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 Cybersecurity Law and Decree 53 are reshaping how global and local organizations manage data. This session provides a practical roadmap for achieving compliance with data localization requirements, including data residency strategies, hybrid cloud architectures, and regulatory engagement. Industry leaders will share real-world implementation case studies, risks of non-compliance, and how to future-proof infrastructure while aligning with government mandates.

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)

As Vietnam’s enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, the shift from on-premise infrastructure to cloud-based solutions is becoming a strategic imperative. This keynote explores how businesses across sectors—from banking to manufacturing—are embracing cloud platforms to optimize IT spending, scale operations quickly, and enable real-time access to data and services. The speaker will dive into practical migration strategies, cost-benefit analysis, and how organizations can leverage hybrid and multi-cloud environments to stay agile and competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Real-world use cases will illustrate how cloud adoption enhances business resilience, drives innovation, and unlocks long-term value.

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 panel 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 is undergoing a digital transformation—but beneath the surface, quite literally, lies the real enabler: subsea cables. As the country invests in new high-capacity systems like the Asia Direct Cable (ADC) and targets 15 cable systems by 2030, it is laying the foundation not just for faster internet but for a fully connected digital economy.

This keynote explores how subsea connectivity is empowering Vietnamese enterprises to scale faster, adopt cloud and AI more effectively, and engage in global digital trade with confidence. From cloud-native startups to traditional industries embracing automation, the bandwidth and reliability of subsea infrastructure are becoming critical to business performance, innovation, and international competitiveness.

AI is no longer confined to the cloud—it’s walking the factory floor. At HEINEKEN Vietnam, AI is not just a tool for data analytics or back-office automation; it’s embedded in physical machines that inspect, assist, and learn alongside humans in real industrial environments.

This keynote explores how AI-powered robotics is redefining what’s possible in frontline operations—from robotic dogs performing intelligent inspections to humanoid assistants tackling physically demanding tasks. Far from replacing people, AI is helping rehumanize work, freeing employees to focus on safety, creativity, and higher-value problem-solving.

Drawing on real-world deployments, Pathross shares how enterprises can harness AI not just to optimize processes, but to redesign them—shifting the narrative from job displacement to job transformation, and showing how even in beer, we can lead global innovation.

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.

The digital infrastructure stack—once divided between telcos, data center operators, and cloud providers—is rapidly converging. AI workloads, edge deployments, and data sovereignty demands are forcing tighter integration between compute, connectivity, and cloud platforms.

But convergence isn’t just technical—it’s strategic. As Vietnam positions itself as a regional digital hub, success will depend on how well infrastructure providers, enterprises, policymakers, and investors collaborate across silos to build scalable, secure, and AI-ready systems.

This closing panel brings together leaders shaping Vietnam’s digital foundation to explore how the next generation of infrastructure must be co-designed, co-invested, and cross-functional to unlock the full potential of the digital economy.