CIGIP, at the Universitat Politècnica de València, organised CIO 2026, the XXX Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización and 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ICIEIM), held in Alcoy on 2 and 3 July 2026 at the Fundició Rodes urban technology park. The conference was supported by ADINGOR and Alcoy City Council.
This edition brought together 134 scientific papers by 322 authors from 78 organisations in 18 countries, and the programme included panel discussions with experts and practitioners from industry, academia and public institutions.
The motto of this edition was “Organising the Future: People, AI, Ethics and Sustainable Industrial Engineering”. The keynote talks were “Artificial Intelligence-enabled viable supply chains”, by Dmitry Ivanov (Berlin School of Economics and Law), and “Reimagining Engineering Education 5.0: From Technical Expertise to Future-Oriented Competence Development”, by Manuel Woschank (Montanuniversität Leoben) and Corina Pacher (Resources Innovation Center Leoben). Full papers are published in Springer’s LNDECT series, and the programme included a Doctoral Symposium and a gala dinner at the Salón Rotonda of the Círculo Industrial de Alcoy.
The opening ceremony featured Raúl Poler, Secretary of CIGIP; Josefa Mula, Conference Chair; Alberto Belda Ripoll, Alcoy’s Councillor for Education and University; María del Mar Alemany, President of ADINGOR; and Manuel Díaz-Madroñero, Chair of the Scientific Committee, who gave special thanks to the Organising Committee and to Raquel Sanchis.
The conference also had the collaboration of the AITEX technology centre and companies including Aceitunas La Española, Alcoy Industrial, Beditex Fabrics & Lab, Calconut, Destilerías Sinc, FACTOR Ingeniería y Decoletaje, Global Omnium, Grupo Erum, Grupo Ubesol Laboratorios Maverick and La Unión Alcoyana Seguros, as well as the UniMaaS project.
Selected papers may be published in the special issue “Modeling and Managing Complex Supply Chain Systems: Resilience, Sustainability, and Innovation in Operations” of the journal Systems (MDPI), co-edited by Beatriz Andrés and Eugenia Babiloni. More information is available on the event page and the conference website.