Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - April 1-30, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for April 1-30, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through June 30, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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.

Note also that I generally don't include training courses as the volume is simply too high. I'm working on a better/different way to highlight industry training - watch this space. 

Also note that 16 ARMA chapters have come together for the 4th Annual Spring Seminar Mania. The individual events are listed on the applicable date below, but you can see the entire list and learn about possible prizes at https://armamilwaukee.org/spring-seminar-mania-2024/. 

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

April 1-4 - IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington, DC

April 2 - Digital Government Institute, 21st Annual E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, Reston, VA

April 2 - ACMP Ohio, Taking a Stand for Change Readiness

April 3 - IMCanadaConnect, RIM Month - Creating a RIM Month Campaign

April 3 - ACMP Midwest, Sustainment Planning: Unlocking the Secrets to Long-Term Change Success

April 3-5 - AIIM24, San Antonio, TX

April 3-5 - 2024 i-Sigma Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN

April 4 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Building a Strong Foundation

April 4 - NAGARA, Joint Expedition: Information Security and Records Management - Discovering and Mapping the Unknown Together

April 8-10 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Palm Springs, CA

April 9 - ARMA Chicago, Navigating the Future with AI in Legal Information Governance

April 9 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Records Seminar

April 9 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, How to Build and Sustain Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

April 9 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Insights: Forming the Future - The Intersection of Forms Management and IM (members only)

April 9 - ACMP, Creating a Change Measurement Plan that will convince the most hard-nosed analyst (members only)

April 9-11 - North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit, Dallas, TX 

April 9-13 - IAC Information Architecture Conference, Seattle, WA 

April 10 - ARMA Puget Sound and Oregon, Certifications & Credentials Panel Discussion

April 10 - AIIM and Box, Unleash the Power of Information: Tap into the Value of Your Unstructured Data

April 10 - RIMPA Global, Executive Engagement Masterclass 2024

April 10-11 - Docusign Momentum24, New York City, NY

April 11 - ARMA Triangle, Lessons from the Past: Preparing for the Future of Information Governance

April 11 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Record Retention Schedule Management Software

April 12 - ACMP Pacific NW, Innovation Elegance: What A People-Centric Methodology Looks Like

April 13 - Austin ARMA, Spring Shred Day 2024

April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Bridging the Digital Divide

April 16 - ARMA San Antonio, I Don't Want to Talk About AI - But Change is in the Air

April 16 - Florida Gulf Coast ARMA, An End Users Guide to Online Document Management

April 16 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of American Archaeology Division, University of Missouri

April 16 - AIIM and AvePoint, AIIM+ Insight Exchange: The Data Problem That’s Halting AI Success

April 16 - Microsoft, Achieving Success with the Microsoft Maturity Model: Using Copilot as an Example

April 16 - Zasio, CPR for Information Governance: The Convergence of Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Retention

April 16-17 - ARMA Houston, Spring Conference

April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL

April 17 - ARMA Nebraska Spring Seminar, Gamification: Putting the Fun in RIM Fundamentals

April 17 - ARMA Arizona Spring Seminar

April 17 - Southern California Inland Empire ARMA, Data Migration: What Records Managers Need to Know

April 17 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '24 - Back to Basics

April 17 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, Unlocking the Power of Persuasion - A Playful Journey into Marketing Your IG Program

April 17 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Building Bridges: Data Governance 1.0 to 2.0

April 17 - Meru Data, Mitigating and Managing Third Party Risk

April 17 - Contoural, Embarking on AI Governance: Getting Started Quickly

April 17 - ACMP Midwest, Midwest Change Conference 2024 - Innovate, Adapt, Succeed

April 17 - ACMP UK, Why Do We Create Change Tribes Rather Than Communities? 

