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#SESSION 1 - Paper Presentations (Monday, 28th September, 2026) - Room: Hall B
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome
09:10 - 09:35 Philipp Zähl, Leonie Schulte and Christian Czarnecki. Automation-Induced Social Debt: How Process Automation Redefines Social Dependencies in Organizations (pdf)
09:35 - 10:00 Harry Herbert Beyel, Luca Dewert and Wil M. P. van der Aalst. ScreenGuard: Privacy-Aware Term-Level Redaction to Enable Task Mining (pdf)
10:00 - 10:25 Najah Mary El-Gharib and Daniel Amyot. Where to Automate Next? Using Process Mining to Identify RPA and Agentic AI Opportunities (pdf)
Slides are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X-RKargRZQW5F0sPB6R_SPMxt-sC3Lt8?usp=drive_link
10:30 - 11:00 coffee break
#SESSION 2 - Interactive Session (Monday, 28th September, 2026) - Room: Hall B
11:00 - 11:45 AI Agents and Software Robots: Replacement or (Re-)Evolution?
Reflections on RPA and Bounded Artificial Agency
ABSTRACT: Will AI agents replace RPA and software robots? This talk examines their distinct capabilities and the conditions under which substitution makes sense. While AI agents offer flexibility in handling unstructured inputs and unexpected situations, software robots following deterministic workflows remain valuable for predictable, controlled execution. The talk explores how software robots could develop bounded artificial agency: the capacity to act and adapt within explicit constraints, with AI agents supporting adaptation where it adds value. The central question is how much agency a software robot needs, and how that agency can be exercised reliably
PROF. ANDREA MARRELLA
PROF. ANDREA MARRELLA
Andrea Marrella is an Associate Professor of Engineering in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where he co-leads the Processes, Services and Software Engineering group. Andrea has co-authored over 150 scientific publications in major outlets in the AI and information systems areas, winning a Best Paper Award at CAiSE 2017. Andrea is an Editorial Board Member of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality and ACM Computing Surveys. Among his recent scientific appointments, he has been the General Chair of ICPM 2023, and the PC Co-Chair of BPM 2024. In 2023, he co-authored the Manifesto on AI-Augmented BPM (https://doi.org/10.1145/3576047), presenting the vision to make processes more adaptable, proactive and explainable through AI. From 2022, he coordinates the working group on AI and BPM of the Italian AIxIA community. In 2024, he organized the Dagstuhl seminar on Improving Trust between Humans and Software Robots in RPA (https://www.dagstuhl.de/24292). In 2026, he contributed to the development of the seminal Manifesto on Agentic BPM (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2026.102738), which envisions autonomous BPM practices driven by AI agents ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. In 2027, he will coordinate the Dagstuhl seminar on “AI-Enabled Compliance Management for Business Processes” (https://www.dagstuhl.de/27191).
11:45 - 12:30 Roundtable Discussion: (Participation is open to anyone interested!)
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