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ARMA International, the authority on records and information management, has opened registration for its 56th Annual Conference & Expo, to be held Oct. 17-19, 2011, at the Gaylord National Hotel and Conference Center, just minutes outside of Washington, D.C.

In today’s business environment, information governance is crucial for business function and helps keep organizations competitive and compliant. ARMA 2011 puts the right resources and vendors at the fingertips of the professional community that is in need of their services.

The conference will feature more than 80 education programs presented by experts in the legal, information technology (IT) and information management professions, as well as an expo hall boasting more than 200 top-tier exhibitors showcasing the latest offerings from technology to data retention and storage, including commercial records centers and information destruction firms.

Conference attendees will be able to see the industry’s emerging technologies and understand how to implement them into their day-to-day business strategies. Our primary goal is to answer the questions and pain points of today’s professionals who touch information management and provide them with solutions and best practices to strategically address all of their organization’s information governance needs.

Conference exhibitors will be able to interact with a variety of attendees, including records managers, records analysts, IT managers, IT developers, industry consultants, archivists, attorneys, legal assistants, in-house counsel and chief information officers. Attendees represent the legal, health care, financial services, manufacturing, contracting, energy and insurance industries as well as government and educational institutions.   

The ARMA International Conference & Expo is the premier educational event for the records and information industry. This year at ARMA 2011 more than 4,000 information management professionals from around the world will come together for unparalleled education networking and to discover top-of-the-line products.

For more information about ARMA International’s 56th Annual Conference & Expo and to register, visit www.arma.org/conference.  


The author is executive director of Overland Park, Kan.-based ARMA International (www.arma.org), a nonprofit professional association for information management and governance.