IPIC 2024: 10th International Physical Internet Conference The DeSoto Hotel Savannah, GA, United States, May 29-31, 2024 |
Conference website | https://www.pi.events/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipic2024 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 15, 2024 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2024 |
The Physical Internet (PI, π) has opened a paradigm-breaking field encompassing the interconnectivity and interoperability of smart logistics networks, transportation systems, manufacturing systems, and supply chains. It enables seamless open asset sharing and flow consolidation on a massive scale. PI aims is for order-of-magnitude worldwide improvements in performance and capabilities, from a multi-criteria perspective including economic, environmental, and societal efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of supply chain and logistics ecosystems. It is emerging and gaining traction all across the world, with many leading companies and startups testing and leveraging its principles and concepts; with a growing body of bold researchers and innovators engaged in further developing Physical Internet knowledge and theories, as well as the PI-enabling theories, models, methodologies, and technologies; and with countries adopting its vision and putting in place strategic roadmaps toward large-scale Physical Internet implementation and adoption.
Launched in 2014, the IPIC International Physical Internet Conference series is an open forum for worldwide researchers, innovators, practitioners, legislators, leaders, and citizens who care about and are engaged in:
- Enhancing the societal, economic, and environmental efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of fulfilling humanity’s needs for physical objects and the services they provide, and more specifically of the way we move, deploy, realize, supply, design, and use physical objects;
- Investigating, shaping, enhancing, and enabling the further emergence and large-scale implementation and adoption of the Physical Internet across industries and territories, at all scales from within facilities, to urban and rural areas, regions, countries, continents, spanning the whole planet and beyond through space;
- Imagining, shaping, and engineering the forthcoming generations of hyperconnected supply chain, logistics, fulfilment, production, transportation, and retailing capabilities, facilities, networks, systems, ecosystems, and infrastructures, built with physical, digital, operational, transactional, legal, and inter-personal interconnectivity at their core;
- Imagining, designing, launching, and scaling innovative business models, operating models, and innovation models, notably including the open, omnichannel, multimodal / synchromodal, and multi-party cooperation and consolidation protocols, interfaces, models, platforms, and marketplaces enabling and leveraging the Physical Internet;
- Enabling and leveraging Sharing Economy, Circular Economy and Reverse Logistics, Inclusiveness, and Fairness concepts, principles, and practices;
- Assessing, leveraging, and guiding the scientific and technological advances in Physical Internet enabling domains such as Artificial Intelligence and Optimization; Augmented and Virtual Reality; Autonomous and Sentient Systems and Vehicles; Additive Manufacturing; Big Data, Cloud and Edge Computing; Blockchain and Smart Contracts; Clean Energy; Collaborative and Mobile Robotics; Digital Twins; Internet-of-Things, Industry X.0; and Active Ecofriendly Modular Packaging, Handling, and Transport Containerization.
- Assessing, leveraging, and guiding the legislative, standards, and governance advances in Physical Internet enabling domains such as recent regulations on Clean Energy; Reusable Packaging; Supply Chain Resilience, Security, and Visibility; and Strategic Physical Internet roadmaps in Europe and Japan.
This paradigm breaking scope broadly defines the domain of contributions we are welcoming at IPIC 2024!
Through this call for contributions, we seek research contributions and innovation contributions.
Research contributions: We are open to diverse types of original research, notably conceptual and vision framework and theory building; feasibility, capability, and sustainability assessment; scientific case study, action research, and living lab; modelling and methodology; technology; validation; state-of-the-art research review; and roadmapping. Interdisciplinary research contributions are welcome, including joint authors from academia, industry, and public organizations. Formats: Paper, poster, in-person and/or online video presentation.
Innovation contributions: We are seeking contributions offering thought leadership on novel ideas, applications, technologies, issues, and challenges, such as: progress report on a major initiative, program or project; case study report describing an application in practice; demonstration of technological innovations; best practice review; education and learning innovations (e.g. gaming, immersive platforms). Formats: Paper, in-person and/or online video presentation.