The Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA) hosted the Vietnam – Asia DX Summit 2026 in Hanoi on May 27-28, with the theme “Powering New Sources for Double-Digit Growth”, bringing collectively 1000’s of delegates, together with authorities leaders, ministries, native authorities, CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs of main enterprises, AI and technology specialists, and main Vietnamese and worldwide technology companies.
Opening the Summit, Mr. Ngo Dien Hy, Vice Chairman of VINASA and Deputy CEO of the Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), stated Vietnam is getting into a brand new part of improvement, concentrating on double-digit financial development within the 2026-2030 interval. This, he famous, shouldn’t be solely about development charges but in addition about reworking the nation’s improvement mannequin. In that context, science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation have gotten an important new development drivers.
Proud strides ahead
Mr. Hy confused that Vietnam’s digital technology neighborhood have to be able to shaping and main strategic frontiers of the long run, together with AI, the low-altitude financial system, robotics, and quantum applied sciences – rising fields anticipated to generate main “technology surpluses” and form Vietnam’s standing in world provide chains.
He additional famous that Vietnamese digital technology corporations have already taken notable steps ahead. “We have demonstrated the ability to fully master our application, digital transaction, and digital infrastructure layers,” he believes. “We have moved beyond passive technology adoption toward mastering core technologies under the ‘Made in Vietnam’ strategy, from AI and cloud infrastructure to localized large language models, automated agent systems, full-process digital public services, and land resource data integration in key localities.”
However, he additionally warned that as companies enter a brand new acceleration part, they have to confront mounting challenges, together with the bounds of conventional labor-driven development, rising strain on bodily infrastructure and clear vitality, and authorized gaps for deep tech and rising applied sciences.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Bui Hoang Phuong stated 2025 marked a significant breakthrough in institutional reform underneath the tenet that “institutions must lead the way.” Vietnam, he famous, has reviewed, amended, and supplemented almost its total authorized framework for science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation.
“For the first time, we now have the Law on Digital Transformation, the Law on Digital Technology Industry, the Law on AI, and the Law on Data, together with implementation guidelines that are gradually creating a synchronized legal framework for a new development space,” he continued. “Vietnam is now among the few countries globally to establish a relatively comprehensive legal framework for these sectors.”
He added that the precedence for 2026 is to translate these institutional foundations into tangible outcomes. Policies on digital transformation, he stated, should ship sensible advantages for residents and companies.
To obtain this, the Ministry of Science and Technology is looking on ministries, sectors, and particularly digital technology enterprises to proactively establish the each day challenges confronted by residents, companies, and public businesses at each the central and native ranges, fairly than ready for issues to be formally proposed.
Businesses, he added, ought to actively suggest breakthrough options, fashions, and approaches for making use of digital applied sciences to sensible challenges whereas additionally recommending changes to procedures and laws to allow wider technology adoption. He emphasised that implementation ought to concentrate on fixing concrete and sensible issues first. Once confirmed efficient, nonetheless, profitable fashions must be scaled up shortly to speed up digital transformation throughout society.
Toward interoperable information
Local leaders reaffirmed that science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation are rising as key development drivers in Vietnam’s new improvement part. However, many localities proceed to face difficulties, with the digital financial system’s contribution to gross regional home product (GRDP) nonetheless under expectations, particularly in localities missing robust technology ecosystems, similar to Hue within the central area and south-central Khanh Hoa province. In response, native governments are creating devoted insurance policies to assist home technology corporations whereas investing in shared digital infrastructure and platforms to enhance the effectivity of the broader digital ecosystem.
We have demonstrated the flexibility to totally grasp our utility, digital transaction, and digital infrastructure layers.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Ha, Vice Chairman of the Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee, stated the Provincial People’s Council is anticipated to problem a decision within the second quarter of this yr to implement provisions of the brand new Law on Science, Technology and Innovation. Support measures will embrace help for establishing technology corporations and enhancing entry to financing by way of specialised funds.
The province can be working to determine a Science and Technology Fund and a enterprise capital fund to assist the expansion of native technology companies. At the identical time, Khanh Hoa is partnering with main establishments, together with the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City and the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics, to assist native companies undertake digital transformation, enhance productiveness, and strengthen resilience.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nguyen Duong Anh, Deputy Director of the Hue Department of Science and Technology, stated many technology infrastructure techniques constructed years in the past have gotten outdated and overloaded amid the calls for of digital transformation and AI. The fast rise of AI, he famous, is driving considerably better demand for information, processing capability, and governance, making infrastructure upgrades more and more pressing regardless of restricted funding sources.
Acknowledging the infrastructure and information challenges going through each companies and localities, Mr. Hoang Huu Hanh, Deputy Director General of the National Authority of Digital Transformation on the Ministry of Science and Technology, stated the Ministry has been tasked with reviewing and upgrading the nationwide shared digital platform system.
The aim, he stated, is a system that requires one-time funding however can be utilized persistently from the central to native ranges. Functions already developed centrally shouldn’t must be duplicated by native governments, whereas all platforms should meet unified technical requirements and guarantee interoperability with nationwide databases.
After two days of discussions spanning establishments, infrastructure, information, vitality, and AI, one message persistently emerged from the Summit: science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation are not supporting instruments however core development drivers for the financial system. In the subsequent improvement part, digital transformation should transfer past remoted digitization efforts towards data-driven operations, interoperable information techniques, and nationally-shared digital platforms. Cooperation between authorities, technology corporations, and native authorities, delegates stated, will decide how shortly Vietnam can obtain new breakthroughs within the a long time forward.