WEEK # 22, 29 May - 3 June, 2023
In this issue:
C. Visitors/ MoU/ Agreement Signing
1) AIT Extension invites you for online live session on “METAVERSE SERIES – 1: Digital Economy – How to explain market size in time”
Date: 31 May 2023
Time: 14:00 hrs. (Bangkok time)
About the speaker: Mr. Danairat Thanabodithammachari
Digital Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Expert
Mr. Danairat has more than 15 years of experience in both consulting and implementation services across multiple industries; Financial, Telecommunications, Manufacturing and Public Sector. He delivered IT Solutions and Architecture Blueprints with set up Enterprise Architecture team for many large Oracle ASEAN customers.
With software development background, Mr. Danairat completed delivering the key IT projects with millions users access from worldwide various channels; Implemented Business Process Management (BPM) System and Document Management System (DMS) for Loan Origination Process, Delivered Large Payment Gateway Portal Customer Services implementation integrating to many of Enterprise Core Systems using SO technology, Delivered Identity Management (IdM) and Enterprise Single Sign On (SSO) with governance process for more than 1,000 bank branches. Deliver Enterprise Architecture activities, Cloud Computing Architecture and Strategic IT Roadmap for many of ASEAN customers.
Mr. Danairat hold Master of Science, Information Technology (Distinguished Student) from King Mongkutklow University Technology of Thonburi Thailand. Danairat has also completed TOGAF Silver, Java Certified Professional, and ISACA member.
For more information and registration please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/online-live-session-metaverse-series-1-digital-economy-how-explain-market-size-time
2) Blood Donation Announcement
Email from the Medical Clinic on 8 May 2023
Dear AIT Community,
The Thai Red Cross Society has been working with volunteer students and staff to collect units of blood from the AIT community. The bloodmobile visits AIT every three months, four times a year, hoping to collect enough units to supply the constant demand for blood.
We again would like to ask for your help. The next visit for blood donation is scheduled on Friday, 2nd June 2023, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. at the parking lot in front of the AIT Conference Center.
Give blood! You'll experience a fulfilling sense of contribution. And the donation process isn't time-consuming. It only takes about half an hour. For more information about blood donation please see the attached.
On behalf of needy patients whose lives you may save, we would like to thank you very much for your time and support.
For further information, please contact; The Thai Red Cross Society
Tel. 0-2263-9600-99, 0-2256-4300,0-2256-4306
Email: blood@redcross.or.th
Website: www.blooddonationthai.com
3) Youth in ICT 2023 Event, organized by the Asia-Pacifit Telecommunity (APT) and AIT
This event will equip young people with the necessary skills to succeed in the ICT industry. Learn from experts in academia, government officials, private companies, and UN agencies through career development talks and experience-sharing sessions.
Register now to secure your place and stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in the industry.
Register here: https://bit.ly/3M47ZuC
Date and time: Thursday, 22 June 2023 / 9.00 AM - 1.00 PM
Venue: AIT Conference Center (physical)
Email: aptyict@apt.int
Website: https://www.apt.int/2023-APTYICT
4) The 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World”
We are pleased to invite you and your student to attend the 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World” jointly organized by Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS) from School of Engineering and Technology (SET), AIT and The University of Tokyo (OHOW-IIS).
The seminar will be held during 28-29 June 2023, 9:00 AM-16:00 PM at the Asian Institute of Technology, RBB Auditorium (AIT Conference Center), Thailand
Date : 28 June 2023 ( Full day seminar) **Free for lunch (International buffet and coffee break at AITCC)
29 June 2023 ( Full day technical tour) ( Full day technical tour at Kanchanaburi province/Tentative Program) **Free of charge
Symposium Themes
This seminar will include poster presentations by students from each country in different fields, such as disaster prevention, transportation and human mobility, structural, geotechnical engineering for human safety, water, ecology and environment impact of human public health, climate change and green recovery, remote sensing and GIS.
Objective
Sharing research information and friendships to improve presentation skills and among major Asian universities.
