Keynote Speakers
Professor Jon-Chao Hong
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan
Jon-Chao Hong has received his doctoral degree in
Education from the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana, and is currently working as a
Chair professor in the department of industrial
education at National Taiwan Normal University
(NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based
Learning Laboratory (GBL), he has developed 9 web
games, 24 educational Apps and VR for skill training
and language learning.
As the secretary general of Taiwan Creativity
Development Association, he also organizes several
creative contests relevant to STEAM, such as
PowerTech Contest to invite elementary, junior and
senior high school students to produce robots or
miniatures in the morning and using these to compete
in the afternoon to ensure students’ hands-on
creation without parents or teachers’ assistance. As
the executive secretary of International Exhibition
for Young Inventors (IEYI), he also promotes the
innovative contest to give students an opportunity
to stimulate their science inquiry abilities, and
also cultivated students’ creativity and thinking
attitude of STEAM. In addition, he has published a
number of academic articles in international
journals related to digital game-based learning and
thinking skills and creativity about 45 articles on
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) journals and
received the Outstanding Research Prize from
Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan.
Invited Speaker
Prof. Hisayuki Sasaoka
National Institute of Technology, Asahikawa College, Japan
Hisayuki Sasaoka received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkai-Gakuen University in 2000. From April to September 2000 he was a postgraduate at the Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He then served in the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at the National Institute of Technology (Asahikawa KOSEN), Japan, starting from October 2000 until March 2025. Since April 2025 he has been a Professor (Thailand KOSEN) at the National Institute of Technology Headquarters (Japan) and a visiting professor at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (Thailand). His research interests include e-Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Machine Translation.