Open Innovation Perspectives: Singapore and Vietnam

ASEAN countries have the potential to become innovation hubs with a young population well connected to new global technological developments, along with an increasingly highly educated labour market. The rise of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and robotics present interesting opportunities to tackle some of the large-scale economic challenges in South East Asia.

According to the Global Innovation Index in 2019, South East Asia is at the third place globally in terms of innovation. Singapore leads the region with a high score in most of the indicators. Vietnam has also made significant progress in 2019 (3rd in South East Asia), with improvements observed in human capital and research, market sophistication, and knowledge and technology outputs.

The ‘Open Innovation Perspectives: Singapore and Vietnam’ event will be a collaborative platform for both Singapore and Vietnam to exchange ideas and opportunities in the technology landscape. Such dynamics could create the basis for the generation of new knowledge and innovation, thereby increasing productive knowledge sharing and opportunities for collaboration between both countries.

Come join us as we discuss the open innovation culture and possible collaborations in the tech ecosystem between Singapore and Vietnam.

Date: 18 May 2020, Monday

Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue: SGInnovate, 32 Carpenter Street, Singapore 059911

Full speaker line-up will be announced shortly

Speakers:

• Phi Van Nguyen, Steering Committee, Project 844, Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam

Programme Details:

4:00pm – 4:30pm: Registration

4:30pm – 4:45pm: Opening Speech – The Culture of Open Innovation in Vietnam

• By Nguyen Phi Van, Chairwoman, Open Innovation Vietnam

4:45pm – 5:30pm: Panel Discussion – Open Innovation Perspectives from Singapore and Vietnam

Speakers’ Profiles:

Phi Van Nguyen, Steering Committee, Project 844, Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam

Nguyen Phi Van holds an MBA from Australia majoring in marketing communication. Her experience spans over 20 years as a senior executive in brand, retail, and franchise development across global emerging markets in Asia, The Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

She is a board advisor at the Asia Pacific Chief Marketing Officer Council (CMO), advisor to the Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam on startup & innovation, chairwoman of Vietnam Business Angel Network, chairwoman of Open Innovation Vietnam, and chairwoman of Saigon Innovation Hub.

Phi Van is the 2015 award winner of Retail Leadership presented by Asia Retail Congress, as well as the 2017 & 2018 award winner of 100 Top Great Retail Minds presented by World Retail Congress.

She is also the author of five books, “Franchising – The Short Route to Global Markets”, “Cross The Rice Field, Reach The World”, “Go Global: An MSME’s guide to global franchising”, “I, The Future and The World”, and “Searching for yourself”.