)

May 2 - Digital Government Institute, Taming the Data Dragon: Exploring the Critical Role of Data Governance in E-Discovery

May 2 - Tungsten Automation Summit, Chicago, IL 

May 7 - RIMPA Global, IG and Artificial Intelligence

May 8 - DocPoint and QAI, Microsoft as Your Automation Platform?

May 8 - ACEDS and Exterro, Mastering Data Inventories: Strategic Privacy Compliance & Data Governance

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 

May 9 - ARMA Greater Seattle, Email Deleting Parties in Large and Small Organizations

May 9 - ARMA Wyoming, 2024 Annual Spring Seminar

May 9 - Digital Government Institute, Leveraging Data to Achieve Agency Mission

May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK

May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB

May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 

May 14 - Washington DC Metro Area Chapters of ARMA, Brave New World of Federal Records

May 15 - ARMA Nebraska, Modern Information Management: From Purview to Syntas to CoPilot Password

May 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Improving Business Outcomes with Intelligent Data Processing (IDP)

May 15 - IAPP and BigID, How the rise of generative AI affects privacy risks (members only)

May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK

May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA

May 20-22 - OneTrust TrustWeek, Austin, TX

May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

May 23 - CIGOA, AI Governance Summit, Atlanta, GA

June 3-7 - 365 Educon + PWR Educon Seattle, Seattle, WA 

June 4-5 - IAPP AIGG 2024, Brussels, BEL

June 6-7 - ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

June 8-11 - IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024, Toronto, ON

June 10-11 - Knowledge Summit Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 

June 10-13 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, CA

June 11-13 - ACMP Change Management Global Connect, virtual

June 12 - AIAI, Generative AI Summit, New York City, NY

June 24-25 - AIIM Forum Europe, Manchester, UK

July 10 - AIAI Generative AI Summit, Austin, TX

July 16-18 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 16-19 - NAGARA 2024, Atlanta, GA

July 31 - August 1 - Australian Digital Workplace Conference, Sydney, AUS

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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html

March 29, 2024

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - April 1-30, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for April 1-30, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through June 30, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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.

Note also that I generally don't include training courses as the volume is simply too high. I'm working on a better/different way to highlight industry training - watch this space. 

Also note that 16 ARMA chapters have come together for the 4th Annual Spring Seminar Mania. The individual events are listed on the applicable date below, but you can see the entire list and learn about possible prizes at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2024/

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

April 1-4 - IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington, DC

April 2 - Digital Government Institute, 21st Annual E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, Reston, VA

April 2 - ACMP Ohio, Taking a Stand for Change Readiness

April 3 - IMCanadaConnect, RIM Month - Creating a RIM Month Campaign

April 3 - ACMP Midwest, Sustainment Planning: Unlocking the Secrets to Long-Term Change Success

April 3-5 - AIIM24, San Antonio, TX

April 3-5 - 2024 i-Sigma Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN

April 4 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Building a Strong Foundation

April 4 - NAGARA, Joint Expedition: Information Security and Records Management - Discovering and Mapping the Unknown Together

April 8-10 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Palm Springs, CA

April 9 - ARMA Chicago, Navigating the Future with AI in Legal Information Governance

April 9 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Records Seminar

April 9 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Build and Sustain Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

April 9 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Insights: Forming the Future - The Intersection of Forms Management and IM (members only)

April 9 - ACMP, Creating a Change Measurement Plan that will convince the most hard-nosed analyst (members only)

April 9-11 - North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit, Dallas, TX 

April 9-13 - IAC Information Architecture Conference, Seattle, WA 

April 10 - ARMA Puget Sound and Oregon, Certifications & Credentials Panel Discussion

April 10 - AIIM and Box, Unleash the Power of Information: Tap into the Value of Your Unstructured Data

April 10 - RIMPA Global, Executive Engagement Masterclass 2024

April 10-11 - Docusign Momentum24, New York City, NY

April 11 - ARMA Triangle, Lessons from the Past: Preparing for the Future of Information Governance

April 11 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Record Retention Schedule Management Software

April 12 - ACMP Pacific NW, Innovation Elegance: What A People-Centric Methodology Looks Like

April 13 - Austin ARMA, Spring Shred Day 2024

April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Bridging the Digital Divide

April 16 - ARMA San Antonio, I Don't Want to Talk About AI - But Change is in the Air

