Celebrating Excellence in Business Process Management
The BPM 2026 Awards celebrate outstanding contributions to the field of Business Process Management and recognize the researchers, practitioners, educators and innovators who are advancing the theory and practice of BPM.
From foundational research and innovative technologies to responsible applications, industry impact, education and emerging AI-driven approaches, these awards highlight the many ways in which BPM research and practice continue to evolve.
Best Paper Award
Winner
Gyunam Park
“Compiling Constraint Knowledge into Prescriptive Process Analytics via Neuro-symbolic Outcome Distillation”
Best Student Paper Award
Winner
Xiaomeng He, Johannes De Smedt, Seppe Vanden Broucke and Jochen De Weerdt
“BRIDGE: A Bayes-Risk-Informed Process Decoder for Suffix Prediction”
Runner-up
Martin Farkas and Imre Kocsis
“Trust No Pool: Formal Security Analysis of BPMN Collaborations”
Best Reviewer Award
Winner
Banu Aysolmaz
Best BPM Dissertation Award
Winner
Andrei Buliga
“Exploring Counterfactual Explanations with Temporal and Process Contexts in Predictive Process Monitoring”
Runner-up
Kateryna Kubrak
“Towards User-Centered Prescriptive Process Monitoring Systems”
Industry Forum — Best Paper Award
Winner
Dominik Voigt, Juergen Mangler, Julian Wipfler, Sebastian Ullmann and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
“Process-Powered Business Intelligence: Contextualized Data for Real-time Data Analysis and Decision Support”
Responsible BPM Forum — Best Paper Award
Winner
Rehan Syed, Azumah Mamudu and Ishadi Mirispelakotuwa
“From Principles to Practice: Embedding GEDSI in Process Design”
Process Technology Forum — Best Paper Award
Winner
Richard Hobeck, Alessandro Marcelletti, Andrea Morichetta and Ingo Weber
“Representing BPMN Choreographies in OCEL 2.0”
Educators Forum — Best Paper Award
Winner
Artur Siurdyban and Renata Gabryelczyk
“AI and the Evolving BPM Practitioner Skill Set. Initial Implications for Curriculum Review”
Most Creative Demo Award
Winner
Sabine Nagel
“ProChess: Customizable Event Log Generation from Chess Game Data”
Most Impactful Demo Award
Winner
Nataliia Klievtsova, Juergen Mangler, Matthias Ehrendorfer and Stefanie Rinderle-Ma
“AutoBPMN.AI Execution Modeller: Bring Processes to Life with Conversational Process Execution”