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I-4AM 2026: Fourth International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing

Indian Institute of Science

Bengaluru, India, January 8-9, 2026

Conference website	https://dm.iisc.ac.in/i4am26/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i4am2026

Topics: digital manufacturing sustainable manufacturing additive manufacturing industry 4.0

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

4th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing

08 - 09 January 2026, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Industry 4.0 is about using connected intelligence to usher in greater productivity, quality, flexibility, safety and resource utilisation across manufacturing enterprises, in which advanced manufacturing such as Robotics or Additive Manufacturing plays a critical role.

International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Advanced Manufacturing, abbreviated as I-4AM (pronounced i-forum), is a biennial conference series, which intends to provide a platform to bring together all stakeholders in manufacturing and Industry 4.0, in particular those in academia and industry, in both India and abroad for them to deliberate on the nature, needs, challenges, opportunities, problems and solutions in this transformational area of endeavour. A specific focus of I-4AM is to provide a platform for exploring avenues for creating a vision of, and enablers for sustainable, affordable, and human-centric Industry 4.0, and to showcase cutting-edge practice, research and educational innovation in this crucial and rapidly evolving area.

I-4AM 2026 is the fourth in a series of conferences to be held in India by the Department of Design and Manufacturing (formerly Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM)), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru during 08-09 January 2026. IISc is one of India's leading science and technology institutions and is one of the Institutes of Eminence decreed by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. I-4AM 2026 is sponsored by the Smart Factory at IISc, a Common Engineering Facility Centre (CEFC) under the Samarth Udyog Bharat 4.0 Programme, Ministry of Heavy Industries, Government of India.

I-4AM 2026 will include keynotes and panel discussions from thought leaders in the industry, academia, strategic sectors and policy bodies; presentations of refereed papers as podium presentations, invited start-ups & interactive sessions with entrepreneurs. All papers accepted for the conference and also cleared by the Springer Nature editorial team for adequacy of English and no plagiarism will be published in a proceedings book by Springer Nature and indexed in Scopus and other databases.

Please note that I-4AM 2026 is intended to be conducted entirely in-person, without any online or hybrid mode.

Submission of abstracts is sought in all areas of Industry 4.0 and advanced manufacturing, including but not limited to the following areas:

Materials Processing & Joining - (Additive manufacturing, Hybrid manufacturing, Feed stock generation, Friction stir welding, Deformation processing/modelling, Composites)
Controls, Autonomous Systems, Robotic - (AGVs/ walking robots/drones for factory traffic management, Micro/nano manufacturing, Cobotics)
Policy & Entrepreneurship - (Start-ups, eco-systems & incubators, Distributed manufacturing, Fuzzy front/back end of manufacturing innovation and entrepreneurship)
Supply Chains - (Blockchain, Market platforms, Smart contracts, Network games, Dynamic routing/control, Large scale logistics, Supply chain simulation, Optimisation)
Industry X.0 - (Industry 4.0 & 5.0, Wireless sensor networks, Cyber-security protocols, Fog/edge computing, Artificial Intelligence, Certification and standards)
Digital Manufacturing - (CAD/CAM/CAE, DFX, Simulation/visualisation, AR/VR/MR/XR/Haptics for manufacturing, Digital twins, Model-based manufacturing, informatics & quality control, Computational metrology, Digital human modelling)
Sustainable Manufacturing - (Assessment/ traceability, Lifecycle costing, Developing new sustainable materials & manufacturing processes, Environmental, social, & governance (ESG), Inclusive manufacturing)
Training and Education - (Training & education in Industry 4.0, Training & education in advanced manufacturing, Alternative modes of learning (including online & blended learning))

Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstracts to the conference management tool latest by 21st February 2025 at https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=i4am2026

If you do not have an existing EasyChair account, please follow the instructions below

Go to: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=i4am2026
Click on “Create an account”
Enter the required information (i.e., first name, last name, email ID).
You will receive an activation link on the email ID provided.
Click on the activation link and provide the required information (i.e., organization name, country, username & password)

Once you have an Easychair account, do the following:

Login into your account with your username and password.
Enter as an author and submit the paper

For detailed instructions on paper submission, please refer to the ‘Abstract submission’ section on the I-4AM 2026 website: https://dm.iisc.ac.in/i4am26/

All abstracts submitted will be checked for their novelty and relevance for I-4AM 2026; all abstracts relevant to the conference with novel content will be asked to submit a full paper for peer review.

A Poster/flyer for I-4AM 2026 is available for download from this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrvec9ur-Ll21vtSBdZ2ojfDZ8RUF7S8/view?usp=sharing

Please feel free to download, print and display this poster in your department premises for providing broader visibility to the conference.

Important Dates:

Call for Abstracts: 21 February 2025

Abstract Acceptance: 28 February 2025

Full Paper Submission: 31 May 2025

Paper Acceptance Decision: 30 August 2025

Early Bird Registration: 10 September 2025

Conference: 08 - 09 January 2026

Conference & Programme Chairs:

Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti, Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Prof. Satyam Suwas, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Conference & Programme Vice-Chair:

Prof. Manish Arora, Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India

Venue:

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru

CV Raman Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India 560012

Contact:

For submission and conference-related queries, please contact

I-4AM 2026 Secretariat, DM IISc at: i4am.conf@iisc.ac.in

I-4AM 2026: Website

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