(Toronto, Canada)
BPM 2026 is the 24ᵗʰ conference in a series that provides a premier forum for researchers and practitioners in Business Process Management (BPM). BPM 2026 will be hosted at York University in Toronto, Canada.
BPM 2026 is soliciting proposals for workshops to be held on Monday, September 28, 2026. Workshops facilitate the exchange of ideas and experiences among active researchers and practitioners and trigger in-depth discussion of technical, application, and novel perspectives in line with the conference topics. For BPM 2026, we seek workshops that jointly cover the full spectrum of BPM research—from foundations to engineering to management—reflecting the diversity of the BPM community. We explicitly encourage workshops that cover contemporary topics in BPM.
Please note that a successful BPM workshop is expected to attract around 20 participants and about 10 submissions. The workshop chairs should have a strong affinity with the proposed topic and be well-connected with experts. The workshop should provide a forum for important, innovative, and timely BPM subtopics. We encourage workshop proposals to broadly cover and expand the topics and paradigms traditionally represented at the BPM conference.
Scope and expectations
- Capacity: We have six rooms available on workshop day; acceptance of workshops will, therefore, be selective.
- Novelty & impact: A workshop should develop new topics and ideas that can shape the further course of the BPM discipline. It should also include audiences from diverse backgrounds and involve people representing new topics and/or regions.
- Interactive formats required: Every workshop must include at least one creative/interactive session (e.g., panel; practitioner–researcher forum; research experiment; brainstorming/co-creation session; manifesto or paper-writing; lightning talks based on work-in-progress kept outside the official proceedings). If a session needs to be filled, please add interactive content, not keynotes.
- Call for Papers: Please allow paper submissions to your workshops. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings.
- Organizer team: Include a maximum of three organizers per workshop.
- Workshop types: Proposers may choose one: (i) Mini-conference (peer-reviewed papers with proceedings plus interactive elements) — the default & majority type, as many participants require publications for travel reimbursement; (ii) Mini-Dagstuhl (curated topics, agenda-setting outcomes); (iii) Paper-development workshop (author–mentor development; no formal proceedings required).
- Diversity & coverage: Take measures to attract diverse contributions across the full BPM spectrum.
- Regional priorities: We prioritize proposals that extensively integrate colleagues from the Americas as organizers and PC members (please state their involvement explicitly). We also prioritize topics that bridge to neighboring domains with strong communities in the Americas.
- Continuity: Workshops with a successful history may be offered a guaranteed slot (subject to capacity). At the same time, we will discontinue workshops that attracted few submissions in 2025.
- No merging: If similar proposals are submitted, we will choose one proposal, but not ask the organizers to merge their proposals.
What to include in a proposal
- Title and acronym.
- Workshop type (mini-conference / mini-Dagstuhl / paper-development) and a brief justification.
- Outline of theme, goals, planned activities, intended audience, and the interactive sessions.
- Primary focus within the BPM spectrum (foundations, engineering, or management).
- Intended duration (half-day or full-day).
- Targeted (or past) number of submissions and acceptance rate(s).
- Rationale that supports the claim to attract ≥10 submissions.
- Organizer biographies (maximum of three organizers).
- Planned measures to stimulate submissions and broaden participation (diversity, new circles).
- Tentative Program Committee and draft Call for Papers.
- Explicit statement of US/Canada integration (named co-organizers and PC members, where applicable).
- (If applicable) History of prior editions (venue, #submissions, acceptance rate, attendance).
- Logistics / special needs (e.g., breakout spaces, poster rails, whiteboards, data challenge needs).
Key Dates
- Deadline for submitting workshop proposals: Wednesday, December 10, 2025
- Notification of proposal acceptance or rejection: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 (you will get a response before Christmas)
- Workshop papers submission deadline: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
- Workshop papers notification: Wednesday, July 15, 2026
- Workshop camera-ready papers deadline: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
- Workshop date: Monday, September 28, 2026 (Toronto, Canada)
Apart from the workshop date, all dates are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Submission
Please submit the proposal as a PDF via BPM 2026 EasyChair submission site.
Workshop Management Chairs
- Xixi Lu (Utrecht University)
- Jorge Muñoz-Gama (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
- Daniel Beverungen (Paderborn University)