The new era of Industry and Healthcare 6.0 is addressed on economic and social sustainable technologies improving ecosystems and gaining digital knowledge for powerful use of the AI. Advanced electronics and IT devices in the technology transition operate alongside digital twins, autonomous control systems and AI-driven applications, enabling high levels of monitoring systems, rapid sensor prototyping, automation and production ecosystem adaptability. At the same time, the increasing complexity of interconnected cyber-physical systems exposes new vulnerabilities, demanding innovative approaches to cybersecurity and hardware-level protection. In healthcare applications, multimodal AI, innovative devices, biomedical robotics, telemedicine, image processing and explainable decision-support systems represent relevant aspects for delivering safe, and personalized assistance.

This special session addresses the overarching challenge of integrating these technologies into trustworthy, interoperable, and efficient frameworks capable of supporting next-generation sustainable industrial processes and medical environments while ensuring transparency, security, and human well-being.

This special session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore innovative solutions that upgrade Industry 5.0 and Healthcare 5.0 into 6.0 frameworks properly addressing AI on sustainable applications. Main goals of the special session include fostering the development of next-generation electronic and IT systems, promoting the use of digital twins and autonomous control for enhanced efficiency and addressing emerging cybersecurity and hardware threats. It also seeks to highlight breakthroughs in AI-driven industrial applications, energy harvesting, robotics, advanced rehabilitation, and multimodal diagnostic systems. By integrating these perspectives, the session intends to define new pathways for creating innovative sustainable ecosystems that improve both industrial performance and healthcare outcomes.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Electronic and IT advanced devices
• Advanced cyberphysical systems
• Advances in rehabilitation
• AI image processing
• Advanced IoT and IT technologies in distributed systems
• Digital Twins 5.0/6.0 and circuit simulation
• Intelligent materials for advanced sensor prototypes
• Energy and manufacturing 5.0/6.0
• Digital twin in optics
• Energy harvesting for biomedical and industrial applications
• Cybersecurity 5.0/6.0 and Hardware Attacks
• Healthcare 5.0/6.0 and assisted biomedical robotics
• Small integrated automatic and control systems
• AI-driven applications for the upgrade of Industry 5.0 in 6.0 environments
• Multimodal AI for diagnostics, monitoring and decision support
• Explainable and Trustworthy AI for human-cantered systems
• Verticalization of technology and process mining