SMILE 2025 will be co-organized by ESITH of Morocco through its Center of Excellence in Logistics "CELOG" and Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, which has the chair Transport, Circular Economy and sustainable LOGistics "TEC-LOGd". The main goal of the conference is to provide a stimulating trans-disciplinary deliberation in which actors from multiple scientific fields and practical experiences can exchange and build knowledge, expertise, and thought related to smart management in logistics, transport, and industrial engineering, with special emphasis on the use of emergent technologies and building up entire supply chain smarter.

The conference will be held from in from 17 to 18 April 2025.

Provisional schedule

• Wednesday April 16, 2025 from 5 to 7:30 p.m.: Reception of participants and welcome cocktail.
• Thursday April 17 and Friday April 18, 2025: Conferences and sessions.
• Saturday April 19, 2025: Guided discovery of the monuments of Casablanca.

Logistic systems and supply chains are subject to multiple constraints related to the scarcity of natural resources, population growth, and various socio-environmental crises. They must take into account a joint assessment of economic, social, and ecological dimensions.

The first edition of the international conference SMILE "Smart management in industrial and logistics
engineering" will address the topic of sustainable logistics, examining how circular economy
principles can be applied to the management of logistic systems and supply chains. Participants will
discuss the challenges of transitioning from a linear economic model to a circular one, and analyze
how artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, blockchains, and BIGDATA can support this
transition.

Logistics plays a crucial role in the transition to a circular economy, but it must be adapted to meet
the requirements of circularity. It is necessary to identify the main obstacles to this transition, such as
the lack of infrastructure and suitable logistic tools, as well as economic, political, and social barriers.

The conference aims to highlight circular economy models and the necessary means to integrate
artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies into the management of logistic systems to
optimize processes, improve traceability, and enable better decision-making and relevant data
analysis for the planning and design of circular logistic networks. Transdisciplinary approaches will be
favoured.

To achieve this goal, SMILE aims to bring together policymakers, industrial practitioners, civil society
decision-makers, and researchers to develop effective and sustainable solutions for the management
of logistic systems.

Scholars, scientists, government, industry, civil society, communities, media & students

! The selected papers by the SMILE scientific committee will be published in one of the following scopus indexed journals: