The research team led by Professor Joshua Mok, Provost and Vice-President (Academic & Research) and concurrently Director of the School of Transdisciplinary Studies (STS) at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong (HSUHK), was invited to co-organize the conference, "Responses to the Growing Impact of AI, Aging Society, and Global Competition: Critical Reflections on the Role of Higher Education," on 26 June 2026. The event was held in collaboration with the Taiwan Association for Institutional Research and Taipei University of Technology, and was supported by the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP).

President Yi-Jun Jen of Taipei University of Technology and Professor Joshua Mok delivered the opening addresses. Following the opening ceremony, the conference commenced with the first panel, titled "Internationalization of Higher Education and University Governance". Professor Mok presented a paper on "The quest for an international higher education hub in Hong Kong: Comparative perspectives and university governance." This was followed by presentations from speakers representing National Chengchi University, City University of Hong Kong, HSUHK, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Their presentations focused respectively on the new trajectory of international education destinations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, world-class university aspirations and strategies in the Taiwan region, and the attraction and retention of global doctoral students in Hong Kong through an analysis of student voices on social media.