I had the opportunity to spend a week in sunny Brisbane, Australia, to attend the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, the largest academic conference in the BPM space. Hajo A. Reijers and I presented a paper on the use of biological mechanisms for task allocation, which are particularly useful in the emergency response domain (you can download the paper in the publications section here).Today I gave a two hour tutorial on the state of BPM standards, which was very well attended. The emerging landscape of integration, choreography, notation, and interchange standards in the BPM field are both confusing for practitioners and a fertile research field for researchers. Thankfully there are some efforts from standards groups to clarify the scope of their efforts and the impact of their specifications. I had a chance to talk to Karsten Ploesser of SAP, one of the co-authors of the BPEL4People draft specification, which is emerging as a very focused document, which will probably make it easier to understand and implement in practice – one key aspect that affects the adoption and diffusion of standards.Since I received a large number of requests for the presentation slides I made them available on slideshare. You can download the PDF of the presentation here and an audio recording is available here. 

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Update: All slides from the BPM 2007 conference are available for download here: http://bpm07.fit.qut.edu.au/program/index.jsp