July 2, 2025

Career Update: I've Joined Epiq Global

I thought I'd already written this, but apparently not! In June, I made the decision to join Epiq Global.

Who is Epiq Global?

Epiq is a large, multinational professional services firm with more than 6,000 employees worldwide. They are very well-known in the legal industry and have deep expertise in law firm administration and support services. 

They also offer a variety of business services in the areas of administration, document processing, marketing, hospitality, digital mailroom, and records & information governance, among others, via their Global Business Transformation Services division. This is the division I joined as a Senior Consultant, Records & Information Governance. While I haven't even been there a month, I will say that everyone I have met has been uniformly welcoming, amazingly smart, and passionate about the work they do for Epiq and ultimately their clients. 

While Epiq is more recognized in the legal industry, they also do work for 76 of the Fortune 100, and regularly provide business support services to organizations of all types and sizes. You can find out more about their service offerings at https://www.epiqglobal.com/en-us/services. I'd be happy to have, or facilitate, conversations about how Epiq can contribute to improving your organization's operational excellence. 

What About The IG/RIM Industry? 

At the same time, I'll still be contributing to and supporting the broader records & IG industry, doing things like: 

  • Publishing my semi-monthly IG/RM/DM/AI-related events listings
  • Speaking at local chapters
  • Speaking at industry conferences
  • Doing other presentations on behalf of Epiq
  • Cohosting the IG Community Roundtables with Steve Weissman of Holly Group and Donda Young of Helias Consulting
  • Volunteering with ARMA Mile High Denver Chapter, AIIM International, and ARMA International
  • Etc. 
I'll just generally be doing these things under the Epiq brand - or my own name for some of the more esoteric stuff like the events listing. And you'll probably see me at more legal industry events like ILTACon and Legal Week.  

What's the Future of Athro Consulting? 

The short answer is, I don't know yet. When I join an organization, like Epiq, I firmly believe that I owe them my undivided time, attention, and loyalty. And anyone who knows my career knows that I am *not* a job hopper. But you never know what the future holds.  

So what this means is that Athro will be going dormant for the foreseeable future. I'll still pay the taxes and file the annual report, but anything I do work-wise will be going through Epiq. 

Again, I'm very excited by this change and for the opportunity to join such a large and well-respected firm. 

June 30, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, July 1 - September 30, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for July 1 - September 30, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - ARMA, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

July 8 - ARMA, Public Transit/Transportation Group (members only)

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 9 - TeachPrivacy, The Future of AI Regulation and Governance

July 9 - IRMS, Legal Roundtable Discussion

July 10 - IAPP and Securiti, AI agents and agentic AI: What privacy and AI governance leaders must know now (members only)

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Mastering Data Migration: Aligning IT and Governance for Strategic Success

July 15 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

July 15 - ILTA and LegalRM, Team IG: Secure, compliant and ready for AI: Rethinking your data strategy

July 15 - ILTA, Artificial Intelligence and Automation: The Difference Between Them & How They Can Be Used Together

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Ethics and Data/Records/Information Governance: Remember the Human Impacts

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 16 - ARMA, Financial Services Industry Group Coffee & Chat (members only)

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 17 - ILTA, The AI Policy Paradox: Cutting Through the Hype to Confront the Risk

July 18 - ARMA Vancouver Island, In the Same Boat: Sharing Information Governance Expertise

July 21 - ILTA, The Implications of Agentic AI for Corporate Legal Departments

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 22 - ILTA, Agentic AI in Action: Document Review Strategies, Successes and Lessons

July 23 - ARMA Upstate New York, Tour of Gaylord Archival

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 23 - IAPP and OneTrust, Agentic AI: Navigating the tension between privacy and the next generation of AI (members only)

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - July

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generative AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 7 - NAGARA, Five Mistakes that Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them

August 8 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 14 - RIMPA Global, Classify, Consolidate and Govern for Smarter AI

