International Congress and Workshop on Industrial AI and eMaintenance – IAI2025

IAI2025 took place at Clarion Sense Hotel in Luleå on May 13–15, 2025. Below is a summary of the event.

About the Congress

This congress will focus on industrial artificial intelligence, or IAI. The emergence of industrial AI applications holds immense promise for achieving excellence and cost-efficiency in the operation and maintenance of industrial assets.

The 21st century has seen remarkable progress in Artificial Intelligence and digital technologies, with applications in a variety of industries such as railways, aerospace, energy, construction, pulp & paper, manufacturing, process industry, and defence industry.

To bring insight into ongoing academic and industrial initiatives and provide an outlook to the future challenges and potential, IAI2025 aims to gather academia and industries to share knowledge, experiences, and achievements in intelligent asset management, operation, and maintenance empowered by Industrial Artificial Intelligence (IAI) and digitalisation. The emergence of industrial AI applications holds tremendous promise in achieving excellence and cost-effectiveness in operating and maintaining industrial assets.

Opportunities in Industrial AI exist in many industries; aerospace, railways, mining, construction, process industry etc. Its development is powered by several trends: the Internet of Things (IoT); the increasing convergence between OT (operational technologies) and IT (information technologies); last but not least, the unabated fast-paced developments of advanced analytics.

However, numerous technical and organizational challenges to the widespread development of industrial AI still exist. This congress intends to explore both opportunities and challenges and foster fruitful discussions between AI creators and industrial practitioners.

This congress is dedicated to both academy and industry to provide an excellent platform for collaboration by providing a forum for exchanging ideas and networking.

In addition to interesting workshops, technical programmes and events, delegates will be able to enjoy some of the fascinating attractions of Swedish Lapland, including the Luleå archipelago and the Arctic Circle.

The congress will cover topics such as:

• Maintenance
• eMaintenance
• Intelligent asset management
• Cyber-physical Asset Management
• Nowcasting and Forecasting in Asset Management, Operation, and Maintenance
• Industry 5.0
• Digitalisation
• Digital Twin and Multi-Space Environment
• Industrial Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning & Machine Learning
• Cloud/FOG/Edge Computing
• Diagnostics and Prognostics
• Condition Monitoring
• Prognostics & Health Management (PHM)
• Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS)
• Life Cycle Costing & Life Cycle Profit
• Human-Machine-Interface (HMI) & Human-System-Interface (HSI)
• Industrial Wearables
• Industrial Metaverse
• Cybersecurity & Blockchain
• Data Quality, Information Quality & Quality-of-Service
• System resilience
• Climate Adaptation
• Autonomous Maintenance Analytics

Fees

3 day conference fee: 7500 SEK excluding VAT / 9375 SEK including VAT
1 day (13 May only) conference fee: 2500 SEK excluding VAT / 3125 SEK including VAT

Conference language

English

Conference venue

Clarion Hotel Sense
Address: Skeppsbrogatan 34, 972 32 Luleå, Sweden

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Lodging

Room blocks for IAI 2025 participants have been reserved at Clarion Hotel Sense (conference venue) and at Elite Stadshotellet (dinner venue) to ensure availability. Pre-booked rooms can only be reserved during registration and not directly with the hotel. Please note, prices are listed in Swedish Krona and VAT is 12%.

Clarion Hotel Sense
Single occupancy: 1695 SEK ex VAT, 1899 SEK inc VAT
Double occupancy: 1895 SEK ex VAT, 2123 SEK inc VAT

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Elite Stadshotell
Single occupancy: 1420 SEK ex VAT, 1591 SEK inc VAT
Double occupancy: 1599 SEK ex VAT, 1791 SEK inc VAT

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A full Swedish breakfast buffet and Wi-Fi are included at all hotels. The other hotels recommended below (Quality and Savoy) are within 5-minute walking distance of the other venues and can be booked with the hotels directly/online.

Other nearby hotels

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We highly recommend that you book your hotel well in advance of the conference since there is another international conference taking place in Luleå at the same time.

