March 16, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, March 16 - June 30, 2026

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for March 16 - June 30, 2026. I don't have anything to do with any of these from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions. 

Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc., your events are all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. If you are interested in listing your solution-specific webinar or event, please contact me about placing and highlighting your event. 

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. 

March

March 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of the Christopher S. Bond Court House

March 17 - ARMA Chattanooga, Information Governance Essentials

March 17 - ARMA San Antonio, Building a Municipal Archives Museum for the City of San Antonio - Facility Tour

March 17 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group Coffee & Chat

March 17 - RIMPA Global, Leveraging AI Tools: Insights for IG and R&IM Professionals

March 17 - DAMA Philadelphia, Good Governance Beats Good Luck

March 17 - IAPP and BRG, One Size Fits One — Operationalizing Confidence by Design to Optimize Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Governance for Growth

March 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide

March 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Auto Classifying the 3 R's: ROT, Records & Retention

March 18 - ARMA Upstate New York, Governance is Not a Four-Letter-Word (but T-Rex is): Responsible AI as Business Enablement

March 18 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Breaking Silos: Integrating FOIA, Privacy & Records Management

March 18 - ARMA, Financial Services industry Group

March 18 - InfoGovANZ, Governing AI in Australia: Laws, Standards and Information Governance Obligations

March 18 - ILTA, Microsoft, and Epiq: Ask the Expert: Advanced Deployment and Lessons Learned - Webinar 6/6

March 18 - RIMPA Global, IAW Canberra Seminar

March 19 - ARMA New England, Records Management for Regulated Financial Entities/Institutions (Banks)

March 19 - ARMA Columbus, March Roses and Thorns Roundtable

March 19 - ARMA Utah, Spring Seminar 2026

March 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, IG and Artificial Intelligence

March 19 - ARMA Iowa, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide for RIM/IG Pros

March 19 - Digital Government Institute, 23rd Annual E-Discovery and Information Management Conference, Washington, DC

March 19 - IRMS Info Rights Group, Information Rights in the Age of LLMs: FOI, DSARs, Records and Risk

March 19 - IAPP and Feroot, “Say it, do it, prove it” for consent: Best practices for building a closed-loop consent & preference audit program at scale

March 19 - Dataversity, From Theory to Impact: Making Governance Work in the Real World

March 19 - IRMS Info Rights Group, Information Rights in the Age of LLMs: FOI, DSARs, Records and Risk

March 19 - RIMPA Global, IAW Great Debate: When AI Moves Faster than Standards: Who's Keeping Up?

March 20 - Jesse Wilkins, RM/IG Playbook Office Hours

March 20 - IAPP, Legal and the Need for Better Friends...

March 23 - IAPP and Jscrambler, The browser blind spot: Why data privacy often comes too late

March 23-27 - Data Governance Institute, Data Governance, AI Governance & Master Data Management Conference Europe, London, UK

March 24 - Twin Cities ARMA and IAPP, Spring Conference

March 24 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Future Ready Metadata: Building a Foundation for AI -Enhanced Records Management

March 24 - ARMA Triangle, AI and the New Insider Threat

March 24 - ARMA Hawai'i, Reflections: Keys to Success in Records & Information Management. RSVP by March 20 to hawaiiarma@gmail.com

March 24 - ARMA, Energy Industry Group

March 24 - IAPP and DataGrail, Making AI work for privacy: How to scale privacy operations with secure AI

March 24 - Access and ARMA, Metadata in Practice: Making Records Easier to Find, Use, and Control

March 25 - Information Governance Community Roundtable, The Three Sides of the Information Inventory Coin

March 25 - ARMA Northern Virginia, AI Governance: An Actionable How-To Guide

March 25 - ARMA St. Louis, Digital Convenience, Environmental Consequence: The Impact of Digital Information Management Practices

March 25 - ARMA Houston, From Wet to Preserved: Document Freeze-Drying & Rapid Records Recovery

March 25 - WesternIM, IMCanadaConnect: What's Up with Transitory Records?

March 26 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social: Artificial Intelligence and Records Management

March 26 - ARMA Madison, AI Education for RIM Professionals: What’s Here, What’s Next

March 26 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, Information Governance at Crossroads - What's Next?

March 26 - Graphic Imaging Services, Wrangle Your Records And Your Data Too, Reno, NV

March 26 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

March 26 - InfoGov World Education, Connecting the Dots: Using Data Insight to Align Governance, Legal, & Cyber Risk 

March 26 - Dataversity, Fuel Enterprise Agents with Trusted Context: The Roadmap to Enterprise AI at Scale

March 29-31 - i-SIGMA Conference & Expo 2026, San Diego, CA

March 30 - April 2 - IAPP, Global Summit 2026, Washington, DC

March 31 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

April

April 2 - NAGARA, Proof of Concept: Planning Your Approach

April 7 - Dataversity, Human Oversight in AI: Designing Accountability for High-Stakes Decisions

April 7 - IAPP and Securiti, Future-proofing for the privacy professional

April 9 - Dataversity, Building Effective RAG Applications

April 9 - Digital Government Institute, CUI Marking, Metadata & Lifecycle Management

April 9 - RIMPA Global, Information Governance in the United States

April 9 - IAPP and BigID, Compliance without borders: Privacy, AI and risk across global markets

April 9 - Contoural, Information Governance 101

April 10 - ARA, An Introduction to Developing a Digital Asset Register

April 14 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Professional Certifications: What's in it for me? 

April 14 - ARMA Houston, 2026 Spring Conference

April 14 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Seminar

April 14 - Dataversity, Data Stewards: Conquering Data Debt in the Age of AI

April 14 - ILTA, Team IG: From Vision to Reality: Building Information Governance in Big Law

April 15 - ARMA Nebraska, 2026 Spring Seminar

April 15 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, The Power of Soft Skills in Records and Information Management

April 15 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp – Building Trust in the Public Record to 2028: Practical Implications for AI, Records, and Information Governance

April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose

April 16 - ARMA Keystone PA, Philadelphia Archives In-Person Tour

April 16 - Dataversity, Mastering Metadata: Strategies for Sustainable Governance

April 16 - Iron Mountain, Risk-proofing the AI supply chain: Building trust and integrity in an automated world

April 17 - Jesse Wilkins, RIG Playbook Office Hours

April 19-22 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Phoenix, AZ

April 19-24 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 21 - ILTA, Information Governance 101: What Firms Need to Know (And Why It Matters Now)

April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 22 - AIIM and Feith, Leveraging AI for Mission-Ready Records Management

April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines

April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

April 24 - NAGARA, 2026 Spring Online Forum: Sync or Sink: Finding Flow in Times of Change

April 27-30 - AI+IM Global Summit 2026, Baltimore, MD 

April 27-30 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 28 - IAPP and TrustArc, Beyond the button: Consent as a regulatory entry point

April 29 - ARMA New Jersey, Information Coordinator Programs

April 30 - May 2 - ILTA Evolve 2026, Denver, CO

May

May 4-7 - IAPP, Canada Symposium 2026, Toronto, ON

May 4-8 - Dataversity, DGIQ + EDW 2026, San Diego, CA

May 5 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

May 5 - Dataversity, Governance in the Wild: Managing Shadow AI and Decentralized Models

May 5 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee — From Algorithms to Audit Trails: Managing AI Records End to End

May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo

May 6-7 - Data Summit, Boston, MA

May 6-8 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC

May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works

May 7 - ILTA, AI Governance for Law Firms: Moving from Experimentation to Enterprise Control

May 7-8 - ARMA Ontario, InfoConnect 2026, Waterloo, ON

May 12 - ARMA Chicago, Leveraging IG & Risk Management

May 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Federal Reserve Bank Tour

May 12 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '26

May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance

May 13-15 - ARMA Palmetto, ARMAste Annual Conference

May 14 - Dataversity, Data Professionals in the AI Age: What’s Next?

May 14-15 - M365 Community Days DC 2026, Arlington, VA

May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting

May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales 

May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies

May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference

May 20, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Crafting Your Elevator Pitch

May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Talk Nerdy to Me: Prompting for Results

May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making

May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts

May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

May 28 - ILTA, Team IG: Walking the Tightrope Between AI & IG

May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS

June

June 1-4 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2026, Dublin, IRL

June 2 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Governance for Multimodal AI: Text, Vision, Voice, and Beyond

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 9 - Dataversity, Data Integration Demystified: Enabling AI-Driven Interoperability

June 9 - ILTA, Zero-Trust Data Governance: Aligning Information Governance & Security Strategy

June 10 - Future of Privacy Forum, DC Privacy Forum 2026

June 11 - Dataversity and Reltio, The Master Data Management Dilemma: To Buy or Build, That Is the Question: Benchmark Completed

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 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

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.

March 2, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, March 1 - May 31, 2026

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for February 1 - May 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. 

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. 

March

March 3 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC 2026

March 3 - Dataversity, AI Governance vs. Data Governance: Strategic Alignment Without Redundancy

March 4 - ARMA Michigan, Generative AI Court Cases, Laws & Practical Implications for Information Governance

March 4 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, Avoiding privacy lawsuits in 2026: Lessons from real claims and settlements

March 4 - ILTA, The Practical Side of eDiscovery - How to Reduce Costs and Frustration

March 5 - ARMA Sask, How We Are Celebrating RIM Month. Contact the chapter at armasask@outlook.com for an invitation. 

March 5 - Austin ARMA, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records Information Management Skills

March 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI in Action: Modernizing Data & Information Governance

March 5 - NAGARA, Where to Start and Where to Go: Lessons from the First Two Years

March 9-11 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, Orlando, FL

March 9-12 - ALM and Law.com, LegalWeek, New York City, NY 

March 10 - ARMA Chicago, Spring Seminar

March 10 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Navigating Privacy Laws: Strategies and Insights for RM Professionals

March 10 - ARMA Milwaukee, Learning Records Management and Information Governance By Going to the Movies

March 10 - ARMA Dallas, What Happens to Presidential Records After the President Leaves Office?

March 10 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation - Pitch Like a Pro - Master Your 30 Second Story

March 10 - Dataversity, Data Modeling Mastery: Structuring Data for AI and Analytics

March 10 - IAPP, Catching up with California — A conversation about privacy developments in the state

March 11 - ARMA Cascadia, 'Brown Bag' Discussion on AI Policy in Practice

March 11 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage: Use EQ to boost your professional and personal relationships. This is a hybrid meeting; to register for this event, contact Alethea Thomas at alethea.thomas@bluek.com

March 11 - AIIM and Microsoft, Securing AI Without the Hype: AI Governance Exists, But It Rarely Shapes Real Decisions

March 12 - Contoural, Using M365 to create a Personal Data Inventory

March 12 - Dataversity, The Data Product Revolution: Unlocking Business Value

March 12 - BigID, AI Governance Leadership Forum

March 16-19 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

March 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of the Christopher S. Bond Court House

March 17 - ARMA Chattanooga, Information Governance Essentials

March 17 - ARMA San Antonio, Building a Municipal Archives Museum for the City of San Antonio - Facility Tour

March 17 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group Coffee & Chat

March 17 - RIMPA Global, Leveraging AI Tools: Insights for IG and R&IM Professionals

March 17 - DAMA Philadelphia, Good Governance Beats Good Luck

March 17 - IAPP and BRG, One Size Fits One — Operationalizing Confidence by Design to Optimize Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Governance for Growth

March 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide

March 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Auto Classifying the 3 R's: ROT, Records & Retention

March 18 - ARMA Upstate New York, Governance is Not a Four-Letter-Word (but T-Rex is): Responsible AI as Business Enablement

March 18 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Breaking Silos: Integrating FOIA, Privacy & Records Management

March 18 - ARMA, Financial Services industry Group

March 18 - InfoGovANZ, Governing AI in Australia: Laws, Standards and Information Governance Obligations

March 18 - ILTA, Microsoft, and Epiq: Ask the Expert: Advanced Deployment and Lessons Learned - Webinar 6/6

March 18 - RIMPA Global, IAW Canberra Seminar

March 19 - ARMA New England, Records Management for Regulated Financial Entities/Institutions (Banks)

March 19 - ARMA Columbus, March Roses and Thorns Roundtable

March 19 - ARMA Utah, Spring Seminar 2026

March 19 - Digital Government Institute, 23rd Annual E-Discovery and Information Management Conference, Washington, DC

March 19 - IAPP and Feroot, “Say it, do it, prove it” for consent: Best practices for building a closed-loop consent & preference audit program at scale

March 19 - Dataversity, From Theory to Impact: Making Governance Work in the Real World

March 19 - IRMS Info Rights Group, Information Rights in the Age of LLMs: FOI, DSARs, Records and Risk

March 19 - RIMPA Global, IAW Great Debate: When AI Moves Faster than Standards: Who's Keeping Up?

