BPM Conferences
This page provides information relevant to the BPM conference series since it was established in 2003.
Please find below a complete list of BPM conferences with the respective general chairs, PC co-chairs, workshop chairs and keynote speakers. We also maintain a list of awards handed out during BPM conferences.
- 23rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2025 in Seville, Spain
- General Chair: Adela del-Río-Ortega, Manuel Resinas
- PC Co-Chairs: Hajo Reijers, Arik Senderovich, Cristina Cabanillas, Irene Vanderfeesten
- Workshop Chairs: Han van der Aa, Bedilia Estrada Torres, Inge van der Weerd
- Keynote Speakers: tba
- 22th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2024 in Krakow, Poland
- General Chair: Edyta Brzychczy, Krzysztof Kluza
- PC Co-Chairs: Michael Rosemann, Andrea Marrella, Manuel Resinas, Mieke Jans
- Workshop Chairs: Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Maria Teresa Gómez López, Katarzyna Gdowska
- Keynote Speakers
- Flavia Santoro: Ethics in BPM
- Alexander Serebrenik: Studying Humans in Software Engineering
- Tomasz Głowacki: Next Generation of AI-driven Retail Processes
- 21th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
- General Chair: Hajo Reijers
- PC Co-Chairs: Shazia Sadiq, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Andrea Burattin, Christian Janiesch
- Workshop Chairs: Luise Pufahl, Jochen De Weerdt
- Keynote Speakers
- Marc Kaptein: Process Optimization Saves Lives!
- Marta Kwiatkowska: Formal methods and robust machine learning in BPM
- Matthias Weidlich: Database systems and BPM
- 20th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2022 in Münster, Germany
- General Chair: Jörg Becker
- PC Co-Chairs: Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Claudio Di Ciccio, Remco Dijkman, Adela del Río Ortega
- Workshop Chairs: Cristina Cabanillas, Agnes Koschmider, Niels Frederik Garmann-Johnsen
- Keynote Speakers
- Gero Decker: BPM products for the next 20 years
- Jan Mendling: Taking the next steps towards Business Process Science
- Chiara Ghidini: Data, Conceptual Knowledge, and AI: What can they do together??
- 19th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2021 in Rome, Italy
- General Chair: Massimo Mecella
- PC Co-Chairs: Manfred Reichert, Artem Polyvyanyy, Moe Wynn, Amy Van Looy
- Workshop Chairs: Andrea Marrella, Barbara Weber
- Keynote Speakers
- Hajo Reijers: A historical perspective on BPM
- Stefanie Rinderle-Ma: Bringing Process Technology from Lab to Factory
- Giuseppe De Giacomo: Artificial Intelligence-based declarative process synthesis for BPM
- 18th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2020 in Seville, Spain
- General Chair: Manuel Resinas, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés
- PC Co-Chairs: Marlon Dumas, Dirk Fahland, Chiara Ghidini, Jörg Becker
- Workshop Chairs: Henrik Leopold, Adela del Río Ortega
- Keynote Speakers
- Rama Akkiraju: How to infuse AI into Business Processes? A practitioner’s perspective on best practices.
