18th Int. Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2020)

Social Events

Lead by: Janina Nakladal
Date and time: Tuesday, September 15 at 17.00
Description: The current situation impressively shows how external events such as a global pandemic affect business processes of every company and institution - and how business processes can help to meet global challenges. This leads to the question: What role does BPM also play in other major future issues, such as climate change, strengthening diversity and inclusion, achieving equal education or working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in general. How resilient are our business processes? How can process thinking create innovative solutions? What are new areas of application? This is what we want to discuss and brainstorm with creative ideation methods and with you. For a diversified exchange, free creativity and a vision of the future. Everyone is cordially invited!

Lead by: Adela del Río Ortega
Invited speakers: Wil van der Aalst, Stefanie Rinderle-Ma, Hajo Reijers, Jan Mendling, Marlon Dumas and Marcello La Rosa
Date and time: Wednesday, September 16 at 17.30
Description: In this session we will take a journey through previous editions of BPM by the hand of some of our most beloved BPMers. We will be able to see some memorable moments captured in pictures, recall some funny stories and... stay tuned! There will be other surprises. Don't miss it! And remember, a must: bring a beer! Well, if beer is not your thing, you can bring any other drink you prefer ;)

Date and time: Tuesday, September 15 at 19.30
Description: Dirk Fahland has been successfully doing BPM research for 12 years, and become Associate Professor at TU Eindhoven in between. He has successfully promoted PhD students from all walks of life, been through struggles himself, learned how to write papers well, and is mentoring dozens of students at TU Eindhoven each year. His interests lie in process modeling, mining, and prediction of complex processes with multiple behavioral dimensions.
Set up: During the first 30 minutes, Dirk will give a short presentation about herself that will be followed by a round of Q&A/discussion. Afterwards, he will provide small-group mentoring sessions.
If you are interested in being mentee by Dirk in a small group session, then please sign-up in this form (open until September 15 at 14.00).

Date and time: Friday, September 18 at 10.00
Description: Irene Vanderfeesten is an Associate Professor in Business Process Management and Information Systems at Open University of the Netherlands and Eindhoven University of Technology. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and PhD in Industrial Engineering. she successfully followed a tenure track to Associate Professor. And she is a young mother of two beautiful daughters (1 and 5 years old). She is looking forward to sharing her experience in making a career in academia (how to make a strategic personal development plan), as a woman in technology (which challenges this brings and how to overcome them) keeping a work-private life balance combining other roles in life (mother, wife, friend, ...).
Set up: During the first 30 minutes, Irene will give a short presentation about herself that will be followed by a round of Q&A/discussion. Afterwards, she will provide small-group mentoring sessions.
If you are interested in being mentee by Irene in a small group session, then please sign-up in this form (open until September 15 at 14.00).