Important Dates

Stay tuned for important updates regarding STE2027! Key dates, including submission deadlines, registration periods, and program announcements, are shown in the table. Nevertheless, it’s essential to keep an eye on our communications to ensure you don’t miss any critical information about the conference.

Date Activity
28 Sep 2026 Submission of:
(i) structured abstracts (for full and short papers) for the conference
(ii) Special Session proposals
05 Oct 2026Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the conference.
Special Sessions notification and announcement
09 Nov 2026Submission of:
(i) complete papers for all submission types
(ii) proposals for round tables, workshops, tutorials
23 Nov 2026Notification of acceptance
21 Dec 2026Camera-ready due/Final upload
21 Dec 2026Author registration deadline
31 Dec 2026Submissions for EWA Young Talent Award
24 Feb 2027STE2027 opening

Keynotes

Chula Sukmanop
Chula Sukmanop

The Eastern Economic Corridor Office of Thailand (EECO)

EEC: Destination for Digital Innovation

Thailand's Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) has emerged as Southeast Asia's most credible contender for the region's digital-hub mandate. As the spearhead of the national Thailand 4.0 strategy, the EEC channels foreign direct investment into targeted high-value industries, with the digital cluster now its fastest-scaling engine. Cumulative digital-cluster investment reached THB 639 billion (approximately US$19 billion) between 2018 and Q1 2026, and the momentum has sharpened markedly: approved data-centre projects rose from one in 2022 to eight by early 2026, while first-quarter 2026 digital-investment applications surpassed THB 1 trillion (approximately US$30 billion)—2.4 times year-on-year—with artificial intelligence and cloud driving roughly 86% of value.

The corridor's proposition rests on four proven strengths: a world-class electrical-and-electronics manufacturing base, ready low-latency connectivity (subsea-cable landings to Hong Kong and Singapore and 1,770 Gbps of planned international bandwidth), a talent pool exceeding 500,000 ICT professionals, and a digital economy contributing close to a quarter of GDP. A purpose-built zone—EECd / Digital Park Thailand, 830 rai in Si Racha—concentrates hyperscale capacity, testbeds and R&D institutes, underpinned by best-in-class incentives including corporate income-tax exemption of up to fifteen years and single-window facilitation.

Investor confidence is already established, with more than US$35 billion committed since 2022 by anchors including AWS, Google, ByteDance and Beijing Haoyang. The strategic imperative now is to capture the AI-infrastructure boom selectively—prioritizing the higher-value equipment, optical and services layer over land- and power-intensive data halls—thereby converting inbound capital into a durable, high-quality growth engine while the regional window remains open.

The Speaker

Dr. Chula Sukmanop is a distinguished Thai transport policy leader currently serving as Secretary General of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) since April 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton (1993), an LL.M. in Maritime Law from the same institution (1989), and a Bachelor of Laws from Chulalongkorn University (1986). He went on to lead several key transport agencies as Director General, including the Office of Transport and Traffic Policy and Planning, the Marine Department, the Department of Airports, and the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (2016–2020). He again served as Inspector General from 2021 to 2023 before assuming his current role overseeing Thailand's flagship EEC development initiative.

Dr. Chula Sukmanop
The Eastern Economic Corridor Office of Thailand (EECO).
psd@eeco.or.th.

Ken'ichi Yano
Ken'ichi Yano

Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Mie University, Japan

Social Implementation and Practical Education in Smart Technologies through Industry–Academia and International Collaboration

This keynote lecture presents our efforts in promoting the social implementation of smart technologies and practical education through industry–academia and international collaboration. Smart technologies, including artificial intelligence, robotics, systems control, digital transformation, and optimization technologies, serve as essential foundations for addressing social challenges in various fields such as manufacturing, healthcare, welfare, disaster response, food distribution, and environmental energy. However, in order to develop university research outcomes into technologies that can be effectively utilized in society, it is essential to go beyond academic publications and establish a continuous process that includes collaborative research with industry, analysis of real-world problems, prototype development, field validation, and technology transfer.

In our laboratory, we conduct a wide range of research and development projects in collaboration with companies and overseas research institutions. These include flow behavior optimization technology for improving the efficiency and quality of manufacturing processes, smart factories based on AI and digital transformation, disaster-response robots for hazardous operations, assistive robots, welfare robots, rehabilitation robots, pharmaceutical manufacturing systems, dementia care support technologies, and food distribution systems. Through these specific examples, this lecture discusses how industrial needs can be translated into research topics, how research outcomes can be developed toward practical applications, and how international collaborative research can be utilized in student education.

Furthermore, this lecture highlights the educational impact of involving students in collaborative research with companies and overseas research institutions. Through such experiences, students acquire not only specialized knowledge but also the ability to understand real-world problems, collaborate internationally, and conduct research and development with social implementation in mind. This keynote aims to present a model of laboratory management and human resource development that integrates research and development, social implementation, industry–academia collaboration, international collaboration, and practical education in smart technologies.