Registration
If you are interested, please visit OHOW H.P. https://ohow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
or register through the given link below;
Registration: Deadline for abstract submission May 31, 2023 (google.com)
The event is free of charge.
Please be informed that the certificate will be provided to those presenters and participants who registered to join this event on the full day of the seminar.
5) LC Online Workshops: Oral Communication and Writing in the Workplace
Email from the Language Center on 23 May 2023
The Language Center is pleased to announce the online workshops under the English and Foreign Language Program [EFP] this Inter-semester, as follows.
Oral Communication
Pronunciation [Friday, June 9 at 5 p.m.]
Presentation Skills Workshop Series [Saturday, June 17 at 2 p.m. & Saturday, June 24 at 2 p.m.]
Intercultural Communication [Friday, July 7 at 6 p.m.]
Writing in the Workplace
Business Writing [Saturday, July 22 at 2 p.m.]
Registration is free for AIT staff [Staff ID required] and students who paid the language support fee during their 1st semester. For students who did not pay the language support fee or staff spouses and family members, the charge for each workshop session is THB200/person. Kindly contact us for the payment procedure.
For the workshop details (i.e., timetable, guest speakers and objectives) as well as the registration link [CLICK HERE], please see the attached flyer.
In order to ensure that all participants will benefit from this workshop, we will strictly apply the following policy and procedure.
Out of courtesy to the guest speakers, make sure that you will be able to attend the scheduled workshop before you decide to register. In case you can't attend the workshop you registered in, contact the Language Center in advance so we can better organize the session.
The registered participants will receive the Zoom meeting link a few days before the day of the workshop.
1) Professional Development Course on "Connecting Learning with Monitoring and Evaluation: A Strategy for MEL Operationalization and Result-Based M&E"
Date: 10 – 21 July 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center, AIT Campus
Learn from practitioners on how to develop M & E pathways that foster measurement of results and respond to current changes of M&E contexts. Broadening
perspectives for innovative ways to develop tools and reporting mechanisms that help to make decisions for project implementation.
Learning Modules and Contents Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
Module-1: Project Cycle Management and M&E
- Project cycle management and monitoring and evaluation
- Key concepts of result-based management
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning – A new M&E framework
- Financial and risk management in M&E
Module-2: Key Concepts of Result-based Management and MEL
- Theory of change
- Result-mapping
- Develop result framework/log frame
- Work plan/action and intervention plan
- M&E approaches for donor projects
- Tools for result-based MEL
- Gender perspective in M&E
Module-3: Project Impact Analysis and Evaluation
- Baseline benchmarking
- Most significant changes
- Impact after actions review
- Research design for M&E and approach for data collection
- M&E tools and techniques for robust impact analysis
- Data management and dashboard for M&E
- DEMER Model: Data, Evidence, Measurement, Unpack Errors and Reporting
Module-4: M&E Communication and Reporting
- M&E reporting/quarterly / biannual/ annual
- Packaging M&E data for internal and external communication/ audience
- M&E reflection and learning platform/innovation platform
- Stakeholder engagement-based on the pyramid approach
- Stories from the field
- Donor reporting
For more information and registration pls. visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/connecting-learning-monitoring-and-evaluation-strategy-mel-operationalization-and-result
2) The 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World”
We are pleased to invite you to attend the 2nd International Joint Student Seminar on “One Health, One World” jointly organized by Regional Network Office for Urban Safety (RNUS) from School of Engineering and Technology (SET), AIT and The University of Tokyo (OHOW-IIS).
The seminar will be held during 28-29 June 2023, 9:00 AM-16:00 PM at Asian Institute of Technology, RBB Auditorium (AIT Conference Center), Thailand
Date : 28 June 2023 ( Full day seminar)
29 June 2023 ( Full day technical tour)
Symposium Themes
This seminar will include poster presentations by students from each country in different fields, such as disaster prevention, transportation and human mobility, structural, geotechnical engineering for human safety, water, ecology and environment impact of human public health, climate change and green recovery, remote sensing and GIS.
