Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for February 1 - May 31, 2026. I don't have anything to do with any of these from a planning perspective, so please reach out to the individual event producers with any questions.
Vendors, other associations, consultants, etc., your events are all welcome as long as the event is educational and not completely self-serving, e.g., no demos. If you are interested in listing your solution-specific webinar or event, please contact me about placing and highlighting your event.
March
March 3 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, CONFIRM.NYC 2026
March 3 - Dataversity, AI Governance vs. Data Governance: Strategic Alignment Without Redundancy
March 4 - ARMA Michigan, Generative AI Court Cases, Laws & Practical Implications for Information Governance
March 4 - IAPP and Captain Compliance, Avoiding privacy lawsuits in 2026: Lessons from real claims and settlements
March 4 - ILTA, The Practical Side of eDiscovery - How to Reduce Costs and Frustration
March 5 - ARMA Sask, How We Are Celebrating RIM Month. Contact the chapter at armasask@outlook.com for an invitation.
March 5 - Austin ARMA, RIM Month Mastery: Turbocharging Your Records Information Management Skills
March 5 - Digital Government Institute, AI in Action: Modernizing Data & Information Governance
March 5 - NAGARA, Where to Start and Where to Go: Lessons from the First Two Years
March 9-11 - Gartner Data & Analytics Summit, Orlando, FL
March 9-12 - ALM and Law.com, LegalWeek, New York City, NY
March 10 - ARMA Chicago, Spring Seminar
March 10 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Navigating Privacy Laws: Strategies and Insights for RM Professionals
March 10 - ARMA Milwaukee, Learning Records Management and Information Governance By Going to the Movies
March 10 - ARMA Dallas, What Happens to Presidential Records After the President Leaves Office?
March 10 - AIIM, WIIM Community Conversation - Pitch Like a Pro - Master Your 30 Second Story
March 10 - Dataversity, Data Modeling Mastery: Structuring Data for AI and Analytics
March 10 - IAPP, Catching up with California — A conversation about privacy developments in the state
March 11 - ARMA Cascadia, 'Brown Bag' Discussion on AI Policy in Practice
March 11 - Greater Kansas City ARMA, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage: Use EQ to boost your professional and personal relationships. This is a hybrid meeting; to register for this event, contact Alethea Thomas at alethea.thomas@bluek.com.
March 11 - AIIM and Microsoft, Securing AI Without the Hype: AI Governance Exists, But It Rarely Shapes Real Decisions
March 12 - Contoural, Using M365 to create a Personal Data Inventory
March 12 - Dataversity, The Data Product Revolution: Unlocking Business Value
March 12 - BigID, AI Governance Leadership Forum
March 16-19 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In
March 17 - ARMA Central Missouri, Tour of the Christopher S. Bond Court House
March 17 - ARMA Chattanooga, Information Governance Essentials
March 17 - ARMA San Antonio, Building a Municipal Archives Museum for the City of San Antonio - Facility Tour
March 17 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group Coffee & Chat
March 17 - RIMPA Global, Leveraging AI Tools: Insights for IG and R&IM Professionals
March 17 - DAMA Philadelphia, Good Governance Beats Good Luck
March 17 - IAPP and BRG, One Size Fits One — Operationalizing Confidence by Design to Optimize Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Governance for Growth
March 18 - ARMA Nebraska, AI Governance - An Actionable How-to Guide
March 18 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Auto Classifying the 3 R's: ROT, Records & Retention
March 18 - ARMA Upstate New York, Governance is Not a Four-Letter-Word (but T-Rex is): Responsible AI as Business Enablement
March 18 - ARMA Metro Maryland, Breaking Silos: Integrating FOIA, Privacy & Records Management
March 18 - ARMA, Financial Services industry Group
March 18 - InfoGovANZ, Governing AI in Australia: Laws, Standards and Information Governance Obligations
March 18 - ILTA, Microsoft, and Epiq: Ask the Expert: Advanced Deployment and Lessons Learned - Webinar 6/6
March 18 - RIMPA Global, IAW Canberra Seminar
March 19 - ARMA New England, Records Management for Regulated Financial Entities/Institutions (Banks)
March 19 - ARMA Columbus, March Roses and Thorns Roundtable
March 19 - ARMA Utah, Spring Seminar 2026
March 19 - Digital Government Institute, 23rd Annual E-Discovery and Information Management Conference, Washington, DC
March 19 - IAPP and Feroot, “Say it, do it, prove it” for consent: Best practices for building a closed-loop consent & preference audit program at scale
March 19 - Dataversity, From Theory to Impact: Making Governance Work in the Real World
March 19 - IRMS Info Rights Group, Information Rights in the Age of LLMs: FOI, DSARs, Records and Risk
March 19 - RIMPA Global, IAW Great Debate: When AI Moves Faster than Standards: Who's Keeping Up?
