Famous for its food and hospitality, Thailand will host IPC16 from 6-15 November 2026.
The theme of IPC16 is Beyond Sustainability – Many Paths and it aims to bring together the many movements from all over the world working for a more sustainable and resilient future.
6 November 2026 Welcome event
7-8 November 2026 2-day IPC16 Conference will be held at the Golden Jubilee Museum of Agriculture in Pathum Thani, which was built in honour of Rama the Great and dedicated to his teachings about the Sufficiency Economy. On the 6th of November welcome events will be held at the museum including an evening celebration of Loy Krathong – festival of light, water, and gratitude.
11-15 November 2026 5-day IPC16 Convergence will be held at the Suan Loong Choke, a Bamboo Wisdom School in Wang Nam Khiao, Korat, area famous for nature-focused attractions, often called “The Switzerland of Thailand”. It is a beautiful bamboo forest garden which hosted TPC4, the 4th Thailand Permaculture Convergence in 2016.
Many pre and post IPC16 events will also be held.
How to participate
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If you would like to be a Conference speaker, a Convergence session leader, or would like to nominate someone please contact in**@**************re.org .
Dr. Kyle Holzhueter keynote speaker
Kyle works as a farmer, builder and educator specializing in natural building materials and sustainable systems such as no-till rice cultivation, agroforestry, natural plasters and energy efficiency. He is a graduate of the Kyoto Plastering Institute and the first westerner in Japan to pass the highest level Japanese National Plastering Exam. He also has a PhD in Bioresource Sciences from Nihon University where he researched the hygrothermal environment of straw bale walls and building practices to control moisture. Kyle completed his PDC with Max Lindegger at Crystal Waters in 2003. In 2017 Kyle founded Permaculture Center Kamimomi, a Permaculture demonstration and education site in Okayama, Japan.
For more about Kyle please visit https://thaipermaculture.org/people/kyle-holzhueter/
Manas Arvind – speaker
Manas is a communication designer turned permaculture practitioner and food-systems designer whose journey has evolved from shaping ideas and enterprises to regenerating living landscapes and communities. After more than two decades working across communication design, hospitality, and entrepreneurial ventures, he began questioning industrial models of food, education, and development, leading him toward agroecology and permaculture as integrated responses to ecological and social imbalance.
He is the co-founder and key organizer of the Gurgaon Organic Farmers Market (GOFM), a long-running citizen-led initiative that builds direct farmer–consumer relationships and hyperlocal clean food ecosystems. Through this work, he has helped strengthen farmer livelihoods, promote chemical-free agriculture, and demonstrate how community markets can become living laboratories for resilient local economies and food culture.
As a permaculture and regenerative systems designer, Manas works with farmers, educators, resorts, and grassroots entrepreneurs to design farms, learning spaces, and agri-enterprises rooted in ecological wisdom and local context. He is also a co-founder of the Farmversities Alliance, an international effort reimagining education through farms as living classrooms — connecting training, knowledge sharing, storytelling, and technology to support regenerative futures.
Alongside his ecological work, Manas continues his practice as an exhibiting photographer and documentary storyteller, exploring humanity’s relationship with nature and inner transformation. For him, permaculture is not only a design methodology but an ongoing inquiry into how humans can live with awareness, reciprocity, and dignity within the larger web of life.
For more about Arvind please visit https://thaipermaculture.org/people/manas-arvind/
Neil Willman – event patron
Neil Willmann is an ecological engineering designer with degrees in oceanography and physics covering marine aquaculture systems, thermodynamics, ecological system engineering. He is the executive manager of Daruma Eco-Farm and co-founder of the Mosaic School, the first full-time primary school based on permaculture principles offering an alternative, holistic ecological conscious education. Daruma, under Neil’s direction, has hosted numerous permaculture courses, natural and earth building courses, Thai massage courses, and more. Neil has led and instructed many students in permaculture including many credited undergraduate and graduate study programs with universities in the USA, Canada, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.
Neil is passionate about life-long learning. “The only true ‘expert’ in ecological engineering design is Nature. Because of this, permaculture design promises a creative, lifelong learning capacity that will always be rewarding.”
For more about Neill please visit https://thaipermaculture.org/people/neil-willmann/ https://thaipermaculture.org/permaculture-in-the-thai-classroom/