Open Innovation Day (OID) is an annual series of in-depth discussions and business networking activities initiated by the National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development (NATEC) under the Ministry of Science and Technology. The event is supported by the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC C4IR) and co-hosted by the Open Innovation and Techpreneur Institute (OITI), the Technology Incubation Center (TIC), and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), with strategic partnership from SoiHub Open Innovation Center, Saigontel, Qualcomm, Business Finland, WorkFlow, and other collaborators.

Participants of OID 2025
The event gathers more than 1,000 local and international participants, including enterprises, research institutes, universities, investment funds, supporting organizations, and promising startups. Its goal is to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and commercialization of innovation in Vietnam.

A Space for Connection: Bridging Knowledge and Technology
Open Innovation Day 2025 is recognized as one of the flagship initiatives in building an open innovation ecosystem for Vietnam. Co-organized by SoiHub, a leading open innovation center in Ho Chi Minh City, OID 2025 goes beyond being a technology event—it serves as a dialogue platform where enterprises, startups, research institutions, and international organizations come together to discuss the future of sustainable development, digital transformation, and global economic integration.

The event aims to create a multidimensional connection space where breakthrough ideas meet investors, new business models are tested, and global innovation initiatives are expanded across Vietnam’s business community.

Eight In-depth Discussion Panels: Shaping the Future of Vietnam’s Technology
During the two-day program, Open Innovation Day 2025 will feature eight expert-led panels bringing together top policymakers, business leaders, and technology investors from Vietnam and abroad. Discussions will focus on critical topics such as strategies and policies for science, technology, and innovation development in Vietnam; the digital technology industry and AI ecosystem; blockchain applications for industry-specific challenges; cloud computing and data center infrastructure; green energy transition; opportunities from new materials; smart manufacturing supply chains; and cross-border e-commerce.

Beyond knowledge sharing, the OID 2025 panels are designed as a convergence point between vision and action, between national strategy and enterprise solutions, toward building a truly collaborative environment that enhances competitiveness and fosters comprehensive innovation in Vietnam’s economy.

Business Matching: Where enterprises and Technology Converge
Alongside the panel sessions, the Business Matching program, scheduled for October 25, 2025, will strengthen collaboration among enterprises, investors, and startups. The program focuses on sharing practical challenges and technology-driven solutions in areas such as advanced materials, energy efficiency, smart manufacturing, and automation.

Notably, participating companies will present real-world challenges related to developing commercial-service zones in industrial parks, adopting green materials to replace traditional inputs, and improving energy management efficiency in production and agriculture. These activities not only encourage innovation but also expand cooperation between the private sector and research institutions, helping realize the vision of a green and digital industrial transformation.

Commitment to advancing Vietnam’s innovation ecosystem
The participation of leading technology corporations such as Qualcomm, through initiatives like L2Pro Vietnam and Qualcomm Academy, underscores a strong commitment to enhancing technology capabilities, nurturing digital talent, and supporting the startup ecosystem in Vietnam.

With its scale, impact, and global collaboration spirit, Open Innovation Day 2025 is not only an annual gathering for the innovation community but also a symbol of Vietnam’s vision as a destination for innovation and technology.

L2Pro Viet Nam focuses on its key audiences of students, researchers, startups and Vietnamese enterprises, helping the community protect and maximize the value of creativity and turn ideas into strategic intellectual assets.

The launch ceremony of the L2Pro platform took place at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology

Amid Viet Nam’s efforts to accelerate the development of its innovation ecosystem and strengthen integration into global value chains, L2Pro Viet Nam – a non profit online intellectual property training platform developed by Qualcomm – has officially been introduced in the country.

The event marks an important step forward in enhancing competitiveness and raising awareness of intellectual property value among students, researchers, startups and Vietnamese businesses.

A platform for intellectual property education that turns knowledge into creative assets

L2Pro, short for “Learn to Protect,” is a training program that has been successfully implemented in the United States, India, Taiwan and Africa. In Viet Nam, the program focuses on students, researchers, innovators and startups, helping the community protect and fully leverage creative value and transform ideas into strategic assets.

L2Pro Viet Nam provides a core knowledge system that enables individuals and businesses to adopt an intellectual property mindset throughout the innovation journey. The program helps learners understand how to protect creative assets through patents, apply copyright to safeguard inventions, optimize trademark development and management, and align intellectual property with business strategy. In addition, L2Pro supports the extraction of value from research and development through intellectual property tools and promotes sustainable and effective commercialization of innovative products.

According to Mr. Ram Krishnan, Senior Director of Technology Licensing at Qualcomm: “Viet Nam has significant potential, and to turn that potential into reality, the country needs an innovation driven economy. L2Pro helps students and young entrepreneurs understand how to protect and capitalize on intellectual property, thereby strengthening business growth.”