April 16 - Florida Gulf Coast ARMA, An End Users Guide to Online Document Management

April 16 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of American Archaeology Division, University of Missouri

April 16 - AIIM and AvePoint, AIIM+ Insight Exchange: The Data Problem That’s Halting AI Success

April 16 - Microsoft, Achieving Success with the Microsoft Maturity Model: Using Copilot as an Example

April 16 - Zasio, CPR for Information Governance: The Convergence of Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Retention

April 16-17 - ARMA Houston, Spring Conference

April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL

April 17 - ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar, Gamification: Putting the Fun in RIM Fundamentals

April 17 - ARMA Arizona Spring Seminar

April 17 - Southern California Inland Empire ARMA, Data Migration: What Records Managers Need to Know

April 17 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '24 - Back to Basics

April 17 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Unlocking the Power of Persuasion - A Playful Journey into Marketing Your IG Program

April 17 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Building Bridges: Data Governance 1.0 to 2.0

April 17 - Meru Data, Mitigating and Managing Third Party Risk

April 17 - Contoural, Embarking on AI Governance: Getting Started Quickly

April 17 - ACMP Midwest, Midwest Change Conference 2024 - Innovate, Adapt, Succeed

April 17 - ACMP UK, Why Do We Create Change Tribes Rather Than Communities? 

April 17 - IAPP and Visa, The role consumer consent plays in the future of trusted commerce (members only)

April 17 - DocPoint and QAI, M365: The Center of Your Records and Compliance Strategy

April 18 - ARMA Winnipeg, City of Saskatoon: Bringing Information Governance to Life

April 18 - ARMA Jacksonville, Thirsty Thursday

April 18 - ARMA St. Louis, A Design Thinking Approach to Difficult Conversations

April 18 - ARMA Oklahoma, What is Your Conflict Management Style?

April 18 - ARMA Keystone PA, Art Tour and Privacy

April 18 - ARMA Utah, Have the Contours of Your Landscape Changed? Time to Evolve Your Retention Schedule Too! 

April 18 - AIIM Florida, The best predictor of Information Management Success is your Staff's ability to find the Content they need

April 18 - RIMPA Global, Townsville | Roadshow

April 18 - IAPP and Osano, How to become a trusted brand in the age of data privacy (members only)

April 18 - Leadership Through Data, Value of Records - Unpacking the Significance of Vegetables vs. Flowers

April 18 - KIK Consulting, RDWG Webinar: Metadata Management's Impact on Data Governance

April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO

April 19 - IAPP and RadarFirst, Highway to the regulation zone: The Intersection of cyber and privacy (members only)

April 19 - ARMA Hawai'i, Site Tour of the Hawai’i State Records Center

April 19 - Boise ARMA, Open House at Idaho Records Management

April 22-25 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 23 - Twin Cities ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 23 - ARMA Golden State, Reassessing Success: Refocusing on the Needs of End Users with Real Microsoft 365 Change Management

April 23 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, Information Governance and Artificial Intelligence 

April 23 - Valora Technologies, How to Manage Data Privacy While Managing Records

April 24 - Austin ARMA April Workshop, Records and Information Management (RIM) 101

April 24 - Austin ARMA, Finding the Courage to Move Forward

April 24 - ARMA Madison, Best Practices for Long-Term File Preservation

April 24 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, RIM Certifications Overview 2024

April 24 - AIIM, How to Drive Productivity and Make Better Business Decisions with AI

April 24 - OneTrust, Integrating privacy strategically into your business

April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online

April 25 - ARMA Milwaukee, Records Management in the Age of Privacy

April 25 - AIIM, The AIIM24 Experience: A Recap and Discussion

April 25 - ACMP, Creating Micro-connections That Build Trust and Influence (members only)

April 25 - IAPP and OneTrust, Bringing your AI policy to life: Operationalizing key strategies for governance (members only)

April 26 - NAGARA, 2024 Spring Online Forum: Data Detox

April 29 - RIMPA Global, Document Controllers Focus Group

Apr 29 - May 1 - ILTA Evolve, Charleston, NC 

April 30 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 30 - ARMA Northern Virginia, How's Your IG/IT Relationship?

