CollabDays Netherlands 2026

13/06/2026, Van der Valk Hotel, Vianen
Vianen, Netherlands

AI-Ready Retention with Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management: Governing Copilot & agent conversations

Microsoft Ignite 2025 made it clear that AI is no longer a side feature—it’s embedded across the workday, with Copilot experiences and agents operating inside business processes. That shift introduces a new governance requirement: AI conversations are business records. If your organization can retain and delete email and documents, but not Copilot prompts and responses, you’re missing a rapidly growing category of compliance-relevant content. In this session, we explore how Microsoft Purview Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) applies retention and deletion strategies to AI interactions—covering user prompts and AI responses—to support legal, regulatory, and internal policy obligations. You’ll learn how Microsoft’s retention model for Copilot & AI apps works at a high level, including how retained AI interaction data is stored behind the scenes. We’ll also unpack the practical impact of newer retention capabilities that provide separate retention policy locations for Copilot experiences enabling clearer policy boundaries and easier compliance storytelling. Attendees will leave with a concise architectural approach for “AI-ready retention”: how to define what to keep, what to delete, how to scope policies to AI interaction locations, and how to explain the end-to-end audit model to security, legal, and business stakeholders.