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Keynotes and Presentations

  • 20 Oct 2021 - ARMA Infocon 2021 keynote

  • 15 Dec 2021 - ARMA Nebraska

  • 11 Jan 2022 - ARMA Dallas

  • 9 March 2022 - ARMA Metro NYC

  • 19 March 2022 - Loudoun County Public Library - Cascades - Unraveling a Family History

  • 07 Apr 2022 - NAGARA

  • 26 Apr 2022 - ARMA Houston keynote

  • 17 May 2022 - ARMA Mountain States

  • 31 May 2022 - ARMA Canada Keynote

  • 16 Jun 2022 - ARMA Seattle Keynote

  • 3 July 2022 - Genealogy Show (UK) presentation

  • 15 Aug 2022 - Book club - Indiana State Archives

  • Mar 2023 - ARMA Seattle Chapter

  • 10 May 2023 - Idaho State Archives

  • 18 Jul 2023 - “Meet the Author” - Fairfax County Library

  • 26 Oct 2023 - VAGARA annual meeting - “Reimaging Records and Governance - a Personal Odyssey” and “What the Heck is Chat GPT and Why Should We Care?”

  • 2022-23 - Multiple Rotary clubs, Northern VA

  • 2022-23 - Multiple book clubs

  • 2024 - Multiple presentations at Apex, NC Senior meetings

  • 24 Oct 2024 - VAGARA annual meeting - “Rethinking Virginia’s Civil War History”


Audience Reactions

John, thanks for perhaps the greatest keynote on records that I've ever seen.

Ramos Angel - Manager, Clinical Records Management, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.

You are WOW!

Helen Hosein-Mulloon - Records Management and Facilities Coordinator, EOG Resources Trinidad Limited

Best keynote thus far for the conference! Thank you John for sharing your story and research pains and gains with us! I look forward to reading your book 'Immigrant Secrets'! And, thank you for re-energizing us for our profession! #YouRock

Donda Young - Managing Director, Compliance Services at LegalRM

Captivated by @jmancini77’s keynote this morning at #InfoCon #ARMA2021. Reimagining how we think of information governance in all the right ways!

Christy Walters - Information Management Consultant, MUN | Canadian Region

I've known and worked with @jmancini77 for years, and I knew he was a fantastic writer and speaker. But today's #arma2021 keynote was easily the best I've seen in a long, long time. I don't do genealogy, but for 45 minutes I was riveted.

Jesse Wilkins - President and Principal Consultant at Athro Consulting

This was very thought provoking in that it provides a personal aspect to help us understand how important our work is and how important it is that we understand the past, analyze what we do today and anticipate the needs of the future.

Suzanne Graham - Senior Associate Consultant, Graham Information Management Associates

As a Records Manager and Genealogist, I truly enjoyed your keynote.

Denise Andres - Global Privacy Manager, GRIM, The Sherwin-Williams Company

Excellent presentation. You're a great speaker!

Shannon Wacker - RIM Assitant, Houston Firefighters' Relief & Retirement Fund

The nice thing about viewing this great keynote from home is that my family is listening too (including my Trinidadian wife).

Christopher Bednar - Global Records Manager, Bain & Company

This presentation was fantastic!

Erika Fields - Records Specialist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Truly an inspiring message!

Peggy Syljuberget - Records Officer, Manitoba Agriculture and Resource Development

It was a phenomenal presentation, hitting on a number of pain points of records and information management that have been with us for ages and are still with us today. You covered data entry inaccuracies, lack of records, security and privacy issues in living color.

David Honeman - Senior Consultant/ Co-founder at Treasure Coast Information Privacy Services

Presentation Topics

The Search for My Grandparents — 45 min — My father had no “backstory.” My father never mentioned his family. Never. The only thing my father ever said about his Italian immigrant family was that his parents died in the 1930s, shortly after arriving at Ellis Island. Except they didn't. Once I began the search for my grandparents, I mostly ran into dead-ends. Until the 1940 Census. My grandparents magically appear, but as inmates at the Rockland Insane Asylum. What happened? Why all the secrecy? And how did I use genealogy to unravel the mystery?

What the Heck is ChatGPT and Why Should I Care? — 45 min — An exploration of the reasons that AI and Large Language models suddenly exploded in popular consciousness in early 2023 and the implications that generative AI has for our future.

Archives and Records: A Personal Journey — 45 min — Using my book Immigrant Secrets as context, I explore the challenges associated with preserving our history, particularly in an era of rapid technology innovation.

Understanding the New NARA Digitization Regulations — 45 min — After a lengthy approval process, the National Archives released a set of regulations for digitizing permanent records, largely based on FADGI-3 definitions of image process quality. What are the implications of these regulations for imaging at large scale? How might these regulations for federal regulations spread to other industries?