This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023.  The 27 papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. They were organized in three main research tracks: Foundations, engineering, and management. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023. The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference. The 23 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 151 submissions to the conference. The papers were organized in research tracks on foundations, engineering, and management.