APEC ACABT hosted a 3-Day Event (including workshop, O2O educational platform and technique forum) under the APEC project PPSTI 02 2017A APEC ACABT - Smart Power Management for Self-Sustained Green Community in APEC Region in Bangkok, Thailand on August 28-30.
One the first day of the workshop, there were almost 80 participants attending to the event. ACABT were also honored to have Ms. Kalaya Jinliang and Mr. Tran Rukruam from the Office of International Cooperation to be the representatives of Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Thailand.
ACABT invited ten speakers from nine economies to give speeches. They are Dr. Chaiwat Muncharoen, the senior consultant of Climate Change and Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) from Ministry of Energy of Thailand; Dr. Jeong Hyop Lee, the senior consultant of the Science Technology and Innovation on Policy Institute (STIPI) in Thailand; Prof. Dr. Jun Miyake from Osaka University in Japan; Mr. Yin-Che Huang from InSynerger Technology Co., Ltd., Chinese Taipei; Prof. Dr. Enny Sudarmonowati from LIPI, Indonesia; Ms. Laurie Boyce, the senior consultant of Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment of New Zealand; Prof. Dr. Jamaliah Md Jahim from Malaysia; Dr. Jesada Sivaraks, the consultant from G-able Co. Ltd in Thailand ; Dr. Sri Djangkung Sumbogo Murti from BPPT, Indonesia, and Dr. A.E. Atabani, the professor from Erciyes University in Turkey. They exchanged their experiences on bio-energy and sustainable renewable energy by delivering speeches, sharing current information, and providing comments during the event.
Photo 1. The VIPs, Speakers and Experts attend the 3-Day-Event
Photo 2. All the participants took photo together for the precious moment. The fifth one from the left is the CEO of ACABT, Prof. Dr. Shu-Yii Wu. The lady next to him is Ms. Kalaya Jinliang from MOST, Thailand.
On August 29, it was the final presentation of training program. During April to July, there were 17 teams for the online preliminary and semi-final round. Among these 17 teams, the juries selected 8 teams through their project proposal, interaction and group discussion. Finally, the best top 8 teams entered to the final pitch in Bangkok, Thailand. The teams are AI SMART (Chinese Taipei), Beauty Squad (Indonesia), Detritus Valore (Korea), GCS Project (China), I_Mechanics (Russia), SENESol (Thailand), Serious About Science (Malaysia), Smart Grid (Viet Nam), and adiCET Elephant Fuel (Thailand).There were 7 juries for this final presentation. They are Dr. Teow Yeit Haan (Malaysia), Dr. Worajit Setthapun (Thailand), Prof. Dr. Alissara Reungsang (Thailand), Assoc. Prof. Kim Anh TO (Viet Nam), Assoc. Prof. Chen-Yeon Chu (Chinese Taipei), Prof. Dr. Jamaliah Md Jahim (Malaysia), Prof. Dr. Jun Miyake (Japan), Ms. Laurie Boyce (New Zealand) and Prof. Dr. Enny Sudarmonowati (Indonesia). Each team has 15 minutes of presentation and the juries have 150 minutes for the Q&A time. There are 40% of the score from the semi-final round and 60% from the final presentation.
The team form Malaysia called Serious about Science won the first prize. The Second Place is Team AI Smart from Chinese Taipei. Smart Grid from Viet Nam won the Third Place. Except for these 3 teams which won the top 3 prizes, Ms. Huang Xin Mei from GCS Project (China) won the Best Performance Award for her outstanding presentation. And the leader of Serious about Science, Ms. Shalini Narayanan from National University of Malaysia won the Best Tomorrow’s Leader Award.
Photo 3. All the team members and mentors took a photo together with the juries for the final presentation day.
Photo 4. A presenter from Team AI Smart is presenting their project proposal.
Photo 5. All the winners took photo together with the CEO of ACABT, Prof. Dr. Shu-Yii Wu. The winners from left to right are 1) Ms. Huang Xin Mei for the Best Performance; 2) Ms. Shalini Narayanan from Team Serious about Science for the First Place and the Best Tomorrow’s Leader; 3) Mr. Tan Phat Vo form Team AI Smart for the Second Place; 4) Mr. Tran Duc Minh from Smart Grid for the Third Place; 5) Ms. Safa Senan Mahmod from Team Serious about Science; 6) Kyle Lin from Team Serious about Science.
On the third day, all the participants headed to CES Solar Cells Testing Center (CSSC) at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (Bang Khun Thian Campus).
For the morning session, three speakers introduced the real case practice in Bangkok, Chiang Mai in Thailand and Taichung in Chinese Taipei. Mr. Panom Parinya firstly introduced CES Solar Cells Testing Center. Then, Dr. Worajit Setthapun from adiCET, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University introduced her World Green City in Chiang Mai. Lastly, Assoc. Prof. Chen-Yeon Chu from Feng Chia University, Chinese Taipei introduced his pig farm and the smart grid scenarios for self-sustained green community.
After these 3 speeches, all the participants visited CES Solar Cells Testing Center to understand the testing criterion such as temperature, humidity and stability etc. for solar panels. When it’s time to close the 3-Day event, the participants expressed their ideas and feelings about this event. And they are looking forward to meeting each at the event next year.
Photo 6. Mr. Panom Parinya introduced the CES Solar Cells Testing Center.
Photo 7. Mr. Panom Parinya introduced the zero-waste house in KMUTT.
Photo 8. Participants took a photo in front of the zero-waste house in KMUTT
Through the 3-Day Event, it disseminated and scaled-up this science-based collaboration framework, and also demonstrated and provided practices of the smart power management system software to enhance and expand the existing collaborative framework which the self-fund project has already built up among the academia, research institutes, and private sectors. It also built capacity for the bio-based smart power grid and bio-economy issues, and strengthened the connectivity and cooperation among APEC economies to strongly build up green growth and sustainable environment in the APEC regions.