Travel guide

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Social activities

13 May

We will enjoy a buffet dinner at the beautiful Brändön Lodge on the island of Brändön.

Located on an island on the coast of Swedish Lapland is Brändön Lodge. The Lodge overlooks the sea and islands of the Luleå archipelago. The Luleå archipelago has a total of 1300 islands and only 100 residents and is a unique wilderness environment.

We will be dining in specially-made tents by the fireside while listening to local entertainer, John P. As temperatures can be between 3 and 13°C, please dress for the weather.

We will provide bus transportation from the conference venue to Brändön Lodge and back.

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14 May

For the conference dinner, we will be dining under the chandeliers of the beautiful Crystal Hall at the historic Elite Stadshotell in Luleå.

The hotel is within walking distance of the conference venue and we will meet there at 18:00.

Elite Stadshotell
Address: Storgatan 15, 97232 Luleå, Sweden

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Programme

Tuesday May 13 – Industry focus

08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00–09:05 Welcome and safety information
09:05–09:20 Opening of the conference, Karl Andersson, Dean for the Faculty of Science and Technology, Luleå University of Technology
09:20–09:30 History of the Division of Operations and Maintenance Engineering, Uday Kumar, Honorary Chair
09:30–09:45 JVTC and CIAM – Centers of Excellence, Veronica Jägare, Director of JVTC
09:45–10:00 Maintenance of the Swedish rail infrastructure Jon Sundh, Head of Division Railway Systems, Maintenance, Trafikverket
10:00–10:15 Maria Ryttyy, Asset Manager, Stegra
10:15–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–11:00 Business development as unusual, Jan Lundgren, Head of Strategy Logistics, CEO-Staff, LKAB
11:00–11:15 Bringing maintenance interest together & the importance of validation of competence, Mia Ilkko, Chairman of the Board, Swedish Maintenance Society
11:15–11:30 Arctic Test Arena – Ofotbanen & Malmbanan, Ann Kristin Bjerknes, Senior Advisor Innovation, The Norwegian Railway Directorate
11:30–11:45 Panel discussion
11:45–12:00 Information from the exhibitors
12:00–13:30 Lunch
13:30–13:45 A case study on the use of digital twins for systems' diagnostics, Rakesh Mishra, Professor of Fluid Dynamics, University of Huddersfield
13:45–14:00 Platform for condition-based maintenance and analysis of Hydropower Units Stina Pettersson, Manager Operative Maintenance, Vattenfall Vattenkraft
14:00–14:15 Automated methodology for dynamic inspection-maintenance planning, Maneesh Singh, University of Stavanger
14:15–14:30 Group discussions
14:30–15:00 Coffee break
15:00–15:15 Decision analytics for railway track asset management, Stephen Famurewa, Track Specialist, Trafikverket
15:15–15:30 Data driven cooperation: A new era of decision-making, Greger Spetz, Technical Maintenance Manager, Boliden Mines
15:30–15:45 AI Factory, Ramin Karim, Professor and Head of Subject, Luleå University of Technology
15:45–16:00 Panel discussions
16:00–16:05 Closing of Conference Day 1 and information about the evening event

18:00–22:00 Dinner and social activity

Wednesday May 14

08:00–09:00 Registration
09:00–9:05 Welcome and safety information
09:05–9:15 Introduction, Ramin Karim, Conference Chair
09:15–09:30 Opening of Conference Day 2, Pär Weihed, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Luleå University of Technology
09:30–09:55 Sustainable community building Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd, CEO, Byggföretagen
09:55–10:20 Resilience in industrial systems, Kai Goebel, Head of R&D, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and President, Fragum Global
10:20–10:50 Coffee break
10:50–11:10  Kristina Nyquist, CEO Siemens Mobility Sweden
11:10–11:30 Railway Maintenance: an integrated approach for increase efficiency and track availability, Pierre Henri Bougeant, Head of Digitalization, Vossloh
11:30–11:50 Panel discussion
11:50–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:20 Technical sessions
14:20–14:40 Coffee break
14:40–16:00 Technical sessions
16:00–16:05 Closing of the day and information about the evening event