March 20 - Jesse Wilkins, RM/IG Playbook Office Hours

March 23 - IAPP and Jscrambler, The browser blind spot: Why data privacy often comes too late

March 23-27 - Data Governance Institute, Data Governance, AI Governance & Master Data Management Conference Europe, London, UK

March 24 - Twin Cities ARMA and IAPP, Spring Conference

March 24 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Future Ready Metadata: Building a Foundation for AI -Enhanced Records Management

March 24 - ARMA Triangle, AI and the New Insider Threat

March 24 - IAPP and DataGrail, Making AI work for privacy: How to scale privacy operations with secure AI

March 24 - Access and ARMA, Metadata in Practice: Making Records Easier to Find, Use, and Control

March 25 - ARMA Northern Virginia, AI Governance: An Actionable How-To Guide

March 25 - ARMA St. Louis, Digital Convenience, Environmental Consequence: The Impact of Digital Information Management Practices

March 26 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social: Artificial Intelligence and Records Management

March 26 - ARMA Madison, AI Education for RIM Professionals: What’s Here, What’s Next

March 26 - Graphic Imaging Services, Wrangle Your Records And Your Data Too, Reno, NV

March 26 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

March 26 - Dataversity, Fuel Enterprise Agents with Trusted Context: The Roadmap to Enterprise AI at Scale

March 29-31 - i-SIGMA Conference & Expo 2026, San Diego, CA

March 30 - April 2 - IAPP, Global Summit 2026, Washington, DC

March 31 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

April

April 2 - NAGARA, Proof of Concept: Planning Your Approach

April 7 - Dataversity, Human Oversight in AI: Designing Accountability for High-Stakes Decisions

April 9 - Dataversity, Building Effective RAG Applications

April 9 - Digital Government Institute, CUI Marking, Metadata & Lifecycle Management

April 9 - RIMPA Global, Information Governance in the United States

April 9 - IAPP and BigID, Compliance without borders: Privacy, AI and risk across global markets

April 9 - Contoural, Information Governance 101

April 14 - ARMA Houston, 2026 Spring Conference

April 14 - Dataversity, Data Stewards: Conquering Data Debt in the Age of AI

April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose

April 16 - Dataversity, Mastering Metadata: Strategies for Sustainable Governance

April 16 - Iron Mountain, Risk-proofing the AI supply chain: Building trust and integrity in an automated world

April 17 - Jesse Wilkins, RIG Playbook Office Hours

April 19-22 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Phoenix, AZ

April 19-24 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 21 - ILTA, Information Governance 101: What Firms Need to Know (And Why It Matters Now)

April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines

April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

April 24 - ARMA New Jersey, Information Coordinator Programs

April 24 - NAGARA, 2026 Spring Online Forum: Sync or Sink: Finding Flow in Times of Change

April 27-30 - AI+IM Global Summit 2026, Baltimore, MD 

April 27-30 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 30 - May 2 - ILTA Evolve 2026, Denver, CO

May

May 4-7 - IAPP, Canada Symposium 2026, Toronto, ON

May 4-8 - Dataversity, DGIQ + EDW 2026, San Diego, CA

May 5 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

May 5 - Dataversity, Governance in the Wild: Managing Shadow AI and Decentralized Models

May 5 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee — From Algorithms to Audit Trails: Managing AI Records End to End

May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo

May 6-7 - Data Summit, Boston, MA

May 6-8 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC

May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works

May 7-8 - ARMA Ontario, InfoConnect 2026, Waterloo, ON

May 12 - ARMA Chicago, Leveraging IG & Risk Management

May 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Federal Reserve Bank Tour

May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance

May 13-15 - ARMA Palmetto, ARMAste Annual Conference

May 14 - Dataversity, Data Professionals in the AI Age: What’s Next?

