The Fourth Canadian Process Mining Community (CPMC) Annual Meeting

Presenters from our Canadian Process Mining Community will summarize research, applications, and tools on process mining in/from Canada. This is an in-person event.

Tentative Agenda:

9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Opening Session
Speakers: Mazdak Nik-Bakht (Concordia University), Daniel Amyot (University of Ottawa), Najah El-Gharib (University of Ottawa), Arik Senderovich (York University)

9:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
From Process Mining to Agentic AI: A Process Intelligence Journey in Commercial Loan Organization at the National Bank of Canada
Presenters: Sophie Lacroix and Frédéric Brosseau (National Bank of Canada and Levio)

10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Business Process Management Conference 2026 – Q&A
Presenter: Arik Senderovich, Associate Professor, York University

10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Coffee Break

11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Mining the Cancer Care Pathway: Process Intelligence from Cancer Suspicion to Definitive Treatment
Presenters: Julie Renaud (Director, Cancer Care, The Ottawa Hospital); Juan Ramirez-Acuña and Chang Liu (University of Ottawa)

11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
PMLO: A Process Mining Methodology for Increasing Success in Large Organizations
Presenter: Jacques Trottier, Process Automation Program Lead, Export Development Canada

12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break (Lunch is not included. Several restaurants are located around Concordia's campus.)

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m.
A Bayes-Risk-Informed Process Decoder for Suffix Prediction
Presenter: Xiaomeng He, PhD Candidate, KU Leuven, Belgium

2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Process Mining Use Case Map Models (UCM) with PM4Py-UCM
Presenter: Daniel Amyot, Professor, University of Ottawa

2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Contextualized Process Discovery
Presenter: Zahra Ahmadi, PhD Candidate, KU Leuven, Belgium

3 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Short Break

3:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Automatic Machine Learning for Prediction in Process Mining
Presenter: Søren Frederiksen, CTO & Co-Founder, Mindzie

3:45 p.m. to 4 p.m.
How Organizations Use Process Mining to Enable Automations: Evidence from Qualitative Interviews in Canada
Presenter: Najah El-Gharib, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa

4 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.
Mind the Semantic Process Gap: Discovering Domain Ontologies from Object-Centric Event Logs
Presenter: William Van Woensel, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa

4:20 p.m. to 4:40 p.m.
Presentation Topic to Be Announced
Presenter: Abraham Martinez Lagunas, VDC Senior Coordinator – Innovation, Pomerleau

4:40 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Presentation Topic to Be Announced
Presenter: Vahid Kamandlooie, MSc Student, University of Ottawa