CIO 2026

Organising the future

The 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ICIEIM) and XXX Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización (CIO 2026), sponsored by ADINGOR (Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Ingeniería de Organización) and organised by CIGIP at the Universitat Politècnica de València, was held in Alcoy on 2 and 3 July 2026 under the motto “Organising the Future: People, AI, Ethics and Sustainable Industrial Engineering”.

The conference set out to foster the industrial transition towards a more sustainable, digital, resilient and people-centred economic model, by disseminating knowledge in industrial engineering and management, digital transformation and sustainable operations management, and by encouraging transfer between the scientific system and the manufacturing and service sectors.

This edition brought together 134 papers by 322 authors from 78 organisations in 18 countries.

Keynote talks

• Artificial Intelligence-enabled viable supply chains, by Dmitry Ivanov (Berlin School of Economics and Law).
• 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), with the European Professors of Industrial Engineering and Management (EPIEM).

Committees

The Conference Chair was Josefa Mula. The Scientific Committee was chaired by Manuel Díaz-Madroñero and co-chaired by Beatriz Andrés, and the Organising Committee was chaired by Raquel Sanchis and co-chaired by Elena Pérez Bernabeu. The Executive Scientific Committee comprised Ana Mengual, Raúl Poler, Julio César Serrano and María Rocío de la Torre, and the Organising Committee comprised Jordi Almendros, Begoña Cantó, Marta Guerrero, Blanca Guerrero, David Juárez, Julio Antonio Lajara, Aida Martínez and Modesto Pérez.

Topics

• Supply Chain Management and Logistics
• Operations Research, Modelling and Simulation
• Production Planning and Control
• Industry 5.0 and Management Information Systems
• Robotics and Control in Industrial Engineering
• Strategy, Innovation, Networks and Entrepreneurship
• Service Systems
• Product Design, Industrial Marketing and Consumer Behaviour
• Human Resources and Organisational Design
• Project and Process Management
• Education in Industrial Engineering
• Circular Economy, Quality Management and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Organisational and Supply Chain Resilience
• Ethics and Governance of AI in industrial environments

Publications

Extended abstracts are published in a Book of Abstracts with ISBN, and full papers in Springer’s Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies (LNDECT) series, indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection and Scopus. A selection of papers is proposed to International Journal of Production Research (IJPR), Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR), Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM), International Journal of Production Management and Engineering (IJPME), Dirección y Organización (DyO), International Journal of Integrated Supply Management (IJISM), Intangible Capital, Systems (MDPI) and Future Transportation.

The conference also included a Doctoral Symposium, with an award for the best paper, and a gala dinner on 2 July at the Salón Rotonda of the Círculo Industrial de Alcoy.

More information on the conference website and in the CIGIP news article.