Preliminary program; details are subject to change.
The BPM Forum program at BPM 2026 features presentations, interactive discussions, and specialized forum sessions covering topics such as digital transformation, process mining, process automation, AI-enabled BPM, governance, sustainability and responsible business processes. Participants will have opportunities to engage with leading experts, discover innovative methodologies and technologies and exchange insights on addressing contemporary organizational challenges.
BPM Forum 1
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Room 2
No. Paper Title Authors 1 More Data, More Clutter? A Framework for Consistent Process Complexity Comparisons Martin Kabierski, Patrizia Schalk, Daniel Kovacic and Han van der Aa 2 CV-Driven Window Selection for Multi-Perspective Concept Drift Detection in Event Logs Samira Khraiwesh, Dogukan Dagtekin and Luise Pufahl 3 Process Binoculars: Resilient Log Generation from Multi-Video Sources Julian Neuberger, Siyuan Deng and Hugo A. López 4 Discovering the Lively World of Object-Centric Processes with Dynamic Relationships Alessandro Gianola, Zeeshan Hameed, Marco Montali, Anjo Seidel, Mathias Weske and Sarah Winkler 5 Object-centric Process Simulation with Dynamic Relationships Denise Cosolo, Chiara Di Francescomarino, Chiara Ghidini, Francesca Meneghello, Marco Montali and Massimiliano Ronzani 6 Process-Aware Design of Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions: An Object-Centric Perspective Maria Inês Ribeiro, Laura Genga, Monique Simons and Pieter Van Gorp 7 Connecting the Dots: Path-Based Entity Linking in Object-Centric Event Data Aaron Küsters and Wil van der Aalst 8 Generalizing Generalization: How to Assess the Quality of Process Discovery Algorithms Martin Kabierski, Jana-Rebecca Rehse, Artem Polyvyanyy and Jan Martijn van der Werf
BPM Forum 2
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 2
No. Paper Title Authors 1 Explanations for Process Models Violations Valeria Fionda, Antonio Ielo and Francesco Ricca 2 Making Sense of Continuous Process Dynamics Sana Dodangeh, Martin Kabierski and Han van der Aa 3 GNN4PPM: Multi-Target Predictive Process Monitoring with Relational Graph Convolutional Networks Ana Costa, Johannes Mäkelburg and Luise Pufahl 4 WARP: Worktime-Aware Representation for Predictive Process Monitoring Maximilian Vouk, Kate Revoredo and Jan Mendling 5 Feature Attribution-Based Explainability Analysis of Deep Learning Models in Predictive Process Monitoring Kseniya Sahatova, Rafael Seidi Oyamada, Xuefei Lu and Johannes De Smedt 6 Multimodal Process Monitoring with On-Demand Disambiguation Marco Franceschetti, Sejma Sijaric, Raul Jimenez Cruz, Olaf Zimmermann, Cesar Torres-Huitzil and Barbara Weber 7 Systematic and Automated Diagnosis of Process Models Using Reference Frameworks Simone Agostinelli, Francesca De Luzi, Sara Giovannetti, Andrea Marrella and Fabio Nonino 8 Visual Comparative Analysis of Process Variants María Salas Urbano, Cristina Cabanillas, Paul Zinke, Florian Häusler, Han van der Aa and Manuel Resinas
BPM Forum 3
Wednesday, September 30, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Room 2
No. Paper Title Authors 1 A Hybrid LLM-Based Framework for Automated Security Annotation Generation in Business Process Models Md Kamrul Islam, Tiphaine Henry, Mattia Salnitri, Julius Köpke and Sami Souihi 2 David vs. Goliath in Next Activity Prediction: Argmax vs. LSTM, Transformer, and LLM Hans Weytjens and Ingo Weber 3 Semantically-guided LLM Pipeline for Business Architecture Modelling with Incremental Knowledge Acquisition Iromie Samarasekara, Madhushi Bandara, Fethi Rabhi and Boualem Benatallah 4 Automatic AI-based Extraction of Processes from Administrative Texts: the Case of Waste Management Alessia Membrini, Maria Teresa Rossi, Daniela Micucci and Leonardo Mariani 5 AI-Driven Automation in Knowledge-Intensive License Management: An Empirical Analysis of Enterprise Constraints and Automation Potential Ume Rubab Ume Rubab and Bernhard Axmann 6 Advancing AI Integration: Exploring Business Process Management Capabilities for AI-Driven Processes Henriette Grashoff and Christian Bartelheimer 7 Bridging Accuracy and Interpretability in Business Process Simulation via Knowledge Distillation Francesco Vinci and Massimiliano de Leoni 8 Simulation-based Assessment of Business Process Robustness Robert Blümel, Alexander Kraus, Timotheus Kampik and Han van der Aa
