I'm Available to Speak at Your Meeting - 2026 Update

By way of background, I've been speaking on information management-related topics since around 2000. I've been privileged to speak at AIIM 2003 - 2025, more than a dozen ARMA conferences, and more than 400 other events since 2003. I've also delivered a number of keynote sessions at conferences, user group meetings, and solution provider events. 

Topics

Here are some topics that I'm very comfortable doing - I speak on them regularly, albeit with different nuances for different audiences. This is not an exhaustive list, just the things I've done more recently. If you don't see your topic or angle on the list, reach out to me anyway and we can discuss what you're looking for. 

• Keynote: Harnessing Your Information to Create Business Value

• How to Improve Your Records Program with a Records Management Playbook
• How to Build a Records Management Playbook

• Professional Development for the Information Professional

• How to Build Your Own Professional Development Plan

• The Best Certifications for Records Managers

• How to Select the Right Certification for You

• Information Management Industry Certifications: An Overview

• How to Manage Separating Employees' Information
• Records Management in the Age of Privacy
• Records Management and AI
• Is Your Organization Ready for Artificial Intelligence?

Some of these can be done as half- or full-day seminars or workshops, complete with checklists, guidelines, templates, etc. 

Delivery
Many organizations are moving back to in-person meetings, or at least hybrid ones. I am quite comfortable doing in-person events; I've also been doing live remote events since 2004. For remote, I have access to Zoom, Slack, Teams, Webex, Google, etc. and if you have a different platform I'll figure it out. 

For in-person events, whatever venue you use, I can make work; I've spoken in auditoriums, conference rooms, bars, a bowling alley, and even Fenway Park and the Boston Zoo. I will bring my own laptop and presentation; if circumstances require that I use yours, I can do that as long as I know in advance so I can prepare accordingly. I will also send you the presentation in advance, and will generally give you permission to record the session and make available the presentation and any applicable handouts. 

Fees and Scheduling
As has been the case for some time, I have decided to waive any speaking fees for local or regional events for non-profits like ARMA and AIIM chapters. For in-person events, even chapter meetings, I do need to recoup travel costs, but I'm a pretty cheap date (advance purchase coach air, reasonably accessible hotel, ground transportation) and I can provide receipts. I do require that I be allowed to use the name and logo of my employer, Opensity Solutions, but as I noted in a previous post, I do not "sell from the podium" and have a very dim view of those who do. 

Solution providers and end user organizations? I'm available to speak at your events as well, but I do charge a fee and travel costs, with the fee based on the location, duration, and topic. 
If you're interested, reach out to me at my permanent email address, jwilkins13@gmail.com, to discuss. 

Right now I'm scheduling through June 2027. If you're interested in a half- or full-day seminar, please contact me sooner than later as I have a very limited amount of availability for those. 

Finding Speakers for Your Information Governance Related Event - 2026 Update

This post is based on my experiences as a public speaker for more than 20 years, and an AIIM and ARMA chapter leader off & on in the interim. 

Most of what I will share probably isn't applicable if you're looking for a highly known and visible keynote like a professional athlete or entertainer, or if you're looking for a speaker for a huge audience. There are resources for those, including innumerable speakers bureaus, the National Speakers Association and Meeting Planners International. Rather, my focus is on connecting speakers in the information management industry with events, especially local ones, that need speakers on those topics. 

So! When you're looking for a speaker for your event, there are a couple of things to consider. 

What are you looking for?

What kind of meeting are you looking for a speaker for? Different speakers will have different comfort levels based on the size and type of audience. Some speakers are fantastic on panels, or facilitating, them, but don't like being the main attraction. Others can carry a 30-minute talk - or an all day seminar - by themselves. 

Are you looking for someone to be on a panel, or facilitate one, or lead a breakout session, or deliver a keynote? Keynotes, in my opinion, are not just plenary sessions in front of a larger audience. Are you hoping for someone who can fill multiple spots at the same event - or even fill a full- or multi-day event by themselves? 

What topic(s) are you looking for? If it's something mainstream, what's the twist that will make it interesting to your audience? If it's cutting edge, how cutting edge is it - that is, will your audience be interested, and can you find a speaker that can make it relatable? 

