Techfest 2024: Promoting Hai Phong to become a startup city

Techfest 2024: Promoting Hai Phong to become a startup city
Foreign delegates spoke.

At the conference, Vice Chairman of Hai Phong City People’s Committee Hoang Minh Cuong said that in the past 10 years, Hai Phong’s economy has developed strongly, becoming the leading locality in the country in attracting direct investment capital. foreign relations and budget revenue, with a revenue milestone exceeding 100,000 billion VND. These results all have important contributions from science – technology and innovation. The city always determines that this is an important driving force to help Hai Phong improve its competitiveness and promote economic growth.

According to Mr. Hoang Minh Cuong, the conference is an opportunity for delegates to exchange experiences, knowledge, and discuss finding appropriate solutions and policies to help Hai Phong continuously develop a creative startup ecosystem. In particular, this is also an opportunity for the city to seek potential partners, from domestic and foreign businesses and organizations, to build an internationally connected startup ecosystem. The city also continues to promote digital transformation programs, attracting investment in advanced industries; Cooperate in human resource training, investment attraction, and technology transfer with major domestic and foreign startup centers, moving forward to turn Hai Phong into a startup city.

At the conference, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Minh proposed strong cooperation from domestic and foreign organizations, businesses, investors and creative startup communities to join hands to promote development. creative startup ecosystem in Hai Phong. The Ministry of Science and Technology is committed to creating the best conditions from policy to infrastructure to jointly build a creative startup ecosystem, worthy of regional scale and international connection, helping Hai Phong become a destination. attractive to many entrepreneurs and investors.

Within the framework of the conference, delegates shared information about the context, orientation, and requirements for developing Hai Phong’s creative startup ecosystem; fundamental role as well as relationships, challenges, and solutions for the local ecosystem in the national creative startup ecosystem.

Delegates from the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City, representatives of foreign investment corporations and international delegates such as Ai20X (USA), Plug and Play (USA), ImangineX (Australia) , KISStartup has shared its experience in developing and connecting components of the creative startup ecosystem, plans to promote innovation activities connecting domestic businesses with foreign-invested businesses, and how to collect revenue. attract investors “angel”…

Source: Vietnamese