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 21 - Zasio, Buckets, Benefits, and Boundaries: HR Records in a Growing Privacy Climate

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

August 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - August

September

September 4 - NAGARA, Not Just a Plan, It's a Culture for Success - Succession Planning for the 21st Century

September 11-12 - Boxworks, San Francisco, CA

September 15-17 - Georgia Records Association, GRA 2025 Annual Conference, Peachtree City, GA

September 15-17 - IRM UK, Business Analysis Conference Europe 2025, London, UK

September 16 - Twin Cities ARMA, AI 2.0

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - IRMS, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 17-18 - The AI Conference 2025, San Francisco, CA

September 18 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

September 18 - ILTA, Team IG: Mastering information governance: Strategies for integrating IG in...

September 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting - September

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower! 2025

September 29-30 - Generative AI World 2025, Boston, MA

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html.

June 15, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, June 16 - September 30, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for June 16 - September 30, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

June

June 17 - ARMA Edmonton, Annual General Meeting

June 17 - Atlanta ARMA, State of the Chapter

June 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, ARMA Auction/Swearing in of Officers

June 17 - ARMA San Antonio, From Governance to Guardrails: Bridging information Management and Security

June 17 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Coffee & Chat: Mergers & Acquisitions (members only)

June 17 - ARMA and Access, Breaking Silos & Bridging Gaps: Aligning Teams for Success

June 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, ECM Best Practices

June 18 - ARMA Northern Virginia, The Rise of AI in RIM

June 18 - ARMA New England, ARMA NE Appreciation Event 

June 18 - ARMA St. Louis, Member Appreciation Event

June 18 - ARMA Palmetto, Records - Out of Basement, Into Clouds

June 18 - ARMA Financial Services, Coffee and Chat (members only)

June 18 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation: Copilot Readiness for the Real World (members only)

June 18 - IAPP and Osano, Privacy for risk management: Bridge the business, technology and compliance gaps (members only)

June 19 - ARMA San Diego, The Ethical Imperatives Behind Records and Information Governance

June 19 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

June 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, Chapter Member Appreciation Luncheon

June 19 - RIMPA Global, Canberra Breakfast | Guardians of Data in an AI driven world: Securing PII in the Public Sector

June 19 - Dataversity, The Future of Data Stewardship – Trends and Innovations

June 20 - ARMA Orlando, Chapter Appreciation Luncheon

June 23 - Leadership Through Data, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 23-27 - Microsoft TechCon365, Seattle, WA

June 24 - AIIM, AI Strategy for Managing Regulatory and Economic Unpredictability (members only)

June 24 - ARMA, Ethics: Where to Begin? A Primer on Records and Information Management Practices

June 24 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 24 - IAPP and BigID, Built to scale: Privacy and AI risk frameworks (members only)

June 25 - IAPP, From global principles to APAC practice: Governing AI responsibly 

June 25 - ACEDS Central Texas, Summer Sizzle: Exploring Hot Technology for Case Strategy with GenAI

June 25-26 - IAPP and Berkley Klein Center, Navigate: A Digital Policy Leadership Retreat

June 26 - ACEDS Ohio, AI in the Legal Industry: Enhancing Efficiency & Managing Risk

June 26 - RIMPA Global, Archiving Doesn’t Cut It: Future of Information Governance

June 26 - Iron Mountain, Changing attitudes toward defensible disposition

June 26 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Where Data Models Fit in Today’s Modern Data Architecture

June 26 - Access, AI & You: Real Talk on Regulations and Future-Proofing Your Information Governance

June 26 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 1: Microsoft 365 Modules and Governance Overview

June 26 - Today's Managing Partner and Relativity, Smarter Case Strategy: Leveraging Technology to Unlock Legal Insights

June 28 - ARMA Vancouver, Annual General Meeting

June 29-July 2, SHRM, SHRM25, San Diego, CA

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - ARMA, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 10 - IAPP and Securiti, AI agents and agentic AI: What privacy and AI governance leaders must know now (members only)

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

July 15 - ILTA and LegalRM, Team IG: Secure, compliant and ready for AI: Rethinking your data strategy

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 18 - ARMA Vancouver Island, In the Same Boat: Sharing Information Governance Expertise

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generative AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 8 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

September

September 16-19 - IAPP, AI Governance Global North America 2025, Boston, MA

September 17 - IRMS, What Does Good Records Management Look Like? 