What you should definitely be looking for: 

• Speakers who don't "sell from the podium." As a consultant for more than 20 years, and a vendor before that, I get it. Part of the reason many of us get into speaking is to drum up business. But it shouldn't be the primary reason, and definitely shouldn't be the only one. The consultant and vendor speakers I know that are effective know that people come to learn, not to hear about my "Add Water Heat & Eat Assessment Methodology(TM)" or RMSystem's world-changing release of Version 6.2.2. Service Pack A. I wrote more about vendor and consultant speakers in a previous post. 

• Speakers who are prepared. I take every single speaking opportunity seriously, whether it's a conference keynote or a virtual chapter meeting with 10 registrants. Your speakers should do the same, meaning that their contracts, their descriptions and bios, and their materials are on time. And yes, you should review them in advance to make sure they are meeting your audience's needs. They should be willing to do a dry run to make sure there are no technical issues, and this applies whether in person or virtually. It's your meeting and your audience. If they aren't willing to do these types of things, I'd take that has a huge red flag. 

• Speakers who are knowledgeable and engaging without being too broad or abstract, or too technical or in the weeds. This is sometimes a matter of opinion and can depend on the topic and format - keynotes are generally broad and aspirational, while a workshop should be fairly specific and technical if appropriate. The key is that the speaker aligns with your expectations. 

• Speakers who meet your budget! While many speakers volunteer their time, especially for non-profit-type activities like chapter meetings, they still have expenses and a day job. At a bare minimum I would expect an in-person event to cover reasonable travel costs: advance-purchase coach airfare, lodging, meals, and ground transportation. I generally don't charge speaking fees to chapters these days, at least for a typical 60-120-minute chapter meeting, but I generally do for longer sessions or for for-profit entities. Make sure you and your speaker are in alignment on this before someone buys plane tickets! 

Where do you find speakers? 

With all that in mind, where can you find speakers? I don't think it has to be as hard as you'd think. While there are a few dozen of us in the information governance space that seem to "make the rounds", I can give you a list of at least 100 speakers right now, including biographies and representative topics.

Where? If you looked at these sources going back just a couple of years, you could easily identify more than 100 speakers to pull from.  

• Conference speakers. AIIM, ARMA, and InfoGov World all have an annual conference. Their speakers are listed on the conference website - at least while the conference is being marketed, so even if you're not going, maybe take a look at the speakers and sessions. And these aren't the only ones - look at specialty groups too, like NAGARA for government or NIRMA for nuclear energy. 
• Chapter or regional event speakers. Of course you don't want to have, say, me, speak at your chapter every month or even every year. But the regional events in particular can be almost as rich a source as the annual conferences - ARMA Houston, ARMA ARMA New Jersey, and ARMA Metro NYC for example all have multi-speaker/multi-track and full- or multi-day events. The ARMA California and ARMA Southeast chapters also host full-day events with multiple speakers. And many chapters maintain archives of past events, so you can get a sense of their speakers and sessions. Another great option (from an anonymous commenter on the previous version of this post) is to reach out to a chapter where you know someone and ask them for referrals. 
• IM/IG-adjacent groups. Lots of people at PMI are doing and talking about interesting things. Same with IAPP. And ACEDS. And ILTA. And Georgia Records Association. And PRIMA. And the list goes on. They have chapters, and conferences, and regional confabs, and user groups, and so on. 
• Speakers for association webinars. An association might offer webinars anywhere from 1x/quarter to 1x/week. They are often end users; I'll talk about vendors and consultants separately shortly. 
• Chapter leaders or members working on interesting stuff. See who's doing something interesting that they are willing, and allowed, to talk about publicly. If they are not the best at public speaking, make it an interview. Get someone else working on something similar and make it a panel. I see lots of chapters this year that had meetings about a unique role, like a police records manager or zoo registrar, and/or offered tours. Note that this doesn't have to be you, and your project, at your company - what about the work your colleagues are doing that has some relevance? 
• Consulting firms. There are some really smart people that become consultants, and that broadens their perspective because instead of being a records manager or business analyst for this company, or even this industry, they are doing it across multiple companies and industries. Some of the best sessions I've ever attended have been delivered by consulting firms like Doculabs, Access Sciences (full disclosure - I worked there from 2007 - 2010), Infotechtion, and the like. Of course, due diligence and alignment of expectations is even more important here to make sure the session is not pitching their service offerings. 
• Vendors. Like consultants, vendors often bring a broader perspective; and like consultants, many vendors hire from the ranks of deep dive experts to support their solution offerings, so there is some real expertise to be had. But again, like consultants, you have to be careful to set expectations that a particular presentation is not to be a sales pitch. Case studies can be fantastic, but I'd set it up to require that an end user be involved and ideally be the one talking, with the solution provider relegated to a supporting role (and same by the way with consultant case studies). I am also pretty leery of vendor speakers whose job title includes CEO, product marketing, product management, marketing, or sales. I know some fantastic speakers with those titles, but the most sales-y presentations I've ever heard - the ones I've walked out of at conferences - generally come from them. 

