Here are the industry events and webinars I'm aware of for May 1 - 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.
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 - ILTA and ActiveNav, Practical Deduplication Lessons for Law Firm Data Environments
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 5 - Access, Indefinitely Maybe: When Retention Decisions Become Compliance Risk
May 6 - ARMA Madison, Women in IG Leadership: Leveraging Skills for Advancement
May 6 - AIIM, AI+IM Brazil Forum, São Paulo
May 6 - DAMA NYC, Building your AI and Data Governance Initiatives
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 - DAMA NYC, DAMA Day 2026: Unleash the power of AI in Data Management
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 Chapters, 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 - ARMA Northeast Ohio, Data Governance & Records Management: One Coin, Two Sides
May 12 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group Coffee & Chat
May 12 - RIMPA Global, AI Roundtable
May 12 - Dataversity, The Importance of Ethics in Data/AI Governance
May 13 - ARMA Metro NYC-LI, Building and Sustaining Your RIM Program with a RIM Playbook
May 13 - Orange County ARMA, Reimagining IG & RIM in the Age of AI
May 13 - ARMA Greater Kansas City, From Chaos to Confidence
May 13 - ARMA San Diego, Records Retention in the Age of Cloud, Collaboration Tools, and Hybrid Work
May 13 - InfoGovANZ, Data Minimisation in the Age of AI and Agentic AI: Privacy, Cyber Security and Practical Governance
May 13 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Achieving AI-ready data in practice
May 13-15 - ARMA Palmetto, ARMAste Annual Conference
May 14 - ARMA New England, A Microsoft Purview Data Security Briefing
May 14 - Access, Know the Unknowns: Hidden Risks in Legacy Data and How CIOs Defuse Them
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 - Austin ARMA, Best Friends: Records Management and Archives
May 15 - IAPP, The great pivot: From career transition to thriving as a privacy professional
May 17-19 - IRMS Conference 2026, Wales
May 18 - ARMA Boise, Governing the Ungovernable
May 19 - Atlanta ARMA, Emergency Planning and Response for Records
May 19 - ARMA Central Missouri, Using Microsoft 365 to Improve Collaboration & RM
May 19 - Contoural, Real-World Data Deletion Strategies
May 19 - RIMPA Global, Aligning Information Management and Data Management Practices
May 19 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 1: Understanding the AI Landscape
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 - ILTA, Boring AI is the Best AI
May 20 - Box, Content + AI Virtual Summit
May 21 - ARMA Keystone PA, Navigating the Digital Future of Records Information and Data
May 21 - ARMA Oklahoma, From Paper to Practical: Building a Scanning and Indexing Workflow That Actually Works
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 - ARMA Florida Gulf Coast, Zen and the Art of Public Records Management
May 26 - ARMA Hawai'i, Cybersecurity: Protecting Digital Records & Information
May 26 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat
May 26 - RIMPA Global, Records Management Essentials - Basic Records and Information Management Concepts
May 26 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Building the foundation: Records retention before AI
May 27 - Information Governance Community Roundtable, A Governance 'Ask Us Anything!'
May 27 - ARMA Houston, IGIM 2.1: From Framework to Action
May 28 - IAPP and Securiti AI, Consent by proxy: When AI agents start deciding for us
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 3 - ARMA North Dakota, Spring Seminar
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 4 - IAPP and Contoural, Creating a data retention policy for personal information and AI
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 - InfoGovANZ, AI Agents in Action: Transforming Work – Opportunities and Risks
June 11 - IAPP, Your path into privacy: Career strategies, honest advice, and real talk from the people who hire and coach
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 17 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Build an AI gov framework that actually gets adopted
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 18 - ILTA and Legal-RM, AI Foundations Part 2: Using AI Professionally and Safely
June 18 - Digital Government Institute and Casepoint, Applying AI to FOIA: Improving Efficiency, Consistency, and Defensibility Across Agencies
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 15 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: Shining a light on shadow AI
July 16 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne | Roadshow
July 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Linking the ROPA, Retention Schedule & IAR
July 16 - ILTA and Legal-RM, Beyond the Foundations: Agents, Tools and Your Questions
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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