I'm rather excited to be attending Process Days 2009 in Sydney. It runs from 3-6th August. Rather than me spout on about it I decided to ask Leonardo's Consulting's Director and BP Trends contributor Roger Tregear to tell me all about it...
What makes Process Days different from other BPM events?
[RogerT] ProcessDays has come to be more than just a conference. Apart from being 4 days of variety in classes and presentations, there are many opportunities for networking with fellow practitioners and vendors. The program is designed to optimise the learning experience. It’s an event designed by people whose business is BPM. We don’t run it to make a profit. We run it to facilitate learning and networking. Other conferences are often designed and delivered by people whose business is running conferences. This year’s event will be the 7th annual ProcessDays.
Who are you looking forward to talking to or meeting at Process Days?
[RogerT] Everyone. We’ll have many regulars coming back to ProcessDays so it will be good to see them again. Always good to meet new people as well. And, of course, The Process Ninja!
What are the “must see” events or talks at this year’s event?
[RogerT] I’ll certainly be going to Master Class 2 about Managing Service Processes – since I’m delivering that one! Lida’s Master Class about standardising processes will be interesting – important topic. I’m not so interested in the more technical topics but there are some great topics in that group. The Master Classes are a great opportunity to spend extended time talking about important aspects of BPM. For the Conference we’ll have some friends from overseas – Bassam AlKharashi (MeduNet, Riyadh), Christine Stephenson (Emirates, Bahrain), Joerg Klueckmann (IDS, Germany). Alec Sharp will be back with us online from Vancouver. Alec got the highest delegate evaluation scores last year so his will be a welcome return. Professor Michael Rosemann will do his usual endnote presentation about future process developments. Michael has great insights into “the next big thing in process”. We’ll also have Dr Rosalind Dubs, Deputy Vice Chancellor and Registrar at UTS to present in the last session on Day 1 of the Conference. She is leading a process transformation at UTS and has an interesting mixture of industry and academic experience. Speaking of process transformation, Carolyn Hogg, the Centrelink Deputy CEO Service Delivery & Emergency Management, will have a great presentation about the continuous improvement revolution underway at Centrelink.
How will Process Days help companies in these difficult financial times?
[RogerT] Firstly, ProcessDays is a very inexpensive Conference and Master Classes so it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg to attend. We also do great deals for group bookings. Secondly, we will spend 4 days talking about how to do “more with less”. That has to help. I think more and more organisations are realising that the old “sack and sell” response to tough times just isn’t good enough.
And finally, how will we be able to meet the legendary Roger Tregear at Process Days???
[RogerT] It will be hard to avoid me! I co-chair the Conference with Michael Rosemann and I’ll be around for every moment of all four days.