September 29 - ARMA New England, Empower! 2025

September 30 - AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html.

June 2, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, June 1 - August 31, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for June 1 - August 31, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

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. 

June

June 1-3 - PegaWorld, Las Vegas, NV

June 2-5 - Machine Learning Week, Phoenix, AZ

June 3 - ARMA New England, Tea Chat - the IGRM programs

June 3 - IAPP and TerraTrue, The hidden threat: Managing AI vendor and third-party risk before it hits (members only)

June 3 - Leadership Through Data, AI Implementation: Key Considerations for Information Leaders

June 3 - Access, Seeing the Future: Transforming Your RIM & IG Program for Long-Term Success

June 4 - Dataversity, Success is Not a Straight Line – How to Use Setbacks, Misfires, and Redirections to Your Advantage

June 4 - WesternIM, The New IGIM v2.1: Unlock the Latest in IG

June 4 - Leadership Through Data, AI Implementation: Key Considerations for Information Leaders

June 4-5 - AI & Big Data Expo North America, Santa Clara, CA

June 5 - ARMA Edmonton, Spring Mixer

June 5 - ARMA and FiT, Governing through Lateral Movement and Mergers

June 5 - NAGARA, Lose the Paper Anchor and Keep Your Sailors Happy

June 5 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 9-12 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit 2025, San Francisco, CA

June 10 - ARMA Dallas, RIM Topics and RIM Career

June 10 - Northeast Ohio ARMA, Cuyahoga County Archives Volunteer Event. For more information, send an email to Eileen Cook at eileen_cook@progressive.com.

June 10 - AIIM, Using AI for Breaking Information Silos to Optimize Automation Outcome (members only)

June 10 - ARMA, The Shared Ethics Foundations of IG and AI Governance

June 10 - NAGARA, The Digital Handoff: Getting Agencies to Send Their Electronic Records

June 10 - ABBYY Ascend 2025

June 10 - Dataversity, Implementing Effective Data Governance – A Practical Guide

June 11 - ARMA Cascadia, Leveraging O365 for Transparency & Efficiency

June 11 - ARMA Nebraska, Future of ARMA International/BoD Induction

June 11 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Social and Networking Event

June 11 - Future of Privacy Forum, 2nd Annual DC Privacy Forum, Washington, D.C. 

June 11 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work - Opportunities and Risks

June 11-12 - The AI Summit London 2025, London, UK

June 12 - ARMA New Jersey, INFORM25

June 12 - Austin ARMA, Member Appreciation Event

June 12 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

June 12 - Digital Government Institute, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Records Management

June 12 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2025

June 12 - RecordPoint, Roundtable topic: Operationalizing AI Governance

June 17 - Atlanta ARMA, State of the Chapter

June 17 - ARMA San Antonio, From Governance to Guardrails: Bridging information Management and Security

June 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, ECM Best Practices

June 18 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation: Copilot Readiness for the Real World (members only)

June 18 - IAPP and Osano, Privacy for risk management: Bridge the business, technology and compliance gaps (members only)

June 19 - ARMA San Diego, The Ethical Imperatives Behind Records and Information Governance

June 19 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

June 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, Chapter Member Appreciation Luncheon

June 19 - Dataversity, The Future of Data Stewardship – Trends and Innovations

June 20 - ARMA Orlando, IG and Artificial Intelligence

June 23 - Leadership Through Data, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 23-27 - Microsoft TechCon365, Seattle, WA

