Key members of the BPM standards community are coming together in Mainz Germany on September 29 to present six hour-long tutorials on subjects relevant to getting BPM system to work together. The tutorials range from general overview of the BPM market, to specific detailed presentations on standards. For those vendors who are already familiar with BPM there is an interactive XPDL design strategy session to discuss specific implementation approaches.

This is presented as part of Business Process Management 2006 which is a four day event, the BPM Standards will be presented on the last day, Friday. While the first three days are primarily in German, the BPM Standards day will be presented exclusively in English.

The schedule is:

• 09:00 Welcome and Introduction
• 09:10-10:00 BPMN/XPDL overview
• 10:00-10:45 BPMN/XPDL details
• 11:15-12:00 Human BPM (workflow) vs. EAI BPM (Service Orchestration)
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch
• 13:00-13:45 What is BPM? What is Workflow? The Business Value of BPM & Workflow.
• 14:00-14:45 Relationship between BPM and SOA – How to leverage what you have.
• 15:15-16:00 XPDL vs. BPEL
• 16:00-16:30 Panel Session, Q&A, Roundup, Feedback

The presenters include Jon Pyke (WfMC Chair), Robert Shapiro (Global360), Keith Swenson (Fujitsu), Saša Bojanic (ProZone), Justin Brunt (TIBCO), Ken Mei (Global 360), Philippe Betschart (W4 Global), Philip Larson (Appian Corp), Thomas Olbrich (Chair Business Process Management 2006), and draws upon work created and helped along by the Workflow Management Coalition.

Here is a detailed schedule of the presentations. Hope to see you there!