April 15, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, April 16 - July 31, 2026

Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for April 16 - July 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. 

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. 

April

April 16 - ARMA Northern Virginia, A Practitioner's Guide to AI Readiness in RIM

April 16 - ARMA Golden State, Retention Rules! Celebrating Records Management Month with Purpose

April 16 - ARMA Iowa Spark, Outlook is Not a Repository

April 16 - ARMA Keystone PA, Philadelphia Archives In-Person Tour

April 16 - ARMA Oklahoma, Five Mistakes That Sabotage Your RIM Program & How to Avoid Them

April 16 - ARMA Utah, The Emotional Intelligence Advantage

April 16 - RIMPA Global, Why Records & Information Managers Matter More than Ever

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 16 - Colligo, Why Legal Teams Are Rethinking Their DMS—and How to Make Microsoft 365 Actually Work

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 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, Best Practices to Operationalize AI Governance for Information Leaders

April 21 - ARMA Central Missouri, Missouri University Research Reactor Tour

April 21 - Atlanta ARMA, Facing the Ethical Dilemmas and Principals of Information Governance in the Current World

April 21 - ARMA San Antonio, Fluid Knowledge is Changing How Information Moves

April 21 - ILTA and LegalRM, Information Governance 101: What Firms Need to Know (And Why It Matters Now)

April 21-23 - Microsoft 365 Community Conference, Orlando, FL

April 22 - ARMA Edmonton, From Blank Form to Division Standard: AI-Powered PIA Customization

April 22 - AIIM and Feith, Leveraging AI for Mission-Ready Records Management

April 22 - Filerskeepers, Training Data, Logs, and Prompts: How Long Can You Keep AI Data and Still Be Compliant?

April 23 - Digital Government Institute, Zero Trust in Practice: Lessons from Public-Private Frontlines

April 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

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 28 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, Purview Records Management - What's the Deal?

April 28 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, The Oversharing Epidemic: Rethinking SharePoint Governance for Copilot

April 28 - IAPP and TrustArc, Beyond the button: Consent as a regulatory entry point

April 29 - ARMA New Jersey, Information Coordinator Programs

April 29 - ARMA Madison, From Influence to Implementation: Achieving Executive Buy-In to Advance Your IG Program

April 29 - Filerskeepers and Cadence Solutions, From Governance to Intelligence: How Data Governance Prepares for AI

April 30 - Zasio, Retention Is Governance: Using Records Schedules as the Backbone of IGIM

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 5 - Zasio, Virtual Coffee — From Algorithms to Audit Trails: Managing AI Records End to End

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 - ARMA Triangle, And, The Survey Says! What Your Records Surveys and Inventories Reveal About Your Organization's Records Program

May 7 - NAGARA, What Do We Really Have? Conducting a Records Audit That Works

May 7 - ILTA, AI Governance for Law Firms: Moving from Experimentation to Enterprise Control

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 - ARMA Michigan, Spring Seminar '26

May 12 - ARMA Dallas, eDiscovery For Records Managers: What to Know Before Legal Comes Calling

May 12 - RIMPA Global, AI Roundtable

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 - IAPP and Optro, Scaling responsible innovation with AI governance

May 14 - AIIM and NMCA, Better Together: Building Understanding Between Contract Management and Information Governance

May 14-15 - M365 Community Days DC 2026, Arlington, VA

May 15 - ARMA, Manufacturing Industry Group Quarterly Meeting

May 15 - IAPP, The great pivot: From career transition to thriving as a privacy professional

May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales 

May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies

May 19-22 - FRMA, 2026 Annual Conference

May 20, ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Crafting Your Elevator Pitch

May 20 - ARMA Golden State, Talk Nerdy to Me: Prompting for Results

May 20 - ARMA Nebraska, Essential Records for Trademark and Servicemark Registration

May 20 - AIIM, Getting the Data House in Order for More Effective AI: Implementing Defensible Disposal in Practice

May 20 - Box, Content + AI Virtual Summit

May 21 - ARMA Keystone PA, Navigating the Digital Future of Records Information and Data

May 21 - Dataversity, Data Quality Matters: Foundations for Trusted Decision-Making

May 21 - ILTA, Chasing AI ROI

May 26 - ARMA Calgary, IMX 2026: Principles to Practice

May 26 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts

May 27 - Information Governance Community Roundtable, A Governance 'Ask Us Anything!'

May 28 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

May 28 - ILTA, Team IG: Walking the Tightrope Between AI & IG

May 28-29 - Digital Workplace Conference AUS 2026, Melbourne, AUS

June

June 1-4 - IAPP, AI Governance Global Europe 2026, Dublin, IRL

June 2 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Governance for Multimodal AI: Text, Vision, Voice, and Beyond

June 4 - RIMPA Global, Wellington | Roadshow

June 4 - NAGARA, See Dead Records: Identifying the Unknown, Ancient, and Miscellaneous

June 4 - Digital Government Institute, AI & ML in Records Management

June 9 - Dataversity, Data Integration Demystified: Enabling AI-Driven Interoperability

June 9 - ILTA, Zero-Trust Data Governance: Aligning Information Governance & Security Strategy

June 9-11 - Info-Tech, LIVE Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV

June 10 - ARMA Cascadia, Boosting Engagement with Monthly Forums

June 10 - Future of Privacy Forum, DC Privacy Forum 2026

June 11 - Dataversity and Reltio, The Master Data Management Dilemma: To Buy or Build, That Is the Question: Benchmark Completed

June 11 - Contoural, We’re Using AI for Everything. What Are the Steps to Get Ready?

June 15-18 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-In

June 16 - ARMA Legal Industry Group, The Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Advantage

June 17 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Mixing Your IG Mission and Message for the Crowd

June 17 - ARMA Nebraska, 10 Practical Ways RIM & IG Professionals Can Use AI Today

June 18 - RIMPA Global, Brisbane | Roadshow

June 18 - Dataversity, Responsible Data Sharing: Balancing Access, Privacy, and Trust

June 18 - IAPP and Integreon, Data mining in the age of class actions: What privacy teams need to know

June 23, ARMA Energy Industry Group, Benchmarking

June 24-25 - IAPP, Navigate 2026, Portsmouth, NH

June 25 - RIMPA Global, Perth | Roadshow

June 25 - ILTA, From Intent to Action: Building and Delivering an Information Governance Strategy

June 25 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

June 25-26 - ARMA California Chapters, 4th Annual California Summer Conference

July

July 2 - RIMPA Global, Adelaide | Roadshow

July 7 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Synthetic Truth: Governing Generative AI in High-Stakes Domains

July 9 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Promising AI Use Cases for the Enterprise in 2026

July 14 - Dataversity and Reltio, AI-Powered Data Modeling Essentials

July 15 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, RIM 101, But in an Entertaining Way

July 16 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne | Roadshow

July 16 - Dataversity, Ethics, Privacy, and Policy: Building Trust Through Governance

July 21-23 - CDOIQ Symposium, Boston, MA

July 21-24 - 2026 NAGARA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

July 22-23 - IAPP, Asia Forum 2026, Singapore

July 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting

July 27-29 - NIRMA, Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX

July 28 - Digital Government Institute, 930gov 2026

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.

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