June 24 - AIIM, AI Strategy for Managing Regulatory and Economic Unpredictability (members only)

June 24 - ARMA, Ethics: Where to Begin? A Primer on Records and Information Management Practices

June 24 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 24 - IAPP and BigID, Built to scale: Privacy and AI risk frameworks (members only)

June 25 - IAPP, From global principles to APAC practice: Governing AI responsibly 

June 25-26 - IAPP and Berkley Klein Center, Navigate: A Digital Policy Leadership Retreat

June 26 - RIMPA Global, Archiving Doesn’t Cut It: Future of Information Governance

June 26 - Iron Mountain, Changing attitudes toward defensible disposition

June 26 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Where Data Models Fit in Today’s Modern Data Architecture

June 26 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 1: Microsoft 365 Modules and Governance Overview

June 29-July 2, SHRM, SHRM25, San Diego, CA

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM, Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - ARMA, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 16 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI-Generated Meeting Transcripts - Benefits, Challenges & Best Practices

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 22 - AIIM True North, How to Reduce Bias in Machine Learning Models: Strategies for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency to Improve Business (members only)

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 2: Records Retention in Microsoft 365

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 30 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: Exploring Generateive AI - Latest Developments - Use, Risks, & Best Practices

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government Institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 7 - Contoural, M365 School Series Part 3: e-Discovery

August 8 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group - Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Valley - The Origins and Ambitions of Generative AI

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

August 27-29 - ARA UK & Ireland, Annual Conference, Bristol, UK

August 28 - Contoural, M365 School Part 4: How are Companies really using M365

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html.

May 15, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, May 15 - August 31, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for May 15 - August 31, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

Also note that 20 ARMA Chapters have come together for ARMA Spring Seminar Mania (SSM) V. The individual events are listed on the applicable dates below, and "Spring Seminar Mania" is added to the ARMA chapter name to denote the event as part of SSM. There will be prize drawings for those who attend one or more SSM event. You can find the entire list of events and additional details about the prize drawings at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2025/. In particular, be sure to attend the Spring Seminar Mania Finale on May 29!

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 jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.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. 

May

May 16 - Athro Consulting, RIM/IG Playbook Office Hours

May 16 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

May 16 - Meru Data, How to Govern Generative AI Models

May 16 - DAMA Puget Sound, DAMA-PS DAMA Day 2025

May 18-20 - IRMS Conference, Birmingham, UK

May 18-21 - ACMP, Change Chicago: Architects of Transformation, Chicago, IL

May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Cybersecurity Trends and AI Threats

May 20 - ARMA Michigan Spring Seminar Mania, How to Use Scorecard Reporting and Testing to Drive Measurable Records Management Compliance Results

May 20 - Atlanta ARMA, Demystifying Digital Preservation

May 20 - Austin ARMA, Walking the Tightrope between AI and IG

May 20 - ARMA San Antonio, LLMs Destroyed My Records - All You Need to Know About AI!

May 20 - ARMA Chicago, Spring Seminar 2025

May 20 - ARMA Northern Virginia, Ask the ARMA CEO!

May 20 - AIIM+, Advancing Intelligent Information Management (IIM): A BIPOC Perspective (members only)

May 20 - ARMA and Access, Avoiding the Headlines: Practical Strategies for Effective Records Compliance

May 20 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Navigating IG in the changing landscape (members only)

May 20 - Zasio, Unlocking the Future of RIM with AI

May 20-23 - Florida Records Management Association, 2025 Annual Conference

May 21 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Governance Metrics Without Mayhem: Ensuring Your Measurement Methods Matter

May 21 - ARMA Keystone Spring Seminar Mania, Navigating RIM in Utilities and Energy Industries

May 21 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Future Self

May 21 - ARMA Nebraska, Implementing Purview in M365

May 21 - WesternIM, The IG Essentials: What Every Organization Needs to Know (IG101)

