About.
Due to the impressive economic growth and declining poverty Vietnam has seen in the past years, Finnish development cooperation with Vietnam is now decreasing and new forms of bilateral cooperation are being formed. Finland is well known for its flourishing start-up ecosystem and has been happy to support Vietnam in the country's efforts of becoming an innovation-driven knowledge economy and a Startup Nation. The collaboration between the two countries has been supported through the Embassy of Finland in Hanoi and since 2008 especially through the Vietnam - Finland Innovation Partnership Programme (IPP).
Week of Ho Chi Minh City Innovation, Startups and Entrepreneurship – WHISE 2018 Continuing the success of WHISE 2017, the event this year now become the largest innovation, science, technology, and startup events organized by Ho Chi Minh City's People Committee in 2018. It is a unique joint effort between public and private sectors to showcase the vibrant startup and innovation scene in HCMC As the city of HCMC aspires to develop the city into a modern smart city, the WHISE 2018 is expected to create a new impetus for the development of local startup and innovation ecosystems. With the participation of the government, academia, enterprises, venture capital funds and more stakeholders the common goal of building a prestigious City for startup and innovation in the region can be achieved. |
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Workshops
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Attendess
300 |
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Speakers
30 |
Keynote Speakers.
Session 1.
INNOVATION CITIES are planned and built to boost industrial renewal and business development towards high value creation. However urban planning and co-location of innovation actors in one district doesn’t guarantee the expected outcomes. Evidence shows that true Innovation Growth Engines are needed in their core. And these engines requires a comprehensive, internationally proven INNOVATION HUB framework to be developed.
HCMC has an agenda to become a Innovation City. Innovation ecosystems and districts are seen as the core elements for innovation creation activities focusing on accumulating academic knowledge and combining it with private sector serving commercialization processes. Typically innovation ecosystems are organized around a hub organization like a science-technology park/district, or alternatively a regional cluster management office. But, it should be noted that a innovation hub is a much wider concept than only a park or coordination office. It has all the regional innovation ecosystem elements, starting from supportive policies ending with global market-driven business development activities.
This session will bring in experienced Finnish experts engaged in building of Innovation Agendas worldwide. They will discuss deeper the concept of Innovation Hub Framework; how it is setup to connect and bring in needed stakeholders in a co-creation platform. It also addresses the key elements HCMC should consider in the planning and later implementing a roadmap within its stakeholders. The whole process is advised to be delivered by and within the city stakeholders through an integrated agenda - which is to be facilitated by world-class expertise and solutions.
HCMC has an agenda to become a Innovation City. Innovation ecosystems and districts are seen as the core elements for innovation creation activities focusing on accumulating academic knowledge and combining it with private sector serving commercialization processes. Typically innovation ecosystems are organized around a hub organization like a science-technology park/district, or alternatively a regional cluster management office. But, it should be noted that a innovation hub is a much wider concept than only a park or coordination office. It has all the regional innovation ecosystem elements, starting from supportive policies ending with global market-driven business development activities.
This session will bring in experienced Finnish experts engaged in building of Innovation Agendas worldwide. They will discuss deeper the concept of Innovation Hub Framework; how it is setup to connect and bring in needed stakeholders in a co-creation platform. It also addresses the key elements HCMC should consider in the planning and later implementing a roadmap within its stakeholders. The whole process is advised to be delivered by and within the city stakeholders through an integrated agenda - which is to be facilitated by world-class expertise and solutions.
Session 2a.
Reforming the Education System is one of the key priorities in Vietnam to meet the human resource quality needs for industrial renewal. Education is the key element to be developed for the knowledge driven economy. The education system in Vietnam is facing challenges in many areas including curriculum development, teaching methodologies and capacities inclusive the emerging need for entrepreneurship education.
Finland is a world leader in education holding top positions in PISA ranking over the past years. In 2016, schools throughout the country adopted a new curriculum: phenomenon based learning. This approach gears learning towards solving real-world problems and acquiring 21’st century skills. Digital solutions, innovative school buildings and the surrounding city are integral parts of the new curriculum. Finland also excels in teacher and adult training, professional and vocational education, and recently has started to export its solutions. This session will facilitate dialog between Finnish experts and Vietnamese education actors to discuss What is important in the education reform? What could be done between Finnish and Vietnamese counterparts to develop this sector in Vietnam.
Quality education has today a crucial role in the knowledge-driven world. Students are expected to be socially responsible, contribute to the economic development and social transformation. This expectation calls education teaching and learning to foster personal attributes such as critical thinking, analytical problem-solving, negotiation and mediation competencies. Entrepreneurship education is to develop knowledge, skills and attributes that support the four key characteristics of an entrepreneur in real world contexts: motivation, opportunity identification, risk-uncertainty and the ability to network. The Keynote presentation gives insights how entrepreneurship education fosters students personal attributes for innovation and entrepreneurship.
This Session with company solutions showcases aims at presenting strengths of the Finnish system discovering collaboration opportunities between Ho Chi Minh City. A batch of leading Finnish education solution providers will present their offerings for Vietnam which span from early childhood education to adult education, continuous skills’ developments and cutting edge EduTech solutions.
Finland is a world leader in education holding top positions in PISA ranking over the past years. In 2016, schools throughout the country adopted a new curriculum: phenomenon based learning. This approach gears learning towards solving real-world problems and acquiring 21’st century skills. Digital solutions, innovative school buildings and the surrounding city are integral parts of the new curriculum. Finland also excels in teacher and adult training, professional and vocational education, and recently has started to export its solutions. This session will facilitate dialog between Finnish experts and Vietnamese education actors to discuss What is important in the education reform? What could be done between Finnish and Vietnamese counterparts to develop this sector in Vietnam.
Quality education has today a crucial role in the knowledge-driven world. Students are expected to be socially responsible, contribute to the economic development and social transformation. This expectation calls education teaching and learning to foster personal attributes such as critical thinking, analytical problem-solving, negotiation and mediation competencies. Entrepreneurship education is to develop knowledge, skills and attributes that support the four key characteristics of an entrepreneur in real world contexts: motivation, opportunity identification, risk-uncertainty and the ability to network. The Keynote presentation gives insights how entrepreneurship education fosters students personal attributes for innovation and entrepreneurship.
This Session with company solutions showcases aims at presenting strengths of the Finnish system discovering collaboration opportunities between Ho Chi Minh City. A batch of leading Finnish education solution providers will present their offerings for Vietnam which span from early childhood education to adult education, continuous skills’ developments and cutting edge EduTech solutions.
Session 2b.
This B2B session will engage the Finnish VMAP and other companies inclusive their case managers and the extended IPP network interested in digitalization and data solutions. The goal is to discuss Vietnam B2B partnering opportunities and provision of talent resources for Finnish data driven businesses. The overall aim is to clarify and share views on the global digitalization trends and recent developments in Vietnam which are offering new business partnership opportunities in many areas inclusive the financial market.