In short, there are lots of speakers out there, and many of them are happy to share their time and energy for low or no cost. If you absolutely cannot seem to make headway in finding a speaker, reach out to me and I'd be happy to try to help - and I don't mean just as a speaker. 

Possible Speakers for Your Events

Me! 

If you think I can provide value to your group, reach out to me at my permanent email, jwilkins13@gmail.com, and let's talk. 

Besides me, here's a list of people I know that are generally available as speakers and are good at it. It's up to you to reach out to them directly to discuss topics, fees, logistics, etc., but they've given me permission to include an email to contact them at. 

• Angela Watt, info@thanksawatt.com
• Dave Jones, dave@instinctivesolutions.co.uk
• Donda Young, dlyoung@heliasconsulting.com
• Lewis Eisen, leisen@pfx.ca
• Rob Bogue, rbogue@thorprojects.com
• Rich Lauwers, richlauwers@gmail.com
• Sheila Taylor, staylor@eimc.ca
• Steve Weissman, steve@hollygroup.com

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, September 1 - November 30, 2026

Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for September 1 - November 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. I also  generally don't include purely social events with no educational component, or book review sessions.

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 (educational) event or to access the list. 

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 1 - LexShift, Buckets, Functions, Content Types – Oh My! New Ways to Rethink Your Retention Schedule

September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows

September 3 - ARMA Chattanooga, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

September 3 - NAGARA, Counting Down to Zero: Steps for Achieving Zero-Click Recordkeeping

September 4 - IRMS Scotland, Professional Development and Advocacy

September 8 - ARMA Mile High Denver, AI Note Taking Apps & User Privacy

September 8 - ARMA Dallas, The Value of ARMA, ICRM, and the benefits of certifications

September 8 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

September 8 - ARMA Chicago, Information Governance and AI

September 8 - CIGOA and Triad Executive Advisors, What's Next for AI Governance After Recent Developments? 

September 8 - IAPP and Feroot Security, Findings from the field: Consent audits reveal top 5 CMP policy gaps and root causes

September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale

September 8 - Access, Tag, you're it! Ownership and Accountability in AI Implementation

September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation. 

September 9 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Records Management: The Foundation of AI Governance

September 9 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Less Data is More Than Ever: Privacy    & Data Security Compliance as a New Impetus for Defensible Data Disposal. Hybrid meeting; click here for in-person registration or here for virtual registration. 

September 9 - San Diego ARMA, Modern Information Governance

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 9 - InfoGovANZ, From Fragmented Information Management to Enterprise Information Governance

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 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, You've got mail: From a serial privacy plaintiff - a privacy pro's CIPA playbook

September 10 - ILTA, Vancouver Innovation Roundtable: Legal Tech & GenAI

September 14 - IAPP and DataGrail, Does your AI count: Scoping ADMT before California's Jan 1 deadline

September 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo On-site Presentation

September 15 - IAPP, A privacy-enhancing technologies primer

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 - ARMA Oklahoma, Creating a Modern, Compliant, and Easier-to-Execute Records Retention Schedule for Privacy and AI

September 16 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Women in eDiscovery Iowa, and Exterro, From Chaos to Control: Bridging Information Governance and eDiscovery

September 16 - ARMA Nebraska, More Than Old Stuff: Why Documentation is as Important as the Artifact

September 16 - ARMA Greater Seattle, “It’s Been A Long Time Coming”: Your CRM Credential Quest, Swifties’ Edition

September 16 - InfoGovANZ, AI Governance Essentials: The Latest Developments in Agentic AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy and ADM

September 16 - RecordPoint, Why are enterprises hesitating when it comes to AI?

