*@ Business Process Management Conference (BPM), September 27 – October 2, 2026, Toronto, Canada* # About the Workshop Digital technologies have significant impacts on people, organizations, and the environment, both positive and negative. Across research and practice, substantial efforts are underway to better understand these impacts, mitigate negative effects, and leverage the positive potential of digital technologies to support sustainability goals. Business Process Management for Sustainability (BPM4S) views process-oriented approaches as an important piece of this broader puzzle. By making activities, flows, dependencies, and data explicit, Business Process Management and related techniques provide a foundation for systematically analysing and shaping how digital systems contribute to sustainability outcomes. The BPM4S workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners working on sustainability analysis, environmental informatics, ICT for Sustainability, life-cycle assessment, climate or energy modelling, and related areas who are interested in a process-oriented perspective. The workshop explicitly welcomes contributions that connect sustainability models and data with processes, workflows, activities, or dynamic systems without requiring prior background in BPM. BPM4S aims to foster exchange across disciplinary boundaries, explore how sustainability insights can be operationalized through processes and digital systems, and support the development of a growing research community at the intersection of BPM and sustainability. # Tentative Program and Format The workshop is planned as a half-day mini-conference and will include: - Peer-reviewed paper presentations - Short “show-and-tell” presentations (tools, datasets, work in progress) - A brief invited inspirational input from a local expert - An open world café–style interactive session for interdisciplinary discussion, community building, and agenda setting # Topics of Interest The workshop invites submissions on topics including, but not limited to: ## Process-oriented sustainability analysis - Sustainability-aware process modelling (e.g., BPMN, Petri nets, object-centric models) - Process-oriented representations of life-cycle, supply-chain, or environmental processes - Linking process models with sustainability indicators and impact metrics ## Sustainability data, automation, and analytics - Process mining and event data for sustainability analysis - Automation and digitalization of LCA, carbon accounting, or sustainability reporting - Integration of enterprise, IoT, and environmental data with process-aware systems - Sustainability-aware process monitoring, simulation, and optimization ## ICT for Sustainability and environmental informatics - Environmental informatics approaches with a process perspective - Process-oriented integration of climate or energy models - Sustainability-oriented digital twins and data infrastructures - Decision-support systems combining process and sustainability data ## Architectures, tools, and applications - Reference architectures and design patterns for sustainability-aware BPM - Tool support and prototypes for process-based sustainability analysis - Industry and public-sector case studies - Experience reports from interdisciplinary projects ## Vision, challenges, and community building - Conceptual frameworks linking BPM and sustainability assessment - Open challenges at the intersection of BPM and sustainability - Vision and position papers on future research directions # Submission Guidelines There are three submission categories: - Full papers (12 pages, including references, figures and tables): Suitable for complete or substantial ongoing research, case studies, or tool/system descriptions. - Short papers (6 pages, including references, figures and papers): Suitable for visionary or position papers, as well as extended abstracts by PhD students presenting ongoing work. - Show & Tell (free format, up to 2 pages): Suitable for summaries of work already published or under review elsewhere, descriptions of work in progress, tutorials, and practical experience reports. Show & Tell submissions will undergo a light relevance check and will not be included in the proceedings, but will be allocated presentation time during the workshop. Submissions to any workshop held at the BPM 2026 conference must be written in English and must not have been published previously or be under review elsewhere. Papers must follow the Springer LNCS style for the full manuscript, including references, appendices, and figures, using the templates and instructions provided on Springer’s LNCS conference proceedings guidelines page ([https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines](https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines)). Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the workshop’s Program Committee. The Workshop Chairs make the final acceptance decision based on the reviews. The workshops provide informal proceedings to participants at the conference site. Revised versions of these informal proceedings are published after the conference as post-proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series. # Important Dates - Workshop paper submission: 5 June 2026 - Workshop papers notification: 3 July 2026 - Workshops pre-proceedings deadline: 31 July 2026 - Workshop date: 28 September 2026 (co-located with BPM 2026 Toronto, Canada) - Submission deadline for camera-ready papers to be published in the LNBIP post proceedings: 9 October 2026 # Organizers - Dr. Andreas Fritsch, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Nina Graves, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Martín Rubio, Universidad de la República, Uruguay # Tentative Program Committee TBD Contact: [email protected]