Dr. Chawin speaks regularly at international convenings on higher education leadership, internationalisation strategy, engineering education, and wind energy research. Recent engagements have spanned ASEAN–EU policy dialogues, Asia-Pacific education conferences, and university-to-university partnerships across Europe and East Asia. Selected talks below; for press and speaking enquiries, see the foot of the page.
Upcoming
Beyond Bilateral Agreements: Building a National Platform for Student Mobility and Global Opportunities in Thai Higher Education
Session chair. A panel of Thai university leaders, joined by an international partner, on how Thai higher education can move beyond one-to-one agreements towards a shared national platform for student mobility and global opportunities.
Rethinking University Networks: Trust, Access and Human-Centered Collaboration
Panellist, representing the World Technology Universities Network (WTUN). A group panel in the Partnership and Mobility stream on how university networks and alliances can build trust, widen access, and remain inclusive and affordable.
2026
An AI Team for the International Office: Lessons from Building Agents with Claude Code
A talk in the session “Responsible Science and Artificial Intelligence: Shaping the Future Through Collaboration” at the World Technology Universities Congress, hosted by the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. The talk showed how KMUTT’s international office has built a small team of AI agents — a manager agent with specialists for partnership agreements and student mobility, and a person checking the work before it goes out — and argued that the technology is the easier half: the harder part is knowing how the office really works. Read the reflection →
Engineering Education with Purpose
An invited keynote (Keynote 3) at the joint conference of the Project Approaches in Engineering Education and Active Learning in Engineering Education networks, hosted at Taisho University. The talk traced KMUTT’s thirteen-year trajectory — from 2017 toward 2030 — through active learning, AI, and community-based “Social Lab” research, arguing that active learning is most durable when it becomes institutional culture rather than a special event. Read the reflection →
Green, Digital, Blue: Building European–Asian Research Networks That Matter
A cross-regional panel on building equitable, long-term research networks between European and Asian universities. The contribution focused on KMUTT’s cooperation with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) on the EMPM scholarship programme for students from Myanmar — one example of how cross-regional partnerships can sustain access to higher education in fragile contexts while advancing shared priorities across the green transition, digital transformation, and the blue economy.
2025
Smart Connections: Advancing higher education partnerships
Delivered at KU Leuven as part of a working dialogue on practical pathways for ASEAN–EU university cooperation, with attention to good practices and the specific conditions of Southeast Asian higher education systems.
Higher Education in Focus: ASEAN University Support for Conflict-Affected Students from Myanmar
An invited contribution at the German Academic Exchange Service’s Brussels office on how ASEAN universities have organised support for students whose education has been disrupted by the situation in Myanmar.
2024
Thailand: Strategic Visioning for the Common Space and Futuristic Leadership
Country contribution at the Senior Officials’ Meeting of the Southeast Asia Higher Education space, framing Thailand’s strategic position in the regional architecture.
Leading Effective Integration of GenAI in Higher Education
Contribution at UNESCO’s International Centre for Higher Education Innovation regional dialogue on the institutional and national-policy implications of generative AI for the region’s universities.
Entrepreneurial Universities — Innovating and Disrupting International Education
Co-presented session at the Asia-Pacific Association for International Education annual conference on how entrepreneurial models are reshaping international education strategy.
Press contact
For media enquiries, interview requests, and speaking invitations, please write to chawin.cha@kmutt.ac.th.