September 17 - ARMA Greater Columbus, What Would You Do? A RIM/IG Round Table

September 17 - ARMA Palmetto, The New Foundation for Records & Information Management

September 17 - ARMA Utah, From Records to Health Information: What RIM Professionals Can Learn from Healthcare's Information Governance Journey

September 17 - ARMA Keystone, From File Rooms to Freedom: A Real Talk on What to Do With Your Documents. Contact the chapter at armakeystonepachapter@gmail.com for more information or to register. 

September 17 - ILTA, From Information Governance to Information Operations: A New Respect for IG

September 17 - IAPP, From backlog to breakthrough: Using AI in privacy work and governing it across the enterprise

September 17 - ARMA and Access, Flying Solo, Moving Forward: Practical Lessons for Lean Records Teams

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 - Twin Cities ARMA, Navigating AI and Modern Governance Tools

September 22 - ARMA Central Missouri, Operation File Freedom: Winning the War on Digital Clutter

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 22 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Managing data retention schedules during M&A, relocations and bankruptcy

September 22 - ARMA and Morae, AI is Only as Smart as Your Records: Why Information Governance Determines AI Success

September 22 - CIGOA and Kiteworks, Everyone Has an AI Policy. Almost Nobody Has AI Data Governance. 

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 23 - ILTA Atlanta, Successful AI Integration: How Leading Law Firms are Winning with Technology and AI

September 23 - Contoural, How to Define a Record

September 23 - Collibra, Context Governance 201: How do you govern unstructured data for AI agents?

September 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

September 24 - IAPP and TrustArc, The AI you didn't build: From black box to defensible risk

September 24 - ILTA, The Trigger that Never Fires: Disposition Rules You Can Actually Act On

September 24 - ILTA New York, Is AI Architecture the Foundation for AI Adoption in Law Firms? 

September 25 - ARMA New England, Empower 26, Providence, RI

September 28-30 - OneTrust, TrustWeek, Las Vegas, NV

September 29 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

September 29 - ARMA Golden State, The Value and Build of a Retention Schedule

September 29 - CIGOA and NVISIONx, AI Governance Starts at the Data Source: Operationalizing AI Governance Through Data Governance

September 29 - IRMS Schools Group, Safeguarding in the Age of AI

September 29 - RIMPA Global and RecordPoint, AI Roundtable

September 29 - Oct 1 - The AI Conference 2026, San Francisco, CA

September 30 - AIIM, 2026 AIIM Industry Watch: Work, Skills, and Identity of the Information Professional

September 30 - ILTA Dallas, The Right Model for the Right Matter: A Strategic Framework for AI in Law Firms

September 30 - Dataversity, AIGov Online

October

October 1 - NAGARA and Access Sciences, Records Management in Microsoft Purview: Building the Foundation for AI Governance

October 6 - AIIM, Critical Conversation - Data Literacy and AI

October 6 - ILTA and LegalRM, Making the Case for IG: Securing Buy-In & Demonstrating Value

October 6 - RIMPA Global, SharePoint Data Disposal Without a Net

October 6 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Building a Framework for AI Assurance

October 6 - NAGARA, Enhancing Access to Legacy Slavery Records Using Generative AI

October 6 - Collibra, AI Summit, New York City

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 7 - ILTA Africa, AI Impact on Legal Practice

October 8 - AIIM Southeast + LATAM, AI Leadership Compass: A Conversation with Dr Priya Sarathy

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 8 - ILTA Minneapolis, Logically Drafted: Proof not Promise: A Peer Roundtable

October 9 - DAMA LA, DAMA Days 2026: Data & AI: Building the Intelligent Enterprise

October 12-14 - CIGOA, AIGov World 2026, Las Vegas, NV

October 13 - ARMA Chicago, Creating a Modern, Compliant, and Easier-to-Execute Retention Schedule for Privacy and AI

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 14 - Collibra, Context Governance 301: How do you keep AI agents from acting on stale context?

