Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for July 16 - October 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.
July
July 16 - InfoGov Hot Seat Live Podcast
July 16 - RIMPA Global, Melbourne | Roadshow
July 16 - IRMS Public Sector Group: Linking the ROPA, Retention Schedule & IAR
July 16 - IAPP and BigID, The AI governance gap: What leaders need to control before regulators ask
July 16 - ILTA and LegalRM, Beyond the Foundations: Agents, Tools and Your Questions
July 16 - ILTA, Securing Your AI Ecosystem
July 16 - Dataversity, Ethics, Privacy, and Policy: Building Trust Through Governance
July 21 - IAPP and ObservePoint, Website privacy enforcement: Litigation trends, regulatory risk and what comes next
July 21 - ILTA, What to Know about DMS Cloud Migration Before You Start
July 21-23 - CDOIQ Symposium, Boston, MA
July 21-24 - 2026 NAGARA Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA
July 22 - InfoGov Community Roundtable, How to Write Policies That Encourage Compliance (No 'Bad Cop' Need Apply)
July 22 - InfoGovANZ, Beyond AI and Data: Governing Information as an Enterprise Asset
July 22 - Dataversity, Data Architecture Online 2026
July 22-23 - IAPP, Asia Forum 2026, Singapore
July 23 - Meru Data, Navigating AI and Privacy in Employment
July 23 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
July 23 - IAPP and Securiti AI, The privacy-security convergence: Building unified AI risk controls
July 23 - ILTA Australia, Beyond the Hype: AI Unplugged - Melbourne
July 27-29 - NIRMA, Annual Symposium, San Antonio, TX
July 28 - Digital Government Institute, 930gov 2026
July 28 - ILTA, MCP in Practice: What it Actually Takes to Connect AI to Your Firm's Documents
July 28 - ILTA Australia, Beyond the Hype: AI Unplugged - Sydney
July 30 - AIIM Southeast + Latam, RaMPED Up: A Practical Dashboard for Evaluating Records Management Programs
July 30 - ILTA and LegalRM, AI Foundations: Claude in Practice
August
August 4 - IAPP, US data privacy litigation: Assessing risks and navigating uncertainty
August 4 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, AI Governance Meets Cybersecurity: Aligning Trust, Safety, and Resilience
August 4 - Access, Chutes & Ladders: Why Information Readiness Comes First
August 4 - ILTA Houston, The AI Integration Gap: How to Close It - And Prove It
August 6 - ARMA and Access, Reducing Risk, Storage Costs, and Information Sprawl Through Defensible Deletion
August 6 - NAGARA and Iron Mountain, Leading AI Readiness: Essential Skills for Records and Information Professionals
August 10 - IRMS Midlands Group: Future Perfect? Digital Preservation in the Real World
August 11 - IAPP and ObservePoint, What every website needs to know about US privacy compliance and tracking risk
August 11 - Dataversity, Mastering Reference Data: An AI Essential for Reliable Business Information
August 11 - NAGARA and Kodak Alaris, Digital Evidence Management and Ensuring the Timeliness for Prosecution Purposes
August 12 - AIIM and M-Files, Effective AI Starts with Context: Preparing Microsoft 365 for Copilot and AI Agents
August 12 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
August 13 - ARMA and Morae, Modern, Practical Information Lifecycle Governance and Disposition
August 13 - Contoural, Budgeting for Information Governance
August 13 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Mastery: William Answers Your Questions
August 18 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group - Coffee & Chat
August 18 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: How Mentorloop got started with AI Governance
August 20, ARMA and filerskeepers, One Retention Schedule, Multiple Systems: Is Fully Automated Records Management Possible?
August 20 - Dataversity, Data Storytelling for Governance Leaders: Influence Through Insight
August 20 - NAGARA and Access Sciences, AI Readiness, Risk, and Governance: A Practical Framework for RIM Professionals
August 20 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
August 23-27 - ILTACON, Nashville, TN
August 27 - ARMA and Cadence Solutions, Your Content Already Knows What It Is — Auto-Classification Unleashed
August 27 - Access, Truth or Dare: Can AI Really Clean Up Your Records?
September
September 1 - AIIM, The State of the Information Management Industry
September 1 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, The Right to Explanation: Meeting Regulatory Demands for Interpretable AI
September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows
September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale
September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
September 10 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, Data Pipeline Engineering Strategies
September 10 - RIMPA Global, M365 Community of Practice
September 10 - ILTA and LegalRM, Information Governance for Cyber Resilience: Preparing for the Inevitable
September 10 - ILTA, Vancouver Innovation Roundtable: Legal Tech & GenAI
September 15 - ARMA Jacksonville, Jacksonville Zoo On-site Presentation
September 16 - InfoGovANZ, AI Governance Essentials: The Latest Developments in Agentic AI, Cybersecurity, Privacy and ADM
September 17 - IAPP, From backlog to breakthrough: Using AI in privacy work and governing it across the enterprise
September 17 - Dataversity, Governance at Scale: Lessons from the Enterprise Frontlines
September 20-25 - TDWI, Transform 26, Anaheim, CA
September 21-24 - Perfect Policies, Drafting Policies for Maximum Buy-in
September 23 - ARMA Houston, The Safe Path to AI
September 24 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
September 25 - ARMA New England, Empower 26, Providence, RI
September 28-30 - OneTrust, TrustWeek, Las Vegas, NV
September 30 - AIIM, 2026 AIIM Industry Watch: Work, Skills, and Identity of the Information Professional
October
October 6 - ILTA and LegalRM, Making the Case for IG: Securing Buy-In & Demonstrating Value
October 6 - Dataversity and First San Francisco Partners, Building a Framework for AI Assurance
October 6-7 - DAMA-MN, Data Conference
October 6-8 - Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, Orlando, FL
October 6-9 - IAPP, Privacy.Security.Risk + AI Governance Global 2026, Seattle, WA
October 8 - Dataversity and McKnight Consulting Group, How to Work with Open Table Formats
October 8 - Digital Government Institute, Relativity, Feith, Veritone, and Casepoint, FOIA Innovations and Best Practices
October 9 - DAMA LA, DAMA Days 2026: Data & AI: Building the Intelligent Enterprise
October 12-14 - InfoGov World, AIGov World 2026, Las Vegas, NV
October 13 - Dataversity, Metadata Matters: Powering AI Data Discovery and Context
October 14 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation.
October 15 - Dataversity, AI Meets Governance: Ethics, Oversight, and Automation
October 19-22 - OpenText World 2026, Orlando, FL
October 20 - RIMPA Global, Local Government Community of Practice Meeting
October 20-22 - RIMPA Global, RIMPA Live 2026, Sydney, AUS
October 21 - IRMS, Before the Algorithm, After the Prompt: records, data, and the real work of AI governance
October 22 - ILTA, Information Governance Monthly Meeting
October 22 - Digital Government Institute, Digitization Update: Bridging Policy, Technology, and Practice
October 25-28 - ARMA InfoCon, Savannah, GA
October 30 - NAGARA, 2026 Fall Online Forum: Ghouls, Goblins, and Governance: Mastering the Horrors of Information Management
If you're looking for a speaker, I may be available to speak at your chapter or event. I don't charge speaking fees to non-profit groups.
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.
