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 center industry is entering a phase of strong growth in the coming years. This session will explore key themes, including market size and the rising demand from AI and domestic users, who are the hyperscalers and customers? Where do they stand? The impact of new data laws, the reality that much of Vietnam’s data is currently stored in Singapore, lessons from Malaysia’s success in attracting over USD 30 billion of data center investment, and why Vietnam may be poised for similar expansion.

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

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.

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 new Data Law (effective July 2025) and PDPL (January 2026) redefine what it means to handle user data legally. This keynote shows why hosting consent, analytics, and tags in Vietnam is the safest and smartest path. Unpacking consent rules, cross-border transfer limits, and use a real-world case to highlight risks with US- and China-hosted tools. Offering a VN-hosted playbook to cut compliance risk and build digital sovereignty.

Meeting the demands of AI compute will be one of the greatest challenges for Vietnam’s data center industry. From GPU clusters to sovereign cloud policies, the country must align infrastructure, regulation, and investment to power the next wave of AI adoption. How can colocation and cloud providers design facilities that balance performance, cost, and sustainability? What role will government policy, renewable energy readiness, and data sovereignty play in shaping Vietnam’s AI future?

As Vietnam accelerates toward AI-driven digital growth, the evolution of its data center landscape is not just about power density and modular scalability, it also hinges on robust legal and regulatory frameworks. From data protection and cross-border transfer rules to compliance with international standards, legal clarity is critical to enabling trusted, resilient, and investment-ready infrastructure. This keynote examines how regulation, governance, and industry collaboration will shape Vietnam’s ability to serve government, finance, e-commerce, and the fast-growing AI ecosystem across ASEAN.

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 digital transformation journey is accelerating as advanced technologies reshape every sector of the economy. From smart manufacturing and smart cities to digital healthcare and intelligent agriculture, the need for scalable, real-time, and connected systems is greater than ever. To unlock these opportunities, organizations must adopt an edge-to-cloud architecture that seamlessly integrates:

• Cloud-native platforms, delivering scalability, resilience, and rapid deployment of digital applications.
• Edge computing, enabling real-time processing and decision-making close to where data is generated.
• 5G connectivity, providing ultra-low latency and high-speed communication between devices, sensors, and control systems.

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.