Prof. Manuela Veloso

AI & ROBOTICS

Manuela Veloso is the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She was the President of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) until 2014, and the co-founder and a Past President of the RoboCup Federation. She is a fellow of AAAI, IEEE, AAAS, and ACM. She is an international expert in artificial intelligence and robotics.

Michelle Tsing

ROBOTICS FOR GOOD

Co-founded a blockchain payments startup in 2015 and is a strategic ICO advisor. She is also a mentor for SVI Academy and Hack Temple and advises a number of startups in 3D printing, AI, biotech and social sharing. She founded Robotics for Good: Chatbots, Messaging and AI community; and donates her time to both The Loving AI XPRIZE Project and Robots Without Borders. She is also producer and host of Laptop Radio at Stanford University.

Lily Sarafan

HOME CARE ASSISTANCE

Lily Sarafan is CEO of Home Care Assistance, the leading consumer health company in the $100B in-home care market, with a mission to change the way the world ages. Under Lily’s leadership, HCA has grown from startup to industry champion with more than 7,000 employees across 160 markets in the United States, Canada and Australia. Lily is also an investor and advisor for startups and VC firms and a mentor for 500 Startups, StartX and Endeavor. She serves on boards for high-impact organizations including the Stanford Alumni Association, the Freeman Spogli Institute, the BerkeleyHaas Center for Innovation Economies, Shared Studios, and the Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement. Lily holds an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering and B.S. in Science Technology and Society with a minor in Middle Eastern Studies from Stanford University, where she was Eben Tisdale Fellow and Class President. She has been honored as Women Health Care Executives’ 2016 Woman of the Year, Ernst & Young’s 2016 Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Silicon Valley 40 Under 40. Lily is a member of YPO and Chatham House and a 2017 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Loi Luu

KYBER NETWORK

Loi Luu is a researcher working on cryptocurrencies, smart contract security and distributed consensus algorithms. He is also a regular invited speaker at Bitcoin and Ethereum workshops such as DevCon2, EDCON.

Loi believes in the force of the Ethereum and Blockchain technology. Much of his work revolves around this community. He developed Oyente, the first open-source security analyzer for Ethereum smart contracts. Loi also cofounded SmartPool, another open source project which embraces decentralization of mining pools in existing cryptocurrency. He continues to champion decentralisation and trustless properties of the Blockchain.

Dr. Long Vuong

TOMOCHAIN

Long Vuong is CEO and founder of Tomochain, a public blockchain infrastructure providing an innovative solution to the scalability problem with the Ethereum blockchain. He is often invited as guest speaker of many reputable blockchain events around the globe. Prior, Long Vuong was co-founder and the former project lead of very successful NEM blockchain (New Economy Movement). He is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UMass-Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.

George Li

WETRUST

George is an ex-Googler who previously co-founded CottonBrew, a Stanford StartX computer vision company. Prior, he held roles in Corporate Strategy and Infrastructure at Google, and was a consultant at McKinsey. He holds a M.S in Management Science Engineering from Stanford and B.S. in Electrical and Computer Eng from Rutgers.

Caesar Chad

University of Science and Technology of China

Caesar Chad is an expert in Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain. He currently works as a Professor of Finance at the University of Science and Technology of China where he has published several academic papers on blockchain technology. He is also the Vice President of Sino-Israel Blockchain Research Institute. Caesar has co-founded several blockchain research companies, including ArteToken, Bitconch, and Cronus. Caesar is the author and patent holder of POR consensus algorithms and has been an early adopter and advocate of blockchain technology since 2010. He is a former developer at Google, contributor of Ethereum and Technical Lead at IBM.

Poseidon Ho

OUTLIERS VC DAO

Poseidon Ho founded Outliers and managed Outliers Fund I (16x), Fund II (11x) and raised a $50M Fund III for investing in Web3 & Metaverse in 2022-2026.

Outliers Lab #1 incubated 9 Web3 startups (including Kambria) with two on path to filing IPO and $100M+ raised collectively.

In 2022, Outliers Fund III was deployed on Ethereum and became Outliers VC DAO, one of the world’s first Collective Intelligence-driven VC, running all fund terms/operations on smart contracts.

Prior to founding Outliers, Poseidon researched Collective Intelligence & Reality Computing at MIT Media Lab, Microsoft Research, and San Diego Zoo Research.