May 21 - AIIM and Feith, Insight Series: Modernizing Government Information Management with AI and Automation

May 21 - ARMA, Feith, and Carahsoft, AI Solutions for Records Management

May 21 - IAPP and Exterro, The privacy gym: Get your data in shape! (members only)

May 21 - DAMA NYC, Master Event

May 21 - OneTrust, Integrated risk management: Aligning third-party risk across the enterprise

May 21-22 - DAMA MN/IIBA-MSP, Professional Development Day

May 22 - ARMA Iowa Spring Seminar Mania, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

May 22 - AIIM and AIIM Florida, How to Stay Ahead in the Rapidly Evolving Market for Capture & IDP Solutions

May 22 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Master Data Management – Aligning Data, Process, and Governance

May 22 - NYC DAMA Day 2025, The Secret Sauce, Data Ethics in the Age of AI

May 22 - Epiq, The Compliance Practitioner Challenge: Staying Ahead of AI Regulations

May 22 - RecordPoint, Taming the unstructured data beast: Strategies for governance and compliance

May 22 - Contoural, Contoural Summer School Series 4 Part Deep Dive into M365

May 26-28 - European Collaboration Summit 2025, Düsseldorf, Germany

May 27 - ARMA Vancouver, Climate Action: Strategies for Records Professionals

May 27 - AIIM+ Members and AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

May 27 - RIMPA Global, Scanning vs. Preservation Digitisation: What's the Difference and Why It Matters?

May 27 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI, Information Governance & Record-keeping: Emerging Issues, Legal Risks & Best Practices

May 28 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, Eight Weeks to Delete: From Dead Letter to Effective Retention and Disposal

May 28 - ARMA Houston, Mastering Data Migration: Aligning IT, Records Management, and Governance through Intelligent Automation

May 28 - Deloitte x OneTrust, Solving consent complexity in the age of personalization

May 29 - ARMA Spring Seminar Mania Finale

May 29 - IAPP and Osano, The strategic privacy pro: How to be a partner, not a blocker (members only)

June

June 1-3 - PegaWorld, Las Vegas, NV

June 2-5 - Machine Learning Week, Phoenix, AZ

June 3 - ARMA New England, Tea Chat - the IGRM programs

June 3 - IAPP and TerraTrue, The hidden threat: Managing AI vendor and third-party risk before it hits (members only)

June 3 - Leadership Through Data, AI Implementation: Key Considerations for Information Leaders

June 3 - Access, Seeing the Future: Transforming Your RIM & IG Program for Long-Term Success

June 4 - Dataversity, Success is Not a Straight Line – How to Use Setbacks, Misfires, and Redirections to Your Advantage

June 4 - Leadership Through Data, AI Implementation: Key Considerations for Information Leaders

June 4-5 - AI & Big Data Expo North America, Santa Clara, CA

June 5 - ARMA Edmonton, Spring Mixer

June 5 - NAGARA, Lose the Paper Anchor and Keep Your Sailors Happy

June 5 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 9-12 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit 2025, San Francisco, CA

June 10 - AIIM, Using AI for Breaking Information Silos to Optimize Automation Outcome (members only)

June 10 - NAGARA, The Digital Handoff: Getting Agencies to Send Their Electronic Records

June 10 - ABBYY Ascend 2025

June 10 - Dataversity, Implementing Effective Data Governance – A Practical Guide

June 11 - ARMA Nebraska, Future of ARMA International/BoD Induction

June 11 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Social and Networking Event

June 11 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work - Opportunities and Risks

June 11 - Future of Privacy Forum, 2nd Annual DC Privacy Forum, Washington, D.C. 