May 14-15 - M365 Community Days DC 2026, Arlington, VA

May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting

May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales 

May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies

May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference

May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making

May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS

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.

February 16, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, February 16 - May 31, 2026

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for February 1 - May 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. 

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. 

February

February 17 - AIIM, AIIM Member Community Conversation - Digital Transformation and AI Implementation

February 17 - ARMA Dallas, Tour, National Medal of Honor Museum

February 17 - Atlanta ARMA, Mixing Your IG Mission and Message for the Crowd

February 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, Prison Librarianship During COVID-19

February 17 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group, Contracting for AI

February 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI & E-Discovery

February 18 - ARMA Boise, Winning IG Through Partnerships & Alliances

February 18 - ARMA, Financial Services Industry Group 

February 18 - ILTA, Generative AI & the Adversary

February 18 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Cybersecurity and Privacy Insights 2026: Latest Guidance, Decisions and Reforms

February 18 - ILTA, Microsoft, and Epiq: Ask the Expert: Navigating Purview Deployment Considerations for Law Firms - Webinar 5/6

February 18 - CDO Magazine, The Data & AI Trust Paradox

February 19 - ARMA New England, DEI in Information Governance

February 19 - ARMA Iowa, Risky Business: Information Governance Risk Assessment Framework

February 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage

February 19 - ARMA Keystone PA, Retention Schedules and Records Inventories: The Missing Foundation of AI Governance. Contact the chapter at armakeystonepachapter@gmail.com for the Zoom link.

February 19 - ARMA Utah, Enhancing Data Quality with AI

February 19 - ARMA and ILTA, Global Information Governance Day

February 19 - Dataversity, Leading Data: Voices from the Frontlines of Governance

February 19 - ILTA, Data Governance for AI Strategy

February 19 - IAPP, Personal data as dual-use technology: Privacy professionals face new export controls

February 19 - IRMS, Managing Employee SARs in a Time of Restructuring and Redundancy

February 19 - Iron Mountain, Intelligence by design: Setting the IG foundation for an AI-driven future

February 19-20 - ARMA Southeast Sunshine Conference, Lake Buena Vista South

February 20 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Roundtable

February 20 - ARMA, Public Transit and Transportation Industry Group

February 20 - Jesse Wilkins, RM/IG Playbook Office Hours

February 23 - ILTA, Rethinking Retention with Practical Matter Lifecycle Strategies

February 23-25 - Reltio, DataDriven 2026, Orlando, FL

February 23-26 - IAPP, UK Intensive 2026, London, UK

February 24 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

February 24 - ILTA, Team IG: IG Alignment with Firm Strategy - Tying Initiatives

February 25 - ARMA St. Louis, A Records Management Approach to Social Media Preservation

February 25 - WesternIM, IMCanadaConnect, Policy Matters

February 25 - Meru Data, Federal Trade Commission Settlement and Enforcement – Real-World Impacts on Company Data Retention Programs

February 26 - ARMA Golden State, The Invisible Agreement: Emotional Intelligence and the Power of Psychological Contracts

February 26 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, How to Level Up as a RIM/IG Professional

February 26 - RIMPA Global, South Australia Information Management Community of Practice

February 26 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

February 26 - Access, Responsible AI in Regulated Environments: How to Innovate Without Losing Control

February 26-27 - ARMA, Public Sector InfoGov Summit 2026, Washington, DC

March

March 3 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC 2026

March 3 - Dataversity, AI Governance vs. Data Governance: Strategic Alignment Without Redundancy

March 4 - ARMA Michigan, Generative AI Court Cases, Laws & Practical Implications for Information Governance

March 4 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, Avoiding privacy lawsuits in 2026: Lessons from real claims and settlements

March 4 - ILTA, The Practical Side of eDiscovery - How to Reduce Costs and Frustration

March 5 - ARMA Sask, How We Are Celebrating RIM Month. Contact the chapter at armasask@outlook.com for an invitation. 

