On 23–24 July 2026, the STORIES project team — including Prof. Dr. Liang Emlyn Yang, Dr. Ylenia Casali, Dr. Wenhan Feng, Mr. Hao Su, Ms. Siying Chen, Mr. Thanh Phuoc Ho, and Ms. Pia Echtler — participated in the international conference STS for Resilient Futures 2026: Science, Technology, and Society in the Era of Climate and Digital Transition in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference was organized by the Chulalongkorn University Social Research Institute (CUSRI) and brought together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to exchange perspectives on resilience and sustainability, climate change, digital transformation, and societal transitions.


Wenhan Feng participated in the panel “Digital Transformation and Resilience” Presentation: Making Urban Climate Adaptation Legible: LLM-Assisted Knowledge Graphs and the Socio-Technical Governance of Resilience in Chinese Cities.


Hao Su participated in the panel “Biodiversity, Ecology and Nature-Based Solutions” Presentation: Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Resilience in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An Integrated Assessment Framework


Siying Chen, Thanh Phuoc Ho, and Pia Echtler, participated in the panel “Disaster, Risk and Resilience” Siying Chen — Presentation: Historical emergence of cascading flood impacts in Southwest China Thanh Phuoc Ho — Presentation: A Bayesian network analysis of the interactions of flood resilience measures in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta Pia Echtler — Presentation: Coastal resilience through scalable and replicable adaptation pathways





Ylenia Casali participated in the panel titled “Climate Sustainability and Low-Carbon Futures”, showcasing an integrated modelling framework for urban heat exposure aimed at enhancing climate-resilient planning. Liang Emlyn Yang served as the moderator of the “Energy Transition” panel

The conference provided an opportunity to share ongoing research and engage with broader debates on resilience and sustainability, aligning the project’s empirical outputs with international discourse on technology, ecosystems, and societal transformation. It was especially interesting to learn from different Asian universities how technologies are used to transfer sustainable and resilient transformations into contemporary social changes. Two main takeaways can be summarised. First, the pathways for deploying technology to address resilience and sustainability remain largely unmapped, rendering technology transfer an evolving field of discourse. And second, technological deployment is inherently context-dependent, thus making local, regional and institutional perspectives and needs central in defining possible future uses.