Transformations today are taking place in all aspects of society. These transformations are caused by changes in the needs of the state, society, and individuals. Digitalization, catalysed by the pandemic, is reshaping markets, and greatly altering business, education, media, and work. However, they also present new challenges. Inequality, digital divide, and related disparities have increased. Firms, workers, and policymakers face many new questions as the external and internal environments shift.

Current, linear economy models still attribute a largely consumerist role to users, as this lifestyle is providing entry to a consumerist based society. Furthermore, recent reflections on the circular economy discourse have been critical emphasizing the lack of concern for social transformation and humanity within its framework. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a crucial enabler for circular economies and the much more comprehensive circular societies. It can aid in designing robust and sustainable communities, cities, circular business models, and support the broader infrastructures needed to scale circularity.

GMEISS 2025 centers around the main theme of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Circular Solutions. Artificial Intelligent and Machine Learning algorithms are coming out of research labs into the real-world applications, and scholars and conference are focusing on Human-AI Interaction. However, Interaction is not the same as Collaboration. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to play a crucial role in fostering collaboration, coexistence, and sustainability in a circular society. By leveraging AI to optimize resource allocation, promote circular solutions, and address ethical concerns, we can create a more sustainable and equitable future for all.

Most of human activities today are done collaboratively, thus, to integrate AI into the already-complicated human workflow, it is critical to bring augmented AI into the root of research and plan for a Human-AI Collaboration future of the circular society.

This GMEISS conference will bring together scholars, researchers, experts who work on human collaboration and AI applications in various application contexts, from industry and academia from around the globe. Keynote speakers and panelists will engage the audience through discussion of their shared and diverging visions, and through suggestions for circular solutions, opportunities and challenges for the future of human-AI collaboration in a circular society.