Basic information:
Chairs:
Neven Vrček (Croatia), Slavko Vidović (Croatia), Ernest Vlačić (Croatia), Ranko Smokvina (Croatia)
Steering Committee:
Darinko Bago (Croatia), Hrvoje Balen (Croatia), Vladimir Olujić (Croatia), Nedjeljko Perić (Croatia), Tadej Slapnik (Slovenia), Marija Šćulac Domac (Croatia), Ivan Vidaković (Croatia), Slavko Vidović (Croatia), Ernest Vlačić (Croatia)
Program Committee:
Zoran Aralica (Croatia), Boris Blumenschein (Croatia), Darko Bosnar (Croatia), Bojan Jerbić (Croatia), Goran Marković (Croatia), Mladen Mrvelj (Croatia), Matija Srbić (Croatia), Marija Šutina (Croatia), Domen Verdnik (Croatia), Marko Vidović (Croatia)
Scope:
The Smart Industries and Digital Ecosystems conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, research scholars and companies to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Smart Production Ecosystem. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners and business leaders to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, issues, practical challenges and solutions in the field of Smart Production Ecosystems.
In recent years, the growing and intense development of information technology in the manufacturing industry has led to significant changes in the methods and tools that support the factories of the future. The hot topics around Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 and Smart Manufacturing aim at the digital and organizational transformation of traditional factories and industrial systems as well as various other sectors. This SIDE conference provides the perfect setting and a unique opportunity for knowledge sharing, review and discussion of theoretical advances, research results and industrial experiences among academics, researchers, policy makers, practitioners and students.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Technology Innovations
- Digital Transformations
- Utility Data and Analytics to Gain Customer
- Digital Twins - Technologies and Concepts
- Product Development & Maintenance with Digital Twins
- Healthcare Digital Twins
- Smart Cities and Mobility Digital Twins
- Blockchain Services and Applications
- Agile Organizations and Agile Management
- Smart Digital Ecosystem
- Smart Design and Engineering
- Complete Product Life Cycle Management
- New Business Models
- Smart Production and Business Processes
- Additive Production
- Artificial Intelligence in Production
- Supply Chain Optimization
- Mass Product Adaptation
- Production Management
- Human Resource Management
- Advanced and Human-centered Technologies
- Predictive Maintenance
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Cyber Security
The official language is English.
Important dates:
Rok za dostavu sažetaka: 15. prosinac 2025
Rok za dostavu radova: 2. veljača 2026
Rok za konačnu recenziju: 16. ožujak 2026
Registration / Fees:
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REGISTRATION / FEES
|
Price in EUR
|
EARLY BIRD
Up to 11 May 2026 |
REGULAR
From 12 May 2026 |
| Members of MIPRO and IEEE |
297 |
324 |
| Students (undergraduate and graduate), primary and secondary school teachers |
165 |
180 |
| Others |
330 |
360 |
The student discount doesn't apply to PhD students.
NOTE FOR AUTHORS: In order to have your paper published, it is required that you pay at least one registration fee for each paper. Authors of 2 or more papers are entitled to a 10% discount.
Contact:
Neven Vrček
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Organization and Informatics
Pavlinska 2
HR-42000 Varaždin, Croatia
Phone: +385 42 390 830
E-mail: nvrcek@foi.unizg.hr
Accepted papers will be published in the ISSN registered conference proceedings.
Location:
Opatija is the leading seaside resort of the Eastern Adriatic and one of the most famous tourist destinations on the Mediterranean. With its aristocratic architecture and style, Opatija has been attracting artists, kings, politicians, scientists, sportsmen, as well as business people, bankers and managers for more than 180 years.
The tourist offer in Opatija includes a vast number of hotels, excellent restaurants, entertainment venues, art festivals, superb modern and classical music concerts, beaches and swimming pools – this city satisfies all wishes and demands.
Opatija, the Queen of the Adriatic, is also one of the most prominent congress cities in the Mediterranean, particularly important for its ICT conventions, one of which is MIPRO, which has been held in Opatija since 1979, and attracts more than a thousand participants from over forty countries. These conventions promote Opatija as one of the most desirable technological, business, educational and scientific centers in South-eastern Europe and the European Union in general.
For more details, please visit www.opatija.hr and visitopatija.com.