March 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI in Action: Modernizing Data & Information Governance

March 5 - NAGARA, Where to Start and Where to Go: Lessons from the First Two Years

March 9-11 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, Orlando, FL

March 9-12 - ALM and Law.com, LegalWeek, New York City, NY 

March 10 - ARMA Chicago, Spring Seminar

March 10 - ARMA Milwaukee, Learning Records Management and Information Governance By Going to the Movies

March 10 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation - Pitch Like a Pro - Master Your 30 Second Story

March 10 - Dataversity, Data Modeling Mastery: Structuring Data for AI and Analytics

March 11 - AIIM and Microsoft, Securing AI Without the Hype: AI Governance Exists, But It Rarely Shapes Real Decisions

March 12 - Contoural, Using M365 to create a Personal Data Inventory

March 12 - Dataversity, The Data Product Revolution: Unlocking Business Value

March 12 - BigID, AI Governance Leadership Forum

March 16-19 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

March 17 - RIMPA Global, Leveraging AI Tools: Insights for IG and R&IM Professionals

March 17 - DAMA Philadelphia, Good Governance Beats Good Luck

March 17 - IAPP and BRG, One Size Fits One — Operationalizing Confidence by Design to Optimize Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Governance for Growth

March 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide

March 18 - InfoGovANZ, Governing AI in Australia: Laws, Standards and Information Governance Obligations

March 18 - ILTA, Microsoft, and Epiq: Ask the Expert: Advanced Deployment and Lessons Learned - Webinar 6/6

March 18 - RIMPA Global, IAW Canberra Seminar

March 19 - ARMA New England, Records Management for Regulated Financial Entities/Institutions (Banks)

March 19 - ARMA Columbus, March Roses and Thorns Roundtable

March 19 - Digital Government Institute, 23rd Annual E-Discovery and Information Management Conference, Washington, DC

March 19 - Dataversity, From Theory to Impact: Making Governance Work in the Real World

March 19 - RIMPA Global, IAW Great Debate: When AI Moves Faster than Standards: Who's Keeping Up?

March 20 - Jesse Wilkins, RM/IG Playbook Office Hours

March 23-27 - Data Governance Institute, Data Governance, AI Governance & Master Data Management Conference Europe, London, UK

March 24 - Twin Cities ARMA and IAPP, Spring Conference

March 24 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Future Ready Metadata: Building a Foundation for AI -Enhanced Records Management

March 25 - ARMA Northern Virginia, AI Governance: An Actionable How-To Guide

March 26 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social: Artificial Intelligence and Records Management

March 26 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

March 29-31 - i-SIGMA Conference & Expo 2026, San Diego, CA

March 30 - April 2 - IAPP, Global Summit 2026, Washington, DC

April

April 7 - Dataversity, Human Oversight in AI: Designing Accountability for High-Stakes Decisions

April 9 - Dataversity, Building Effective RAG Applications

April 9 - Digital Government Institute, CUI Marking, Metadata & Lifecycle Management

April 9 - RIMPA Global, Information Governance in the United States

April 9 - Contoural, Information Governance 101

April 14 - ARMA Houston, 2026 Spring Conference

April 14 - Dataversity, Data Stewards: Conquering Data Debt in the Age of AI

April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose

April 16 - Dataversity, Mastering Metadata: Strategies for Sustainable Governance

April 16 - Iron Mountain, Risk-proofing the AI supply chain: Building trust and integrity in an automated world

April 17 - Jesse Wilkins, RIG Playbook Office Hours

April 19-22 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Phoenix, AZ

April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines

April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

April 24 - NAGARA, 2026 Spring Online Forum: Sync or Sink: Finding Flow in Times of Change

April 27-30 - AI+IM Global Summit 2026, Baltimore, MD 

April 27-30 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 30 - May 2 - ILTA Evolve 2026, Denver, CO

May

May 4-7 - IAPP, Canada Symposium 2026, Toronto, ON

May 4-8 - Dataversity, DGIQ + EDW 2026, San Diego, CA

May 5 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

May 5 - Dataversity, Governance in the Wild: Managing Shadow AI and Decentralized Models

May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo

May 6-7 - Data Summit, Boston, MA

May 6-8 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC

May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works

May 7-8 - ARMA Ontario, InfoConnect 2026, Waterloo, ON

May 12 - ARMA Chicago, Leveraging IG & Risk Management

May 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Federal Reserve Bank Tour

May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance

May 14 - Dataversity, Data Professionals in the AI Age: What’s Next?

May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting

May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales 

May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies

May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference

May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making

May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS

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.