June 11-12 - The AI Summit London 2025, London, UK

June 12 - ARMA New Jersey, INFORM25

June 12 - Austin ARMA, Member Appreciation Event

June 12 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

June 12 - Gimmal, Beyond the Filing Cabinet: Strategic Collaboration & Communications for Records Management Success

June 12 - Digital Government Institute, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Records Management

June 12 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2025

June 18 - AIIM+, Copilot Readiness for the Real World (members only)

June 19 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

June 19 - ARMA Oklahoma, Chapter Member Appreciation Lunch

June 19 - Dataversity, The Future of Data Stewardship – Trends and Innovations

June 23-27 - Microsoft TechCon365, Seattle, WA

June 24 - AIIM+, AI Strategy for Managing Regulatory and Economic Unpredictability (members only)

June 24 - ARMA, Ethics: Where to Begin? A Primer on Records and Information Management Practices

June 24 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 24 - IAPP and BigID, Built to scale: Privacy and AI risk frameworks (members only)

June 25-26 - IAPP and Berkley Klein Center, Navigate: A Digital Policy Leadership Retreat

June 26 - RIMPA Global, Archiving Doesn’t Cut It: Future of Information Governance

June 26 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Where Data Models Fit in Today’s Modern Data Architecture

June 29-July 2, SHRM, SHRM25, San Diego, CA

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - AIIM Member Book Club, "The New Emotional Intelligence" (members only)

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 15-17 - CDOIQ Symposium, Cambridge, MA

July 15-18 - NAGARA 2025, Oklahoma City, OK

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 17 - Section, AI Readiness Summit

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

https://www.dataversity.net/data-architecture-vs-enterprise-architecture/

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 28-30 - NIRMA, 49th Annual Nuclear Information Management Symposium, St. Augustine, FL

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government Institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

August

August 8 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

August 10-14 - ILTACON 2025, National Harbor, MD

August 11-13 - Ai4 2025, Las Vegas, NV

August 12 - AIIM+, Emergence of Artificial Intelligence: What's Next for Records and IM Professionals? (members only)

August 13-14 - RIMPA Global, Darwin | Symposium

August 18-20 - ISACA and IIA, GRC 2025, New York City, NY

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html.

May 5, 2025

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, May 1 - July 31, 2025

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for May 1 - July 31, 2025. 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. I generally don't include training courses in this list.  

Also note that 20 ARMA Chapters have come together for ARMA Spring Seminar Mania (SSM) V. The individual events are listed on the applicable dates below, and "Spring Seminar Mania" is added to the ARMA chapter name to denote the event as part of SSM. There will be prize drawings for those who attend one or more SSM event. You can find the entire list of events and additional details about the prize drawings at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2025/

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 jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.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. 

May

May 6 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

May 6 - ARMA Chicago Spring Seminar Mania, Information Governance and Cloud Migration

May 6 - Dataversity, AI You Can Trust – The Critical Role of Governance and Quality

May 6 - Gimmal, Thriving Forward: Embracing Change as Records & Information Managers

May 7 - ARMA Jacksonville Spring Seminar Mania, On the Road Again - The Intersection of RIM & eDiscovery

May 7 - ARMA New Jersey, Harnessing AI for Smarter RIM and IG Programs

May 7 - AIIM and Microsoft, Proactive Compliance in AI-Powered Information Management with Microsoft Purview

May 7 - OneTrust, Beyond compliance: Scaling third-party risk management with automation

May 7-8, CDOA Sydney, Sydney, NSW, AUS 

May 8 - Greater Seattle ARMA Spring Seminar Mania, Microsoft Purview - the REAL Records Management

May 8 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

May 8 - ARMA Triangle, Year-End Networking Event

May 8 - RIMPA Global, LLMs Destroyed My Records: All You Need to Know About AI

May 8 - Digital Government Institute, NAGARA, and AIIM, Managing Data & Data Security Best Practices

May 8 - OneTrust, Navigating AI in Business Functions: Risk, Responsibility & Compliance

May 8 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, The Data Observability Advantage – Unlocking the Secrets to Reliable, High-Quality Big Data