Poseidon studied M.S. Computer Science at University of Washington (dropout), M.Eng. Data Science at Tsinghua University (dropout) and B.A. Management Information Systems at National Taiwan University.

Poseidon has 4 research fellowships, 20+ international design & programming awards.

Simon Seojoon Kim

HASHED

Simon Seojoon Kim is CEO and founding partner of Hashed, a leading crypto fund based in South Korea. He is a Blockchain evangelist and organizer of Hashed Lounge, a premier Blockchain Seoul meetup community. Prior to Hashed, Simon was a serial entrepreneur and has co-founded numerous companies. He served as Chief Product Officer at Knowre, an ed-tech startup that was named one of World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education by Fast Company.

Ro Charlz

VICKERS VENTURE PARTNERS

Ro Charlz is a technology evangelist and serves as an investment professional with Vickers Venture Partners, one of the world’s leading tech-focused venture capital firms whose team has been involved with several prominent unicorn start-ups. Ro covers a wide-span of sectors including blockchain, robotics, AI, IoT, mobility, automotive tech, automation, cybersecurity, e-commerce, and general consumer tech. Ro has previous experience in the energy sector and serves as an active angel investor and advisor to several start-ups. He comes from a background in professional motorsports as a consultant to the automotive industry with a focus on tech development for over 10 years, consulting to several of the world’s largest automotive makers.

Roger Lim

NEO GLOBAL CAPITAL

Roger Lim is an experienced angel and blockchain investor. He is the Founding Partner of NEO Global Capital and an advisor for projects like Bluzelle, Qlink, CoinFi, Thekey, Tomocoin, 0Chain, Switcheo, Open Platform, and nOS. He is also a successful entrepreneur who founded Webvisions, an Asian cloud hosting company.

Kenzi Wang

AU21

Kenzi Wang is the Co-founder of AU21, a venture capital firm focused specifically on the blockchain ecosystem. Before starting AU21, Kenzi was CEO and Co-founder of Traction Labs. In addition, he founded Fantoon Growth Labs and Growthathon. Kenzi has deep knowledge of exchanges and the crypto markets. Kenzi studied Mathematics at Columbia University and graduated with an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Dr. Hung Tran

GOT IT

Dr. Hung Tran is the founder of Got It, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based tech startup developing a next-generation Conversational AI platform focused on Customer Experience Management. Leveraging Transfer Learning and the paradigm shift in NLP caused by Transformers (BERT, GPT-3, T5, and Proprietary models). Got It AI has developed the first Conversation AI Platforms with Self-Discovery, Self-Training, and Self-Management: making conversational solutions easy to deploy and manage compared to existing solutions that involve manual flow building, and constrained training of chatbot NLU and NLG.

Phong Nguyen

FPT SOFTWARE

Phong is currently a visiting researcher at Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, and directed by A.M. Turing Award Winner, professor Yoshua Bengio. At Mila, he is working with Prof. Yoshua Bengio and Prof. Aaron Courville in couple projects in disentanglement, anomaly detection, and reinforcement learning. He has 7 years working as industrial AI researcher for Hitachi, based in Tokyo, Japan. His topics were applying machine learning for human activity recognition, automatic control for industrial plants, robotics, etc. He is also consulting organizations in Vietnam to develop AI strategy and grow AI talents. Phong graduated his Master of Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013.

Prof. Cong Pham

FPT SOFTWARE

Prof. Tri Cong Pham is currently a Data Scientist / Researcher at FPT Software. Professor Cong graduated from Hanoi University of Science and Technology in 2004 and became a Bridge System engineer in Japan for 2 years. In 2008, he returned to Vietnam to work on developing software. In 2009, he became a lecturer at Hanoi Water Resource University. In 2017, he initiated his Ph.D. program. Professor Cong’s research mainly focuses on the use of AI to solve real-world problems, especially in the medical field. Professor Cong has published many scientific articles, published on prestigious worldwide conferences such as IEEE, IIHMSP / FITAT, etc

Mr. Phuc Le

FPT SOFTWARE

Mr. Phuc Le – Solution Architect of FPT Software, has graduated from Talented Engineer program in Hanoi University of Science and Technology. As a Software Engineer, he has worked in FPT Japan in Fujitsu under many projects. At Viettel, he was the Solution Architect for Big Data project. Mr. Phuc was the Head of Pattern recognition department of Vinsmart for Smart City project, focusing on AI in the Edge and Large Scale system. Coming back to FPT, he works as the Solution Architect for Video Analytic products.

