HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam, Oct. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Open Innovation Day (OID) 2025 marks Vietnam’s most complete annual program collection for open innovation and expertise collaboration, persevering with its mission to attach public and non-public stakeholders and advance the nation’s transition towards a inexperienced and digital economic system. Over the previous three years, OID has introduced collectively greater than 1,500 strategic companions, 300 worldwide audio system, and a whole bunch of progressive enterprises, reaffirming its place as one in all Southeast Asia’s main platforms for innovation-driven improvement.
OID 2025 is a part of the lead-up actions to the Autumn Economic Forum (HEF) 2025, directed by the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City and coordinated by the Vietnam Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in HCMC (HCMC C4IR). The program collection is initiated by the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (NATEC) beneath the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), and organized by the Open Innovation & Technopreneur Institute (OITI), the Technology Incubation Center (TIC) – Ministry of Science and Technology Vietnam, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), SoiHub, Saigontel, WorkFlow with the companionship of Qualcomm, Business Finland,… and media sponsorship by PR Newswire Vietnam.
With the theme “Technology Breakthroughs – Fostering Green & Digital Transitions,” OID 2025 promotes science, expertise, and innovation throughout key sectors similar to infrastructure, sensible cities, power transition, new supplies, and provide chains. The program goals to strengthen a multidisciplinary platform connecting companies, localities, startups, academia, and consultants to deal with real-world improvement challenges and form expertise developments for a sustainable future.
Speaking on the opening ceremony, Mr. Pham Hong Quat, General Director of NATEC, affirmed that the Ministry of Science and Technology is dedicated to accompanying enterprises and localities in fostering the nationwide innovation ecosystem. He emphasised the significance of efficient and sustainable useful resource utilization, whereas highlighting the pivotal position of younger generations and rising skills in unlocking innovation potential.
OID 2025 additionally introduced a collection of strategic partnerships and collaborations throughout its innovation community. These embrace alliances amongst cooperation amongst HCMC C4IR, SoiHub, G-Group, and Innopolis; between TIC and OITI; SoiHub and QTSC; SoiHub and CNU; OITI and Beanstalk; SoiHub and WorkFlow. It additionally marked the official introduction of the SoiHub Network Members, comprising CNU, NUOA, BytePilot, and BuyO..
These partnerships signify a significant milestone in increasing Vietnam’s open innovation ecosystem, specializing in expertise improvement, human capital enhancement, startup incubation, and expertise commercialization.
Following the announcement, OID 2025 highlighted the contribution of worldwide companions to Vietnam’s innovation ecosystem. Ms. Nguyen Thanh Thao, Business Development & Representative, Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge (QVIC), famous that the Vietnamese startups proceed to face challenges similar to a scarcity of expert expertise and the difficulties in scaling merchandise to international markets. She emphasised that connecting with the worldwide innovation ecosystem is essential to overcoming these obstacles, with QVIC has emerged as a strong launchpad for Vietnam’s promising hi-tech startups, providing complete help from technical steerage, enterprise teaching, mentorship, mental property coaching, and patent submitting incentives accompanied with worthwhile money prize. Through QVIC, Qualcomm gives technical mentorship, enterprise teaching, and mental property coaching, enabling Vietnamese innovators to remodel concepts into impactful international options and convey “Make in Vietnam” applied sciences to the world stage.
OID 2025 strikes past the standard convention format to ship eight targeted panel discussions organized round three key pillars: coverage basis, cross-sector linkage, and market software. These classes convene policymakers, buyers, and trade leaders to debate funding developments, rising markets, breakthrough enterprise fashions, and the applying of applied sciences similar to synthetic intelligence (AI), blockchain, digital infrastructure, power transition, new supplies, manufacturing provide chains, e-commerce and digital companies exports.
OID 2025 brings collectively a formidable lineup of high-level audio system from throughout sectors and nations. On the Vietnamese facet, contributors embrace senior leaders from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization (NATEC), the Vietnam Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in HCMC (HCMC C4IR), the National Data Association (NDA), the Open Innovation & Techpreneur Institute (OITI), and Saigontel. Representatives from main firms similar to Qualcomm, PR Newswire Vietnam, and Shopee Vietnam are additionally among the many key contributors.
