AI Agents, Cloud Marketplaces, and Data Spaces for Agile and Trustworthy Manufacturing Collaboration

This workshop explores how interoperable architectures, AI agents, and data-sovereign infrastructures can enable Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) ecosystems at scale. Building on recent advances in multi-agent systems, explainable and generative AI, cloud marketplaces, and semantic data spaces, the workshop addresses how manufacturing services can be discovered, negotiated, orchestrated, and trusted across heterogeneous enterprise and shop-floor systems.

The workshop combines peer-reviewed paper presentations with interactive discussion and hands-on sessions, fostering exchange between researchers and practitioners. Key topics include interoperable MaaS marketplaces, provider-consumer AI agents, semantic interoperability, secure data exchange, edge-cloud orchestration, and benchmarking methods for trust, flexibility, and performance

Chairs

• Ruben Costa, Uninova, Portugal
• Georgia Apostolou, CERTH, Greece
• Ilias Gialampoukidis, CERTH, Greece
• Miguel Angel Mateo-Casali, UPV, Spain
• Raul Poler, UPV, Spain

Smart Manufacturing Networks (SMNs) to Support the Industrial Resilience

This workshop focuses on supply chain resilience in Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) environments, addressing how manufacturing networks can dynamically adapt to disruptions and uncertainty. It explores technologies, innovative solutions, and research that enable agile and resilient responses to both large-scale crises—such as pandemics, natural disasters, or geopolitical conflicts—and localized disruptions, including supply delays, machine failures, and operational bottlenecks.

A central theme of the workshop is the role of Smart Manufacturing Networks (SMNs): connected and coordinated industrial ecosystems that integrate programmable MaaS capabilities to enhance visibility, control, and adaptability across production networks. Through peer-reviewed paper presentations, industrial case studies, and a panel discussion involving academia and industry, the workshop will examine strategies for proactive disruption management and continuity of operations.

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners through paper presentations sharing insights, discuss challenges, and identify future research directions for resilient, service-oriented manufacturing systems.

Chairs

• María José Núñez, AIDIMME, Spain
• Sergio Gusmeroli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Michael (Mike) Papazoglou, SERVTECH, Germany
• Amal Elgammal, SERVTECH, Germany
• Fernando Gigante, AIDIMME, Spain

From Data Interoperability to Data Sovereignty for a twin transition of Manufacturing Industry

Data Economy and Circular Economy are two of the major innovation trends in these recent years, providing an original interpretation of the so called twin transition of the European Manufacturing Industry. On the one side Data Economy aims at the valorisation (and in certain cases also monetisation) of the Data produced along a manufacturing value chain, paving the way towards cross-company collaboration and interoperability and enabling advanced AI applications. On the other side Circular Economy aims at the sustainability of the Manufacturing industries, through the implementation of 9R virtuous circles such as for instance Re-use, Re-pair, Re-furbish, Re-manufacturing, Re-cycling. The Workshop aims at discussing how recent technology developments such as Data Spaces and Digital Product Passports can create the infrastructure where Data and Circular Economy could symbiotically flourish and provide competitive advantage for European Manufacturing Industries, and SMEs in particular.

Chairs

• José Ferreira, UNINOVA, Portugal

Valorizing innovating ideas: winning proposals from CERES Hackathons

This workshop showcases the outcomes of an international Circular Economy hackathon journey carried out across multiple European countries, bringing together students, researchers, industry professionals, and companies to co-create solutions for real industrial challenges. It highlights how cross-sector collaboration, skills development, and education can drive sustainable industrial transformation in line with the twin green and digital transition.

Through selected paper contributions, invited talks, and interactive discussion, the workshop will present methodologies, key results, and lessons learned from the CERES hackathons, illustrating how challenge-based innovation and hackathon-driven ecosystems can act as catalysts for circular, resilient, and skills-oriented industrial systems.

Chairs

• Claudio Sassanelli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
• Adriana Trevisan, Politecnico di Milano, Brazil
• Federica Acerbi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Iskra Dukovska-Popovska, Aalborg University, Denmark
• Hernan Ocampo, Ecole Des Ponts Business School, France
• Sergio Terzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Exploring Opportunities and Challenges from Business Process to Simulation Models

This workshop explores how agentic AI systems can enable the automated generation and adaptation of industrial models when supported by robust interoperability frameworks. Focusing on the Asset Administration Shell (AAS) as a standardized foundation, the workshop examines how AI agents can access, interpret, and reason over structured asset and process data to generate business process and simulation models.

Through invited paper presentations, interactive demonstrations, and moderated discussion, participants will explore architectures for AAS-enabled AI agents, hands-on modelling examples, and key technical and ethical challenges, including transparency, trust, scalability, and human oversight. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to shape a shared vision for next-generation, AI-driven industrial modelling.

Chairs

• Enno Müller, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany
• Thomas Knothe, Fraunhofer IPK, Germany

Synergies for Decarbonising Energy-Intensive Manufacturing

This workshop brings together European research and industrial communities to explore how circular economy strategies, digital transformation, and low-emission technologies can jointly enable deep decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries. Focusing on sectors such as steelmaking, glass, and concrete recycling, the workshop highlights integrated pathways that combine material circularity, advanced heating technologies, and data-driven process optimisation.

Through project-driven presentations, selected paper contributions, and interactive discussion, participants will examine innovative solutions for scrap valorisation, impurity management, electrification, and hydrogen-based processes, as well as the role of digital tools in real-time optimisation and cross-sector knowledge transfer. The workshop aims to foster collaboration and identify scalable, interoperable solutions for climate-neutral industrial systems.

Chairs

• Micaela Vitti, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
• Raffaello Pio Iavagnilio, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
• Björn Glaser, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Light weight and Flexible Interoperability Architectures, Approaches and Applications for Highly Challenging Environments

This workshop focuses on interoperability solutions for highly challenging and mission-critical environments, where conditions are volatile, resources are constrained, and failure is not an option. Typical application domains include disaster response, civil security, critical infrastructures, and remote operations.

The workshop highlights lightweight, flexible, and mission-ready interoperability architectures capable of operating across heterogeneous legacy systems and unstable communication networks. Through selected paper presentations, an invited impulse talk, and interactive discussion, participants will exchange practical solution patterns, reference architectures, and lessons learned from real deployments. The workshop aims to foster cross-domain collaboration and identify robust interoperability approaches suitable for resilient, real-world operational contexts.

Chairs

• Moritz von Stietencron, BIBA - Bremer Institut für Produktion und Logistik GmbH at the University of Bremen, Germany

AI-Driven Knowledge Formalisation, Ontology Engineering and Human-in-the-Loop LLMs for Enterprise Interoperability

This workshop explores how AI-driven knowledge formalisation, ontology engineering, and human-in-the-loop Large Language Models (LLMs) can enable trustworthy and interoperable enterprise knowledge services. Addressing current challenges such as fragmented semantics and limited reuse of expert knowledge, the workshop examines integrated approaches to capture, structure, and operationalise industrial knowledge across organisational boundaries.

Through invited paper contributions, impulse talks, and interactive discussion, participants will explore the role of knowledge graphs, semantic retrieval, and LLM-supported curation workflows in bridging human expertise and intelligent systems. The workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss adoption challenges, identify open research questions, and shape future directions for AI-enabled enterprise interoperability.

Chairs

• Matteo D'Auria, SPINDOX, Italy
• Dimitrios Spatharakis, NTUA, Greece
• Massimo Goletti, MUSP, Italy
• Régis Hamelin, BLUMORPHO, France