October 6, 2009—Mark your calendars for the next SEPG Europe conference, to be held in historic Porto, Portugal, June 14-17, 2010. The flagship conference for process professionals, SEPG Europe is an annual gathering where the European process community comes together to learn about, network, and build their skills in process improvement as a means to achieving superior performance.

SEPG Europe 2010 will be a new experience, combining the quality program and networking that delegates have come to expect in the SEPG conference with an exciting new partnership. For the 2010 conference, the SEI is collaborating with a local partner, the University of Porto, to host an event unlike any previous SEPG Europe conference. Warm, beautiful, and historic Porto, Portugal is a new region of Europe in which the conference has not previously been held. With this collaboration and new location, SEPG Europe promises to be not just a professional development conference, but a complete experience for process professionals seeking to make a real impact in their field. The University of Porto provides ample space for pre-conference courses and up to four conference days filled with four parallel tracks to ensure a quality technical program with the most relevant fundamentals, latest thinking, new trends, hot topics, and insightful experience reports about improving performance through process management.

Want to participate in the conference program for SEPG North America 2010? The Call for Participation, including the Calls for Abstracts, Keynote Nominations, and Topic Suggestions, will open October 19. You can begin planning your abstract submission now by reading the abstract submission guidelines on the SEPG Europe 2010 website.