April 17 - IAPP and Visa, The role consumer consent plays in the future of trusted commerce (members only)

April 17 - DocPoint and QAI, M365: The Center of Your Records and Compliance Strategy

April 18 - ARMA Winnipeg, City of Saskatoon: Bringing Information Governance to Life

April 18 - ARMA Jacksonville, Thirsty Thursday

April 18 - ARMA St. Louis, A Design Thinking Approach to Difficult Conversations

April 18 - ARMA Oklahoma, What is Your Conflict Management Style?

April 18 - ARMA Keystone PA, Art Tour and Privacy

April 18 - ARMA Utah, Have the Contours of Your Landscape Changed? Time to Evolve Your Retention Schedule Too! 

April 18 - AIIM Florida, The best predictor of Information Management Success is your Staff's ability to find the Content they need

April 18 - RIMPA Global, Townsville | Roadshow

April 18 - IAPP and Osano, How to become a trusted brand in the age of data privacy (members only)

April 18 - Leadership Through Data, Value of Records - Unpacking the Significance of Vegetables vs. Flowers

April 18 - KIK Consulting, RDWG Webinar: Metadata Management's Impact on Data Governance

April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO

April 19 - IAPP and RadarFirst, Highway to the regulation zone: The Intersection of cyber and privacy (members only)

April 19 - ARMA Hawai'i, Site Tour of the Hawai’i State Records Center

April 19 - Boise ARMA, Open House at Idaho Records Management

April 22-25 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 23 - Twin Cities ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 23 - ARMA Golden State, Reassessing Success: Refocusing on the Needs of End Users with Real Microsoft 365 Change Management

April 23 - Greater Chattanooga ARMA, Information Governance and Artificial Intelligence 

April 23 - Valora Technologies, How to Manage Data Privacy While Managing Records

April 24 - Austin ARMA April Workshop, Records and Information Management (RIM) 101

April 24 - Austin ARMA, Finding the Courage to Move Forward

April 24 - ARMA Madison, Best Practices for Long-Term File Preservation

April 24 - ARMA Greater Los Angeles, RIM Certifications Overview 2024

April 24 - AIIM, How to Drive Productivity and Make Better Business Decisions with AI

April 24 - OneTrust, Integrating privacy strategically into your business

April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online

April 25 - ARMA Milwaukee, Records Management in the Age of Privacy

April 25 - AIIM, The AIIM24 Experience: A Recap and Discussion

April 25 - ACMP, Creating Micro-connections That Build Trust and Influence (members only)

April 25 - IAPP and OneTrust, Bringing your AI policy to life: Operationalizing key strategies for governance (members only)

April 26 - NAGARA, 2024 Spring Online Forum: Data Detox

April 29 - RIMPA Global, Document Controllers Focus Group

Apr 29 - May 1 - ILTA Evolve, Charleston, NC 

April 30 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 30 - ARMA Northern Virginia, How's Your IG/IT Relationship?

April 30 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Community Conversation: Navigating Information Management Challenges (members only)

April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 2 - Tungsten Automation Summit, Chicago, IL 

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 

May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK

May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB

May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 

May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK

May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA

May 20-22 - OneTrust TrustWeek, Austin, TX

May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

May 23 - CIGOA, AI Governance Summit, Atlanta, GA

June 3-7 - 365 Educon + PWR Educon Seattle, Seattle, WA 

June 4-5 - IAPP AIGG 2024, Brussels, BEL

June 6-7 - ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

June 8-11 - IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024, Toronto, ON

June 10-11 - Knowledge Summit Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 

June 10-13 - Databricks, Data + AI Summit, San Francisco, CA

June 11-13 - ACMP Change Management Global Connect, virtual

June 12 - AIAI, Generative AI Summit, New York City, NY

June 24-25 - AIIM Forum Europe, Manchester, UK

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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html. 

My Approach to Industry Events and Resources

I've gotten some interesting feedback lately about what I've been writing about, and in particular how much of it has been about AIIM. I want to address this and some of the underlying concerns. 

