GStar Summit 2026: AI & Humanity happened on May 29, co-organised by the New Turing Institute (NTI) and Pacific Gateway Partners. The occasion introduced collectively world AI leaders and specialists to share improvements, sensible purposes, and expertise improvement initiatives.
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| Bui Hoang Phuong, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology |
Speaking on the discussion board, Bui Hoang Phuong, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, stated that Vietnam identifies sci-tech, innovation, and digital transformation as key drivers to improve labour productivity, enhance progress high quality, and strengthen nationwide competitiveness to obtain speedy and sustainable improvement.
“In this process, digital technologies, particularly AI and big data, have truly become remarkable breakthroughs and play an especially important role. AI has been identified as one of the strategic technologies that Vietnam must master and promote for widespread application across all aspects of socioeconomic life,” he stated.
To successfully advance AI, in accordance to Phuong, Vietnam has recognized a number of core priorities, together with analysis and improvement aimed toward reaching technological self-reliance; selling AI adoption with the important thing goal of remodeling mindsets and bettering AI literacy amongst residents, companies, and organisations; strengthening governance and addressing social impacts with a human-centric method whereas supporting workforce reskilling and profession transition coaching; and enhancing worldwide cooperation, analysis sharing, and the event of a typical world AI ecosystem.
Thang Luong, principal scientist and director of Research at Google DeepMind and co-founder of NTI, shared his long-standing issues over the previous decade relating to the event of a high-quality AI workforce for Vietnam.
“My biggest aspiration is that by 2030, Vietnam will have 100,000 highly skilled AI engineers. This workforce will become the driving force enabling Vietnam to deploy any technological solution in the world and emerge as a deeptech hub,” Luong informed VIR.
“Having a large pool of talented people will help create a peer ecosystem, encouraging overseas Vietnamese talent to return and contribute to the country,” he added.
However, Luong defined that expertise alone wouldn’t be adequate to obtain this purpose, noting that Vietnam should additionally put together different essential foundations, together with sturdy computing infrastructure and a vibrant startup setting.
Modern AI, significantly deep studying, requires monumental processing energy from GPUs comparable to these developed by Nvidia or specialised chips like Tensor Processing Units, that are being utilised by Google. At the identical time, Vietnam wants to foster a dynamic startup ecosystem impressed by Silicon Valley, able to attracting worldwide specialists and buyers to assist construct the nation’s AI ecosystem.
To obtain the goal of 100,000 AI engineers, Luong proposed a number of new approaches, together with a ‘train-the-trainers’ mannequin, beneath which trainers can be geared up with technological experience together with the power to encourage learners and foster human values, comparable to the enjoyment of serving to others.
Secondly, he highlighted the necessity to practice lecturers to utilise AI in creating educating supplies and personalising schooling. AI can robotically adapt content material by offering easier explanations for novices or extra superior information for high-performing learners.
Finally, Luong harassed the significance of stronger collaboration from the enterprise group, noting that partnerships with main companies would assist speed up the realisation of shared objectives.
Wendy Nguyen, co-founder and accomplice of Pacific Gateway Partners, shared insights on nationwide technique, financial improvement, and the combination of expertise with human capabilities.
Nguyen famous that whereas Vietnam possesses monumental potential and sources, success will rely upon two key components: a transparent nationwide technique and a powerful execution workforce.
“Vietnam needs top-tier strategic experts to map out a clear roadmap and determine where to begin, rather than spreading resources too thinly across too many areas at once. At the same time, hardcore executors – a combination of strategic thinkers, decisive operators, and technology specialists – will help elevate Vietnam to a new level,” she stated.
Nguyen additionally proposed a ‘particular process pressure’ mannequin, suggesting that as a substitute of merely following the path of main world gamers, Vietnam ought to give attention to constructing small however extremely succesful groups, related to how a gaggle of simply 50 folks at Google was in a position to launch new and revolutionary merchandise.
Pacific Gateway Partners goals to strengthen Vietnam’s world connectivity by means of initiatives comparable to constructing alliances among the many United States, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam to leverage shared sources and mutual help. The agency can also be looking for to seize ‘early-win’ alternatives by figuring out sectors the place different international locations face provide shortages and positioning Vietnam as a supplier, comparable to in bio-manufacturing to assist cut back the dependence of the US, Japan, and South Korea on various provide sources.
Technology switch is one other essential goal, in accordance to Nguyen. “Financial investment alone is not enough. Vietnam also needs the ‘fishing rod’, meaning the ability to master technology so that it does not become dependent on or controlled by investors,” she stated.
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As Asia accelerates its AI capabilities, supported by a younger and dynamic workforce alongside rising cross-border funding flows, GStar 2026 seeked to strengthen collaboration between companies and academia throughout the area.
The occasion featured audio system and distinguished visitors from main expertise companies, together with Google, FPT, Qualcomm, Boryung, and MoMo; prestigious tutorial establishments comparable to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI); in addition to pioneering startups together with LIFE AI, Calif, Tynapse, and Kotoba Technologies, alongside scientists, innovators, policymakers, and buyers.
Beyond tutorial discussions, the discussion board centered on advancing sensible AI purposes and expertise improvement for Vietnam and the Asia-Pacific area extra broadly, serving as a strategic bridge connecting companies, innovators, and buyers. The occasion additionally featured stay demonstrations of notable AI purposes in healthcare, fintech, and generative AI.
GStar 2026 continues the sequence of annual AI occasions organised by New Turing Institute since 2018 to join Vietnam’s AI group with world specialists. Notable examples embrace GenAI 2024, which attracted greater than 800 members and featured over 17 outstanding audio system, together with Jeff Dean, chief scientist of Google, and AI Day 2023, which drew greater than 1,300 attendees and over 27 famend audio system, together with Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Christopher Manning, director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University.
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