Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for May 16 - August 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.
May
May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales
May 18 - ARMA Boise, Governing the Ungovernable
May 19 - Atlanta ARMA, Emergency Planning and Response for Records
May 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Using Microsoft 365 to Improve Collaboration & RM
May 19 - ARMA San Antonio, A Records Manager's Greatest Asset...And Liability: A Lawyer's Perspective
May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies
May 19 - RIMPA Global, Aligning Information Management and Data Management Practices
May 19 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 1: Understanding the AI Landscape
May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference
May 20, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Crafting Your Elevator Pitch
May 20 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Records Reimagined: Where "The Principles" Meet Security
May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Talk Nerdy to Me: Prompting for Results
May 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Essential Records for Trademark and Servicemark Registration
May 20 - AIIM, Getting the Data House in Order for More Effective AI: Implementing Defensible Disposal in Practice
May 20 - ILTA, Boring AI is the Best AI
May 20 - Today's General Counsel and Contoural, You've Just Been Handed Ownership of the Records Program. Now What?
May 20 - Box, Content + AI Virtual Summit
May 21 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Mindfulness for the RIM Mind
May 21 - ARMA Keystone PA, Navigating the Digital Future of Records Information and Data
May 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, From Paper to Practical: Building a Scanning and Indexing Workflow That Actually Works
May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making
May 21 - ILTA, Chasing AI ROI
May 26 - ARMA Calgary, IMX 2026: Principles to Practice
May 26 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Zen and the Art of Public Records Management
May 26 - ARMA Hawai'i, Cybersecurity: Protecting Digital Records & Information
May 26 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat
May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts
May 26 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Building the foundation: Records retention before AI
May 27 - Information Governance Community Roundtable, A Governance 'Ask Us Anything!'
May 27 - ARMA Houston, IGIM 2.1: From Framework to Action
May 28 - RIMPA Global, Ballarat Regional Catch-up
May 27 - WesternIM, IMConnectCanada, Are you a smaller organization? This is for you.
May 28 - IAPP and Securiti AI, Consent by proxy: When AI agents start deciding for us
May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
May 28 - ILTA Ohio, From Chaos to Catalog: Governing Legal Data for AI
May 28 - ILTA, Team IG: Walking the Tightrope Between AI & IG
May 28 - Access, Flying Solo: Survival Strategies for the One-Person Records Management Department
May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS
June
June 1 - ARMA, Public Transit & Transportation Industry Group
June 1-4 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2026, Dublin, IRL
June 2 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Exchange: Ottawa
June 2 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Governance for Multimodal AI: Text, Vision, Voice, and Beyond
June 3 - ARMA North Dakota, Spring Seminar
June 3 - Leadership Through Data, Information Management, AI & Microsoft 365 - The 7-Pillar Framework to Make Governance Stick
June 4 - ARMA Greater Columbus, Year End Chapter Meeting
June 4 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow
June 4 - NAGARA, See Dead Records: Identifying the Unknown, Ancient, and Miscellaneous
June 4 - Digital Government Institute, AI & ML in Records Management
June 4 - IAPP and Contoural, Creating a data retention policy for personal information and AI
June 4 - ILTA, Best Practices for Documenting Your Power Platform
June 9 - ARMA Dallas, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage: Use EQ to boost your professional and personal relationships
June 9 - Dataversity, Data Integration Demystified: Enabling AI-Driven Interoperability
June 9 - ILTA, Zero-Trust Data Governance: Aligning Information Governance & Security Strategy
June 9 - NAGARA and Feith, The Same as it Never Was: Embracing Change to Meet Goals and Empower Teams
June 9-11 - Info-Tech, LIVE Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
June 10 - ARMA Cascadia, Boosting Engagement with Monthly Forums
June 10 - IRMS, Legal Roundtable Hybrid Event
June 10 - Future of Privacy Forum, DC Privacy Forum 2026
June 11 - InfoGovANZ, AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work – Opportunities and Risks
June 11 - IAPP, Your path into privacy: Career strategies, honest advice, and real talk from the people who hire and coach
June 11 - Dataversity and Reltio, The Master Data Management Dilemma: To Buy or Build, That Is the Question: Benchmark Completed
June 11 - Contoural, We’re Using AI for Everything. What Are the Steps to Get Ready?
June 11 - Leadership Through Data, Information Management, AI & Microsoft 365 - The 7-Pillar Framework to Make Governance Stick
June 15-18 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In
June 15-18 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, CA and virtual
June 16 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage
June 16 - RIMPA Global and AvePoint, Shining a Light on Waste: How Poor Information Costs You Millions
June 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Managing the Digital Heap
June 17 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Mixing Your IG Mission and Message for the Crowd
June 17 - ARMA Nebraska, 10 Practical Ways RIM & IG Professionals Can Use AI Today
June 17 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Build an AI gov framework that actually gets adopted
June 18 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow
June 18 - Dataversity, Responsible Data Sharing: Balancing Access, Privacy, and Trust
June 18 - IAPP and Integreon, Data mining in the age of class actions: What privacy teams need to know
June 18 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 2: Using AI Professionally and Safely
June 18 - Digital Government Institute and Casepoint, Applying AI to FOIA: Improving Efficiency, Consistency, and Defensibility Across Agencies
June 23 - ARMA Michigan, The Great Unwinding: Dealing with Information Governance Aspects of Closures, Location changes and Spin-Offs
June 23, ARMA Energy Industry Group, Benchmarking
June 23 - ILTA, Information Governance and Records Management Roundtable|London
June 24-25 - IAPP, Navigate 2026, Portsmouth, NH
June 25 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow
June 25 - ILTA, From Intent to Action: Building and Delivering an Information Governance Strategy
June 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
June 25-26 - ARMA California Chapters, 4th Annual California Summer Conference
July
July 2 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow
July 7 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Synthetic Truth: Governing Generative AI in High-Stakes Domains
July 9 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2026
July 14 - Dataversity and Reltio, AI-Powered Data Modeling Essentials
July 15 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, RIM 101, But in an Entertaining Way
July 15 - Contoural, A Dozen Ways to Save Money on Your Records Program
July 15 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Shining a light on shadow AI
July 16 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne | Roadshow
July 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Linking the ROPA, Retention Schedule & IAR
July 16 - ILTA and Legal-RM, Beyond the Foundations: Agents, Tools and Your Questions
July 16 - Dataversity, Ethics, Privacy, and Policy: Building Trust Through Governance
July 21-23 - CDOIQ Symposium, Boston, MA
July 21-24 - 2026 NAGARA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
July 22-23 - IAPP, Asia Forum 2026, Singapore
July 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
July 27-29 - NIRMA, Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX
July 28 - Digital Government Institute, 930gov 2026
August
August 4 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, AI Governance Meets Cybersecurity: Aligning Trust, Safety, and Resilience
August 6 - NAGARA and Iron Mountain, Leading AI Readiness: Essential Skills for Records and Information Professionals
August 10 - IRMS Midlands Group: Future Perfect? Digital Preservation in the Real World
August 11 - Dataversity, Mastering Reference Data: An AI Essential for Reliable Business Information
August 11 - NAGARA and Kodak Alaris, Digital Evidence Management and Ensuring the Timeliness for Prosecution Purposes
August 13 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Mastery: William Answers Your Questions
August 20 - Dataversity, Data Storytelling for Governance Leaders: Influence Through Insight
August 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN
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.