I noted in December and January that I had become an AIIM Training Partner and AIIM CIP Ambassador. As I noted in those posts, 

• AIIM Training Partner means I get to teach AIIM training content and I pay AIIM for access to that content. 
• AIIM CIP Ambassador means there is a commission structure in place - if someone uses my referral code to purchase a CIP exam or renew their CIP status, I get paid. To date the only place I've used the referral code is on the CIP Preparatory Workshop page of my website; to date I haven't received a single payment. 

I'm also promoting the AIIM24 conference a lot. That's because I'm attending it, and delivering two presentations and a workshop during the event. I get nothing financially from my participation - in fact, I have to pay my own travel costs. The registration is free for speakers, but as an AIIM Fellow my registration is already free. 

In other words, I haven't gotten any direct financial compensation - yet - from any of my relationships with AIIM (though the possibility is of course there). In fact, I've paid for the privilege. If someone suggests that I'm being paid by AIIM, at best they are ignorant of the actual facts. 

Beyond that, I'm still reposting other events I see like ARMA's InfoNEXT, the ARMA Canada Information Conference, Robert Smallwood's Leadership Summits, etc. I'm just not as vocal about them because I'm not participating in them. I don't know how amazing event X will be or how gorgeous the venue location is. If I get accepted to speak at ARMA InfoCon 2024 this year, I'll be promoting it as heavily as I have been with AIIM24. 

If you want me to be vocal about your events, get me involved, either as a speaker or by making a compelling business case for senior people like me to attend your event. It would also help to not have scheduled your event very close to other events or major holidays. 

I'm also a full professional member in good standing of *9* IG/IM/RM associations: 

• AIIM, since 2001
• ARMA, since 2001
• ICRM, since 2010
• IAPP, since 2017
• IRMS (UK), since 2021
• ACMP, since 2022
• NAGARA, since 2022
• RIMPA Global, since 2023
• CIGOA, since 2024 (previously 2020-2021)

So any time I see webinars, events, etc. from any of these groups, I include them as appropriate in my events listings and my newsletter, and I repost them when I see them on Twitter or LinkedIn. I should also note that, at least so far, I charge nothing to list things in either, or to access either. 

Likewise, I repost relevant training whenever I see it - up to 1x/day. But I can't promote my other training partnerships because, so far, I don't have any. ARMA and the Institute for Information Governance don't offer partnerships (and ARMA doesn't offer instructor-led training at all). If they did, I'd be more than happy to pursue those partnerships and to help create/improve their materials and delivery. IAPP's is too expensive; IRMS partners with other training providers rather than offering their own; and I haven't looked closely at RIMPA's or NAGARA's yet. 

If you want me to be vocal about your training, setting up a partnership so I can teach it is the best way IMO. If you want to give me free access in return for a review, I will, but know that the review will be honest: the good, the bad, the ugly, and will start with the reg process and go all the way through to post-assessment. I'll also disclose that fact. If you want a private review, happy to do the exact same thing except my feedback would be strictly private and designed to help make your offerings better. 

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars - March 16 - April 15, 2024

Here are the industry webinars and events I'm aware of for March 16 - April 15, 2024. Conferences and bigger events are listed through June 30, 2024 because they have longer lead times. 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.

Note also that I generally don't include training courses (except my own) as the volume is simply too high. I'm working on a better/different way to highlight industry training - watch this space. 

If you know of a webinar or other event during this period that is focused on IM, IG, RM, etc. that's not listed, let me know here or at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc. all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. No charge to list your event or to access the list. 