Mr. Hai Luong

GOT IT

Technical lead of the PhotoStudy products which have been serving millions of users. PhotoStudy app was ranked 2nd in Education category, and was featured multiple times on App Store. He is responsible for the quality of the output from the engineering team as well as supporting and helping to improve the team’s capacity.

My Nguyen

KIDSPIRE VIETNAM

Tra-My Nguyen is a life-long learner who is passionate about education, children, science, technology and spirituality. Tra-My has a very deep desire to hold space for other people, especially disadvantaged children, youth, and women: to give them hope, to create an environment for them, to encourage and empower them to unleash their core values and develop their core competencies so they can flourish in their own ways. Tra-My practices meditation. She has been learning and applying this practice into her daily life from 2012 – focusing more on the here and the now.She is an INFJ. Three of her core values are: Compassion, Joy & GRIT

Phong Vu

OHMNILABS

Phong Vu is the tech leader of Cloud Robotics team at OhmniLabs. Phong has experience ranging from Web Development, Amazon Cloud Services, Architecture Design, & Robotics and AI.
In OhmniLabs, Phong is in charge of applying AI into Ohmni Autonomous Robots for several use cases including navigation, receptionist functions, warehouse patrolling… Phong loves working in a startup environment so that he has chances to build new things & learn new technologies.
In his free time, Phong likes running, swimming & joining marathons or triathlon events. He also has passion for playing with Arduino, Raspberry Pi or building a 8-bit computer from scratch.

Dr. Tai Nguyen

IFI

Doctor of Information Systems, experts in multi-agent systems, blockchain and Internet of things. Dr. Tai is directly in charge of the modeling and modeling laboratory (MSI Lab) of the International Francophone Institute (IFI) and co-director of the Vietnam Digital Economic Program of the Science and Experts Association Vietnam Global (AVSE Global).

Trung Tran

PANASONIC

Head of NLP technology, project leader of Vietnamese, English and Japanese language dialogue systems at Panasonic R&D
More than 6 years of experience in research and development of innovative products.

Dr. Tuan Cao

GENETICA

Dr. Tuan Cao is a co-founder and CEO at Genetica, a leading DNA Genetic Testing and Analysis company. Prior to Genetica, Dr. Tuan was a Principal Research Scientist at Datometry. Dr. Tuan also held a senior engineering position at Google, where he revamped the next generation of Google Adwords reporting engine.

Hung Nguyen

TOPICA

Chief AI Officer – Cofounder at StudyNow.
Chief Architect at Topica Edtech Group

Cuong Pham

COHOST

Founder of Cohost.AI – an AI company based in San Francisco, US.  He is an expert on artificial intelligence, had worked at Amazon, Google, Airbnb

Giang Trinh

VMCG

Giang is currently CEO of VTI Cloud, a member company of VTI Group. VTI Cloud is an Advanced Consulting Partner of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Vietnam with a team of over 50+ AWS certified solution engineers.He is known as a tech investor, strategic and digital trainer, mentor, and incubator. He is also the founder of VMCG who has an investment portfolio of educational, training, tech, platform, and membership businesses.Giang holds some leading positions in the Vietnam startup ecosystem such as Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Mentor Initiative (VMI) and Founder/Principal of the Young Digital Leader Incubator (YDLI). Giang is also a reputed chief consultant for local, bilingual, and international school projects.He was also a co-founder of Alpha Books, the country’s Top 3 business and education publishing company in Vietnam. He himself took part in localizing project of valuable books such as “Asian Business Wisdom”; “The Toyota Way”; “Blue Ocean Strategy”; “The Nokia Revolution”; “Mobile Revolution”; “Marketing in Venus”; “The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM”; “Key Management Models: The 60+ Models Every Manager Needs to Know”… and recently “Platform Revolution” and “Membership Economy”. Giang got an MBA degree from INSEEC – Paris. He used to be the interim General Secretary of the Vietnamese Students Union in France and then the Chairman of the French Alumni in Vietnam (UAVF).

