Prof. Dr Arie Veukull giving the speech to start the contest

Vietnam Swiss Innovation Contest is a competition to find the combinations of ideas and projects, which are at the start-up stage. The contest is organized by the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). Since 2015, the contest was first deployed in Vietnam and brought many successful projects. Following the success of the previous two competitions, in 2017, HCMUT and FHNW collaborated to continue the contest with a wider scope and larger prizes.

Kick Off meeting took place with the presence of more than 300 individuals, the team contest. Along with the presence of:

– Consul General, Consulate of Switzerland in HCMC – Mr Othmar Hardegger Christian

– Director of Innovation Hub Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology – Mr. Huynh Kim Deprivation

– Vice Chancellor of the University of Technology, Director of the Science and Technology Park Incubator of Technology – Assoc. Prof. Dr Mai Thanh Phong

– Strategy Institute Debut, FHNW Prof. Dr Arie Verkuil

– Director of EMBA-MCI, Head of the Organizing Committee – Prof. Dr Dieter Reineke

– Dr. Andreas Hinz member of the organizers

– Director of EMBA-MCI Vietnam, Head of organizers in VN – Nguyen Thi Anh Phuong, MBA

– Entrepreneur, Founder & Chairman of LMC – Mr. Lam Minh Chanh

– Consultant of Management and Operations, Ly Truong Chien, MBA.

Head of the EMBA-MCI program, Nguyễn Thị Anh Phương, MBA answered a very interesting question from an akser, which wanted the organizers to give their point of views about the role of profit in the success of an idead. Mrs. Anh Phương briefly gave the perfect answer, in which she revealed that she doesn’t want to see how big the idea is, or how profitable it is, but she wants to know how will the contestants turn that idea into reality. The answer was received a long applause from the attendants.