The Speaker

Ken'ichi Yano was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1969. He received the B.E. degree, the M.E. degree in production systems engineering, and the D.E. degree in electronic and information engineering from Toyohashi University of Technology, Aichi, Japan, in 1994, 1996, and 1999, respectively. He has been with Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, since 2004 as an Associate Professor. He was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, from August 2002 until August 2003. His research interests include control theory and its applications to transfer systems, industrial robots, and medical systems.

Prof. Dr. Ken'ichi Yano
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Mie University, Japan
yano@robot.mach.mie-u.ac.jp

Parinwatt Parnsingh
Parinwatt Parnsingh

Division Manager, Industrial Marketing Management of Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.

Physical AI Transformation in Manufacturing

Sharing about Mitsubishi Electric's concepts/proposal to support an industrial transformation for matching with a direction of Physical AI. By focused to a specific point, how important for ecosystem collaboration and how related to future career opportunity of students who's considering to prepare for matching with future in both old industrial transformation and coming of new industry.

The Speaker

Parinwatt Parnsingh has a long experienced on Sales & Marketing management of global logistics service and Hospitalities industry for coming 30 years by covered to both Thailand and South East & South Asia markets. The last 10 years until now, he has been working for Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation business on marketing activities and business opportunity development management. His core responsibility is taking care for an ecosystems development and management to support industrial and technology transformation in Thailand.

Mr. Parinwatt Parnsingh
Mitsubishi Electric Factory Automation (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
parinwatt@mitsubishifa.co.th

Program

Will be available in time. Please continue to check this website for updates.

Registration & Fees

Registration

Registration will be done through the ConfTool® Submission Server.

Bank charges

Please note that all bank charges are at the expense of the debitor.

Terms and Conditions

  • The registration of participation is binding.
  • If you have to cancel the registration, you get 80% back until 30 days before the start of the event. In all other cases, the financial responsibilities of the participants remain fully effective.
  • The participation fees are owed upon registration and are payable within 7 days following submission of the registration (but not later than 7 days before the starting day of the event).
  • Participation is not guaranteed until full payment of the registration fee is received.
  • The conference program may be subject to changes.
  • Payments will be refunded if the conference will be canceled by the organizer. In that case, the organizer will have no further liability to the client. Registrations remain valid if the conference has to be postponed.
  • By attending the conference, either virtually or in-person, you consent to being in photographs or videos that the conference may publish online, etc., which may include photos and videos from the online experience, including showing participants.
STE2027 – Author and Participant Registration Early Bird Fee until 21 Dec 2026 Standard Fee from 22 Dec 2026
Author – Regular1
(includes presentation of one paper)		 475 EUR N/A
Author – Members of IAOE, IGIP, EWA1,2
(includes presentation of one paper)		 425 EUR N/A
Author – Low-income Countries1,3
(includes presentation of one paper)		 250 EUR N/A
Author – Student1,4
(includes presentation of one paper)		 250 EUR N/A
Participant – Regular
(you cannot make any presentation with this fee)		 425 EUR 475 EUR
Participant – Members of IAOE, IGIP, EWA2
(you cannot make any presentation with this fee)		 375 EUR 425 EUR
Participant – Low-income Countries3
(you cannot make any presentation with this fee)		 200 EUR 250 EUR
Participant – Student4
(you cannot make any presentation with this fee)		 200 EUR 250 EUR
Options
Additional Paper (max 1) 150 EUR N/A
Conference Dinner Thursday Evening is included in any fee
Social Program Saturday 90 EUR 90 EUR
Accompanying Person4 150 EUR 200 EUR

1 Authors must register until 21 Dec 2026 in order to be included in the program.
2 Upon registration, you will be asked to upload a proof that shows that justifies your eligibility for this fee.
3 Upon registration, you will be asked to upload a proof of ID that shows that you work and live in a low-income country that appears in this list: Low-income Economies.
4 BSc, MSc, PhD, not older than 30 years. Upon registration, you will be asked to upload a document that justifies your eligibility for this fee.
5 Are not allowed to attend the sessions. Choose one of the Participant fees.

