2022 AUA Academic Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology
21 – 23 February 2022
Overview
The Asian Universities Alliance (AUA) Academic Conferences are important platforms that encourage academic communications on the topics drawn from the AUA Themes. It is the aspiration of AUA for Academic Conference under its research collaboration module to bring forth the establishment of research clusters to further strengthen the research collaborations between member universities. Universiti Malaya, Malaysia together with Chulalongkorn University, Thailand were honoured to be the host of the 2022 AUA Academic Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology which was held from 21-23 February 2022 with the theme “Gearing Innovative Green Technologies Towards Sustainable Living”, supporting the AUA Themes for 2020-2023 “Energy and Sustainability”. AUA SEGT 2022 aims to promote research in the field of sustainable energy, green technology, environment and climate change, and to facilitate the exchange of new ideas and the establishment of research clusters in these fields among academicians, engineers, scientists and practitioners from both AUA and non-AUA member universities. The 2022 AUA Academic Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology was an online conference held in Gather Town (a virtual conference platform) where avatar was used by participant for interactions at the AUA SEGT 2022 conference venue (metaverse), just like in a real physical conference. The conference was chaired by Prof. Ir. Dr. Chong Wen Tong (Universiti Malaya), and co-chaired by Prof. Anongnat Somwangthanaroj (Chulalongkorn University) and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nasrin Agha Mohammadi (Universiti Malaya).
Conference Highlights
Registration
All participants were spawned to the AUA SEGT 2022 conference venue once they logged in. Both oral and poster presenters were required to self-register at the AUA SEGT 2022 conference foyer (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Self-registration of presenters at the AUA SEGT 2022 Conference Foyer.
Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.
Figure 2: Crews on standby at the Helpdesk
Welcoming Remarks & Opening Ceremony
Prof. Ir. Dr. Shaliza Binti Ibrahim, UM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) delivered the opening remark before officiating the 2022 AUA Academic Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology at the Ballroom (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Prof. Shaliza, UM Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation) delivering the opening speech for AUA SEGT 2022.
This was followed by Group Photo session at the Ballroom against the backdrop of AUA SEGT 2022.
Figure 4: Group Photo session
The Plenary and Keynote Talks
The Plenary and keynote talks were held in the Ballroom where all participants attended the events as avatars.
Figure 5: Participants attended the plenary and keynote talks as avatars.
Plenary and keynote speakers delivered their speeches on Gather. Prof. Ahn could be seen as an avatar on the stage in the Ballroom (Figure 5). Figure 6 showed his presentation, as could be seen by all participants on Gather.
Figure 6: Prof. Ahn delivered his keynote talk via Gather.
Speakers who preferred to use Zoom were facilitated by having their presentation rerouted to Gather (Figure 7 (a) and (b)).
Figure 7 (a) and (b): Prof. Zhao and Prof. Mattheos delivered their talks via Zoom.
All the plenary and keynote talks were broadcasted live on YouTube and Tencent’s VooV Meeting (Figure 8).
Figure 8: Leaflet for the broadcast.
The videos (Figure 9) can still be watched on the following URLs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePvF_1D9euY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzpiX_RTPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POBJ4Hrzg8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk07E14lals
Figure 9: One of the Plenary & Keynote Talks on YouTube
Oral Presentation
There were 5 oral sessions held in parallel, in Room A and Room B. Absent presenters were disqualified from the Best Presenter Award evaluation. Presenter presented their findings on the stage next to the two session chairs, while the audiences sat on the chairs in the hall (Figure 10 (a), (b), and (c)).
Figure 10 (a), (b) and (c): Oral presentation in sessions.
Poster Presentation
The poster presentations were held in the Poster Room (Figure 11). Judges evaluated the posters by clicking “x” to display the poster (Figure 11 (a) and (b)). Presenters must be present to deliver their presentations and to answer questions. Absent presenters were disqualified from the Best Poster Award evaluation.
Figure 11: Poster room and Figure 11 (a) and (b): Poster presentations
Award Announcement and Closing Ceremony
Prof. Chong gave the closing remarks and announced the winner of the Best Presenter and Best Poster Awards in the Award Announcement and Closing Ceremony at the Ballroom (Figure 13 (a) and (b)).
Figure 13 (a) and (b): Award Announcement and Closing Ceremony at the Ballroom
The recipients of the Best Presenter and Best Poster awards would each receive USD 150 and USD 100 respectively (Figure 14 (a) and (b)).
Figure 14 (a) and (b): Recipients of Best Presenter and Best Poster Award
