The special session “Sustainable and Resilient Collaborative Agri-Food Networks”, organised by Ana Esteso and María del Mar Alemany from CIGIP, has been accepted at PRO-VE 2026, the 27th IFIP/SOCOLNET Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, to be held in Padova (Italy) from 26 to 28 October 2026.
The session explores the design and management of sustainable and resilient collaborative agri-food networks operating across increasingly complex, digitally enabled and climate-sensitive ecosystems. Its topics include:
- sustainable and resilient collaborative agri-food ecosystems;
- hybrid human-AI collaboration in food network coordination;
- digital platforms and distributed intelligence in agri-food networks;
- resilience, antifragility and crisis response;
- digital twins and cognitive models for agri-food ecosystems;
- trust, transparency and explainability in data-driven food networks;
- collaborative risk management in climate-sensitive supply networks.