Multi dimensional collaboration ensuring academic quality and practical application

L2Pro Viet Nam is built on multi dimensional collaboration across the ecosystem, including government agencies, legal consulting firms and startups, to ensure both professional accuracy and practical relevance.

The Intellectual Property Office of Viet Nam under the Ministry of Science and Technology directly contributes to the training content to ensure legal accuracy, real world applicability and alignment with the national intellectual property framework. Its involvement demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing intellectual property education in a structured and authoritative manner.

BIGPRO Consulting Joint Stock Company, a law firm specializing in intellectual property, serves as the legal content partner for L2Pro Viet Nam. With extensive experience in advising and protecting intellectual property for businesses, BigPro brings practical case studies, lessons learned and in depth knowledge that help learners apply concepts effectively in creative and business activities.

Vbee Data Services and Solutions Joint Stock Company, champion of the Qualcomm Viet Nam Innovation Challenge, has actively supported the integration of text to speech technology into the platform. Vbee’s AI voice solutions help broaden accessibility for a wide range of users.

Mr. Dang Hoai Bac, Director of the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, shared: “Today is an important milestone for our Institute. We appreciate Qualcomm for launching the L2Pro platform, which helps Vietnamese students and startups better understand intellectual property rights – an essential foundation for global expansion. We hope our students will be pioneers in innovation and intellectual property protection, contributing to the creation of new technology products and businesses. Qualcomm’s support will strengthen our mission of training high quality human resources for digital transformation and international integration.”

Qualcomm – Innovating technology for the advancement of humanity

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Building on our 40 years of technology leadership in creating era-defining breakthroughs, we deliver a broad portfolio of solutions built with our leading-edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity. Our Snapdragon® platforms power extraordinary consumer experiences, and our Qualcomm Dragonwing™ products empower businesses and industries to scale to new heights. Together with our ecosystem partners, we enable next-generation digital transformation to enrich lives, improve businesses, and advance societies.

At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated.

The Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge, or QVIC, contributes to the development of the domestic high-tech community by identifying and nurturing potential startups within the national innovation ecosystem.

The program focuses on products and solutions in key technology sectors such as artificial intelligence, edge computing, 5G, the Internet of Things, robotics, smart cities, automotive technology, and other areas while leveraging the power of Qualcomm Technologies’ advanced mobile platforms and technologies.

Through intellectual property registration incentives, startups participating in QVIC have filed over 200 patents, copyrights, trademarks, and industrial design applications over the past five years.

With a vision to position Vietnam as one of the leading technology innovation hubs in Asia and globally, QVIC proudly serves as a proactive platform that helps activate and develop the domestic innovation ecosystem. From its inception, the program has received strong support from the Ministry of Science and Technology, sharing the commitment to transform Vietnam into an innovation-driven country.

QVIC 2026 is structured as a professional, year-long program running from October 2025 to September 2026, aimed at supporting technology startups and the innovation ecosystem in Vietnam from the ideation stage to product commercialization.

Startups participating in QVIC 2026 will receive the following benefits: support for intellectual property registration and consultation, technical assistance and product development, training on intellectual property, business coaching and mentoring, incubation support along with valuable awards totaling up to 410,000 USD, and opportunities for domestic and international business networking and promotion.

The Organizing Committee announced that from October to December 2025, the program will open for applications and organize workshops in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and Da Nang. Startups can submit applications online via the QVIC website.

From January to February 2026, the pre-selection phase will take place, selecting 30 outstanding projects from the startup community and the innovation ecosystem.

From March to April 2026, the incubation phase will be conducted. The 30 selected projects will participate in training programs on intellectual property, business development, and receive financial support for intellectual property registration.

From May to August 2026, the acceleration phase will begin. The top 15 projects will receive specialized technical support, advanced business training, and funding to develop their products.

In August 2026, Showcase Day will take place, announcing the top three outstanding projects along with two special awards.

September 2026 marks the post-program support phase. QVIC will continue connecting potential projects with commercialization opportunities, exhibitions, customers, partners, and investors within Qualcomm’s global network.

Qualcomm Creating Human Progress through Technology

Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Building on our 40 years of technology leadership in creating era-defining breakthroughs, we deliver a broad portfolio of solutions built with our leading-edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity. Our Snapdragon® platforms power extraordinary consumer experiences, and our Qualcomm Dragonwing™ products empower businesses and industries to scale to new heights. Together with our ecosystem partners, we enable next-generation digital transformation to enrich lives, improve businesses, and advance societies. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress. Qualcomm Incorporated includes our licensing business, QTL, and the vast majority of our patent portfolio. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, operates, along with its subsidiaries, substantially all of our engineering and research and development functions and substantially all of our products and services businesses, including our QCT semiconductor business. Snapdragon and Qualcomm branded products are products of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. Qualcomm patents are licensed by Qualcomm Incorporated.