Tech Ion receives a plaque of appreciation from the Royal Thai Armed Forces at the RTARF AI Hackathon 2026 closing ceremony and the handover of Thap Thai Talk

The closing ceremony at Naresuan Hall

The Directorate of Joint Communications, through the Military Information Technology Centre of Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters, ran the closing ceremony, the award presentation and the exhibition between 09:00 and 11:30. The programme covered a report on the competition, awards to the selected teams, the handover of the Thap Thai Talk system, and prizes for the sticker design contest for that system.

What the competition set out to do

The hackathon was held to raise the artificial intelligence knowledge and skills of Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters personnel, so that the technology can genuinely improve how they work in a digital era.

• Build the skills of serving personnel: Give personnel space to build AI models themselves rather than learn the subject in theory alone.
• Improve day-to-day effectiveness: Keep the work anchored to the real missions of each unit, so what is built can be used in practice.
• Encourage original thinking: Reward ideas with somewhere to go next, rather than restating how the work is already done.

The Thap Thai Talk handover

At the same ceremony, Internet Thailand Public Company Limited and Tech Ion Co., Ltd. handed over a chat and conference system named “Thap Thai Talk” to Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters for internal communication and meetings. The Chief of Defence Forces presented plaques of appreciation to representatives of both companies, and awarded the winners of the sticker design contest for the system.

Tech Ion's part in it

Receiving this recognition reflects how the company prefers to work: bring technology to an organisation's actual mission, and stay with the system alongside the people using it after handover rather than treating installation as the end of the job. The company thanks Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters for its trust, and Internet Thailand Public Company Limited for its partnership throughout the project.

The exhibition

After the awards, the presiding officer toured the exhibition of the competitors' work, where each team presented its concept, its development approach and the performance results of the model it had built, and attending personnel could put questions to the developers directly.