Talks

2026

Keynote Speaker, International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) 2026. Title to be confirmed, Dec 2026, Hosted by Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam Event

Invited Speaker, Title: TBC. AI & Public Policy International Conference, 19-20 Nov 2026, Hosted by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Invited Panelist, 2026 Asia Pacific Policy Network (AP-PPN) Conference. Titles: How To Publish Successfully in Public Management and Administration & Special Issue on The Downsides of AI in the Public Administration and Development (The Editor’s Forum) May 2026, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin, China Event   News

Invited Speaker, Title: GPT as a New Research Infrastructure: Threats and Opportunities for Social Sciences. May 2026, Hosted by Peking University School of Government, Beijing, China Event

Invited Speaker, Title: LLM as a New Epistemology and How It Will Change Social Sciences. April 2026, Hosted by Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland. Event

Keynote Speaker, 22nd Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference. Title: The End of Social Entrepreneurship? A Socio Political Turn and Why We Need it in the Policymakers Toolkits, May 2026, IMD Campus, Lausanne, Switzerland. Event YouTube

Invited Speaker, Lingnan University Dept of Government and Int’l Affairs Seminar. Title: Public Administration in the Era of GPT: Scale Development and Synthetic Data, Jan 2026, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Event

2025

Invited Speaker, AI in Political Science: Past, Present and Future. Title: Warring States or Peace with Artificial Intelligence? Mapping the Intellectual Structure of Military AI, June 2025, School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Event

Panel Speaker, High Level Forum on GenAI Governance and Cultural Co-Creation. Title: Citizens Preferences on AI Governance, Oct 2025, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong. Event

Invited Speaker, Cournot Seminar. Title: Experimental Paradigm in Social Entrepreneurship Research, April 2025, Bureau d’economie theorique et appliquee (BETA), University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France. Event

2024

Plenary Speaker, AI and Public Policy International Conference. Title: “Government Innovation in the Age of Generative AI: Promise and Pitfalls”, Nov 2024,Nanyang Centre for Public Administration, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Event

Invited Speaker, Collaborative Research Postgraduate Students’ Seminar Series. Title: Social Entrepreneurship in and for Public Administration, Oct 2024, School of Graduate Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Event

2023

Invited Speaker, Title: Artificial Intelligence as a Method. Hosted by the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China, 4 December 2023

Keynote Speaker, The 11th Gadjah Mada International Conference on Economics and Business (GAMAICEB). Title: Blockchain as a New Driver of Social Entrepreneurship, Sept 2024, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Event

2022

Keynote Speaker, APRU Carbon Neutral Society Conference. Title: Blockchain as Social Innovation: Smart Contract for P2P Energy Trading Kyushu University and Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), June 2022, Online. Event

2021

Invited Speaker, Japanese Academic Association of Organizational Science (AAOS). Title: The Promise of Emancipatory Entrepreneuring Research Aug 2021, Online. Event