Business Process Automation in 2026 with Ian Cooper

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Business Process Automation has been around a long time - what are the latest approaches? Richard talks to Ian Cooper about his work building BPA workflows in organizations - starting on paper or a whiteboard to make sense of the process before bringing tools into the equation. Ian talks about building repeatable workflows that are well-documented and source-controlled, typically through GitHub. As workflows get more complex, you'll need orchestration engines that can handle failures and provide telemetry to identify when and where things go wrong. And make sure you let users know how things are going - or they will worry!

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Recorded December 5, 2025

Ian Cooper is a Principal Engineer at Just Eat, based in London, a polyglot coding architect, and an internationally respected speaker with more than 20 years of experience delivering high-performance software solutions across domains such as government, healthcare, finance, and e-commerce. Known for his deep expertise in designing scalable and reliable distributed systems, Ian is an experienced systems architect with a strong knowledge of OO, TDD/BDD, Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, CQRS/ES, REST, Messaging, Design Patterns, Architectural Styles, ATAM, and Agile Engineering Practices. He’s the creator and maintainer of Brighter, a .NET framework for building resilient, message-based applications. Ian is passionate about helping teams adopt practical and robust architectural approaches. Tattooed, pierced, and proudly bearded.

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