18:00–22:00 Conference dinner

Thursday May 15

08:00–08:30 Registration
08:30–08:35 Welcome and safety information
08:35–08:40 Conference chair, Ramin Karim, opens the day
08:40–09:10 Railways, challenges and future, Helena Eriksson, Regional Director - North, Trafikverket
09:10–09:40 From lab to market: Transforming AI research into real-world solutions, Gael Chosson, Head of Innovation, Alstom
09:40–10:10 Transforming Indian Mining through AI and eMaintenance for Climate Adaptation and Sustainability, Khanindra Pathak, IIT Kharagpur
10:10–10:40 Coffee break
10:40–11:10 Olov Candell, Director Research and Technology, Business Unit Advanced Programs, SAAB Aeronautics
11:10–11:40 Quantum computing impact Mena Issler, Director for product management for quantum applications, IonQ
11:40–12:00 Panel discussions
12:00–13:00 Lunch
13:00–14:20 Technical sessions
14:20–14:40 Coffee break
14:40–15:40 Technical sessions
15:40–16:00 Closing session

Full programme

• Full programme with technical sessions Pdf, 232.6 kB, opens in new window.

Speakers

Catharina Elmsäter-Svärd
CEO
Byggföretagen (The Swedish Construction Federation)

Pär Weihed
Pro Vice-Chancellor
Luleå University of Technology

Helena Eriksson
Regional Director, North
Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration - Government Agency)

Maria Ryttyy
Asset Manager
Stegra

Kristina Nyquist
CEO
Siemens Mobility Sweden

Jon Sundh
Head of Division Railway Systems, Maintenance
Trafikverket (The Swedish Transport Administration - Government Agency)

Karl Andersson
Professor, Head of Subject, Dean
Luleå University of Technology

Kai Goebel
President
Fragum Global

Rakesh Mishra
Professor of Fluid Dynamics
University of Huddersfield

Mia Ilkko
Chairman of the Board
Swedish Maintenance Society

Pierre-Henri Bougeant
Head of Digitalization
Vossloh

Greger Spetz
Maintenance Technical Manager
Boliden Mines

Ann Kristin Bjerknes
Project Manager
Norwegian Railway Directorate

Khanindra Pathak
Professor, Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur

For authors

Templates

IAI2025 Fullpaper Template Word, 57.3 kB.

IAI2025 – Presentation Template - White Powerpoint, 1.5 MB.

IAI2025 – Presentation Template - Blue Powerpoint, 2.7 MB.

Important dates

Submission of abstract (for both full paper/extended abstract - only industry): 17th November 2024

Notification of abstract acceptance: 20th November 2024

Submission of full paper or extended abstract only for industry: 5th February 2025

Notification of full paper/extended abstract acceptance: 31st March 2025

Copyright form

• Copyright form for authors Word, 51.3 kB.

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Exhibitors

Exhibitor package (SEK 20,000 for all 3 days)

• 1 dialog table (standing table) in a stand 1.5x2 m with room for roll-up in the exhibitor's room at Clarion Hotel
• 2 named entry tickets to the congress including meals
  
• Invited speaker at a 15 min talk during the congress where the company and its offers can be presented
  
• Company logo on the congress website with a link to the company's website
  
• Your presenter is made visible on the congress website
  
• Promotional material such as pens, pad and brochure in the congress information bag

Exhibitors

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Partners

CIAM's partner organisations

• Afry
  
• Boliden
  
• isMobile
  
• LKAB
  
• Scania
  
• Smurfit Westrock
  
• SSAB
  
• Vattenfall

JVTC's partner organisations

• Alstom
  
• Bane NOR
  
• Duroc
  
• LKAB
  
• Predge
  
• RMD
  
• Tåg i Bergslagen
  
• Trafikverket
  
• Transitio
  
• Vossloh

Conference organisation

Honorary Chair

Conference Chair

Conference Co-Chair

Scientific Committee

Organising committee