The first-ever Vietnam Innovators Summit will be organised in November, featuring high-level executive networking with informative and carefully curated activities aimed at providing a space for insight-sharing on Vietnam’s continuous growth over the years, even amidst the pandemic.
The Vietnam Innovators Summit to be held in HCM City in November, gathering 350 luminaries and innovation leaders. (Photo Courtesy of Vietcetera)
HCM City (VNA) - The first-ever Vietnam Innovators Summit will beorganised in November, featuring high-level executive networking withinformative and carefully curated activities aimed at providing a space forinsight-sharing on Vietnam’s continuous growth over the years, even amidst thepandemic.
With the theme of “The new Vietnam starts here”, the summit, which gathers 350luminaries and innovation leaders from large multinational firms, will bringunique and insightful discussions on technologies, businesses, humaninteractions, and how all of these define the new Vietnam.
Vietnam Innovators Summit is one of the most influential business andinnovation event series backed by the media power of Vietcetera. The summitwill see business innovators and thinkers from Vietnam and Southeast Asia cometogether for a three-week-long series of events.
A whole-day conference features keynote talks, fireside chats, and paneldiscussions hosted by CEO and Founder of Vietcetera and up to 20 executivespeakers, experts, policymakers, investors, and disruptive entrepreneurs.
Exhibition booths, including Vietcetera’s own display of its most successfulcampaigns, podcast series, and events, are to be displayed for a moreinteractive exchange of information and ideas and for participants to fullyembrace the innovative transformation in Vietnam and beyond.
The summit will include five separate sessions, each hyper-focused on aspecific industry: Fintech, ESG and climate change, HR, investment, andhealthcare (subject to change). These sessions are aimed at providing a clearsnapshot of the significant changes, opportunities, obstacles, and growthforecasts of Vietnam’s key-performing sectors through keynote speeches andpanel discussions. A reception will be organised for an informal networkingopportunity among speakers and attendees.
Vietnam Innovators, one of Vietcetera’s most popular podcast series, started asan audio platform for a weekly conversation with some of the most influentialnames in Vietnam’s soaring business ecosystem. With 82 episodes across threeseasons to date, the series has been consistently listed as one of the toppodcasts on Spotify Vietnam and brought Vietcetera’s silver play button fromYouTube./.
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The Vietnam Innovators Summit to be held in HCM City in November, gathering 350 luminaries and innovation leaders. (Photo Courtesy of Vietcetera) 
