Vietnam Cloud & Datacenter (Ho Chi Minh) Convention 2025

Vietnam is no longer a quiet contender. As hyperscalers reevaluate regional bets and enterprises search for new edge hubs, Vietnam’s combination of digital ambition, geopolitical neutrality, and growing cloud demand puts it squarely in the spotlight. But can it catch up to rising stars like Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines?

This opening panel challenges industry leaders to go beyond the surface and confront Vietnam’s toughest questions: Is the infrastructure ready? Can power, policy, and people scale fast enough? Or will red tape, reliability concerns, and regional competition hold Vietnam back?

Vietnam’s Data Law, Personal Data Protection Law, and Cybersecurity Law are changing how global and local data center businesses manage and protect information. This session will give you a practical guide to meeting data protection rules. You’ll hear real-world case studies, understand the risks of non-compliance, and learn how to prepare your infrastructure for the future while following government requirements.

As Vietnam’s digital transformation accelerates, cyber threats targeting cloud platforms, data centers, and essential digital infrastructure have grown more sophisticated and damaging. This panel explores how organizations can strengthen cyber resilience, protect sensitive data, and meet emerging regulatory demands, including Vietnam’s tightening data sovereignty and cybersecurity mandates.

Key Takeaways:

• Designing cyber-resilient data centers and cloud platforms
• Navigating Vietnam’s data protection and localization laws
• AI-driven threat detection and incident response
• Securing cross-border cloud operations in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, public services)

Data centers are under increasing pressure to meet net-zero targets while maintaining transparency and trust. This keynote examines the key certifications (LEED, BREEAM, Uptime Institute, ISO 50001) and reporting standards (GHG Protocol, CDP, TCFD, SBTi) guiding the sector’s sustainability journey. Attendees will gain insights into how these frameworks drive accountability, attract investors, and position data centers as future-ready assets in the global transition to net zero.

As Vietnam’s cloud and data center market expands at double-digit growth rates, the environmental footprint of digital infrastructure is coming under increasing scrutiny. From energy-intensive cooling systems to rising grid demand, operators face the challenge of delivering hyperscale performance while meeting national sustainability targets and corporate ESG commitments. This panel brings together leading voices from industry, government, and technology innovators to explore how Vietnam’s data centers can transition toward greener operations at scale.

Discussion points will include:

• Integrating renewable energy into large-scale data center operations
• Advancing energy efficiency through liquid cooling, AI-driven optimization, and green building design
• Navigating Vietnam’s regulatory landscape for carbon reduction and sustainable development
• Aligning corporate ESG goals with the country’s Net Zero 2050 roadmap
• Collaborative models between hyperscalers, local operators, and policymakers to accelerate green adoption

As Vietnam enforces stricter data sovereignty and localization laws, enterprises are shifting from full public cloud to hybrid and multi-cloud architectures. This keynote discusses how CIOs are adapting infrastructure strategies to comply with PDPL and new cross-border data transfer rules, while still driving innovation. Learn how local providers are forming strategic partnerships with global clouds to deliver compliant, high-performance hybrid solutions.

Along with the surge of AI data center infrastructure demands, the data center industry is facing unprecedented challenges, not only with agile DC construction but also with data center operation. This session will highlight how to prepare for future-proofing data center operation technology to cope with current and upcoming data center operation challenges: Liquid cooling environment, mega-scale DC operation, shortage of skilled operators, AI technology adoption, and more.

Vietnam’s rapid shift toward a digital-first economy is being fueled by explosive growth in fintech innovation and e-commerce adoption. From cashless payments and super apps to cross-border online retail, these sectors are placing unprecedented demands on cloud infrastructure, data security, and high-availability systems. This panel will examine how technology leaders, financial institutions, and e-commerce giants can collaborate to build the resilient, scalable, and compliant digital backbone Vietnam needs to sustain its momentum.

Key discussion areas:

• Architecting cloud platforms to handle surging transaction volumes and seasonal e-commerce peaks
• Ensuring security and compliance for financial data under Vietnam’s evolving regulations
• Leveraging AI, analytics, and automation to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency
• Building partnerships between cloud providers, fintech innovators, and e-commerce platforms
• Preparing infrastructure for cross-border expansion and regional competitiveness

Vietnam’s investment in high-capacity subsea systems like the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) and its target of 15 cable systems by 2030 are creating the foundation for a fully connected digital economy. These systems are not only boosting bandwidth and resilience but also enabling faster 5G deployment, stronger IPX interconnection, and a more robust internet backbone.

This panel will explore how subsea connectivity is powering enterprise growth, from supporting cloud adoption and AI to enabling latency-sensitive applications like edge computing, smart manufacturing, and immersive services. By strengthening both global and domestic connectivity, subsea infrastructure is becoming mission-critical to Vietnam’s competitiveness in the digital era.

As Vietnam positions itself as a regional digital hub, next-generation workloads like AI/ML, large-scale analytics, and real-time video processing are pushing the limits of traditional data center design. This session explores how operators are evolving toward Tier-4 reliability, adopting liquid cooling, immersion systems, and dense compute rack designs to meet AI-driven performance needs. Experts will highlight the role of GPU optimization, power density planning, and automation at scale, focusing on real implementation insights and challenges.

Key Takeaways:

• Vietnam’s rising demand for AI data centers
• Cooling and energy strategies for ultra-dense racks
• Tier-4 upgrades and high-availability architecture
• Design considerations from NVIDIA-backed hyperscale deployments

Vietnam’s healthcare sector is undergoing a profound digital shift, with cloud, AI, and data platforms enabling smart hospitals, remote diagnostics, and personalized treatment. This panel explores how cloud-native technologies are transforming hospital IT infrastructure, how health data is being securely stored and shared, and how pharma and medtech players are building AI-powered logistics, telemedicine, and patient engagement tools. With increasing demand for healthcare digitalization—accelerated by population growth and urbanization—cloud and data center solutions are becoming foundational to future-ready health systems.

Vietnam’s manufacturing sector is undergoing a profound transformation as Industry 4.0 technologies—IoT, AI, robotics, and advanced analytics—become integral to production lines. To fully realize this shift, manufacturers require a seamless integration between edge computing for real-time decision-making and cloud platforms for large-scale data aggregation, analytics, and AI-driven optimization.

This keynote will explore how an edge-to-cloud architecture can:

• Enable predictive maintenance and quality control.
• Optimize supply chains and energy efficiency.
• Support compliance with local and global manufacturing standards.
• Accelerate time-to-market for high-value manufacturing outputs.

Vietnam’s digital infrastructure stack is no longer siloed—cloud, connectivity, and compute are rapidly converging under the pressures of AI, edge, and data sovereignty.

This closing panel unites industry leaders to discuss how providers, enterprises, policymakers, and investors can co-design and co-invest in scalable, secure, and AI-ready systems that position Vietnam as a true regional digital hub.