March 20 - Jesse Wilkins, RM/IG Playbook Office Hours
March 23 - IAPP and Jscrambler, The browser blind spot: Why data privacy often comes too late
March 23-27 - Data Governance Institute, Data Governance, AI Governance & Master Data Management Conference Europe, London, UK
March 24 - Twin Cities ARMA and IAPP, Spring Conference
March 24 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Future Ready Metadata: Building a Foundation for AI -Enhanced Records Management
March 24 - ARMA Triangle, AI and the New Insider Threat
March 24 - IAPP and DataGrail, Making AI work for privacy: How to scale privacy operations with secure AI
March 24 - Access and ARMA, Metadata in Practice: Making Records Easier to Find, Use, and Control
March 25 - ARMA Northern Virginia, AI Governance: An Actionable How-To Guide
March 25 - ARMA St. Louis, Digital Convenience, Environmental Consequence: The Impact of Digital Information Management Practices
March 26 - ARMA Toronto, Virtual Social: Artificial Intelligence and Records Management
March 26 - ARMA Madison, AI Education for RIM Professionals: What’s Here, What’s Next
March 26 - Graphic Imaging Services, Wrangle Your Records And Your Data Too, Reno, NV
March 26 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
March 26 - Dataversity, Fuel Enterprise Agents with Trusted Context: The Roadmap to Enterprise AI at Scale
March 29-31 - i-SIGMA Conference & Expo 2026, San Diego, CA
March 30 - April 2 - IAPP, Global Summit 2026, Washington, DC
March 31 - RIMPA Global, VIC Local Government CoP
April
April 2 - NAGARA, Proof of Concept: Planning Your Approach
April 7 - Dataversity, Human Oversight in AI: Designing Accountability for High-Stakes Decisions
April 9 - Dataversity, Building Effective RAG Applications
April 9 - Digital Government Institute, CUI Marking, Metadata & Lifecycle Management
April 9 - RIMPA Global, Information Governance in the United States
April 9 - IAPP and BigID, Compliance without borders: Privacy, AI and risk across global markets
April 9 - Contoural, Information Governance 101
April 14 - ARMA Houston, 2026 Spring Conference
April 14 - Dataversity, Data Stewards: Conquering Data Debt in the Age of AI
April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose
April 16 - Dataversity, Mastering Metadata: Strategies for Sustainable Governance
April 16 - Iron Mountain, Risk-proofing the AI supply chain: Building trust and integrity in an automated world
April 17 - Jesse Wilkins, RIG Playbook Office Hours
April 19-22 - ARMA InfoNEXT, Phoenix, AZ
April 19-24 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL
April 21 - ILTA, Information Governance 101: What Firms Need to Know (And Why It Matters Now)
April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL
April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines
April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
April 24 - ARMA New Jersey, Information Coordinator Programs
April 24 - NAGARA, 2026 Spring Online Forum: Sync or Sink: Finding Flow in Times of Change
April 27-30 - AI+IM Global Summit 2026, Baltimore, MD
April 27-30 - Laserfiche Empower, Las Vegas, NV
April 30 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee — From Algorithms to Audit Trails: Managing AI Records End to End
April 30 - May 2 - ILTA Evolve 2026, Denver, CO
May
May 4-7 - IAPP, Canada Symposium 2026, Toronto, ON
May 4-8 - Dataversity, DGIQ + EDW 2026, San Diego, CA
May 5 - ARMA Mile High Denver, Spring Seminar, Denver, CO
May 5 - Dataversity, Governance in the Wild: Managing Shadow AI and Decentralized Models
May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo
May 6-7 - Data Summit, Boston, MA
May 6-8 - Privacy+Security Forum, Washington, DC
May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works
May 7-8 - ARMA Ontario, InfoConnect 2026, Waterloo, ON
May 12 - ARMA Chicago, Leveraging IG & Risk Management
May 12 - Twin Cities ARMA, Federal Reserve Bank Tour
May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance
May 13-15 - ARMA Palmetto, ARMAste Annual Conference
May 14 - Dataversity, Data Professionals in the AI Age: What’s Next?
May 14-15 - M365 Community Days DC 2026, Arlington, VA
May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting
May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales
May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies
May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference
May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making
May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS
If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. For more details, see https://informata.blogspot.com/2024/05/im-available-to-speak-at-your-event-may.html or email me at jwilkins13@gmail.com.
