The goal of this talk is to provide an overview of the BPM field, which is very related to software engineering in several ways, and responsible for 2 out of 9 German unicorn startups. Accordingly, the talk will start with a short excursion into history, including a 100 year old process model. Then I will discuss process enactment and its relation to low & no-code development and model-driven engineering. The past 10 years of BPM were heavily influenced by process mining, a flavor of data mining using a process lens. On several occasions I will give examples using emerging technologies like blockchain. The talk will finish with a brief view on augmenting BPM technologies with artificial intelligence (AI).

Prof. Dr. Ingo Weber is Professor of IT Service Management, Development and Operations at the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology. Ingo Weber is also Director of Digitial Transformation and ICT Infrastructure at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Before moving to Munich, he was Full Professor of Software and Business Engineering at Technische Universität Berlin from 2019 to 2022. Before that, he spent ten years in Sydney, Australia, where he worked for the research institutions CSIRO, NICTA and UNSW. In 2009, he received his PhD from the University of Karlsruhe (TH), now KIT, and worked in parallel for SAP Research.

In his research, Ingo Weber focuses on various subfields of computer science, in particular business process management and process mining, software architecture and engineering, DevOps, blockchain, and applied AI. He is author of numerous publications and co-author of the textbooks “DevOps: A Software Architect’s Perspective” (2015) and “Architecture for Blockchain Applications” (2019).