- Avigdor Gal: Perspectives in Process Mining: Closing the Big Data Gap
- Jan vom Brocke: Towards Process Science: Embracing Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities in the Digital Age
- 17th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2019 in Vienna, Austria
- General Chair: Jan Mendling, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
- PC Co-Chairs: Thomas T. Hildebrandt, Boudewijn F. van Dongen, Maximilian Röglinger, Jan Mendling
- Workshop Chairs: Remco Dijkman, Chiara di Francescomarino, Uwe Zdun
- BPM 2019 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Pat Geary: Understanding the Potential of “Real RPA”
- Monika Henzinger: The state of the art in dynamic graph algorithms
- Kally Lyytinen: Digitalization and routines - another look at business process management
- 16th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2018 in Sydney, Australia
- General Chair: Boualem Benatallah, Jian Yang
- PC Co-Chairs: Mathias Weske, Marco Montali, Ingo Weber, Jan vom Brocke
- Workshop Chairs: Florian Daniel, Hamid Motahari, Michael Sheng
- BPM 2018 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Brian T. Pentland: Beyond Mining: Theorizing about processual phenomena
- Manfred Reichert: Business Process Management in the Digital Era: Scenarios, Challenges, Technologies
- Sanjiva Weerawarana: Bringing Middleware to Everyday Developers with Ballerina
- 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017 in Barcelona, Spain
- General Chair: Josep Carmona
- PC Co-Chairs: Josep Carmona, Gregor Engels, Akhil Kumar
- Workshop Chairs: Matthias Weidlich, Ernest Teniente
- BPM 2017 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Alan W Brown: A Leaders Guide to Understanding New Business Models in the Digital Economy
- Miguel Valdés: Intelligent Continuous Improvement, When BPM Meets AI
- Mathias Weske: BPM: Reflections on a Broad Discipline
- 14th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- General Chair: Flávia Santoro
- PC Co-Chairs: Marcello La Rosa, Peter Loos, Oscar Pastor
- Workshop Chairs: Marlon Dumas, Marcelo Fantinato
- BPM 2016 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Brad Power: Don’t Just Improve Work, Innovate Continuously
- Rick Hull: Rethinking BPM in a Cognitive World: Transforming how we Learn and Perform Business Processes
- Giancarlo Guizzardi: The Inevitable Ontological Commitment or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Ontology
- 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015 in Innsbruck, Austria
- General Chair: Barbara Weber
- PC Co-Chairs: Hamid Reza Motahari-Nezhad, Jan Recker, Matthias Weidlich
- Workshop Chairs: Manfred Reichert, Hajo Reijers
- BPM 2015 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Munindar P. Singh: NoBPM: Supporting Interaction-Oriented Automation via Normative Specifications of Processes
- Gustavo Ignacio Gomez: Adaptability, Architecture & CX: The Bizagi Way
- Marlon Dumas: From Models to Data and Back: The Journey of the BPM Discipline
- 12th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2014 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands (relocated from Haifa, Israel)
- General Co-Chairs: Avigdor Gal, Mor Peleg
- PC Co-Chairs: Shazia Sadiq, Pnina Soffer, Hagen Völzer
- Workshop Chairs: Fabiana Fournier, Jan Mendling
- BPM 2014 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Rob High: The Emerging Era of Cognitive Computing
- Yaval Shahar: The Other Side of Procedural Knowledge: Representation, Application, and Discovery of Temporal-Abstraction Knowledge
- Keith Swenson: Questions for a learning organization
- 11th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2013 in Beijing, China
- General Chair: Jianmin Wang
- PC Co-Chairs: Florian Daniel, Jianmin Wang, Barbara Weber
- Workshop Chairs: Niels Lohmann, Minseok Song, Petia Wohed
- BPM 2013 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Tom Baeyens: BPM in the cloud computing
- Noshir Contractor: Moneyball for nanoHUB: Theory-driven and Data-driven Approaches to understand the Formation and Success of Software Development Teams
- Xiang Gao: Towards the Next Generation Intelligent BPM —— In the Era of Big Data
- 10th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2012 in Tallinn, Estonia
- General Chair: Marlon Dumas
- PC Co-Chairs: Alistair Barros, Avi Gal, Ekkart Kindler
- Workshop Chairs: Marcello La Rosa, Pnina Soffer
