Vietnam Cloud & Datacenter (Ho Chi Minh) Convention 2026

Vietnam is reaching a decisive inflection point where global cloud and AI hyperscalers are finally ready to commit to large-scale builds, driven by surging regional AI demand, Vietnam’s rapidly maturing digital economy, stronger investment incentives, and increasing requirements for sovereign cloud and low-latency workloads. This keynote reveals why 2026 positions Vietnam as a priority market on the hyperscale roadmap—and highlights the critical enablers and remaining challenges around power, land, and talent that will determine how fast the country can scale into a true regional digital infrastructure hub.

As global cloud and AI giants evaluate their next wave of regional expansions, Vietnam is emerging as a serious contender—but only if it can meet a new, more demanding checklist. This panel breaks down what hyperscalers truly prioritize in 2026: multi-hundred-megawatt power availability, accelerated permitting, scalable land parcels, competitive energy prices, robust fiber and redundancy, clear data sovereignty frameworks, and a climate that supports high-density, AI-optimized builds. Industry leaders will discuss how Vietnam stacks up today, where the gaps still lie, and what the country must deliver to secure its place on the hyperscale build roadmap.

Vietnam’s AI ambitions are accelerating, but the question remains: can the country realistically deliver the 100–200MW hyper-scale campuses that AI giants now demand? This panel brings together power utilities, data center developers, and cloud leaders to confront the hard truths behind Vietnam’s energy capacity, grid readiness, permitting timelines, cooling constraints, and land availability. We dive into where large-scale power can actually be delivered, what transmission upgrades are required, how renewable integration and DPPA could reshape feasibility, and whether Vietnam’s regulatory environment can support multi-hundred-megawatt builds. This is a candid, data-driven discussion on the limits, opportunities, and breakthroughs needed for Vietnam to truly power the AI boom.

From data sovereignty and cybersecurity to green energy reporting and power usage governance, Vietnam is preparing to introduce regulations that will significantly elevate the standards for data center operators. This keynote highlights the most important upcoming mandates, enforcement mechanisms, and compliance timelines—along with the government’s expectations for hyperscalers, domestic developers, and enterprise cloud users. Operators will walk away with a clear view of what’s changing, what’s required, and what will define regulatory success in 2026.

Global investors, hyperscalers, and enterprise customers are raising the bar on sustainability—and Vietnam’s data center market is about to feel the pressure. This panel explores how emerging ESG requirements, from carbon reporting and renewable sourcing to water efficiency and heat reuse, will influence funding decisions, site selection, and long-term operational standards in 2026. Speakers will examine what “green compliance” now looks like for data centers, how quickly expectations are shifting, and what Vietnam must adopt to remain competitive as sustainability becomes a critical determinant of investment and hyperscale partnership readiness.

As AI adoption accelerates and cloud architectures evolve at unprecedented speed, Vietnamese enterprises are entering a disruptive “AI-cloud shockwave” that will reshape budgets, talent needs, infrastructure choices, and security priorities in 2026. This fireside chat brings together C-level leaders to discuss how organizations are rethinking hybrid cloud, preparing for GPU-driven workloads, modernizing data pipelines, and aligning governance to handle new compliance and cybersecurity pressures. Attendees will gain real-world insight into what enterprises are prioritizing right now—and what strategies will define digital competitiveness in the AI-first era.

Vietnam is positioning itself as the next major hub for global data center investment, but the real question is whether the country’s fundamentals are strong enough to compete with established regional markets. In this keynote, we take a decisive look at Vietnam’s readiness—examining power availability and pricing, regulatory incentives, land and construction maturity, talent depth, and the growing pull from hyperscalers and AI workloads. Attendees will gain a clear, data-driven view of Vietnam’s advantages, its remaining structural bottlenecks, and the strategic reforms needed to unlock sustained foreign inflows. This keynote sets the record straight: is Vietnam truly the next prime destination for large-scale digital infrastructure?

Zero Trust is no longer a security framework—it’s the survival standard for cloud-first enterprises operating in an era of AI-driven threats, sprawling multi-cloud architectures, and relentless regulatory scrutiny. This keynote breaks down how Vietnam’s leading organizations are rethinking identity, access, network segmentation, and workload protection to secure rapidly expanding digital ecosystems. Attendees will hear the latest attacker playbooks, the controls that actually stop breaches, and the practical steps to move from legacy perimeter models to continuous verification. In 2026, it’s simple: adopt Zero Trust, or accept Zero Chance.

As AI accelerates both innovation and attack capabilities, enterprises can no longer rely on reactive security. This panel explores how Vietnam’s leading organizations are adopting resilience by design—architectures that assume breach, isolate blast radii, and recover instantly under pressure. Experts will dissect the rise of AI-powered phishing, automated lateral movement, and deepfake-driven fraud, and reveal the controls that actually make a difference: AI-native detection, autonomous response, immutable backups, and cyber-resilient cloud architectures. Attendees will walk away with a clear playbook for building systems that withstand the next generation of AI-driven cyber threats—not by luck, but by design.

As Vietnam prepares to host its first AI mega-campuses, the rules of datacenter engineering are being rewritten. This keynote breaks down what it truly takes to build infrastructure for the GPU era—where 200–500MW campuses, liquid cooling, extreme-density racks, and multi-layered grid diversification become mandatory. We’ll uncover the hidden constraints that hyperscalers and AI labs face today, from transformer substation lead times to heat rejection limits and fiber backhaul bottlenecks, and show how Vietnam can overcome them to compete regionally. This is a deep, technical look at designing at AI scale—where every decision in power, cooling, and architecture determines whether Vietnam can support the next generation of compute-intensive workloads.

Vietnam’s data center market is reaching a turning point where traditional cooling can no longer keep up with GPU-density demands—and liquid cooling is moving from “experimental” to “inevitable.” In this fireside chat, we explore the breakthroughs that are accelerating Vietnam’s shift toward immersion and direct-to-chip cooling, from cost curves and supplier readiness to power density tipping points and regulatory acceptance. We’ll examine what early adopters are learning, the operational realities behind fully submerged environments, and the milestones Vietnam must hit before immersion becomes mainstream. This is a candid, technical conversation on when— and how—Vietnam will make the leap to true liquid-first data center design.

Vietnam’s rapid shift toward high-density, GPU-accelerated data centers has created a talent gap that is widening faster than the industry can respond. In this closing panel, leaders from cloud, colocation, and enterprise IT unpack the critical shortages across electrical engineering, advanced cooling operations, AI workload management, automation, and cybersecurity—and what must happen now to build a future-ready workforce. We examine why traditional skillsets no longer match AI-era requirements, how operators can re-train and retain technical teams, and what partnerships between government, universities, and industry are essential to avoid a talent bottleneck that could stall Vietnam’s digital ambitions. The message is clear: without the right people, Vietnam cannot power the next generation of AI infrastructure.