This year, Vietnam Talent Awards has many new features, especially the increase in prize value which is two times compared to previous years. The first prize becomes 200 million VND while the second prize is worth 100 million VND and the third prize is worth 50 million VND. To honor distinguish IT products, the Information Technology category of Vietnam Talent Awards 2018 will have three main sub-categories including potential digital products, startup IT products and mobile IT products.

 

 

 

Mr. Pham Huy Hoan, Editor-in-Chief of Dan Tri Electronic Newspaper, Head of the Organizing Committee, said that in the 05 categories of Vietnam Talent Awards 2018, the IT Awards are still the most exciting awards with hundreds of contestants both in the country and abroad. Therefore, with the theme "The power of digital technology", Vietnam Talent Awards 2018 is predicted to be very exciting with the participating of many contestants with products and services that catch up with the development trend of the 4.0 technology era. Mr. Pham Huy Hoan affirmed that the prizes have increased in value with the support from donors such as Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group - the main sponsor for the past 13 years, VINGROUP, Vietcombank, Sungroup, ECO , Anbinh Bank,... In this year, Vietnam Airlines and its member unit Jetstar Pacific have officially signed contracts with Dan Tri Electronic Newspaper to support the Awards.

In the previous 13 successful seasons, the Awards has always been accompanied by professors, doctors and leading experts in various fields such as IT, Medicine, Environment ... The Awards has also received attention and appreciation from State leaders and Party leaders. In many seasons, the Prime Minister directly attended and awarded prizes to winners.

Together with Dan Tri Electronic Newspaper, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) has always been supporting the Awards in the past 13 years. The Group not only played the role of a co-organizer but also opened up cooperation opportunities and provided support for contestants of Vietnam Talent Awards to develop and launch their products. Therefore, along with the innovation of the Awards to catch up with the trend of the digital era, VNPT will also make many innovations in support and cooperation with contestants to bring technology products to the group's customers.

 

 

Being the pioneer in the digital transformation process in Vietnam, VNPT is preparing to be ready to access the core technologies of the 4.0 technology era, such as Internet-for-things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data... On that basis, VNPT is ready to provide innovative digital ecosystems, products and services for customers, government agencies and enterprises. Mr. Huynh Quang Liem also emphasized that with the group's position and capacity, VNPT committed to share the group's resources to support the start-up community and IT product developers, especially the contestants of Vietnam Talent Awards 2018. This is a strong step with which VNPT wishes to bring practical effects and development opportunities for the start-up community as well as to bring benefits to the whole society.

"VNPT has a lot of potential as a network operator so that contestants can tap to that potential to develop better products for the society. We can provide standard API interfaces for programmers to develop services that connect to VNPT network. VNPT has a large customer base to support the contestants to develop products and deploy them right to VNPT's customer base, increasing the utility of the products participating in Vietnam Talent Awards 2018. So come to us and utilize the resources of our network to serve the community better," said Mr. Nguyen Van Tan, Deputy General Director of VNPT Media Corporation, Vice Chairman of the Organizing Committee, to reporters at the press conference.

 

 

In its 14th year, Vietnam Talent Awards continues to affirm its vitality and its position as the most prestigious IT awards that are patronized by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Training, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations.

Going in companion with the Awards are also its sponsors: the Main Sponsor being Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT); the Diamond Sponsors being Vingroup, Vietcombank, Vietnam Airlines; the Gold Sponsors being Eco Pharmaceutical ABBank, SunGroup; the Transportation Sponsor being: Jetstar Pacific; the Media Sponsors being Dan Tri Electronic Newspaper and VNPT Media Corporation.

In order to help innovative products of individuals and groups to be applied in real life, creating better life values, the Organizing Committee calls on all citizens, especially young people - the future talents of the country to participate in Vietnam Talent Awards 2018 to win great prizes and introduce their products to the community.

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