August 2, 2026

Upcoming Industry Meetings and Webinars, August 1 - October 31, 2026

Here are the IG/RM/DM/AI-related industry events and webinars I'm aware of for August 1 - 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. 

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. I also  generally don't include purely social events with no educational component. 

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 (educational) event or to access the list. 

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 7 - ILTA, Lawyers Don't Trust AI and Why That's Not a Bad Thing

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 12 - ILTA and Litera, AI is Reducing the Routine Work That Trained Associates. Now What?

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 - AIIM True North, IM Assessments - A Case Study for Addressing AI Risks

August 18 - ARMA, Legal Industry Group - Coffee & Chat

August 18 - IRMS South West, Let's discuss - when the horse won't be led to water

August 18 - RIMPA Global and Recordkeeping Innovation, AI Doesn't Replace Governance. It Makes It Essential

August 18 - RecordPoint, FILED Talks: How Mentorloop got started with AI Governance

August 19 - ARMA Southern California Inland Empire, Records Management - The Power Behind AI Governance

August 19 - InfoGovANZ, Information Management in Government: Progress, priorities and the road ahead

August 19 - ILTA, Internal & External Threat Monitoring for AI

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 26 - Boise Valley ARMA, Retooling the Information Professional for 2027 and Beyond

August 26 - ARMA Houston, Building a Common Language for Complex Industrial Asset Information

August 26 - Zasio, The AI Readiness Recipe: Six Information Governance Pillars Every Organization Needs

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 1 - LexShift, Buckets, Functions, Content Types – Oh My! New Ways to Rethink Your Retention Schedule

September 2 - Digital Government Institute, Feith, and Sonar, AI Assistants for Government Workflows

September 3 - ARMA Chattanooga, Governing AI Agents: The Expanding Role of RIM in the Autonomous Enterprise

September 4 - IRMS Scotland, Professional Development and Advocacy

September 8 - Dataversity, Data Warehousing Reimagined: Fueling AI-Powered BI at Scale

September 8 - Access, Tag, you're it! Ownership and Accountability in AI Implementation

September 9 - Legal IG Roundtable, ProfCareerDev Subgroup. Contact Jesse Wilkins at jesse.wilkins@opensitysolutions.com for the invitation. 

September 9 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Ottowa, ON. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

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 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Seattle, WA. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

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 22 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Exchange, Dallas, TX. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor! 

September 22 - IAPP and filerskeepers, Managing data retention schedules during M&A, relocations and bankruptcy

September 23 - ARMA Houston, The Safe Path to AI

September 23 -AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, Washington, DC. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

September 23 - Contoural, How to Define a Record

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 29 - AIIM, Legal Network Coffee Chat

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 - RIMPA Global, Records Management and Information Governance Power AI Governance

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 - AIIM, AIIM Regional Forum, London, UK. From AIIM: These events are specifically designed for information management practitioners at end-user organizations. We kindly ask that service providers and consultants do not register as attendees. Interested in engaging with our community? We’d love to have you join us as a sponsor!

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.

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