BPM 2025Shazia Sadiq
University of Queensland, Australia
Shazia Sadiq is a globally recognized leader in data and process management, with a 25-year career as a researcher and educator focused on dismantling socio-technical barriers to technology-driven transformation. Her work has significantly advanced the fields of data quality management, scalable data curation process modelling and compliance, and information resilience. She has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications and attracted research funding from the Australian Research Council, industry and various national and international funding bodies. Shazia is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Director for the ARC Industry Transformation Training Centre on Information Resilience 2021-2026, past chair of the National Committee on Information and Communication Sciences at the Australian Academy of Science 2019-2022, and member of The Australian Research Council College of Experts 2018-2021.
During her keynote, Shazia will talk about "The Essential Toolkit for Process Scientists: Comprehension, Compliance and Change."
Josep Carmona
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Josep Carmona is a full professor of computer science at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and CEO of Process Talks, a company founded to empower people when they sit in front of a computer. As a researcher, he enjoys solving complex problems by connecting complementary disciplines—a habit that has led him to work in areas such as concurrent systems, VLSI, BPM, process mining, data science, natural language processing, and generative AI. Josep co-authored the book Conformance Checking (Springer, 2018) and co-edited the Process Mining Handbook (Springer, 2022), the latter of which is one of the most downloaded books in the field of process mining today.
As an entrepreneur, he is building a technology company amidst the unprecedented revolution brought on by the disruption of generative AI. This exciting journey is filled with lessons learned and best practices that Josep plans to share with the BPM community in this keynote titled: "Taking Your BPM Project to the Next Level: The Entrepreneurial Journey from Academia."
Pernille Bjørn
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Pernille Bjørn is an ACM Distinguish member and professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (DIKU). Professor Bjørn’s research is centred within the area of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), studying cooperative practices to design cooperative technologies. Professor Bjørn is best known for research on distributed work (e.g., global software development), large information systems (e.g., healthcare systems), and tech entrepreneurship (e.g., Palestine). Currently, Professor Bjørn research interest focuses on Hybrid Work, Cooperative Virtual Reality, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bridging gender and neurodiversity. Professor Bjørn spent several years in North America at the University of California, Irvine, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and lastly, as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Washington. Professor Bjørn was a visiting researcher at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) in periods between 2012-2014, and published her second book: Diversity in Computer Science in 2023.
In her keynote titled: "Cooperative Contexts & Values Shape Hidden Yet Pertinent Conditions for Process Design", Professor Bjørn will explore the connections between research on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Business Process Management and explore the benefit of engaging in collaboration producing new forms of research together and across the fields.