Tom Davenport Joins BPM 2026 as Keynote Speaker
The BPM 2026 organizing committee is pleased to welcome Tom Davenport as a keynote speaker at the 2026 International Conference on Business Process Management, hosted by York University.
His keynote, “The Marriage of Process and AI,” will address one of the central questions facing organizations today: how to realize the value of artificial intelligence not simply by adopting new tools, but by rethinking the business processes in which those tools operate.
Davenport has long shaped how researchers and practitioners think about process, analytics and technology-enabled organizational change. His work on business process redesign and analytics has influenced both academic research and managerial practice, and his recent writing has focused directly on the relationship between AI, process management and organizational performance.
Emmanuelle Vaast to deliver keynote at BPM 2026
The 2026 BPM Conference will feature Emmanuelle Vaast, Desautels Chair in Digital Technology Management and professor of Information Systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, as a keynote speaker.
In her keynote address, Vaast will examine how the growing availability of digital trace data is reshaping research on organizational processes. Organizations increasingly generate detailed digital records of decision‑making, work and coordination, creating new opportunities to analyze how processes unfold. At the same time, Vaast argues, these digital traces raise important questions about how organizational processes are represented, interpreted and understood. Secure your spot today – early-bird deadline is July 14.
Keynote Speaker Announcement: Opher Baron joins the BPM Conference
The organizing committee is pleased to announce that Opher Baron, will be one of this year’s conference keynote speakers at the 2026 BPM Conference at York University. The session, titled Business Process Intelligence in Congestion‑Driven Systems: From Event Logs to Real‑Time Digital Twins, will explore how organizations operating under conditions of congestion can leverage advanced analytics and AI‑enabled digital twins to transform their operations.
This promises to be an essential session for anyone interested in the future of process intelligence and operational analytics.
LA&PS to Host the 24th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2026)
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) will host the 24th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2026) from Sept. 27 to Oct. 2, bringing one of the world’s leading conferences in process management to York University.