Process Mining Camp is the place for experienced process miners to meet and learn from each other. But what if you are still relatively new and have never done a process mining project yourself? Is camp also right for you?

Well, it absolutely is! There is no better way to learn than by looking over the shoulder of a professional at the top of their game. You will take away so much, just from listening to other process miners discussing their challenges, their approaches, and their perspective. And, of course, you will also get plenty of hands-on practice yourself — including the experience of working on a realistic process mining case.

Having said that, in order to make camp a worthwhile experience, you need to have a basic understanding of the core process mining concepts. This is why we introduced boot camp a few years ago. This basic training will make you familiar with the essentials and prepare you for camp, so that you can hit the ground running.

At this year’s Process Mining Camp we are making boot camp available to all campers free of charge. And we invite all of you to join us for the first session, even if you won’t be able to join us at camp!

Boot camp takes place online, over two sessions. In the first session we introduce the technology and position it with respect to other methods, so that you can clearly place it in your head. Then, we guide you through a typical process mining scenario, step by step. Afterwards, you will learn simplification strategies for complex process maps. Finally, we give you a homework exercise with concrete questions to analyze. In the second session, you will discuss the solution to the homework exercise and learn about typical analysis questions and common data challenges.

While the second session takes place one week before camp, the first session takes place three times and is open to the public. So, if you are still on the fence about joining camp, or even if you are just looking for a crash course of process mining, this is a great chance to get a head start in this topic.

To join the first session of boot camp, pick one of the following dates:

• Thursday, 19 March 15:00 - 17:00 CET → Reserve your seat now

• Wednesday, 1 April 10:00 - 12:00 CEST → Reserve your seat now

• Tuesday, 21 April 15:00 - 17:00 CEST → Reserve your seat now

• Wednesday, 6 May 15:00 - 17:00 CEST → Reserve your seat now

Choose the date that is best for you, and sign up right away.

See you at boot camp!

At last year’s Process Mining Camp, Linda Jantz from BVV Pension Management told us that all-day workshops are the most effective way to drive change within an organization.

As a warm-up for this year’s Process Mining Camp, we have invited Linda to the Process Mining Café tomorrow to dive deeper into the topic: How do you organize a good workshop? Who do you invite? How do you prepare? Which tools do you use? How do you document the outcome?

Join us! The café takes place this Thursday, 12 March, at 15:00 CET (Check your timezone here). As always, you don’t need to register. Point your browser to fluxicon.com/cafe when it is time.

Sign up for the café mailing list here to receive a reminder one hour before the session starts. Or add the time to your calendar if you don’t want to miss it.

Join us for Process Mining Camp 2026 from 18 to 20 May in Marseille. Get your ticket here now!

At first sight, process mining seems like a magic trick: You just load some data and — boom! — a process map appears, like a rabbit from a top hat. But of course it is not quite as simple and smooth sailing from here on out.

Using a process mining tool productively requires quite a bit of skill and experience. There are lots of parameters and tools, allowing you to fine-tune your perspective, to drill down on parts of interest, or to verify your hypotheses. And, as you have surely learned, data rarely comes in the clean and ready-to-use form we use in demos. Extracting, pre-processing, and filtering that data, cleaning it of unwanted artifacts, is arguably an art form in its own right.

And then, even when you have mastered the core skills of process mining, you notice that there are plenty of further aspects to consider. How can you address the relevant problems and questions your organization faces? Who do you need to involve, and how can you adequately address their concerns? How do you go about sharing your results, demonstrating value? How can you turn insight into change and create actual, meaningful, and tangible results?

Three days of process mining

The program for this year’s Process Mining Camp is filled to the brim, so that you will take a big leap forward on all of these questions. Join us for three full days, and explore the full spectrum of process mining topics.

You will have lots of opportunity to work on your process mining skills hands-on. At the same time, you will also focus on organizational aspects, allowing you to realize more value with process mining in your company. Let’s put the rubber to the road and make sure we leave an impact!

Join us in Marseille, in the south of France. Easily reached by train or by plane, this sunny Mediterranean port city is buzzing with energy. The unique atmosphere of this place will inspire us while we focus on process mining for three intense days.

Here is what you can look forward to at this year’s camp:

Workouts. Your skills are the core of your process mining practice. Get to work in a series of hands-on exercises, challenge yourself, and broaden your repertoire.

Lightning talks. Take the stage, in front of a room full of practitioners. Tell your story, ask a question, or share an idea — no holds barred.

Workshops. Discuss how to address the right analysis goals, navigate data challenges, ensure business value, and communicate your work effectively in four interactive workshops.

