The Best Business Process Management Events and Conferences to Attend in 2020

This is a directory of the best business process management events and conferences. We do our best to provide readers with buyer and practitioner resources, including the Solutions Review Buyer’s Guide. Sometimes though, you need extra exposure, the kind you can only get in person.
The editors at Solutions Review have created this list of the year’s most anticipated business process management events to attend. We’ve scoured the web, consulted with conference representatives, and identified where the industry’s top brass will be spending their time. If you are looking for top-notch keynotes, interesting sessions, best practices demos, and legitimate networking opportunities, mark your calendar.
All of the conferences listed are organized by independent analysts, researchers, and media outlets. We have not listed solution provider or vendor-centric user demonstrations. The business process management events are listed in chronological order and may include additional dates. Clicking More Information directs you to the event home page.
OPEX Week: Business Transformation World Summit 2020
Date: January 21-24
Location: Orlando, FL
Description: OPEX Week 2020 prides itself as the largest, most reputable and the most senior level summit. Providing cutting edge best practices in business process re-engineering, process excellence and innovation, change leadership, BPM, RPA, and AI, all backed by the massive and ever-growing global PEX Network Community (150,000+ members). It is the single destination that covers the full ecosystem of OPEX and provides a holistic approach for business transformation and operational excellence.
Gartner IT Symposium Xpo
Date: March 2-4
Location: Dubai, UAE
Description: At Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo™ 2020 discover a refreshing and imaginative approach that will change the way innovative CIOs and IT executives think about digital leadership, business strategy, information and technology. If your key initiatives include transforming organizational culture, improving productivity and efficiency, enhancing customer experience or growing revenue, Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo will arm you with the data-driven insights, tools and practical advice needed to deliver a winning strategy.
bpmNEXT 2020
Date: April 27-29
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Description: Now in its 8th year, bpmNEXT remains the definitive showcase of the next generation of Intelligent Automation software – covering Process Mining and Advanced Analytics, AI and Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Decision Management, Digital Transformation, and new cloud software architecture built on containers and REST services. This is no typical “how-to” conference aimed at newbies. It is designed specifically for those already chest-deep in Intelligent Automation technology and eager to get in early on its next round of technology innovation – to touch it, see it, and influence it.
BPM Conference 2020
Date: September 13-18
Location: Seville, Spain
Description: BPM 2020 is the 18th conference in a series that provides the most prestigious forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of Business Process Management. Over the past decade, the conference has built its reputation by showcasing leading-edge research of the highest quality together with talks, tutorials and discussions by the most renowned thought leaders and innovators in the field. The BPM conference series embraces the diversity and richness of the BPM field and serves as a melting pot for experts from a mix of disciplines including Computer Science, Information Systems Engineering, and Management.
Process & Performance Management Conference
Date: October 5-9
Location: Houston, TX
Description: Join more than 250 process practitioners and business professionals at the 8th annual Process and Performance Management (PPM) Conference, October 5-9, 2020. Equip yourself with the tools and tactics to communicate the value of process management, advance process, and improvement initiatives, and sustain behavior change so that it becomes part of your organization’s DNA.
ICBPMS 2020: International Conference on Business Process Management Systems
Date: October 29-30
Location: Paris, France
Description: ICBPMS 2020 aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Business Process Management Systems. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, as well as practical challenges, encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of Business Process Management Systems.
Intelligent Automation Week
Date: November 23-25
Location: London, UK
Description: With intelligent automation on 80% of C-level agendas and 66% of financial services expected to make a significant investment in the next 3 years, organizations are revolutionizing their processes. RPA deployment requires transparent governance and the convergence with other tools and technologies such as BPM and Lean to scale; the shift to cognitive automation necessitates the use of structured and unstructured data; while tangible uses of AI are being implemented. There is no doubt that intelligent automation can help mitigate risk, compliance, fraud, anti-money laundering, claims, underwriting and open your business to a world of new opportunities, but do you know how to make the most out of IA?