Internationally, OID 2025 is honored to welcome the Ambassador of Finland to Vietnam, representatives from the Embassy of Singapore, and senior consultants from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). Global trade leaders together with Qualcomm, Samsung, , and different pioneers in AI, inexperienced power, and digital transformation are additionally becoming a member of the discussions.
Their participation – spanning policymakers, buyers, and expertise implementers – underscores a shared dedication to advancing sensible concepts into actual affect. Mr. Juhern Kim, GGGI Country Representative to Vietnam emphasised that: “Vietnam is entering a new phase, evolving from a manufacturing hub into a technology-powered economy driven by science, innovation, and the rise of AI and digitalization. This national push must be firmly aligned with global climate ambition and the country’s net-zero transition, unlocking new opportunities for green growth. Global investors are increasingly rewarding those who build climate-smart supply chains and credible pathways to net zero.”
Moving past dialogue, OID 2025 focuses on creating real-world collaboration “touchpoints.” The Tech Showcase 2025 provides contributors direct entry to pioneering expertise options developed by startups from the Next Wave of Startups (NWOS) program and members of SoiHub. These improvements span a number of industries, reflecting the rising depth of Vietnam’s R&D and commercialization capability.
Complementing the exhibition, the Business Matching program creates structured alternatives for startups, firms, and buyers to attach, deal with actual market wants, and co-develop sensible options. For strategic companions, the VIP and Executive Matchmaking classes present unique networking areas linking authorities companies, massive enterprises, and worldwide organizations.
One of probably the most anticipated highlights of this system, the Next Wave of Startups (NWOS) 2025 (nextwaveofstartups.com) Final Round, happened on October 26, recognizing the Top 10 excellent expertise options from over 200 collaborating groups. This competitors opens new avenues for cooperation, funding, and pilot implementation, serving as a launchpad for Vietnam’s new technology of expertise startups.
As a part of its broader mission to hyperlink innovation with enterprise improvement, OID 2025 additionally hosted the Honoring & Strategic Kick-off Ceremony: “From Industrial Infrastructure to Innovation,” marking the official launch of Saigontel 2.0 in partnership with MobiFone and RMS. The initiative displays a strategic shift from the standard “Industry – Urban – Service” mannequin towards a sensible, innovation-driven industrial ecosystem. Within this framework, SoiHub was launched because the innovation nucleus of Saigontel 2.0, connecting startups, enterprises, and international companions. The ceremony concluded with the Recognition of Innovative Talents, honoring younger Vietnamese innovators contributing to the nation’s digital and inexperienced transformation, adopted by a Gala Dinner & Networking Program celebrating shared commitments and collaboration.
OID 2025 reaffirms Vietnam’s enduring dedication to inexperienced and digital transformation, recognizing innovation as the important thing driver of sustainable development. With rising potential in AI, blockchain, renewable power, and superior supplies, Vietnam is poised not solely to maintain tempo with international developments however to emerge as a regional chief in next-generation applied sciences.
More than an annual collection, OID represents a steady journey – the place concepts evolve into fashions, insurance policies rework into motion, and partnerships create measurable affect.Through open innovation, Vietnam continues to domesticate a resilient, self-sustaining, and globally linked innovation ecosystem, paving the best way for inclusive and sustainable development within the digital period.
About OITI and SoiHub:
The Open Innovation and Technopreneurship Institute (OITI): OITI performs an important position in fostering Vietnam’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem specializing in coaching, incubating and nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship. Meanwhile, OITI promotes worldwide cooperation, facilitating Vietnam’s deeper participation within the international worth chain via innovation and entrepreneurship.
OITI is dedicated to inspiring and shaping the longer term via progressive initiatives and packages.
SoiHub – Open Innovation Hub: SoiHub is the general public & non-public terminal for constructing and growing Vietnam’s open innovation ecosystem. This is the driving drive that motivates the ecosystem to continuously try and develop progressive initiatives.
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(Ms) Trinh Thi Lan Huong, Email: [email protected].