Case work. Work on a process mining project from start to finish. You will join a small group of process miners, with different backgrounds, and solve the case together.

Boot camp. Learn the fundamentals of process mining and get ready for camp. This year’s boot camp takes place online, and the first session is open to everyone free of charge. Go ahead and join the boot camp here.

Join the community

Throughout three days of camp you will meet people who actually use process mining themselves, in their daily practice. We all have different backgrounds, and unique perspectives, skills, and experiences to share. You will benefit from talking with your peers, and learn how they are tackling challenges in their own environment.

It’s when you speak with others that you discover blind spots, get new ideas for how to move forward, and learn from each other. You will build lasting connections and a support network that will sustain you way beyond camp itself.

See you at camp!

This year’s camp will be more intense and hands-on than ever. At the same time, you will have lots of time to reflect, talk with your fellow campers, and make new friends in the community. You will return home fully charged, with energy and new ideas for your own process mining initiatives.

→ Sign up now to reserve your spot and lock in the lowest rate!

We are very excited about this year’s camp. We think you are going to love it, and we can’t wait to meet you all in Marseille!

Every year, process miners from around the world come together at Process Mining Camp to improve their skills and meet other process mining professionals.

Process Mining Camp 2026 will take place from 18 to 20 May in Marseille, France.

Save the days of 18-20 May in your calendar and stay tuned! We are very excited about this year’s camp and you’ll learn more about it very soon.

— Your friends from Fluxicon

In our Process Mining Café with Owen Johnson from the University of Leeds, we talked about his applications of process mining in healthcare.

Many interesting lessons emerged from this session, such as:

• Process thinking: Healthcare professionals deal with protocols and guidelines as checklists. As part of the process mining project, the process thinking needs to be developed to combat silos by bringing clinicians from different stages of the pathway together.

• Agile methodology: Owen books his time with all of the medical experts before the project starts. The process mining work then evolves in cycles until the next meeting for domain expert validation, deeper feedback, and finally the development of improvement ideas.

• Eighty-twenty-one percent rule: It makes sense to separate simple from complicated cases and to analyze them separately. Furthermore, the pathways of the last 1% of patients are really complex and you should remove them from the data. They are not appropriate for data analytics.

There are many more insights, such as why you should have a control cohort (also outside of healthcare), why it makes sense to model the process before mining it, and why it is good not to get the credit you deserve.

Watch the recording of the café here if you have missed it. A big thanks to Owen and to all of you for joining us!

Our apologies for the three audio cut-outs in the first five minutes of the session. We have added a text overlay of the questions that Anne asked Owen to the video version of the café, so that you can follow the discussion.

Links

Here are the links that we mentioned during the session:

• Williams, S., Southall, C., Haley, S., Dhafari, T.B., Kemp, S., Relton, S.D., Alty, J.E., Johnson, O., Graham, C.D. and Maguire, M. (2022), To the emergency room and back again: Circular healthcare pathways for acute functional neurological disorders. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 437, p.120251.

• Johnson, OA, Ba Dhafari, T, Kurniati, A et al. (2019), The ClearPath Method for Care Pathway Process Mining and Simulation. In: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. BPM 2018: Business Process Management Workshops, 09-14 Sep 2018, Sydney, Australia. Springer, pp. 239-250. ISBN 9783030116408

• Martin, N., De Weerdt, J., Fernández-Llatas, C., Gal, A., Gatta, R., Ibáñez, G., Johnson, O., Mannhardt, F., Marco-Ruiz, L., Mertens, S. and Munoz-Gama, J., 2020. Recommendations for enhancing the usability and understandability of process mining in healthcare. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 109, p.101962.

• Munoz-Gama, J., Martin, N., Fernandez-Llatas, C., Johnson, O.A., Sepúlveda, M., Helm, E., Galvez-Yanjari, V., Rojas, E., Martinez-Millana, A., Aloini, D. and Amantea, I.A., 2022. Process mining for healthcare: Characteristics and challenges. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 127, p.103994.

• Van Eck, M.L., Lu, X., Leemans, S.J. and Van Der Aalst, W.M. (2015), PM2: A process mining project methodology. In: International conference on advanced information systems engineering (pp. 297-313).

• Our 12-step process mining methodology

• Differences between ClearPath and PM2 methodology

• Process Mining Café on common preprocessing tasks with Xixi Lu

• Process Mining Café about data quality with Kanika Goel and Niels Martin

• Process Mining Café about simulation with Lambros Viennas and Sudhendu Rai

• Process Mining Café about the explorative analysis phase

• Collection of process mining applications in healthcare

• Previous Process Mining Café on healthcare with Luise Pufahl and Fran Batchelor

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