Preliminary program; details are subject to change.
The responsible BPM forum focuses on responsible automation, transparency, ethical decision-making, inclusion, participation, privacy, and accountability in business processes. Its sessions examine topics such as bias and opacity in robotic process automation, embedding gender equality, disability, and social inclusion into process design, participatory process mining, process externalities, privacy-preserving process mining, and responsible delegation of tasks to AI.
Keynote Session
Tuesday, September 29, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. | Room 2
Focus: responsible automation, ethical mitigation, transparency and accountability.
| No. | Paper | Program Item | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Opening | ||
| 2 | Keynote — TBA | ||
| 3 | 231 | "The System Did It": Bias, Opacity, and the Misalignment of Ethical Mitigations in (Robotic) Process Automation | Leo Poss, Christopher Julian Kern, Julia Kroenung and Stefan Schönig |
| 4 | 295 | From Principles to Practice: Embedding GEDSI in Process Design | Rehan Syed, Azumah Mamudu and Ishadi Mirispelakotuwa |
Session 1 - Ethics, Participation, and Process Externalities
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Room 2
Focus: ethics, inclusion, participation, and the external effects of business processes.
| No. | Paper | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 259 | Participatory Process Mining: A Framework and Call for Research Watch the Video | Vinicius Stein Dani, Iris Beerepoot, Thomas Grisold, Hajo A. Reijers and Adela del Río Ortega |
| 2 | 347 | Process Externalities: A Missing Construct for Responsible BPM | Katarzyna Gdowska, Anna Suchenia and Krzysztof Kluza |
| 3 | 353 | Silent Responsibility Voids: Evidence for Process Twins in Clinical Trials | Luiz Ricardo Brito Ribeiro, Gerald Kremer, Rainer Stark and Silvia Dallavalle |
Session 2 - Privacy, Accountability, and Responsible AI Delegation
Thursday, October 1, 2026 | 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. | Room 2
Focus: privacy-preserving process mining, responsibility gaps, and accountable AI delegation.
| No. | Paper | Paper Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 260 | Towards Ethics in BPM Research | Kate Revoredo and Flavia Santoro |
| 2 | 354 | Differentially Private HeuristicsMiner | Yorck Zisgen and Agnes Koschmider |
| 3 | 346 | AI Work Under Guardrails: Task Framing for Responsible Delegation in BPM | Kristóf Antal |