Linh Han

VSV

Linh Han is cofounder and CEO of VSV Capital, a Vietnam-based VC firm with $7 million assets under management. So far, the firm made more than 70 investments, including in Vietnamese e-commerce startup Lozi and SaaS enterprise platform Base. Han claims that VSV Capital was the first early-stage startup investor in Vietnam when it was launched in 2014.

Do Bui

THINKZONE

Do Bui is Founding Partner of ThinkZone Ventures, a Vietnam early-stage capital firm dedicating to invest in ambitious founders and help them to scalable

Hai Dang

OHMNILABS

15+ years of experience in growing and leading highly innovative technical operation and product development.
Certified Scrum Master, skilled in developing and mentoring effective scrum team.
Certified Product Manager, experienced in full circle production development from Idea and Vision to Product Launch and Product Support.
Experienced Project Manager with successful delivery of millions dollar projects.

Anh Do

SYS

Ms. TuAnh Do is acting as a Platform for Vietnamese Startups and Entrepreneurs communities. With very diversify working experiences in Enhancing Business Productivity & Quality, Managing the United Nation Project, Operating the Social Enterprise, Connecting nearly 10.000 Vietnamese Young Entrepreneurs and Supporting Startup Community,… she has taken many roles in the Private Sector and Business Networking.She love to mobilize and integrate diversify nation wide resources to Improve, Change the Execution of the Business in Vietnam. She provides professional advice for Shark Tank Vietnam – a reality show where budding entrepreneurs get the chance to convince industry titans in investing money in their ideas. She also works on the Digital Transformation Strategy and Consulting in the 4IR. in VietnamTuAnh Do is mentioning as the valuable Key Player in the Vietnam Startup Ecosystem, Private Sector with so many network interactions and mentoring valuesShe is a woman on a mission, as proven by her nearly 30 years of continuous dedication and achievements.

Tuan Pham

TOPICA

Tuan M. PHAM, Ph.D is Founder and CEO of Topica Edtech Group, the leading enabler of high-quality online university degree programs in South East Asia. Topica cooperates with 7 universities including top-tier institutions in Vietnam, and a major university in the Philippines. Topica also offers an online English tutoring program TopMito, which was the first in the world to launch a Google Glass app for English tutoring; and it runs the Vietnam chapters of the Silicon-Valley accelerator Founder Institute.Previously, Pham served as a Vice Dean at Hanoi University of Technology, a Dean at Hanoi Open University, and a Senior Visiting Scholar at University of California, San Diego. Before that, he served as a management consultant at McKinsey&Company in Budapest, an investment officer at Extramedia Ventures in Singapore and New York, and a software architect at Integra Software in Budapest.

Thien Chau

EPSILO

Mr. Thien is an expert in Game Development and Artificial Intelligence.
He has got second prize in a Unity machine learning challenge with an idea to make an AI that can self learn how to play Real Time Strategy game.
He has worked in Dubai Police for 5 years at Virtual Training Center, which later became the Artificial Intelligence Department. He worked on building education games, Virtual Reality games with high-performance real-time game servers for training purposes, and also initiated a project to use Machine Learning to alert potential traffic accidents from road cameras. After that, he comes back to Vietnam and continues his research and work on building high-performance intelligent data centers, applying game theory with machine learning and artificial intelligence to e-commerce and advertising. He shared that an Intelligent system is not enough, it needs to make decisions fast also. That is why a high-performance data center should be ready first before we can go further with Artificial Intelligence.

Saad Fareed

Robotics Expert

SAAD Fareed is a multifaceted professional that loves engineering, business, and technology. A four-year drone builder and pilot. He founded Drone Robotics at 25 and became CEO. He started developing drones as a pastime years ago and saw their huge potential. He then specialized in drones/UAVs and built a drone autopilot system from scratch for his MS.
Saad Fareed thinks drones will be everywhere in a decade or two. Drone Robotics, his startup company, builds drones for agriculture, construction, firefighting, rescue, and surveillance. He uses drones to spray insecticides and plant protection chemicals over sugarcane, rice, wheat, vegetable, and fruit plantations to transform agriculture.

Oyetoke Toby

Blockchain Expert

Oyetoke Tobi founded Bitpower Technology to be the AWS of crypto by delivering everything businesses need to build on the blockchain effectively. He is a blockchain expert and cryptographer with over eight years of engineering expertise building digital enterprise products that enable enterprises. He is focusing on establishing the blockchain infrastructure for enterprises to build blockchain-powered applications.

