Call for Speakers

Business Process Management Conference Europe 2010

CALL FOR SPEAKERS

Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the Business Process Management Conference Europe 2010, scheduled for 27-29 September at the Park Plaza Victoria Hotell, London, UK .The conference is produced by IRM UK and BPTrends.

Do you or any of your team have a formal presentation to contribute to this event? All selected speakers will be entitled to attend the event free of charge.

The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2010.

We are looking for keynotes, conference sessions and half day workshops on the following key themes and topics (but not limited to).

Building BPM Capabilities

Getting BPM up and running internally including getting executive and senior management buy-in, establishing a common methodology and  a common BPM language, building human competencies, developing reusable methods, tools and techniques, developing an effective communications plan and assuring sustainability.

Using BPM to Change How Businesses Are Managed

How to use BPM to assure alignment of corporate strategy with operations including  architecture, change portfolio management, alignment of disparate enterprise capabilities such as IT, HR, enterprise architecture and other enterprise assets.

BPM Governance and the Centre of Expertise

How to manage Business Process as Enterprise Assets through governance of process performance and change, introducing BPM as an enterprise discipline into an organisation including how to setup and run a BPM Centre of Expertise.

BPM Success Stories

Completed strategic, operational or technical BPM case studies from all market sectors that demonstrate the value of BPM through presentation of measureable business performance results.

Process Modelling and Improvement Techniques and Best Practices

How to build and use effective and stable process architecture models and connected project level process models. How to analyse a process to eliminate waste and improve performance, including techniques and notations for scoping, mapping, measuring, analysing and designing.

Business Process Design Innovations

How to apply innovative concepts and techniques to business processes, from unstructured to very structured methods, to generate out of the box new ideas and business models.

Process-Centric Approaches to Business Rules and Business Analysis

Finding, classifying, organizing and re-using business rules as part of a business process specification for ease of change, including rule and process independence..  Using processes to define the requirements for IT system functionality including process use-cases, IT services and related specifications to align business and information systems.

BPM Implementation

How to leverage the promise of BPM centric technologies and enterprise architectures including BPMS, BAM and SOA. Ensuring integrity from process designs through development and roll out.
BPM Human Change Establishing roll-out plans for process-centric business solutions that engage staff and motivate managers with the full commitment of business executives. Assuring executive understanding and buy-in to the redesign of their own management processes.
BPM and Emerging Trends New and emerging business concepts, ideas or technologies which have a particular relevance to BPM.  New ways of thinking about BPM.

Target Audience:
IRM UK BPM Europe Conference draws 200+ key strategists, analysts and decision makers – Line of Business Managers, Chief Process Officers, CIOs, CTOs, Solution Managers and IT Executives, Strategic Planners, Enterprise Architects, Corporate Executives,  Business Analysts, HR Managers and Quality Assurance Managers, from large and small organizations, including the public and private sector, across Europe, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Please click here for speaker guidelines, which will help you prepare a successful abstract, and click here to submit your proposal.

Please direct any questions about submissions to Jeremy Hall (jeremy.hall@irmuk.co.uk)

Sponsorship opportunities are available:
Please contact Shane Mcglynn at shane@irmuk.co.uk

Speaker Guidelines for the Business Process Management Conference Europe 2010

Please read these guidelines carefully before you make your submission, and ensure it reaches us by 15 March 2010.

We are looking for:
a) 50-60 minute conference sessions and Keynotes
b) Pre-conference seminars/workshops (3 hours or 6 hours)

We expect to receive a large number of submissions for this conference, and take a wide range of factors into account in making selections, including the need to provide a balanced programme. A shortlist of the most promising abstracts is sent to a programme committee for revue before a final decision is made.

Please submit your abstract directly on our website using the submission form. You may submit more than one abstract.

Your abstract should keep strictly to the limit of 100 -150 words, clearly outlining your content and including 3-5 bullet points at the end to summarise your key messages.

Bear in mind that your abstract needs to be sufficiently polished for inclusion in the conference brochure and must achieve the following objectives:

  • Provide enough information for us to evaluate your submission relative to others. To aid the evaluation you can include additional relevant information in section 3C of the submission form.
  • Be attractive to conference attendees and help them to select the sessions most valuable to them, given their interests and level of maturity of their BA experience.

Based on previous conference feedback and programme assessments, here are some tips to help you maximise your chances of being selected.

DO:

  • Be specific and concrete about what you will be presenting and how the audience will benefit from it. Use the bullet points to highlight the key ‘takeaways’.
  • Demonstrate real-world achievements, showing examples of content if possible, and describing outcomes from applying it.
  • Push the envelope. Aim to stretch the audience with fresh insights and the benefit of your own experience. Or present a topic that would fully engage people at the CIO level.
  • Ensure that your presentation is really relevant to this conference. If your talk majors on a specialised topic (e.g. EA, information architecture or software), you should position it clearly in an overall BPM context.

AVOID:

  • ‘Pitching’ specific products.
  • Exceeding the word count limit.
  • Trying to cover too much ground in the time available.
  • Putting forward unsubstantiated theories or opinions.
  • Using vague abstractions and jargon.

If you have presented recently at other conference on similar subject matter, we suggest that you use section 3C of the submission form to indicate how this presentation is different from what you have presented before.

If you are not sure whether your idea is suitable or not, please feel free to contact us to discuss it before making your submission.

Please note that abstracts which are longer than the specified length may be shortlisted, but will be edited down by us to fit the brochure and presented back to you for approval.

You will be notified whether your submission has been accepted by May 2010.

Click here to submit your proposal.