Objective
Sharing research information and friendships to improve presentation skills and among major Asian universities.
Registration
If you are interested, please visit OHOW H.P. https://ohow.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
or register through the given link below;
Registration: Deadline for abstract submission May 31, 2023 (google.com)
Please be informed that the certificate will be provided to those presenters and participants who registered to join this event on the full day of the seminar.
3. Professional development on “Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Leadership”
AIT Extension invites you to join the training on professional development on “Strategic Human Resource Management and Business Leadership”.
This training course is designed to support HR leaders and professionals in their quest for best practices that will be more beneficial to their organization’s human resources and for the achievement of business targets. By providing them with a better understanding of how to be both strategic and human-centered in their HR strategies and initiatives, and giving them opportunities to explore various frameworks, tools, and techniques, they will be able to translate strategic thinking into actionable outcomes that will make all stakeholders happy.
For more information and registration please visit https://extension.ait.ac.th/course/strategic-human-resource-management-and-business-leadership-0
Date: 16 – 20 October 2023
Venue: AIT Conference Center
The MoU Signing Ceremony between AIT and Cagayan Valley Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development Consortium [CVAARRD] on 2 June 2023.
- Prof. Deepak Sharma, Director, CGC / New Delhi, India/ 3 - 24 June 2023
- Mr. Voravate Chonlasin, Executive Director, AITX/ Kathmandu, Nepal/ 7 - 14 June 2023
- Prof. Paula Banerjee, Faculty, SERD/ Germany & France/ 28 May - 2 July 2023
- Mr. Sanjeet Amatya, Director of Public Affairs/ Kathmandu, Nepal/ 2 - 12 June 2023
- Ms. Sarina Pradhan Thapa, Dean-SERD/ Kathmandu, Nepal/ 9 - 12 June 2023
- Dr. Indrajit Pal, Faculty, SET/ Indonesia/ 25 - 31 May 2023
- Dr. Ram C. Bhujel, Faculty, SERD/ Darwin, Australia/ 29 May - 2 June 2023
- Dr. Sarawut Ninsawat, SET / Chiang Mai, Thailand/ 28 - 31 May 2023
- Dr. Manzul K. Hazarina, Director, GIC/ Vienna, Ausria/ 28 May - 2 June 2023
- Mr. Hillson Ghimire/ Jakarta, Indonesia/ 25 -29 May 2023
- Prof. Kanchana Kanchanasut, intERLab/ Paris, France/ 6 June - 2 July 2023
- Dr. Loc Thai Nguyen / Hanoi, Vietnam/ 12 May - 5 June 2023
- Mr. Huno Solomon Kofi Mensah, RRC.AP/ 21 May - 10 June 2023
- Dr. K.R. Salin/ Darwin, Australia/ 25 May - 2 June 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Malaysia/ 23 - 29 June 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA/ Sri Lanka & Australia/ 1 - 16 July 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
- Mr. Sanjeev Jayasinghe, Executive Director, OAAA /Hongkong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
- Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Taipei, Taiwan/ 27 - 30 July 2023
- Ms. Lucena Talaid, OAAA/ Hong Kong/ 20 - 22 August 2023
- Dr. Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn, Faculty, SET/ London, UK, Oulu, Finland/ 2 May - 30 June 2023
- Ms. Sirikate Owasit, OAAA/ Colombo, Srilanka/ 1 - 5 July 2023
Faculty Position:
Faculty Position in Food Engineering and Bioprocess Technology [FEBT]
Department of Food, Agriculture and Bioresources (FAB)
School of Environment, Resources and Development (SERD)
Staff Position:
- Technician, SERD/ FAB/ ASE
- Machine Learning Developer, AI Center
- Lab Supervisor, Irrigation Engineering and Management (SET- WEM)
- Structural Engineer, AITS
- Business Development Officer, AITS
- IT Officer, AI Center
- Business Analyst, AI Center
- Senior Program Officer, IA (Office of International and Public Affairs)