April 30 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Community Conversation: Navigating Information Management Challenges (members only)

April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 2 - Tungsten Automation Summit, Chicago, IL 

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 

May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK

May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB

May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 

May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK

May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA

May 20-22 - OneTrust TrustWeek, Austin, TX

May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

May 23 - CIGOA, AI Governance Summit, Atlanta, GA

June 3-7 - 365 Educon + PWR Educon Seattle, Seattle, WA 

June 4-5 - IAPP AIGG 2024, Brussels, BEL

June 6-7 - ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

June 8-11 - IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024, Toronto, ON

June 10-11 - Knowledge Summit Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 

June 10-13 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, CA

June 11-13 - ACMP Change Management Global Connect, virtual

June 12 - AIAI, Generative AI Summit, New York City, NY

June 24-25 - AIIM Forum Europe, Manchester, UK

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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

March 22, 2024

My Approach to Industry Events and Resources

I've gotten some interesting feedback lately about what I've been writing about, and in particular how much of it has been about AIIM. I want to address this and some of the underlying concerns. 

I noted in December and January that I had become an AIIM Training Partner and AIIM CIP Ambassador. As I noted in those posts, 

  • AIIM Training Partner means I get to teach AIIM training content and I pay AIIM for access to that content. 
  • AIIM CIP Ambassador means there is a commission structure in place - if someone uses my referral code to purchase a CIP exam or renew their CIP status, I get paid. To date the only place I've used the referral code is on the CIP Preparatory Workshop page of my website; to date I haven't received a single payment. 
I'm also promoting the AIIM24 conference a lot. That's because I'm attending it, and delivering two presentations and a workshop during the event. I get nothing financially from my participation - in fact, I have to pay my own travel costs. The registration is free for speakers, but as an AIIM Fellow my registration is already free. 

In other words, I haven't gotten any direct financial compensation - yet - from any of my relationships with AIIM (though the possibility is of course there). In fact, I've paid for the privilege. If someone suggests that I'm being paid by AIIM, at best they are ignorant of the actual facts. 

Beyond that, I'm still reposting other events I see like ARMA's InfoNEXT, the ARMA Canada Information Conference, Robert Smallwood's Leadership Summits, etc. I'm just not as vocal about them because I'm not participating in them. I don't know how amazing event X will be or how gorgeous the venue location is. If I get accepted to speak at ARMA InfoCon 2024 this year, I'll be promoting it as heavily as I have been with AIIM24. 

If you want me to be vocal about your events, get me involved, either as a speaker or by making a compelling business case for senior people like me to attend your event. It would also help to not have scheduled your event very close to other events or major holidays. 

I'm also a full professional member in good standing of *9* IG/IM/RM associations: 

  • AIIM, since 2001
  • ARMA, since 2001
  • ICRM, since 2010
  • IAPP, since 2017
  • IRMS (UK), since 2021
  • ACMP, since 2022
  • NAGARA, since 2022
  • RIMPA Global, since 2023
  • CIGOA, since 2024 (previously 2020-2021)
So any time I see webinars, events, etc. from any of these groups, I include them as appropriate in my events listings and my newsletter, and I repost them when I see them on Twitter or LinkedIn. I should also note that, at least so far, I charge nothing to list things in either, or to access either. 

Likewise, I repost relevant training whenever I see it - up to 1x/day. But I can't promote my other training partnerships because, so far, I don't have any. ARMA and the Institute for Information Governance don't offer partnerships (and ARMA doesn't offer instructor-led training at all). If they did, I'd be more than happy to pursue those partnerships and to help create/improve their materials and delivery. IAPP's is too expensive; IRMS partners with other training providers rather than offering their own; and I haven't looked closely at RIMPA's or NAGARA's yet. 

If you want me to be vocal about your training, setting up a partnership so I can teach it is the best way IMO. If you want to give me free access in return for a review, I will, but know that the review will be honest: the good, the bad, the ugly, and will start with the reg process and go all the way through to post-assessment. I'll also disclose that fact. If you want a private review, happy to do the exact same thing except my feedback would be strictly private and designed to help make your offerings better. 

March 15, 2024

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - March 16 - April 15, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for March 16 - April 15, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through June 30, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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.

Note also that I generally don't include training courses (except my own) as the volume is simply too high. I'm working on a better/different way to highlight industry training - watch this space. 

