Mathias Weske

Professor Dr. Mathias Weske is chair of the business process technology research group at Hasso Plattner Institute at the Digital Engineering Faculty, University of Potsdam, Germany. The research group aims at addressing real-world problems in business process management with formal approaches and engineering useful prototypes. His research focuses on the engineering of process oriented information systems, decision management, and event processing. The BPT research group has a track record in engineered prototypes with a significant impact on research and practice, including projects like Oryx and jBPT. He co-founded Signavio and he is business angel at Synfioo. Dr. Weske is author of the first textbook on business process management and he held the first massive open online course on the topic in 2013. With Matthias Kunze, he published a textbook on behavioural models. He is on the Editorial Board of Springer's Distributed and Parallel Databases journal, Springer’s Computing journal, and he is a founding member of the steering committee of the BPM conference series and, since September 2017, chair of the steering committee. Bio Sketch in German

Recent Talks

• October 10, 2017: Rethinking Business Process Management. HPI Research School Retreat, at SAP Hudson Yards, New York City. Invited by Andreas Polze
• September 13, 2017: BPM: Reflections on a Broad Discipline. Keynote at 15th International Conference on Business Process Management. Barcelona. Invited by PC Chairs of BPM 2017: Josep Carmona, Gregor Engels, Akhil Kumar
• June 15, 2017: Process Choreographies - From Modelling to Implementation. Computer Science Department, University of Verona, Italy. Invited by Carlo Combi
• June 14, 2017: More than Processes - Novel Challenges in BPM Research. Computer Science Department, University of Bolzano. Invited by Marco Montali
• March 14, 2017: Rethinking BPM Concepts for Cases and Decisions. School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Australia. Invited by Aditya Ghose
• March 9, 2017: Challenges in Case Management and Decision Management. School of Software and Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Invited by Ryszard Kowalczyk
• March 8, 2017: Rethinking BPM Concepts for Cases and Decisions. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Invited by Boualem Benatallah
• March 1, 2017: More than Processes - Novel Challenges in BPM Research. School of Information Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Invited by Marcello La Rosa
• February 27, 2017: Process Choreographies - From Modelling to Implementation. Data61, CSIRO, Eveleigh, Australia. Invited by Ingo Weber
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HPI Activities

• The BPT group at HPI regularly offers lectures and seminars on process oriented information systems, event processing, business process compliance and modeling of information systems in the bachelor's and master's programs at HPI.
• HPI Master Program HPI Master Program Representative
• Member of the Prüfungsausschuss
• Head of the Study Commission (Studienausschuss) IT Systems Engineering
• Deputy Head of the Fakultätsrat, Digital Engineering Fakultät

Scientific Service

• Since 2017 Chair of the Steering Committee of the BPM conference series; https://bpt.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/BpmConference/SteeringCommittee
• Since 2017 Associate Editor of the Springer journal Computing, http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607
• Since 2014 member of the Editorial Board of Springer's Distributed and Parallel Databases journal
• From 2006 to 2012 Chair of the GI Special Interest Group EMISA
• From 2005 to 2015 area Editor of Information Systems: An International Journal
• Since 2003 member of the Steering Committee of the Conference Series International Conference on Business Process Management. We also maintain http://bpm-conference.org.
• Reviews for Scientific Journals
• ACM Computing Surveys; ACM Transactions on the Web; IEEE Internet Computing; IEEE Transaction on Software Engineering; IEEE Transactions on Services Computing; Information Systems, Elsevier; Information and Software Technology, Elsevier; Data and Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier; Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer; Informatik Forschung und Entwicklung, Springer-Verlag; International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management; VLDB Journal; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Dissemination and Transfer

• BPT members Anne Baumgrass, Andreas Meyer, and Marian Pufahl in 2015 co-founded Synfioo, a software company offering real-time transportation monitoring and prediction services
• BPT members Thomas Baier and Rami Eid-Sabbagh in 2015 co-founded Lana Labs, a software company offering process mining, conformance checking and optimization services
• Co-Founded in 2009 Berlin-based software company Signavio
• 2008-2018 member of the Evaluation Commmitee of Profit, an investment program to foster innovation, run by Investitionsbank Berlin
• Member of the Advisory Board of Potsdam Transfer, the research transfer institute of the University of Potsdam