Precious Ogbuka

AI Expert

Precious Ogbuka admired tech but thought it wasn’t for her. She thought till her analytical side wanted more. Thus, choosing Data Analysis/Data Science lit a fire inside her that continues to burn. She became professional while working on her senior project. Her favorite activities were questionnaire data gathering and SPSS analysis.

Poramin Insom

Blockchain Expert

He founded Firo and Satang and is a blockchain expert. Firo (previously Zcoin) is a privacy-first digital money that allows untraceable transactions and financial freedom from big businesses, banks, and tyrannical governments. Satang or Satang Corporation Company Limited is a central private sector with extensive experience in digital assets. The company’s founder originated the global digital currency called Zcoin, cooperated with the government to facilitate digital transactions including exchange and sales, and advised the public regarding secured digital asset transactions.

Daniel Ayeni

Blockchain Expert

Daniel Ayeni is a freelance Front End Developer with 3 years of expertise integrating design and programming to create an immersive and engaging user experience through fast website creation, proactive feature optimization, and persistent debugging. He’s skilled in deeptech but focuses on blockchain website building. He is now a Blockchain expert and engineer, thus this was the finest part. NFT, DEFI, and CEFI initiatives use his smart contracts.

Waves Tech

Nominated by Rohan Moons

Waves is a community-based stack of decentralized open-source technologies to build scalable, user-friendly apps. Wave is known for being Fast, Low Cost & Eco-Friendly.

Launched in 2016, Waves is a global open-source platform for decentralized applications. Based on proof-of-stake consensus, Waves aspires to make the most of blockchain, with a minimal carbon footprint.

Waves technology stack can benefit in any use cases that demand security and decentralization — open finance, personal identification, gaming, sensitive data, and many others.

Mountain Humane

Mountain Humane recognizes that to be the best shelter they can, they must also be a leader for other shelters in our region. Through their regional outreach, they actively work with many shelters in different regions, some of which have few resources and high euthanasia rates, to help them not only with internal development but also in acting as a relief valve, taking in animals when they run out of space and are faced with euthanasia. Due to this rate of transparency, Mountain Humane is successful today because of the trust they gain from people, and organizations.

Party.space

Metaverse

Nominated by CryptoWhale

Party.space is a global Metaverse provider working with crypto and NFT-Communities and Big Enterprises. The team is aimed at building a web-based 3D Metaverse to increase your community engagement & host your events in a memorable way (visitor > client conversion is 3.5x higher than the market average).

Ethernity Cloud

Blockchain

Ethernity CLOUD is a cloud computing ecosystem developed for privacy, anonymity and availability of user data. Ethernity CLOUD is focused on developing a decentralized ecosystem that allows regular cloud software to be run as decentralized cloud applications.

S-Wallet

Blockchain

The S-Wallet is a specialized online wallet that allows each user to store any asset they need in a unified repository without the need to pass different registration stages, maintain numerous accounts, or remember a host of access codes.

DALL-E-Bot

Robotics

The DALL-E-Bot enables a robot to rearrange objects in a scene, by first inferring a text description of those objects, then generating an image representing a natural human-like arrangement of those objects, and finally physically arranging the objects according to that image.

Capra Robotics

Robotics

Capra Robotics is a robotics company located in Denmark that creates versatile mobile robots to ease the workload for people everywhere they go, aiming to be the world-leading provider of autonomous mobile robot platforms.

As they found the importance to contribute to research and innovation for the purpose of advancing the field of robotics, Capra Robotics is collaborating with several organizations and digital innovation hubs all over Europe, on projects to come up with new solutions for various challenges across different industries. This mindset encourages them to work closely with students and education institutions, allowing them to always be working with the newest research, as well as being a part of shaping the next generation of workers in the field of robotics.

IOT Dog Daycare Robot

Robotics

The IOT Dog Daycare Robot Project is from NevonProjects, an initiative by NevonSolutions Pvt. Ltd that grows exponentially through its research in technology. NevonProjects works towards development of research based software, embedded/electronics and mechanical systems for research & development purposes.

People love their pets and vice versa, but there are times you need to leave your pets at home for long durations alone and this is a problematic issue. Understanding that problem, the robot is designed as a doggy daycare robot that can monitor as well as feed the dogs or cats in a timely manner. Through this IOT Based robot, the owners can take care of their pets no matter where they are.