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

March 19 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Chapter Meet and Greet

March 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour and Presentation of Services Provided by IMS Secure

March 19 - Austin ARMA, Building a Well-Oiled Machine

March 19 - ARMA San Antonio, Legal Considerations for Companies Using AI

March 19 - AIIM+, Emerging Technologies: Fail Fast - Where to Start with AI (members only)

March 19 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, 2024 Retention Series #3 - National Approach/Resources (members only)

March 19 - Access and ARMA, Future-Proofing Your Business: Innovative Strategies in Information Management and Archiving

March 19 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

March 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Lights, Camera, Artificial Intelligence - Joint Meeting with NePA

March 20 - Old Dominion ARMA & AIIM, March 2024 Lunch & Learn

March 20 - AIIM and OpenText, Deploy GenAI with Confidence: Mastering Governance to Unleash AI's Potential

March 20 - RIMPA Global, IAW Roundtable | Are We Surfing or Sinking? Riding the Waves of Information Management

March 20 - IAPP and Transcend, Auditing consent: Essential strategies for improving consent compliance in 2024 (members only)

March 21 - ARMA Utah Salt Lake, Spring Seminar - Unveiling the Future of Information

March 21 - Boise Valley ARMA, The Life and Times of a Paralegal Implementing Legal Holds in the Real World

March 21 - ARMA St. Louis, Managing the Historical Documents of the Arch Diocese of St. Louis

March 21 - ARMA Greater Columbus, AI and IG

March 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills

March 21 - ARMA Jacksonville, Thirsty Thursday

March 21 - IRMS and Iron Mountain, Navigating the retention maze - ask the experts

March 21 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Future-Proofing Information Management: Gen Z Information Managers

March 21 - RIMPA Global, Auckland | Roadshow

March 21 - Info Risk & Governance Summit, New York City, NY

March 21 - AIIM+, BIPOC Network Meeting (members only)

March 22 - RIMPA Global and Compu-Stor, Challenges in Recordkeeping within the Australian Public Service

March 22 - TeachPrivacy, The FTC, Privacy, and AI

March 25-29 - Enterprise Data World, Orlando, FL 

March 26 - AIIM+, AIIM+ AMA: Operate 10 Times Faster for Free (members only)

March 26 - IAPP and Osano, Universal consent: Building beyond cookie consent (members only)

March 26 - BreezeML, AI Governance in Practice: Standards and Auditing

March 27 - ARMA New England, Certification Confusion? Where Do You Start?

March 27 - ARMA Houston, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills

March 27 - ARMA Sacramento, Data Migration: What Records Managers Need to Know

March 27 - IMCanadaConnect, Cyber Threats and Canada's Place in the Digital World

March 27 - Meru Data, How to Incorporate AI Governance Into Your Privacy Program

March 27 - RIMPA Global, Roundtable | Tackling Records Management challenges to shift the needle in 2024

March 28 - ARMA, Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials

March 28 - IOPD, Deceptive Design - Dark Patterns Beyond the Interface (members only)

March 28 - IRMS Public Sector, Soft Skills for Successful Records Management

March 28 - RecordPoint, How privacy laws around the world are changing records management

March 28 - Access, Preserving the Past, Managing the Present, and Planning for the Future: A Discussion on Archiving, Records, and Data

April 1-4 - IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington, DC

April 2 - Digital Government Institute, 21st Annual E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, Reston, VA

April 2 - ACMP Ohio, Taking a Stand for Change Readiness

April 3-5 - AIIM24, San Antonio, TX

April 3-5 - 2024 i-Sigma Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN

April 4 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Building a Strong Foundation

April 4 - NAGARA, Joint Expedition: Information Security and Records Management - Discovering and Mapping the Unknown Together

April 8-10 - InfoNext, Palm Springs, CA

April 9 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

April 9 - ARMA Chicago, Navigating the Future with AI in Legal Information Governance

April 9 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Records Seminar

April 9 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Insights: Forming the Future - The Intersection of Forms Management and IM

April 9-11 - North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit, Dallas, TX 

April 9-13 - IAC Information Architecture Conference, Seattle, WA 

April 10 - ARMA Puget Sound and Oregon, Certifications & Credentials Panel Discussion

April 10 - AIIM and Box, Unleash the Power of Information: Tap into the Value of Your Unstructured Data

April 10-11 - Docusign Momentum24, New York City, NY

April 11 - ARMA Triangle, Lessons from the Past: Preparing for the Future of Information Governance

April 11 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Record Retention Schedule Management Software

April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

April 16-17 - ARMA Houston Spring Conference, Houston, TX

April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL

April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO

April 22-25 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 23 - Athro Consulting, CIP Preparatory Workshop, live online

