What to expect from CamundaCon 2025

What is Decision Model Notation?

DMN stands for Decision Model and Notation. It is a standard administered by the Object Management Group (OMG) – businesses use DMN to design decision models that are used for automation of the decision-making processes… it serves as a common language to align business and IT on repeatable business rules and decision management.

But let’s define Camunda in more exact terms…

As one (name deleted) user on Reddit notes, Camunda is a workflow engine allowing users to orchestrate tasks in a process. Those tasks are likely to be long-running (measured in hours and days) so it includes stage management to support that.

A process (our anonymous user provides an example) here might be a loan application process where the loan application has to go through multiple manual and automated tasks in order to process it.

People, systems & devices

Camunda says that process orchestration and automation are the technologies that coordinate various components of a business process, including people, systems and devices, to achieve comprehensive end-to-end automation.

It distinguishes process orchestration from task automation (the former involves coordinating both automated and manual tasks) but the latter refers to using technology to perform specific tasks without human intervention.

CamundaCon will showcase techniques that the company uses to overcome common automation challenges such as fragmented automation efforts, limited process visibility and vendor lock-in that prevents flexible or composable process architectures.

Hands-on real-world learning

The company says that CamundaCon is a conference for automation leaders, software developers, enterprise architects and IT leaders to explore the future of automation and the rise of agentic orchestration.

“Whether modernising legacy systems, building a Centre of Excellence, or integrating AI agents into mission-critical processes, CamundaCon delivers practical insights, hands-on learning and real-world use cases from leaders using Camunda to orchestrate intelligent, ROI-driven operations at scale,” notes the promo literature.

According to the company’s 2025 State of Process Orchestration & Automation Report, 85% of IT decision-makers say that as multiple automated tasks are combined, managing the overall end-to-end process becomes more complex. This complexity, compounded by a lack of integration between technologies, is getting in the way of digital transformation goals.

“For example, a broken process might cause an insurance company’s customer to experience wait times for claims processing that are higher than industry averages. As a result, the customer might churn and seek coverage from a competitor. If they’re not addressed quickly, these types of inefficiencies can add up to lost revenue and market share,” explains Camunda.

Eliminating silos of trapped value

Process orchestration solves these problems by “eliminating silos of trapped value”, enabling users to coordinate the tasks that make up an end-to-end business process in a single process flow.

“Camunda gives users centralised visibility and control over every process, from human workflows to AI-driven decisions. With built-in tools like Console (to manage clusters, API keys, and view audit logs), Identity (to manage users and roles), and SSO, you can manage access, track activity, and meet enterprise compliance standards without slowing innovation,” says Camunda.

High-volume, distributed process automation.

Camunda’s cloud-native, distributed architecture is designed to scale horizontally, ensuring that it can handle both low and high-volume workloads efficiently. With Zeebe (see below) at its core, the platform can scale seamlessly across multiple nodes, ensuring high availability and resilience without compromise.

Zeebe distributes data across all brokers in a cluster with storage directly on the server filesystem. If one broker goes down, another can replace it with no data loss. This pre-configured replication mechanism ensures that Camunda can recover from machine or software failure with no human interaction, no data loss and minimal downtime.

Keynote time

The event keynote will be delivered by Jakob Freund, Camunda CEO and co-founder will deliver the event keynote with CTO Daniel Meyer as they talk about the AI-powered enterprise, powered by agentic orchestration i.e. a fusion of deterministic workflows and AI-driven adaptability. They will demonstrate how Camunda 8.8 integrates AI agents, RPA and intelligent document processing.

Gartner VP Saiikat Ray will deliver a guest keynote entitled ‘The Rise of Business Orchestration and Automation Technology (BOAT)’ and explain why in an era defined by disruption, complexity and relentless change, organizations are under pressure to move beyond traditional automation models and embrace intelligent, resilient systems.

In this keynote, Ray will explore the strategic convergence of AI agents, event-driven architectures and dynamic orchestration capabilities that have driven the rise of agentic orchestration. Attendees are promised to walk away with a better understanding of how agentic orchestration enables orchestrations to operationalise AI agents and other intelligent technologies into their workflows.

Floating the BOAT

Gartner says it is observing the formation of a class of software technologies that enables enterprises to automate and orchestrate end-to-end business processes while connecting multiple enterprise systems of records via any applicable integration method. The company is calling this class of “business orchestration and automation technology” (BOAT) and process orchestration is an essential part of a BOAT strategy, as organizations look to integrate the various moving parts within their business processes.

The company Tweets on X at @camunda and the event hashtag is #CamundaCon.