March 19 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Chapter Meet and Greet

March 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour and Presentation of Services Provided by IMS Secure

March 19 - Austin ARMA, Building a Well-Oiled Machine

March 19 - ARMA San Antonio, Legal Considerations for Companies Using AI

March 19 - AIIM+, Emerging Technologies: Fail Fast - Where to Start with AI (members only)

March 19 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, 2024 Retention Series #3 - National Approach/Resources (members only)

March 19 - Access and ARMA, Future-Proofing Your Business: Innovative Strategies in Information Management and Archiving

March 19 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

March 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Lights, Camera, Artificial Intelligence - Joint Meeting with NePA

March 20 - Old Dominion ARMA & AIIM, March 2024 Lunch & Learn

March 20 - AIIM and OpenText, Deploy GenAI with Confidence: Mastering Governance to Unleash AI's Potential

March 20 - RIMPA Global, IAW Roundtable | Are We Surfing or Sinking? Riding the Waves of Information Management

March 20 - IAPP and Transcend, Auditing consent: Essential strategies for improving consent compliance in 2024 (members only)

March 21 - ARMA Utah Salt Lake, Spring Seminar - Unveiling the Future of Information

March 21 - Boise Valley ARMA, The Life and Times of a Paralegal Implementing Legal Holds in the Real World

March 21 - ARMA St. Louis, Managing the Historical Documents of the Arch Diocese of St. Louis

March 21 - ARMA Greater Columbus, AI and IG

March 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills

March 21 - ARMA Jacksonville, Thirsty Thursday

March 21 - IRMS and Iron Mountain, Navigating the retention maze - ask the experts

March 21 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Future-Proofing Information Management: Gen Z Information Managers

March 21 - RIMPA Global, Auckland | Roadshow

March 21 - Info Risk & Governance Summit, New York City, NY

March 21 - AIIM+, BIPOC Network Meeting (members only)

March 22 - RIMPA Global and Compu-Stor, Challenges in Recordkeeping within the Australian Public Service

March 22 - TeachPrivacy, The FTC, Privacy, and AI

March 25-29 - Enterprise Data World, Orlando, FL 

March 26 - AIIM+, AIIM+ AMA: Operate 10 Times Faster for Free (members only)

March 26 - IAPP and Osano, Universal consent: Building beyond cookie consent (members only)

March 26 - BreezeML, AI Governance in Practice: Standards and Auditing

March 27 - ARMA New England, Certification Confusion? Where Do You Start?

March 27 - ARMA Houston, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records and Information Management Skills

March 27 - ARMA Sacramento, Data Migration: What Records Managers Need to Know

March 27 - IMCanadaConnect, Cyber Threats and Canada's Place in the Digital World

March 27 - Meru Data, How to Incorporate AI Governance Into Your Privacy Program

March 27 - RIMPA Global, Roundtable | Tackling Records Management challenges to shift the needle in 2024

March 28 - ARMA, Description and Access for Anti-Black Archival Materials

March 28 - IOPD, Deceptive Design - Dark Patterns Beyond the Interface (members only)

March 28 - IRMS Public Sector, Soft Skills for Successful Records Management

March 28 - RecordPoint, How privacy laws around the world are changing records management

March 28 - Access, Preserving the Past, Managing the Present, and Planning for the Future: A Discussion on Archiving, Records, and Data

April 1-4 - IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Washington, DC

April 2 - Digital Government Institute, 21st Annual E-Discovery, Records and Information Management Conference, Reston, VA

April 2 - ACMP Ohio, Taking a Stand for Change Readiness

April 3-5 - AIIM24, San Antonio, TX

April 3-5 - 2024 i-Sigma Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN

April 4 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Building a Strong Foundation

April 4 - NAGARA, Joint Expedition: Information Security and Records Management - Discovering and Mapping the Unknown Together

April 8-10 - InfoNext, Palm Springs, CA

April 9 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook

April 9 - ARMA Chicago, Navigating the Future with AI in Legal Information Governance

April 9 - ARMA Dallas, Spring Records Seminar

April 9 - AIIM+, AIIM+ Insights: Forming the Future - The Intersection of Forms Management and IM

April 9-11 - North American Cloud & Collaboration Summit, Dallas, TX 

April 9-13 - IAC Information Architecture Conference, Seattle, WA 

April 10 - ARMA Puget Sound and Oregon, Certifications & Credentials Panel Discussion