April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online

Apr 29 - May 1 - ILTA Evolve, Charleston, NC 

April 30 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 2 - Tungsten Automation Summit, Chicago, IL 

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 

May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK

May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB

May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 

May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK

May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA

May 20-22 - OneTrust TrustWeek, Austin, TX

May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

June 3-7 - 365 Educon + PWR Educon Seattle, Seattle, WA 

June 4-5 - IAPP AIGG 2024, Brussels, BEL

June 4-6 - Athro Consulting, RIM Playbook Workshop, live online

June 6-7 - ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

June 8-11 - IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024, Toronto, ON

June 10-11 - Knowledge Summit Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 

June 11-13 - ACMP Change Management Global Connect, virtual

June 24-25 - AIIM Forum Europe, Manchester, UK

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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html.

March 13, 2024

Discounted Registration for Athro Training Courses

One of the challenges of taking external training like mine is the cost. To that end, I'm developing a toolkit that provides the support students need to get buy-in from their organizations - a justification letter, an email template, etc. I'll make a separate blog post with links once they are ready. 

However, that only helps if your organization recognizes the overall value of training - in other words, you have access to funds, and I just need to convince you (and you need to convince your boss) to spend them with me.

But not everyone has that luxury. So I'm happy to announce that, effective immediately, I'm offering discounted registration to Athro training courses. I don't want the sheer financial burden to put off people who would otherwise attend, and contribute to, my courses, and from whom I and the other attendees can learn in turn. 

The fine print: 

1. If you are unemployed, underemployed, are changing professions, have no corporate support for training, are transitioning from the military, or are located in an economically developing region, you can name your own price, with no questions asked. I have to do this manually, so reach out to me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com

2. This generally will only apply to Athro-developed training like my RIM Playbook Workshop. With training I license from other providers, such as AIIM, I have specific fixed costs I have to charge. I'm working on some ways to offset that, like scholarships etc. - watch this space.

In any event, if you're strongly interested in any of my courses, but don't have the money or support, reach out to me and let's talk. 

Solution providers: If you're willing to offer scholarships, I'm willing to talk about ways we can work together to get your message out in a way that supports the learning process. Again, ping me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com.

H/T to R. Jason Cronk for the idea. 

February 28, 2024

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - March 1-31, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for March 1-31, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through May 31, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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 IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