May 9 - ARA UK, Introduction to Disability and Accessibility for Record-Keepers 

May 11-15 - IAPP, Canada Privacy Symposium 2025, Toronto, ON

May 12-15 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2025, Dublin, IRL

May 13 - Twin Cities ARMA Spring Seminar Mania, Got ROT? The Best Haul-Away Services Are At Your Hands and In Your Connections

May 13 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, End of Year Chapter Meeting

May 13 - ARMA Dallas, Creating an AI Governance Program

May 13 - AIIM+, CIP Futurist Think Tank (members only)

May 13 - IAPP and Securiti, Best practices for aligning with evolving US state privacy laws

May 13 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data Governance

May 13 - Access, Bringing it all into Focus: Organizing, Managing & Optimizing Your Records & Information

May 13 - InfoGovANZ, Meetup: Record-keeping and Social Media Apps - Risks, Responsibilities & Best Practices

May 13-15 - ARMA Canada Information Conference, Montreal, QC

May 14 - ARMA Cascadia, Future Proofing Our Records: Case Study, Tacoma Power

May 14 - ARMA Orlando, Learning Records Management and Information Governance By Going to the Movies

May 14 - ARMA Northeast Ohio Spring Seminar Mania, IT Showdown: The Pros and Cons of Automation, Conversion, and Consolidation

May 14 - ARMA New England, Information Coordinator Programs: Building and Sustaining an IC Network for IG Success

May 14 - ARMA Greater Kansas City, Turning Reactive into Proactive: Integrating RIM into Company Processes

May 14 - Contoural, You've Just Been Handed Ownership of Your Company's Records Program, Now What?

May 14 - OneTrust, Navigating Cookie Compliance in 2025: Insights and Strategies

May 15 - ARMA Kentucky Spring Seminar Mania, Five Mistakes that Sabotage Your RIM Program: Are You Making One of These?

May 15 - ARMA St. Louis, St. Louis Record Center Tour

May 15 - ARMA Oklahoma - Records Management in the Age of Privacy

May 15 - ARMA Keystone, Annual Seminar

May 15 - ARMA Utah, Church History Records Clean-Up Day

May 15 - IAPP and Osano, The reluctant privacy pro: Shortcuts and tips for marketing, security, IT & more (members only)

May 15 - Dataversity, Using Glossaries, Dictionaries, and Catalogs to Drive Data Quality Across the Enterprise

May 16 - Athro Consulting, RIM Playbook Office Hours

May 16 - ARMA Manufacturing Industry Group, Quarterly Roundtable (members only)

May 18-20 - IRMS Conference, Birmingham, UK

May 18-21 - ACMP, Change Chicago: Architects of Transformation, Chicago, IL

May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Cybersecurity Trends and AI Threats

May 20 - ARMA Michigan Spring Seminar Mania, How to Use Scorecard Reporting and Testing to Drive Measurable Records Management Compliance Results

May 20 - Atlanta ARMA, Demystifying Digital Preservation

May 20 - Austin ARMA, Walking the Tightrope between AI and IG

May 20 - ARMA San Antonio, LLMs Destroyed My Records - All You Need to Know About AI!

May 20 - AIIM+ Members, Advancing Intelligent Information Management (IIM): A BIPOC Perspective (members only)

May 20 - Zasio, Unlocking the Future of RIM with AI

May 21 - InfoGov Community Roundtables, Governance Metrics Without Mayhem: Ensuring Your Measurement Methods Matter

May 21 - ARMA Keystone Spring Seminar Mania, Navigating RIM in Utilities and Energy Industries

May 21 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Future Self

May 21 - ARMA Nebraska, Implementing Purview in M365

May 21 - AIIM and Feith, Insight Series: Modernizing Government Information Management with AI and Automation

May 21 - IAPP and Exterro, The privacy gym: Get your data in shape! (members only)

May 21 - OneTrust, Integrated risk management: Aligning third-party risk across the enterprise

