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July 6, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Silver Spring, MD – The Association for Intelligent Information Management (AIIM) today announced a collaborative project with RecordPoint to develop practical AI readiness education for information management professionals. The initiative includes a five-course online learning series and three in-person AI+IM Regional Exchange events scheduled for Dallas, Seattle, and Ottawa in Fall 2026.

Information management (IM) is at a tipping point. Across most enterprises, we are sitting on an uncomfortable combination: explosive data growth, content fragmented across SharePoint and dozens of other systems, mounting compliance pressure, and processes that rely heavily on manual effort to hold everything together. The result is friction and genuine risk. Staff can’t find what they need. Compliance becomes harder to demonstrate.

Machines Can Recommend. They Can’t Be Accountable. In November 1997, I attended my first corporate board meeting. I was 28, and it seemed impressive, a seat on a board of directors at such a young age. However, appearances were misleading. The actual board consisted of me, my brother, our wives, and my mother. Our five children, all under six, were the future board members. The meeting took place at my mom’s kitchen table, while those future members played in Grandma’s living room.

Technology is automating much of what information management professionals have traditionally done: classifying, tagging, labeling, maintaining. That's not a threat if we're willing to evolve. The ability to absorb change, identify new opportunities, and play the human in the loop is going to define who thrives and who gets left behind. The Three Pillars I think about skills as a confluence of three things: technical skills, domain knowledge, and soft skills.

On June 2, 2026, U.S. President Trump signed an executive order titled "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security." I wanted to offer some thoughts on what this order does and what it means for information professionals. What the Order Does This is primarily a cybersecurity order.

Research That Follows the Community AIIM defines intelligent information management as a practice that integrates people, processes, information, and technology to drive digital transformation and achieve better business outcomes. We invest in regular research to better understand this practice, and the focus of that research tends to reflect the times. In recent years, we focused on understanding the technology ecosystem and how enterprises were, or weren't, adopting AI and automation.

I think we need to talk about what we call “unstructured data.” Where the Term Came From Unstructured data used to mean whatever couldn't be defined into a standard format, stored in a regular database, or queried with SQL. Transaction data, customer data, sales data, headcount data: that was structured. Everything else got labeled "unstructured." Technology Has Changed Everything That distinction made sense when our tools were limited.

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Do We Even Need to Prepare Data for AI? I've heard different versions of this question across the world. Some wonder if we're overthinking it. Others suggest we should just focus on understanding AI and the data will somehow get ready on its own. Do we even need data to get ready for AI? The short answer is yes. But it's more nuanced than that. AI has broken a lot of barriers. Unlike earlier probabilistic models, we don't always need data to look a certain way to work with it.

Date: Thursday, June 25, 2026 Time: 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm ET This webinar is approved for 1 hours of CIP Maintenance Credits. Organizations have moved quickly to adopt AI. Copilot, RAG, custom models. The tools are already in place. The next challenge is now clear. AI cannot deliver reliable or defensible results if it is drawing from scattered, outdated, or unclassified content. Once AI is live, the weaknesses in your information landscape become visible and unavoidable.