March 1 - TeachPrivacy, Trust: What CEOs and Boards Must Know About Privacy and AI 
March 5 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC
March 5 - AIIM+, Records Management Coffee & Conversation: Planning for RIMM Month (members only)
March 5 - BreezeML, AI Governance in Practice: Compliance and Engineering 
March 5 - Global Information Consortium, The Rise of AI and the Global Battle for Truth & Privacy
March 5 - IAPP and Transcend, Immediate action required: Navigating CPRA compliance and enforcement in 2024 (members only)
March 5-6 - ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery, Law & Technology Conference, Phoenix, AZ
March 7 - ARMA Triangle, 2024 EDiscovery State of the Industry Trends
March 7 - ACMP Ohio, Navigating the New Status Quo
March 7 - NAGARA, Taking the Saint Louis Zoo's Records Management Training Online! 
March 8 - ARMA Palm Beach-Treasure Coast, Internal Auditing: Promoting Accountability and Transparency
March 11-13 - Gartner Data and Analytics Summit 2024, Orlando, FL
March 12 - ARMA Mile High Denver, AARM Tour and Top Golf
March 12 - ARMA Chicago, Lions, Tigers, Bears, Oh My! Lincoln Park Zoo Records Management
March 12 - ARMA Greater Chattanooga, IG and Cybersecurity
March 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Better Ways to Work
March 12 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, IM Policies: What is Good Content?
March 12 - ARMA Dallas, It Takes 3 To Do IG
March 12 - IRMS IM Tech Group, Overcoming the Challenge of Managing Records in Microsoft 365
March 12 - InfoGovANZ, Cyber Technologies and Infrastructure Security: The Next 10 Years
March 12 - PrivSec & GRC Connect, in association with OCEG, London, UK
March 13 - ARMA Michigan, World War III - Cybersecurity is Losing
March 13 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Public Records: Accessibility, Privacy, and Challenges for Archives
March 13 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, The Role of RIM in AI Governance
March 13 - IAPP and Exterro, Best practices for building and enforcing global retention schedules (members only)
March 13 - NetDocuments, Compliance, Ethics, and Policy Considerations in the Era of AI
March 13 - ACMP UK, Panel Discussion: What is the Key Ingredient for Change? 
March 14 - Athro Consulting and Helias Consulting, Ask Me Anything About Your Records Coordinator Program
March 14 - IRMS, Roadshow Glasgow 2024
March 14 - ACMP, Improving Change Management with Healthy Conflict (members only)
March 14 - Zasio, Built To Last: Developing Privacy as a Retention Schedule and Program Foundation
March 14 - Contoural, Automating Employee Records Compliance with the Five Second Rule
March 15 - ACMP South Africa, Unlock the Power of ChatGPT for Change Leadership and Management! 
March 15 - IRMS Wales: In-person event, Wrexham
March 19 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Chapter Meet and Greet
March 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour and Presentation of Services Provided by IMS Secure
March 19 - AIIM+, Emerging Technologies: Fail Fast - Where to Start with AI (members only)
March 19 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, 2024 Retention Series #3 - National Approach/Resources (members only)
March 19 - Access and ARMA, Future-Proofing Your Business: Innovative Strategies in Information Management and Archiving
March 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Lights, Camera, Artificial Intelligence - Joint Meeting with NePA
March 20 - AIIM and OpenText, Deploy GenAI with Confidence: Mastering Governance to Unleash AI's Potential
March 20 - RIMPA Global, IAW Roundtable | Are We Surfing or Sinking? Riding the Waves of Information Management
March 21 - ARMA Utah Salt Lake, Spring Seminar - Unveiling the Future of Information
March 21 - Boise Valley ARMA, The Life and Times of a Paralegal Implementing Legal Holds in the Real World
March 21 - ARMA St. Louis, Managing the Historical Documents of the Arch Diocese of St. Louis
March 21 - ARMA Greater Columbus, AI and IG
March 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills
March 21 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Future-Proofing Information Management: Gen Z Information Managers
March 21 - RIMPA Global, Auckland | Roadshow
March 21 - Info Risk & Governance Summit, New York City, NY
March 25-29 - Enterprise Data World, Orlando, FL 
March 26 - AIIM+, AIIM+ AMA: Operate 10 Times Faster for Free (members only)
March 26 - BreezeML, AI Governance in Practice: Standards and Auditing
March 27 - ARMA New England, Certification Confusion? Where Do You Start?
March 27 - ARMA Houston, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills
March 27 - ARMA Sacramento, Data Migration: What Records Managers Need to Know
March 28 - ARMA, Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials
March 28 - IOPD, Deceptive Design - Dark Patterns Beyond the Interface (members only)

April 1-4 - IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington, DC
April 2 - Digital Government Institute, 21st Annual E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, Reston, VA
April 3-5 - AIIM24, San Antonio, TX 
April 3-5 - 2024 i-Sigma Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN
April 8-10 - ARMA InfoNext, Palm Springs, CA
April 9-11 - North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit, Dallas, TX 
April 9-13 - IAC Information Architecture Conference, Seattle, WA 
April 10-11 - Docusign Momentum24, New York City, NY
April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO
April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL
April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO
April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online
April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 
May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK
May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB
May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 
May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK
May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA
May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL


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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html

February 20, 2024

Live Online RIM Playbook Workshop Scheduled for June 2024

A couple of days ago I posted that I was back to teaching the AIIM CIP Prep course. Today I'm pleased to announce my second course offering, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook. I've delivered a presentation introducing the RIM Playbook to more than a dozen ARMA chapters and conferences over the last couple of years. 

This workshop builds on that, and gives you the opportunity to really get "hands-on" and build your own Playbook and plays. This is not "death by PowerPoint" - in fact, there will be some assigned reading before the first class session. Most of our time will be spent on building the Playbook and building the plays. We'll also have an assessment at the end. 

While you won't get your entire Playbook done in just 6 hours, you will build some plays. And you'll leave the course with a template that you've started to fill in and the knowledge of how to finish it. 

The course is scheduled for June 4 and 6, 2024. Each session is 3 hours and is scheduled from 12:00 - 3:00 pm MDT. 