May 22 - ARMA Iowa Spring Seminar Mania, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

May 22 - AIIM and AIIM Florida, How to Stay Ahead in the Rapidly Evolving Market for Capture & IDP Solutions

May 22 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Master Data Management – Aligning Data, Process, and Governance

May 22 - RecordPoint, Taming the unstructured data beast: Strategies for governance and compliance

May 27 - AIIM+ and AIIM True North, Evolving Your Approach to Consider AI Implementation Risks (members only)

May 27 - RIMPA Global, Scanning vs. Preservation Digitisation: What's the Difference and Why It Matters?

May 27 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI, Information Governance & Record-keeping: Emerging Issues, Legal Risks & Best Practices

May 28 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, Eight Weeks to Delete: From Dead Letter to Effective Retention and Disposal

May 28 - ARMA Houston, Mastering Data Migration: Aligning IT, Records Management, and Governance through Intelligent Automation

May 28 - Deloitte x OneTrust, Solving consent complexity in the age of personalization

May 29 - ARMA Spring Seminar Mania Finale

May 29 - IAPP and Osano, The strategic privacy pro: How to be a partner, not a blocker (members only)

June

June 1-3 - PegaWorld, Las Vegas, NV

June 2-5 - Machine Learning Week, Phoenix, AZ

June 3 - Access, Seeing the Future: Transforming Your RIM & IG Program for Long-Term Success

June 4 - Dataversity, Success is Not a Straight Line – How to Use Setbacks, Misfires, and Redirections to Your Advantage

June 4 - Leadership Through Data, AI Implementation: Key Considerations for Information Leaders

June 4-5 - AI & Big Data Expo North America, Santa Clara, CA

June 5 - NAGARA, Lose the Paper Anchor and Keep Your Sailors Happy

June 5 - RIMPA Global, Blooming Good Information Management: Empowering You and Your Workforce

June 9-12 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit 2025, San Francisco, CA

June 10 - NAGARA, Intersection of FOIA and RM

June 10 - Dataversity, Implementing Effective Data Governance – A Practical Guide

June 11 - ARMA Nebraska, Future of ARMA International/BoD Induction

June 11 - Future of Privacy Forum, 2nd Annual DC Privacy Forum, Washington, D.C. 

June 11 - InfoGovANZ, MeetUp: AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work - Opportunities and Risks

June 11-12 - The AI Summit London 2025, London, UK

June 12 - ARMA New Jersey, INFORM25

June 12 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

June 12 - Digital Government Institute, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Records Management

June 12 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2025

June 19 - ARMA Michigan, Member & Friends Appreciation Event

June 19 - Dataversity, The Future of Data Stewardship – Trends and Innovations

June 23-27 - Microsoft TechCon365, Seattle, WA

June 25-26 - IAPP and Berkley Klein Center, Navigate: A Digital Policy Leadership Retreat

June 26 - RIMPA Global, Archiving Doesn’t Cut It: Future of Information Governance

June 26 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Where Data Models Fit in Today’s Modern Data Architecture

June 29-July 2, SHRM, SHRM25, San Diego, CA

July

July 3 - RIMPA Global, Sydney | Roadshow

July 8 - Dataversity, Mastering Data Modeling – Understanding Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Models

July 10 - NAGARA, Naturally Certified: Providing Access to and Certifying Naturalization Records

July 16 - AIIM, Preservica, and Infocap.ai, Accelerating Document Automation: How IDP is Revolutionizing Information-Intensive Industries

July 17 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

July 17 - Dataversity, Aligning Data Governance with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

July 23 - IRMS, Records Management Basics

July 24 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 24 - Dataversity and Global Data Strategy, Data Architecture vs. Enterprise Architecture

July 24-25, ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

July 31 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

July 31 - Digital Government institute, 930Gov 2025, Washington, DC

If you're looking for a speaker, I'm available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html