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The CIO Agenda

How information governance supports AI adoption,

security strategy, and infrastructure efficiency 

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What this series explores

Across five sessions, we will explore how information governance provides the structure CIOs need to manage growing data volumes, reduce risk exposure, and support innovation across the firm.

As firms adopt AI tools, expand collaboration platforms, and face increasing cyber threats, controlling the data estate has become a core leadership responsibility. Information governance plays a central role in enabling that control — bringing visibility to data, enforcing retention policies, reducing unnecessary storage growth, and strengthening the firm’s security posture.

This executive webinar series examines how governance frameworks support the priorities of CIOs while also helping governance, risk, and compliance professionals build a stronger business case for firm-wide information governance strategy.

Each session focuses on a critical challenge facing organisations today — from AI governance and cyber resilience to storage cost control, zero-trust security models, and data provenance.

The webinars

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1. Controlling storage growth: How information governance reduces IT cost pressure

Data volumes continue to expand across document management systems, collaboration platforms, email, backups, and archives. Infrastructure costs rise steadily, often without clear visibility into what is being stored, why it is being retained, or whether it still has value.

This webinar focuses on how mature information governance directly supports CIO cost-control priorities. We will examine:

    • The financial impact of over-retention and duplication
    • Hidden storage costs across primary, secondary, and backup environments
    • The operational burden of unmanaged legacy data
    • Aligning retention schedules with infrastructure strategy
    • Implementing defensible deletion programmes
    • Overcoming cultural resistance to data reduction

Rather than viewing storage growth as inevitable, this session reframes it as a governance issue. When data is classified, retained intentionally, and defensibly disposed of, infrastructure becomes predictable, scalable, and strategically aligned with firm growth.

March 31st, 11AM EST, 4PM BST, 5PM CET 

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2. AI-governance: moving from experimentation to enterprise control

AI adoption is accelerating — often faster than policy, oversight, or technical control frameworks can keep pace. Individual practice groups are testing tools, users are uploading content into public models, and AI features are being embedded into existing platforms. The risk exposure is real, but so is the opportunity.

This session examines how CIOs can move the firm from fragmented AI experimentation to structured enterprise control through information governance. We will explore:

    • The operational and reputational risks of shadow AI
    • Data leakage pathways into large language models
    • Intellectual property and client confidentiality exposure
    • Model training risks, bias, and regulatory scrutiny
    • Establishing governance checkpoints across the AI lifecycle
    • Creating enforceable AI usage standards without slowing innovation

The session will provide a practical governance framework that enables responsible AI scaling while maintaining control over firm data assets.

May 7th, 11AM EST, 4PM BST, 5PM CET 

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3. Zero-trust data governance: aligning information with security strategy

Zero-trust principles are reshaping cybersecurity strategy. The assumption is no longer that internal systems, users, or data sources can be implicitly trusted. Continuous verification, strict access controls, and granular monitoring are becoming standard practice.

This session explores how zero-trust thinking must extend beyond networks into the data itself. For CIOs, this means embedding governance into the core of security architecture.

Key areas of focus include:

    • Applying zero-trust principles to data classification and access control
    • Governing AI-generated or externally sourced data with uncertain provenance
    • Strengthening metadata and lineage to support verification
    • Continuous monitoring of high-value and sensitive data assets
    • Reducing lateral risk through structured data segmentation
    • Integrating governance policies directly into security controls

The session positions information governance as a structural component of zero-trust security — ensuring that data integrity, authenticity, and appropriate access are actively enforced rather than assumed.

June 9th, 11AM EST, 4PM BST, 5PM CET 

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4. Cyber resilience & information governance: preparing for the inevitable

Cyber incidents have become a recurring operational. The ability to recover quickly depends not just on backups, but on understanding what data exists, where it resides, and whether it can be trusted after an attack.

This session connects cyber resilience directly to information governance maturity. CIOs will explore how governance reduces both the likelihood and the impact of major incidents.

Topics include:

    • Ransomware readiness and attack surface reduction
    • Ensuring backup integrity and recoverable clean data sets
    • The role of defensible deletion in limiting exposure
    • Data mapping to accelerate incident response
    • Prioritising recovery based on business-critical information
    • Post-incident remediation and audit defensibility

Effective resilience is built long before an incident occurs. Structured governance reduces uncertainty during crisis response and shortens the path to operational recovery.

Sep 10th, 

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5. Data provenance and traceability: building trust in a high-velocity data environment

Firms increasingly rely on analytics, AI-assisted drafting, collaborative platforms, and cross-border data flows. As information moves across systems and jurisdictions, questions of origin, transformation, and access become central to both compliance and client confidence.

This session examines how CIOs can embed data provenance and traceability into governance frameworks to create verifiable trust.

We will cover:

    • Establishing and maintaining reliable data lineage
    • Capturing transformation history across systems
    • Strengthening audit trails and access transparency
    • Managing third-party and cross-platform data exchange
    • Supporting regulatory, litigation, and client audit demands
    • Using metadata strategically to demonstrate control

Traceability is no longer a technical afterthought. It is a strategic requirement that supports defensibility, regulatory confidence, and the firm’s reputation for data integrity.

Nov 12th, 11AM EST, 4PM GMT, 5PM CET 

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Who should attend?

 

  • CIOs and IT Directors
  • Heads of Information Governance
  • Risk and Compliance Leaders
  • Data Protection Officers
  • Information Security Leaders
  • Governance professionals seeking executive buy-in for information governance initiatives
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What will you gain?

By attending this series, participants will understand how information governance can:

  • Support safe and controlled AI adoption
  • Reduce storage and infrastructure costs
  • Strengthen cyber resilience and incident response
  • Align with modern security models such as zero trust
  • Improve transparency and traceability across firm data

Most importantly, the series will demonstrate how information governance can move from a compliance requirement to a strategic capability that supports the wider objectives of firm leadership.

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LegalRM works with organisations globally to help turn information governance strategy into operational reality. With iCompli, firms gain visibility into their information landscape, structured governance and accountability, defensible risk reduction, and a foundation for efficient, future-ready operations. 

 

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