- BPM 2012 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Alejandro Buchmann: From Calls to Events: Architecting Future BPM Systems
- Wil van der Aalst: A Decade of Business Process Management Conferences: Reflections on a Developing Discipline
- Stephen A. White: BPMN and its Future
- 9th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2011 in Clermont-Ferrand, France
- General Chair: Farouk Toumani, Mohand-Said Hacid
- PC Co-Chairs: Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Farouk Toumani, Karsten Wolf
- Workshop Chairs: Florian Daniel, Kamel Barkaoui, Schahram Dustdar
- BPM 2011 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- David Harel: Some thoughts on behavioral programming
- Sandy Kemsley: The Changing Nature of Work:From Structured To Unstructured, From Controlled To Social
- Victor Vianu: Automatic Verification of Data-Centric Business Processes
- 8th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2010 in Hoboken (NJ), USA
- General Chair: Michael zur Mühlen
- PC Co-Chairs: Richard Hull, Jan Mendling, Stefan Tai
- Workshop Chairs: Michael zur Muehlen, Jianwen Su
- BPM 2010 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- Phil Gilbert: The next decade of BPM
- Clay Richardson: Process Data Management
- Hans-Arno Jacobsen: BPM in Cloud Architectures: Business Process Management with SLAs and Events
- 7th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2009 in Ulm, Germany
- General Chairs: Peter Dadam, Manfred Reichert
- PC Co-Chairs: Umeshwar Dayal, Johann Eder, Hajo A. Reijers
- Workshop Chairs: Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Shazia Wasim Sadiq, Frank Leymann
- BPM 2009 Awards
- Keynote Speakers
- August-Wilhelm Scheer: BPM 3.0
- John Hoogland: Change in control
- Bertram Ludäscher: Scientific workflows: Business as Usual?
- 6th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2008 in Milan, Italy
- General Chair: Barbara Pernici
- PC Co-Chairs: Marlon Dumas, Manfred Reichert, Ming-Chien Shan
- Workshop Chairs: Danilo Ardagna, Massimo Mecella, Jian Yang
- Keynote Speakers
- Paul Harmon: Business Process Management: Today and Tomorrow
- Michael Rosemann: Understanding and impacting the practice of Business Process Management
- Peter Dadam: The future of BPM: Flying with the eagles or scratching with the chickens?
- 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2007 in Brisbane, Australia
- General Chairs: Marlon Dumas, Michael Rosemann
- PC Co-Chairs: Gustavo Alonso, Peter Dadam, Michael Rosemann
- Workshop Chairs: Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Boualem Benatallah, Hye-Young Paik
- Keynote Speakers
- Simon Dale: Holistic BPM: from theory to reality
- Steve Tieman: Business Process Management: How to Close the Gap Between Rigor and Relevance
- John Deeb: Business Process Blueprints - the next generation of process analysis to execution
- Shawn Bowers: Accelerating Scientific Knowledge Discovery through Scientific Workflows
- 4th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2006 in Vienna, Austria
- General Chair: Schahram Dustdar
- PC Co-Chairs: Schahram Dustdar, José Luiz Fiadeiro, Amit P. Sheth
- Workshop Chairs: Johann Eder, Schahram Dustdar
- Keynote Speakers
- Donald Ferguson: Enterprise Business Process Management - Architecture, Technology and Standards
- Dave Green: BizTalk Server, Windows Workflow Foundation, and BPM
- 3rd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2005 in Nancy, France
- General Chair: Claude Godart
- PC Co-Chairs: Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Boualem Benatallah, Fabio Casati
- Workshop Chairs: Christoph Bussler, Armin Haller
- Keynote Speakers
- Gustavo Alonso: Turning Processes into Mature Programming Tools
- Frank Leymann: Flow technology as commodity
- 2nd International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2004 in Potsdam, Germany
- General Chair: Mathias Weske
- PC Co-Chairs: Jörg Desel, Barbara Pernici, Mathias Weske
- Keynote Speakers
- 1st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2003 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- General Chair: Wil M.P. van der Aalst
- PC Co-Chairs: Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, Mathias Weske
- Keynote Speakers
- Skip Ellis: Net Models Supporting Human and Humane Behaviors
- IJme Schilstra: Case handling: beyond wordflow management
- (Jon Pyke) Justin Brunt: What’s happened to Workflow?
- Kees van Hee: performance measurement in business processes
