Although a month and a half has passed since the seventh edition of the International Conference on Process Mining (ICPM 2025) concluded, I am still vividly reliving the wonderful week we shared, feeling truly grateful, honored, and proud to have welcomed the process mining community to our university and beloved city. ICPM 2025 took place in the beautiful and vibrant city of Montevideo, Uruguay, over the River Plate, bringing the conference for the first time to Latin America. This constitutes a milestone in the history of the ICPM conference, which goes for the first time out of Europe, providing a unique opportunity to bring together the Latin American and the international scientific process mining community, as well as software enterprises and professionals, consolidating existing and promoting new collaborations and networking opportunities. The 2025 edition of ICPM took place from October 20 to October 24, 2025, at Facultad de Ingeniería (FING), Universidad de la República (UdelaR), organized by the COAL research group of the Instituto de Computación (InCo), FING, UdelaR.

I am very grateful for the strong support we received from the process mining community, both in submissions for all tracks and the participation in the conference, and from our sponsors, with two hundred twenty-four participants throughout the week! Out of those, ninety-one were from Latin American countries, including sixty locals. From the total, one hundred fifty-five were from academia, including more than seventy students, and sixty-nine were from industry, including participants from the local government. We are very glad that this edition helped expand diversity, generating a great mix that enriched the conference. ICPM in Montevideo continued the tradition of being the leading event for process mining. We worked very hard with all chairs to offer an appealing scientific and industry program, and several social activities. The conference ran from Monday, starting with the Workshops Day, to Thursday with the closing of the research track, and Friday with the Doctoral consortium and the local co-located event BPMuy. On Monday, twelve workshops were held with a focus on key current topics alongside process mining, enriching the scientific program. Six parallel sessions were held between the main building and the annex building rooms, for people to go between locations and topics, and great keynotes were held.

Tuesday opened the main conference, including the welcome from the rector of UdelaR, general chair and program chairs, and the academic keynote by Claudia Bauzer Medeiros from Unicamp, Brazil, and one session for research track papers, followed by two joint sessions of demos and posters papers. Following the experience of the last few editions, papers were initially briefly introduced by authors on the main stage, and we then proceeded with a wide space where participants engaged in great interactions with authors. The research track sessions continued until Thursday, where the closing and award ceremony was held. On Wednesday, the opening of the industry day took place, including the industry keynote by Rudy Kuhn from Celonis, Germany, and as in the last few editions, the sponsors' pitches and the hackathon were presented afterwards, the latter with e-government process data from the Uruguayan Digital Government Agency (AGESIC). The IEEE Task Force on Process Mining also presented the latest news, advances, and work on process mining topics from the community on Wednesday. The industry day included use case presentations and a discussion panel, as well as training sessions given by sponsors on Thursday morning. Finally, on Friday, the Doctoral consortium provided PhD students with an opportunity to present their work on process mining and receive feedback from an expert panel.

We added a touch of the Latin American "impronta" to the conference and social events, including several new features such as a fun game during the poster & demos session, a tango show and dancing floor at the social dinner in a wonderful wine cellar. Beautiful spring weather accompanied us throughout the conference, allowing us to enjoy a spectacular sunset over the river at the welcome reception. We also offered a walking tour of the old city and an informal get-together at a popular craft brew pub nearby. Typical Uruguayan dishes were served at social events, for lunch and during the coffee breaks (the most adventurous participants could also taste some mate). We were able to provide a glimpse into the local way of life, culture, and gastronomy, as well as landscapes and history, which we are proud to say amazed and were very well received and enjoyed by participants.

As general chair, I had the opportunity and pleasure of working with an amazing team of committed and motivated people, whose excellent work made this conference possible. Firstly, a great thank-you to our fabulous organizing team for their efforts in helping and tackling all the different tasks of the conference organization: Daniel Calegari, Martín Rubio, Leonel Peña, Daniela Andrade and Matías Esmoris. Also, thanks to the graduate and undergraduate students who assisted us during the conference, as well as AGESIC, for their participation and for providing the process data for the hackathon. A deep thank you also goes to the steering committee of the IEEE Task Force on Process Mining for giving us the honour of organizing ICPM, in particular to Boudewijn van Dongen for his continuous support, Hajo Reijers, and Jorge Munoz-Gama for supporting our proposal from the beginning. A sincere thank you to the Program Committee chairs, Hajo Reijers, Jana-Rebecca Rehse, and Jochen De Weerdt, and the entire Program Committee, for their commitment and great efforts in assembling a high-quality scientific program that presents the top advances in the field of process mining. Also, a great thank you to the chairs of the different conference tracks: Claudio Di Ciccio and Marcos Sepulveda as Workshops track chairs, Marlon Dumas, Sander Leemans, and Laura Gonzalez as Industry track chairs, Francesca Zerbato, Henrik Leopold, and Michael Arias as Demo track chairs, Manuel Resinas and Adriana Marotta as Doctoral Consortium track chairs, Artem Polyvyanyy and Chiara Di Francescomarino as Best PhD Dissertation Award chairs, Lucineia Heloisa Thom, Gert Janssenswillen, and Lorenzo Rossi as publicity chairs, and to all the reviewers of the different tracks for their great work. We really appreciate your efforts and commitment to making ICPM 2025 a great success. Also, a deep thank-you to all authors of the different ICPM tracks, the keynote speakers, the use case presenters, and the panellists, for their contributions to the conference, presenting their latest work and thoughts on process mining topics, and sharing and discussing their insights with the community.

Finally, we extend our great thanks to all sponsors of the conference, both international and local, for their support in making this ICPM edition a success. In particular, Celonis as Diamond sponsor, SAP as Gold sponsor, the local companies STATUM and BPFocus as Silver sponsors, the Uruguayan Digital Government Agency (AGESIC) as bronze sponsor, the local supporter sponsors from the software industry and the public administration, and the academic sponsors Comisión Sectorial de Investigacion Científica (CSIC), Programa de Desarrollo de las Ciencias Basicas (PEDECIBA), and Centro Latinoamericano de Estudios en Informatica (CLEI).

Links to the proceedings and pre-proceedings and pictures from ICPM 2025 are available on the conference website.

Thanks again to the entire process mining community and all participants of ICPM 2025! It was a memorable experience for us, and we hope you felt the same! Looking forward to seeing you all at ICPM 2027 in Calabria!