DecisionCAMP 2019: Serverless DROOLS and the Digital Engineer

How and Why I Turned a Rule Engine into a First-Class Serverless Component. Mario Fusco and Matteo Mortari, Red Hat Mario Fusco, who heads up the Drools project within Red Hat, presented on modernization of the Drools architecture to support serverless execution, using GraalVM and Quarkus. He discussed Kogito, a cloud-native, open source business automation … Continue reading “DecisionCAMP 2019: Serverless DROOLS and the Digital Engineer”

DecisionCAMP 2019: Standards-based machine learning and the friendliness of FEEL

Machine Learning and Decision Management: A standards-based approach. Edson Tirelli and Matteo Mortari, Red Hat DecisionCAMP Day 1 morning sessions continue with Edson Tirelli and Mateo Mortari presenting on the integration of machine learning and decision management to address predictive decision automation. The problem to date is that integrating machine learning into business automation (either … Continue reading “DecisionCAMP 2019: Standards-based machine learning and the friendliness of FEEL”

DecisionCAMP 2019: collaborative decision making and temporal reasoning in DMN

Collaborative decisions: coordinating automated and human decision-making. Alan Fish, FICO Alan Fish presented on the coordination of decisions between automation, individuals and groups. He considered how DMN isn’t enough to model these interactions, since it doesn’t allow for modeling certain characteristics; for example, partitioning decisions over time is best done with a combination of BPMN … Continue reading “DecisionCAMP 2019: collaborative decision making and temporal reasoning in DMN”

DecisionCAMP 2019 kicks off – business rules and decision management technology conference

I’m finishing up a European tour of three conferences with DecisionCAMP in Bolzano, which has a focus on business rules and decision management technology. This is really a technology conference, with sessions intended to be more discussions about what’s happening with new advances rather than the business or marketing side of products. Jacob Feldman of … Continue reading “DecisionCAMP 2019 kicks off – business rules and decision management technology conference”

September in Europe: @BPMConf in Vienna, @Camunda in Berlin, @DecisionCAMP in Bolzano

Many people vacation in Europe in September once the holiday-making families are back home. Personally, I like to cram in a few conferences between sightseeing. Primarily, my trip is to present a keynote at CamundaCon in Berlin on September 12-13. Last time that I attended, it was one day for Camunda open source users, followed … Continue reading “September in Europe: @BPMConf in Vienna, @Camunda in Berlin, @DecisionCAMP in Bolzano”

Back to Berlin! It’s time for CamundaCon 2022

I realize that I’m completely remiss for not posting about last week’s DecisionCAMP, but in my defense, I was co-hosting it and acting as “master of ceremonies”, so was a bit busy. This was the third year for a virtual DecisionCAMP, with a plan to be back in person next year, in Oslo. And speaking … Continue reading “Back to Berlin! It’s time for CamundaCon 2022”

Virtual conference best practices: 2020 in review

Wow, it’s been over two months since my last post. I took a long break over the end of the year since there wasn’t a lot going on that inspired me to write, and we were in conference hiatus. Now that (virtual) conferences are ramping up again for 2021, I wanted to share some of … Continue reading “Virtual conference best practices: 2020 in review”

My writing on the Trisotech blog: better analysis and design of processes

I’ve been writing some guest posts over on the Trisotech blog, but haven’t mentioned them here for a while. Here’s a recap of what I’ve posted over there the past few months: In May, I wrote about designing loosely-coupled processes to reduce fragility. I had previously written about Conway’s Law and the problems of functional … Continue reading “My writing on the Trisotech blog: better analysis and design of processes”

Can the for-profit conferences make it in an online world?

I’ve attended a lot of online conferences so far in 2020, and even helped to run one. We’re in the summer lull now, and I expect to attend several more in the fall/winter season. With only a few exceptions, the online events that I’ve attended have been vendor conferences, and they have all offered free … Continue reading “Can the for-profit conferences make it in an online world?”

IBM #Think2020 Day 2: Smarter Business is apparently only about AI

This is now my third day attending IBM’s online Think 2020 conference: I attended the analyst preview on Monday, then the first day of the conference yesterday. We started the day with Mark Foster, SVP of IBM Services, giving a keynote on building resilient and smarter businesses. He pointed out that we are in uncertain … Continue reading “IBM #Think2020 Day 2: Smarter Business is apparently only about AI”