Slides
Here are some slides (under development)
- Object-Centric Process Mining – Moving from 2D to 3D Provides a deep dive into object-centric event data and models, showing how multiple interacting objects (orders, items, packages, etc.) enable a far richer and more realistic view of processes.(RWTH, APM, 2025)
- From Data to Process Improvements in Intensive Care Argues that AI only becomes truly useful in healthcare when grounded in real hospital process data, using process mining to uncover bottlenecks, capacity issues, and improvement opportunities in ICUs. (Hellmut-Weese-Gedächtnisvorlesung, DGAI, Kassel, 2025)
- LLMs in BPM – What Works, What Fails, and Why We Need OCPM Evaluates large language models in business process management, showing their limits on messy real processes and arguing that object-centric process mining provides the missing structure.(ICPM 2025, Uruguay,2025)
- Events, Objects, and Concurrency in Real Processes Demonstrates why real operational processes cannot be understood through simple linear cases and introduces object-centric thinking to disentangle concurrency and complex interactions. (Siemens Workshop, Eindhoven, 2025)
- Query, Explore, Understand – Human-in-the-Loop Process Mining Introduces interactive, user-guided process discovery with Cortado and OCPQ, showing how analysts can iteratively query, refine, and “freeze” model parts to uncover complex behavior that automated discovery alone would miss. (UniBZ, Bolzano,2025)
- AI Between Vision and Administration (KI zwischen Vision und Verwaltung) Cuts through AI hype by showing that without process transparency and process mining, generic AI advice is shallow and ineffective for improving real administrative processes like BAföG.(Aachen, 2025)
- INFORM - No Enterprise AI without Object-Centric Process Mining Positions object-centric process mining as the foundation for enterprise AI, arguing that traditional case-centric views are too “2D” to support meaningful predictive and prescriptive intelligence. (Keynote, Inform Conference, 2025)
- Process Mining Demystified – How Does It Really Work? Offers an accessible but technically grounded walkthrough of the full process mining pipeline—from event data to discovery, conformance checking, and predictive/prescriptive modeling. (Celosphere, Germany, 2025)
- Process Mining for Optimization - Optimization for Process Mining Shows how process mining and optimization reinforce each other, from discovering and checking processes (e.g., inductive mining, alignments) to using optimization techniques to improve mining itself. (Pohang,2025)
- Process Mining: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Traces the evolution of process mining from its TU/e origins to modern process intelligence, showing how the field moved from simple “happy paths” to object-centric, AI-enabled analysis of real-world “rainbow spaghetti” processes. (Eindhoven, 2025)
- Putting AI into Action Presents RWTH Aachen’s AI ecosystem and argues that “AI in action” requires strong domain integration, large-scale infrastructure (e.g., JAIF/JUPITER), and applied methods like process mining to create real industrial and societal impact. (AIxChange, Aachen, 2025)
- Want to Do a Process Mining Project? How to Start? Provides a practical introduction to process mining for newcomers, explaining how event data enables discovery, conformance checking, and performance analysis to tackle real process problems across domains. (RWTH,2024)
- The Rise of Object-Centric Process Mining Explains why traditional workflow and case-centric BPM approaches failed to capture real operational complexity and positions object-centric process mining as the next step toward true process intelligence and AI integration. (SSON Keynote, 2024)
- Digital Twins- A Modern Time Machine for Operations Explains the evolution from digital models to digital shadows and ultimately digital twins, emphasizing that realistic operational twins require process mining and human-AI hybrid intelligence. (Web Summit 2022, Lisbon)
- Data Models in the Middle (BP-Meet-IoT Keynote) Highlights the fragmentation of data models across IoT and production environments and proposes “models-in-the-middle” as a unifying semantic layer enabling process mining and AI. (BPM 2023, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2023)
- Do you want to do a process mining project? What are the requirements? How do I start?
PowerPoint Version (give credits when using) - No AI without PI in the Public Sector (KPMG Process Mining Forum, Wassenaar)
- Mine your own business! Wie Process Mining die Dinge verbessert, die man nicht sieht (RWTH-Wissenschaftsnacht)
- Process Mining Unleashing Operational Efficiency at RWTH Aachen University and Beyond (RWTH Faculty Club)
- 25 Years of Progress and Future Perspectives in Process Mining (Celonis Process Mining Day Tokyo)
- Using Object-Centric Process Mining to Unravel Complexity and Enable Enterprise-Level AI/ML (Opening Wil van der Aalst Data and Process Science Research Center at POSTECH in Pohang, Korea)
- Digital twins: A modern time machine improving operational processes
- Process Mining and Hybrid Intelligence (Celonis CxOClub Tokyo)
- Introduction to Process Mining A 360 Degree Overview
PowerPoint Version (give credits when using) - Foundations of Process Discovery
PowerPoint Version (give credits when using) - How process mining improves the things you do not see
- Towards More Realistic Simulation Models Using Object-Centric Process Mining
- Object-Centric Process Mining: Unraveling the Fabric of Real Processes (Tutorial)
- Object-Centric Event Log 2.0 (OCEL 2.0)
- How to disentangle Spaghetti processes?
- Mine Your Own Business!
- Process Mining: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- Autonomous Process Execution Management: Powered by Process Mining
- Why did BPM fail?
- Free-Choice Nets with Home Clusters are (Surprisingly) Lucent
- Process Mining: The Enabler for Evidence-Based Automation, AI and ML!
- Concurrency and Objects Matter!: Disentangling the Fabric of Real Operational Processes
- Reduction Using Induced Subnets To Systematically Prove Properties For Free-Choice Nets
- Digital twins: A modern time machine improving operational processes
Videos
Here are some videos (under development)