October 14 - InfoGovANZ, Information Assets, Ownership and the Enterprise Information Asset Register

October 15 - Dataversity, AI Meets Governance: Ethics, Oversight, and Automation

October 19-22 - OpenText World 2026, Orlando, FL

October 20 - AIIM and ibml, Harnessing AI Without Compromising Trust

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 Ireland, Before the Algorithm, After the Prompt: records, data, and the real work of AI governance

October 21 - Collibra, AI Summit, London, UK

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 27 - AIIM, Critical Conversation on IT, Data Management and RIM Speaking the Same Language

October 27 - Cloudera, Evolve26, New York City, NY

October 30 - NAGARA, 2026 Fall Online Forum: Ghouls, Goblins, and Governance: Mastering the Horrors of Information Management

November

November 3 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, The Future of AI Governance: Forecasting the Next Five Years

November 4-6 - Privacy + Security Forum Fall Academy, Washington, DC

November 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI Implementation Success Stories

November 10 - IAPP and filerskeepers, The right to keep vs. the obligation to delete: Navigating data retention, data minimization and legal holds

November 10 - Dataversity and Reltio, Data Quality by Design: Ensuring Reliable Inputs for AI Systems

November 11 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.

November 11 - IRMS Public Sector Group, Implementing Records Management in M365 Including Purview

November 11-12 - TWAIN, TWAIN Converge 2026, Safety Harbor, FL

November 12 - ILTA and LegalRM, Data Provenance & Traceability: Building Trust in High-Velocity Data Environments

November 12 - Dataversity, Reltio, and Informatica, The ROI of Agentic AI: Strategies for Success

November 16-17 - ILTA, ILTACON Europe 2026, London, UK

November 16-19 - IAPP, IAPP Europe Congress 2026, Brussels, BEL

November 16-19 - Dataversity, DGIQ + AIGOV, Providence, RI

November 16-19 - KMWorld, KMWorld 2026, Washington, DC

November 17 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Toronto, 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!

November 18 - ARMA Houston, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

November 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Case Study

November 18 - InfoGovANZ, Information Risk, Reporting and Assurance - What Management and Boards Need to Know

November 19 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

November 19 - Dataversity, Governance as a Business Enabler: Driving ROI and Innovation

November 19 - Digital Government Institute and Knox, AI to Support Cybersecurity

If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. I don't charge speaking fees to non-profit groups. 

For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2026/09/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html or email me at jwilkins13@gmail.com.

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 16 - November 30, 2026

Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 16 - November 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. I also  generally don't include purely social events with no educational component. 

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 (educational) event or to access the list. 

August

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 20 - Contoural, A Practical and Manageable Approach for Governing AI

August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN

August 25 - InfoGov World and Kiteworks, Everyone Has an AI Policy. Almost Nobody Has AI Data Governance. 

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 - TWAIN and AIIM, Getting It Right at the Source: Capture’s New Role in the AI Era

August 26 - Zasio, The AI Readiness Recipe: Six Information Governance Pillars Every Organization Needs

August 26 - Collibra, Context Governance 101: Semantics, ontologies, knowledge graphs — and why context needs governing at all

August 26 - Denodo, Securing and Governing Data in the Age of Agentic AI

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 1 - LexShift, Buckets, Functions, Content Types – Oh My! New Ways to Rethink Your Retention Schedule

September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows

September 3 - ARMA Chattanooga, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

September 3 - NAGARA, Counting Down to Zero: Steps for Achieving Zero-Click Recordkeeping

September 4 - IRMS Scotland, Professional Development and Advocacy

September 8 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Preventing Employees from Hoarding Documents

September 8 - InfoGov World and Triad Executive Advisors, What's Next for AI Governance After Recent Developments? 

September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale

September 8 - Access, Tag, you're it! Ownership and Accountability in AI Implementation

September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation. 

September 9 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Less Data is More Than Ever: Privacy & Data Security Compliance as a New Impetus for Defensible Data Disposal. Hybrid meeting; click here for in-person registration or here for virtual registration. 

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 9 - InfoGovANZ, From Fragmented Information Management to Enterprise Information Governance

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 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, You've got mail: From a serial privacy plaintiff - a privacy pro's CIPA playbook

September 10 - ILTA, Vancouver Innovation Roundtable: Legal Tech & GenAI

September 14 - IAPP and DataGrail, Does your AI count: Scoping ADMT before California's Jan 1 deadline

September 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo On-site Presentation

September 15 - IAPP, A privacy-enhancing technologies primer

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 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Women in eDiscovery Iowa, and Exterro, From Chaos to Control: Bridging Information Governance and eDiscovery

September 16 - ARMA Nebraska, More Than Old Stuff: Why Documentation is as Important as the Artifact

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 22 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Managing data retention schedules during M&A, relocations and bankruptcy

September 22 - ARMA and Morae, AI is Only as Smart as Your Records: Why Information Governance Determines AI Success

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 23 - Contoural, How to Define a Record

September 23 - Collibra, Context Governance 201: How do you govern unstructured data for AI agents?