April 10 - AIIM and Box, Unleash the Power of Information: Tap into the Value of Your Unstructured Data

April 10-11 - Docusign Momentum24, New York City, NY

April 11 - ARMA Triangle, Lessons from the Past: Preparing for the Future of Information Governance

April 11 - ARMA, Building a Retention Schedule 2.0: Record Retention Schedule Management Software

April 16 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO

April 16-17 - ARMA Houston Spring Conference, Houston, TX

April 16-17 - GRC Connect Chicago, in association with OCEG, Chicago, IL

April 18-24 - 2024 AIIP Symposium, St. Louis, MO

April 22-25 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV

April 23 - Athro Consulting, CIP Preparatory Workshop, live online

April 24-25 - Data Innovation Summit, Stockholm, SWE and online

Apr 29 - May 1 - ILTA Evolve, Charleston, NC 

April 30 - North Dakota ARMA, Spring Seminar

April 30-May 2 - Microsoft 365 Conference, Orlando, FL 

May 2 - Tungsten Automation Summit, Chicago, IL 

May 8-10 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC 

May 12-14 - IRMS24 Conference, Brighton, UK

May 12-14 - ARMA Canada Information Conference 2024, Calgary, AB

May 13-15 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, London, UK 

May 15 - Microsoft IM Tech Summit Europe 2024, London, UK

May 20-22 - DSF'24, Boston, MA

May 20-22 - OneTrust TrustWeek, Austin, TX

May 21-24 - FRMA Annual Conference, Daytona Beach, FL

June 3-7 - 365 Educon + PWR Educon Seattle, Seattle, WA 

June 4-5 - IAPP AIGG 2024, Brussels, BEL

June 4-6 - Athro Consulting, RIM Playbook Workshop, live online

June 6-7 - ARMA California Summer Conference, Irvine, CA

June 8-11 - IAPP Canada Privacy Symposium 2024, Toronto, ON

June 10-11 - Knowledge Summit Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 

June 11-13 - ACMP Change Management Global Connect, virtual

June 24-25 - AIIM Forum Europe, Manchester, UK

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/2023/08/im-available-to-speak-at-your-meeting.html; this post also lists a few other speakers who are available and quite good. I published a separate blog post about how to find speakers and what to look for at https://informata.blogspot.com/2022/06/finding-speakers-for-your-event-part-1.html.

Discounted Registration for Athro Training Courses

One of the challenges of taking external training like mine is the cost. To that end, I'm developing a toolkit that provides the support students need to get buy-in from their organizations - a justification letter, an email template, etc. I'll make a separate blog post with links once they are ready. 

However, that only helps if your organization recognizes the overall value of training - in other words, you have access to funds, and I just need to convince you (and you need to convince your boss) to spend them with me.

But not everyone has that luxury. So I'm happy to announce that, effective immediately, I'm offering discounted registration to Athro training courses. I don't want the sheer financial burden to put off people who would otherwise attend, and contribute to, my courses, and from whom I and the other attendees can learn in turn. 

The fine print: 

1. If you are unemployed, underemployed, are changing professions, have no corporate support for training, are transitioning from the military, or are located in an economically developing region, you can name your own price, with no questions asked. I have to do this manually, so reach out to me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com. 

2. This generally will only apply to Athro-developed training like my RIM Playbook Workshop. With training I license from other providers, such as AIIM, I have specific fixed costs I have to charge. I'm working on some ways to offset that, like scholarships etc. - watch this space.

In any event, if you're strongly interested in any of my courses, but don't have the money or support, reach out to me and let's talk. 

Solution providers: If you're willing to offer scholarships, I'm willing to talk about ways we can work together to get your message out in a way that supports the learning process. Again, ping me at jesse.wilkins@athroconsulting.com.

H/T to R. Jason Cronk for the idea.