Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 1 - October 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.
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August 4 - IAPP, US data privacy litigation: Assessing risks and navigating uncertainty
August 4 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, AI Governance Meets Cybersecurity: Aligning Trust, Safety, and Resilience
August 4 - Access, Chutes & Ladders: Why Information Readiness Comes First
August 4 - ILTA Houston, The AI Integration Gap: How to Close It - And Prove It
August 6 - ARMA and Access, Reducing Risk, Storage Costs, and Information Sprawl Through Defensible Deletion
August 6 - NAGARA and Iron Mountain, Leading AI Readiness: Essential Skills for Records and Information Professionals
August 7 - ILTA, Lawyers Don't Trust AI and Why That's Not a Bad Thing
August 10 - IRMS Midlands Group: Future Perfect? Digital Preservation in the Real World
August 11 - IAPP and ObservePoint, What every website needs to know about US privacy compliance and tracking risk
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 12 - AIIM and M-Files, Effective AI Starts with Context: Preparing Microsoft 365 for Copilot and AI Agents
August 12 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
August 12 - ILTA and Litera, AI is Reducing the Routine Work That Trained Associates. Now What?
August 13 - ARMA and Morae, Modern, Practical Information Lifecycle Governance and Disposition
August 13 - Contoural, Budgeting for Information Governance
August 13 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Mastery: William Answers Your Questions
August 18 - AIIM True North, IM Assessments - A Case Study for Addressing AI Risks
August 18 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group - Coffee & Chat
August 18 - IRMS South West, Let's discuss - when the horse won't be led to water
August 18 - RIMPA Global and Recordkeeping Innovation, AI Doesn't Replace Governance. It Makes It Essential
August 18 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: How Mentorloop got started with AI Governance
August 19 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Records Management - The Power Behind AI Governance
August 19 - InfoGovANZ, Information Management in Government: Progress, priorities and the road ahead
August 19 - ILTA, Internal & External Threat Monitoring for AI
August 20, ARMA and filerskeepers, One Retention Schedule, Multiple Systems: Is Fully Automated Records Management Possible?
August 20 - Dataversity, Data Storytelling for Governance Leaders: Influence Through Insight
August 20 - NAGARA and Access Sciences, AI Readiness, Risk, and Governance: A Practical Framework for RIM Professionals
August 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN
August 26 - Boise Valley ARMA, Retooling the Information Professional for 2027 and Beyond
August 26 - ARMA Houston, Building a Common Language for Complex Industrial Asset Information
August 26 - Zasio, The AI Readiness Recipe: Six Information Governance Pillars Every Organization Needs
August 27 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Your Content Already Knows What It Is — Auto-Classification Unleashed
August 27 - Access, Truth or Dare: Can AI Really Clean Up Your Records?
September
September 1 - AIIM, The State of the Information Management Industry
September 1 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, The Right to Explanation: Meeting Regulatory Demands for Interpretable AI
September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows
September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale
September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
September 9 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Ottowa, ON. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!
September 10 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Pipeline Engineering Strategies
September 10 - RIMPA Global, M365 Community of Practice
September 10 - ILTA and LegalRM, Information Governance for Cyber Resilience: Preparing for the Inevitable
September 10 - ILTA, Vancouver Innovation Roundtable: Legal Tech & GenAI
September 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo On-site Presentation
September 16 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Seattle, WA. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!
September 16 - InfoGovANZ, AI Governance Essentials: The Latest Developments in Agentic AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy and ADM
September 17 - IAPP, From backlog to breakthrough: Using AI in privacy work and governing it across the enterprise
September 17 - Dataversity, Governance at Scale: Lessons from the Enterprise Frontlines
September 20-25 - TDWI, Transform 26, Anaheim, CA
September 21-24 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-in
September 22 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Dallas, TX. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!
September 23 - ARMA Houston, The Safe Path to AI
September 23 -AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, Washington, DC. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!
September 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
September 25 - ARMA New England, Empower 26, Providence, RI
September 28-30 - OneTrust, TrustWeek, Las Vegas, NV
September 30 - AIIM, 2026 AIIM Industry Watch: Work, Skills, and Identity of the Information Professional
October
October 6 - ILTA and LegalRM, Making the Case for IG: Securing Buy-In & Demonstrating Value
October 6 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Building a Framework for AI Assurance
October 6-7 - DAMA-MN, Data Conference
October 6-8 - Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, Orlando, FL
October 6-9 - IAPP, Privacy.Security.Risk + AI Governance Global 2026, Seattle, WA
October 8 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, How to Work with Open Table Formats
October 8 - Digital Government Institute, Relativity, Feith, Veritone, and Casepoint, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices
October 9 - DAMA LA, DAMA Days 2026: Data & AI: Building the Intelligent Enterprise
October 12-14 - InfoGov World, AIGov World 2026, Las Vegas, NV
October 13 - RIMPA Global, Records Management and Information Governance Power AI Governance
October 13 - Dataversity, Metadata Matters: Powering AI Data Discovery and Context
October 14 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
October 15 - Dataversity, AI Meets Governance: Ethics, Oversight, and Automation
October 19-22 - OpenText World 2026, Orlando, FL
October 20 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, London, UK. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!
October 20 - RIMPA Global, Local Government Community of Practice Meeting
October 20-22 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live 2026, Sydney, AUS
October 21 - IRMS, Before the Algorithm, After the Prompt: records, data, and the real work of AI governance
October 22 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
October 22 - Digital Government Institute, Digitization Update: Bridging Policy, Technology, and Practice
October 25-28 - ARMA InfoCon, Savannah, GA
October 30 - NAGARA, 2026 Fall Online Forum: Ghouls, Goblins, and Governance: Mastering the Horrors of Information Management
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