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 29 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

September 29 - IRMS Schools Group, Safeguarding in the Age of AI

September 30 - AIIM, 2026 AIIM Industry Watch: Work, Skills, and Identity of the Information Professional

September 30 - ILTA Dallas, The Right Model for the Right Matter: A Strategic Framework for AI in Law Firms

October 

October 6 - AIIM, Critical Conversation - Data Literacy and AI

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 - NAGARA, Enhancing Access to Legacy Slavery Records Using Generative AI

October 6 - Collibra, AI Summit, New York City

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 7 - ILTA Africa, AI Impact on Legal Practice

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 14 - Collibra, Context Governance 301: How do you keep AI agents from acting on stale context?

October 14 - InfoGovANZ, Information Assets, Ownership and the Enterprise Information Asset Register

October 15 - Dataversity, AI Meets Governance: Ethics, Oversight, and Automation

October 19-22 - OpenText World 2026, Orlando, FL

October 20 - AIIM and ibml, Harnessing AI Without Compromising Trust

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 21 - Collibra, AI Summit, London, UK

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 27 - Cloudera, Evolve26, New York City, NY

October 30 - NAGARA, 2026 Fall Online Forum: Ghouls, Goblins, and Governance: Mastering the Horrors of Information Management

November

November 4-6 - Privacy + Security Forum Fall Academy, Washington, DC

November 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI Implementation Success Stories

November 10 - IAPP and filerskeepers, The right to keep vs. the obligation to delete: Navigating data retention, data minimization and legal holds

November 11 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.

November 11 - IRMS Public Sector Group, Implementing Records Management in M365 Including Purview

November 11-12 - TWAIN, TWAIN Converge 2026, Safety Harbor, FL

November 12 - ILTA and LegalRM, Data Provenance & Traceability: Building Trust in High-Velocity Data Environments

November 16-17 - ILTA, ILTACON Europe 2026, London, UK

November 16-19 - IAPP, IAPP Europe Congress 2026, Brussels, BEL

November 16-19 - Dataversity, DGIQ + AIGOV, Providence, RI

November 16-19 - KMWorld, KMWorld 2026, Washington, DC

November 17 - AIIM, AI+IM Regional Forum, Toronto, 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!

November 18 - ARMA Houston, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

November 18 - InfoGovANZ, Information Risk, Reporting and Assurance - What Management and Boards Need to Know

November 19 - Legal IG Roundtable, Monthly Meeting

November 19 - Digital Government Institute and Knox, AI to Support Cybersecurity

If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. I don't charge speaking fees to non-profit groups. 

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.

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 1 - October 31, 2026

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. 

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. I also  generally don't include purely social events with no educational component. 

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 (educational) event or to access the list. 

August

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 - Iron Mountain, The hidden advantage: Activating unstructured data to fuel AI

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 20 - Contoural, A Practical and Manageable Approach for Governing AI

August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN

August 25 - InfoGov World and Kiteworks, Everyone Has an AI Policy. Almost Nobody Has AI Data Governance. 

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 - TWAIN and AIIM, Getting It Right at the Source: Capture’s New Role in the AI Era

August 26 - Zasio, The AI Readiness Recipe: Six Information Governance Pillars Every Organization Needs

August 26 - Denodo, Securing and Governing Data in the Age of Agentic AI

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 1 - LexShift, Buckets, Functions, Content Types – Oh My! New Ways to Rethink Your Retention Schedule

September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows

September 3 - ARMA Chattanooga, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

September 4 - IRMS Scotland, Professional Development and Advocacy

September 8 - InfoGov World and Triad Executive Advisors, What's Next for AI Governance After Recent Developments? 

September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale

September 8 - Access, Tag, you're it! Ownership and Accountability in AI Implementation

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 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Women in eDiscovery Iowa, and Exterro, From Chaos to Control: Bridging Information Governance and eDiscovery

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 22 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Managing data retention schedules during M&A, relocations and bankruptcy

September 22 - ARMA and Morae, AI is Only as Smart as Your Records: Why Information Governance Determines AI Success

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 23 - Contoural, How to Define a Record

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 29 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

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

If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. I don't charge speaking fees to non-profit groups. 

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.