Preliminary program; details are subject to change.
The Educators Forum at BPM 2026 brings together researchers and educators to discuss the future of Business Process Management education. The forum explores the use of AI in teaching and learning, BPMN and process modelling education, curriculum development, emerging practitioner skills, and ways to better connect classroom learning with industry needs.
Educators Forum 1
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Room 4
| No. | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| Opening | Chairs | |
| 1 | Simulating the Domain Expert: An Empirical Evaluation of LLM-Based Interview Training for Business Process Modeling | Bedilia Estrada Torres, José Antonio Parejo, Pablo Fernández, Manuel Resinas and Adela del Río Ortega |
| 2 | Adaptive BPM Learning Journeys: An AI-Powered Platform for Personalized Assessment and Multimodal Content Generation | Kevin Schulz, Julius Hüttman, Maike Drewes, Lea Kleinekathöfer, Tobias Zimmermann, Sandro Franzoi and Jan Vom Brocke |
| 3 | Does AI Improve BPMN Modelling? Evidence from Iterative Assignments and Critical Verification Practice | Marzena Grzesiak, Piotr Sliż, Leszek Szała and Marek Moszyński |
| 4 | Sovereign AI Infrastructure for BPM Education: An Open-Source Stack from Document Analysis to Process Execution | Piotr Senkus, Marek Szelągowski, Damian Ciachorowski, Tomasz Ludwicki and Grzegorz Szymanski |
| 5 | AI-Decision Checkpoints for AI-Augmented Business Process Management: Framework and Educational Instantiation | Amin Jalali |
| 6 | From Classroom to Practice: Bridging BPM Education and Industry Expectations Through Process Mining Tool Comparison Project | Najah Mary El-Gharib, Daniel Amyot and William Van Woensel |
Educators Forum 2
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 4
| No. | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learning Process Modelling in BPMN Through Real-life Process Observation | Ilia Maslov, Stephan Poelmans and Anthony Simonofski |
| 2 | Instructional Design in Process Modelling: Surveying Educators’ Perspectives | Ilia Maslov and Stephan Poelmans |
| 3 | Teaching Declarative BPM: Where, When and to Whom it Matters | Hugo A. López, Claudio di Ciccio, Thomas Hildebrandt and Johannes De Smedt |
| 4 | AI and the Evolving BPM Practitioner Skill Set. Initial Implications for Curriculum Review | Artur Siurdyban and Renata Gabryelczyk |
| 5 | "Are BPM Graduates Future-Ready?" - Reframing BPM Competencies for the Future of Work | Azumah Mamudu and Rehan Syed |
| 6 | Closing and Open Discussion | Chairs |