Workshop agenda: 
  • Session 1:
    • Introduction to the RIM Playbook
    • The Structure of the RIM Playbook
    • Scoping the RIM Playbook
    • The Structure of a RIM Play
  • Session 2: 
    • Building RIM Plays
    • How to Build a Playbook
    • Assessment and Next Steps

Course details: 
  • Each session is 3 hours for a total of 6.0 contact hours. 
  • Live Online delivery - no travel required. 
  • Cost: $795.00 per student. Volume discounts for 2+ students! 

Also included in the course:
  • The RIM Playbook Workbook - digital format
  • Access to the learning cohort for one year – keep the learning and networking going!
  • Access to public office hours – bring your questions and insights every month.
  • Digital badge and certificate denoting completion of the course. 
  • Preapproved for 6.0 ICRM CRM/CRA CMPs.
  • Preapproved for 6.0 AIIM CIP CEUs.
For more details, or to register, visit my RIM Playbook Workshop page. 

February 18, 2024

Live Online AIIM CIP Workshop Scheduled for April-May 2024

I mentioned on this blog in December that I had become an official AIIM Training Partner. Today I am very pleased to announce that I have started scheduling instructor-led workshops, starting with the AIIM CIP Preparatory workshop! 

This workshop covers 100% of the topics on the CIP exam in depth and helps students to understand how different information management concepts, processes, and technologies impact each other. 

The course will be taught by, well, me! I have nearly 30 years of industry and training experience, and I've held the CIP certification since its initial release in 2011. 

I do not guarantee that you'll pass the exam after taking this course - anyone making those guarantees is "teaching to the test" which won't help you in the long run. But I guarantee that if you have the suggested background, and pay attention and participate during the course, you'll do better than those who don't. 

Workshop agenda: 
  • April 23: 
    • Introduction to the CIP Program and the Workshop
    • Creating, Capturing, and Sharing Information
  • April 25: 
    • Extracting Intelligence from Information
  • April 30: 
    • Digitalizing Information-Intensive Processes
  • May 2: 
    • Automating Governance and Compliance 
  • May 7: 
    • Automating Governance and Compliance Cont'd 
    • Implementing an Information Management Strategy and Solution
  • May 9: 
    • Conclusion and Next Steps
Course details: 
  • Each session is 2 hours for a total of 12 contact hours. 
  • Live Online delivery - no travel required. 
  • Cost: $1,495.00 per student. Volume discounts for 2+ students! 
Also included in the course:
  • The official AIIM CIP Study Guide - digital format
  • The CIP Prep Workbook - digital format
  • One year subscription to AIIM+ Pro ($490 value) – all the learning covered on the CIP exam and more
  • Access to the learning cohort for one year – keep the learning and networking going!
  • Access to public office hours – bring your questions and insights every month.
  • Digital badge and certificate denoting completion of the course. Note that this is not equivalent to getting the CIP certification - you'll still need to pass the actual  CIP exam. 
  • Preapproved for 12.0 ICRM CMPs.
  • Preapproved for 12.0 AIIM CIP CEUs. (Not sure why a CIP would take this course, but maybe it's been a while?)
For more details, or to register, visit my CIP Prep Workshop page. 

February 15, 2024

Join Me at the ARMA Mile High Denver Spring Seminar on April 16, 2024!

I'm pleased to announce that we've finalized the details for the ARMA Mile High Denver Spring Seminar, scheduled for April 16, 2024 in Denver, CO. We have a full day of education planned, with fantastic speakers including: 

  • Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Founder and Principal Analyst at Deep Analysis and Co-Author of "Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook"
  • Jason Stearns, Senior Practice Lead, Information Governance, Data Privacy and Records Management at Arrayo
  • Jeanne Caldwell, CEO of IG Mapware
  • Elesha Johnson, City of Boulder City Clerk
  • Steve Weissman, The Info Gov Guy™ and President of Holly Group
As part of the seminar, we'll be hosting a silent auction, and we'll have some ARMA Mile High Denver historical artifacts on display. You can also augment your personal IG/IM/RM library and support our chapter charity, Senior Support Services, at the same time! 

The seminar is taking place at the fantastic Balistreri Vineyards, 1946 E. 66th Avenue, Denver, CO 80229. It's a working vineyard and winery and their wines and sangria will be available throughout the day. 

Register by February 29, 2024 to take advantage of the early-bird pricing of $125. After that the prices go up to $150. (Disregard the $175 figure on the image below - the flyer has since been corrected.) 

For more information, or to register, visit https://armadenver.org/meetinginfo.php?id=120