Committees

STE General Chair

STE Steering Committee

STE2027 Honorary Conference Chair

STE2027 Conference Co-Chairs

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Workshop and Tutorial Chair

Special Session Chair

Award Chair

Publication Chair and Web Master

STE2027 Programm Committee

  • Mesut Alptekin, University Paderborn, Germany
  • Gustavo Alves, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal & IAOE Vice-President
  • Yacob Astatke, Morgan State University, USA
  • David Boehringer, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Michael Callaghan, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
  • Manuel Castro, UNED Madrid, Spain
  • Monica Ciolacu, Association for Promoting Electronic Technology, Germany
  • Samir El-Seoud, The British University in Egypt (BUE), Egypt
  • Thomas Fischer, University of Applied Sciences Vienna, Austria
  • Javier Garcia-Zubia, University of Deusto, Spain
  • Denis Gillet, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Olaf Graven, Buskerud University College, Norway
  • Ian Grout, University of Limerick, Ireland
  • Christian Guetl, Graz University of Technology, Austria
  • Christos Katsanos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Alexander Kist, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
  • Thomas Klinger, Carinthia University of Applied Science, Austria
  • Petros Lameras, Coventry University, UK
  • Rita Y M Li, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong
  • Ananda Maiti, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
  • Stefan Marks, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
  • Stavros Nikou, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
  • Stamatis Papadakis, University of Crete, Greece
  • Andreas Pester, The British University in Egypt, Egypt
  • Kalyan Ram B, IAOE VP & Electrono Solutions Pvt Ltd, India
  • Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Stanford University, USA
  • Kim Ross, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland
  • Marina Rostoka, V. Sukhomlynskyi‘ State Scientific and Educational Library of Ukraine
  • Sarmad Ahmed Shaikh, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan
  • Ioannis Stamelos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Matthias Christoph Utesch, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • James Wolfer, Indiana University South Bend, IN, USA
  • Dieter Wuttke, TU Ilmenau, Germany
  • Gabriel XG Yue, International Engineering & Technology Institute, Hong Kong
  • Katarina Zakova, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia

International Advisory Board

  • Abdallah Al-Zoubi, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Amman, Jordan
  • Uriel Cukierman, National Technological University Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • David Guralnick, Columbia University, USA
  • Manuel Morales, DUOC UC Santiago de Chile
  • Teresa Restivo, University of Porto, Portugal
  • Hamadou Saliah-Hassane, Université TÉLUQ, Montréal, Canada
  • Elio San Cristobal Ruiz, UNED Madrid, Spain
  • Claudius Terkowsky, TU Dortmund University, Germany
  • Doru Ursutiu, Transilvania University of Brașov, Romania
  • Krishna Vedula, IUCEE, India
  • Igor M. Verner, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

STE2027 Honorary Local Committee

  • Watcharin Gasaluck, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Rerkchai Fooprateepsiri, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, Thailand
  • Daungporn Pupaka, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Thailand
  • Thanin Silpcharu, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Rayong Campus, Thailand
  • Damrong Sripraram, Kasetsart University Sriracha Campus, Thailand
  • Komsan Maleesee, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

STE2027 Local Conference Committee

  • Suwanna Rasmequan, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Chalermpan Fongsamut, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Ponlawat Chophuk, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Benchaporn Jantarakongkul, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Prawit Boonmee, Burapha University, Thailand
  • Warangkhana Kimpan, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
  • Narongsak Putpuek, Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Thailand
  • Tassaphan Suwannatat, Rajamangala University of Technology Tawan-ok, Thailand
  • Saman Kumpakeaw, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Rayong Campus, Thailand
  • Supaporn Bundasak, Kasetsart University Sriracha Campus, Thailand

EWA Forum Committee

  • Reinhard Langmann, Edunet World Association, Germany
  • Klaus Hengsbach, Edunet World Association, Germany

Workshops

Will be available in time. Please continue to check this website for updates.

Social Program & Conference Dinner

One-Day Trip To Ayutthaya

Ayutthaya is a city in Thailand, about 80 kilometers north of Bangkok. Founded in 1350 by King U-Thong, Ayutthaya served as the second capital of the Siamese Kingdom (after Sukhothai) for over 400 years. Strategically located on an island surrounded by three rivers, it became a major global diplomatic and commercial hub, often referred to as the "Venice of the East". At its height, it was one of the world's largest cities, hosting international traders and dazzling visitors with its golden palaces and monumental temples, such as Wat Phra Si Sanphet.

The kingdom was a significant maritime power, conducting extensive trade with China, India, and Europe, while expanding its territory in Southeast Asia. However, constant conflicts with the Burmese led to the city's eventual downfall in 1767, when it was destroyed by the Burmese army. This invasion marked the end of the Ayutthaya period, prompting the establishment of a new capital in Bangkok.

Today, Ayutthaya is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Thailand, known as the Ayutthaya Historical Park. Its spectacular ruins, including broken statues and towering prangs (reliquary towers), serve as a testament to its former glory and a major cultural tourism site.

Dinner on Cruise

We offer the Conference Dinner on Choa Phraya River cruise. A Chao Phraya River dinner cruise is a magical 2-hour experience in Bangkok, combining dining with sightseeing. Sailing past illuminated landmarks like Wat Arun and the Grand Palace, these cruises offer spectacular night views, live music, and Thai/International buffets. It is popular for its romantic ambiance, unique perspectives of the cityscape, and a relaxing way to experience local culture.

Special things to experience

Illuminated Landmarks: Unforgettable, panoramic views of the "Temple of Dawn" (Wat Arun) and the illuminated Grand Palace. Dining & Entertainment: Enjoying international or Thai buffets while watching live singers or traditional Thai dancing. Unique Perspective: Passing under historical bridges like the Memorial Bridge and seeing the city's skyline from the water.

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