AWS Vietnam Cloud Day 2025

Venue: Bitexco Financial Tower
Date: Thursday, 18 September 2025

Event Objectives

  • Share AWS strategy, customer success stories, and leadership perspectives on cloud and GenAI in Vietnam
  • Provide executive-level insights on navigating the GenAI revolution and organizational change
  • Equip practitioners with technical best practices for building data foundations and GenAI workloads on AWS
  • Introduce modern approaches for AI-driven software delivery, GenAI security, and AI agent productivity

Speakers

  • Eric Yeo - Country General Manager, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & Myanmar, AWS
  • Dr. Jens Lottner - CEO, Techcombank
  • Ms. Trang Phung - CEO & Co-Founder, U2U Network
  • Jaime Valles - Vice President, General Manager Asia Pacific and Japan, AWS
  • Jeff Johnson - Managing Director, ASEAN, AWS (Moderator)
  • Vu Van - Co-founder & CEO, ELSA Corp (Panelist)
  • Nguyen Hoa Binh - Chairman, Nexttech Group (Panelist)
  • Dieter Botha - CEO, TymeX (Panelist)
  • Jun Kai Loke - AI/ML Specialist SA, AWS
  • Kien Nguyen - Solutions Architect, AWS
  • Tamelly Lim - Storage Specialist SA, AWS
  • Binh Tran - Senior Solutions Architect, AWS
  • Taiki Dang - Solutions Architect, AWS
  • Michael Armentano - Principal WW GTM Specialist, AWS

Key Highlights

Opening and Leadership Vision

  • Government keynote on Vietnam’s digital agenda and ambition to be a regional digital powerhouse.
  • AWS country direction: Eric Yeo outlined cloud as the foundation for resilience and scalability, and AI as the catalyst for innovation.
  • Customer perspectives: Dr. Jens Lottner (Techcombank) on building a data-driven banking platform; Ms. Trang Phung (U2U Network) on scaling Web3 on AWS with security and community trust.
  • Regional strategy: Jaime Valles emphasized APJ cloud and GenAI momentum plus AWS investment in skills, infrastructure, and partners.

Executive Panel: Navigating the GenAI Revolution

  • Moderated by Jeff Johnson with leaders from ELSA, Nexttech, and TymeX. Focus on cultural transformation, business alignment, and leadership responsibility when adopting AI at scale.

Breakout Tracks

  • Unified data foundation (Kien Nguyen): data ingestion with Kinesis and AWS Glue, storage with S3 and Lake Formation, governance with AWS DataZone, analytics and ML with Redshift and SageMaker.
  • GenAI adoption roadmap (Jun Kai Loke, Tamelly Lim): Amazon Bedrock for foundation models, customization via SageMaker JumpStart, cost-effective storage with S3 Intelligent-Tiering, and industry use cases.
  • AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (Binh Tran): embedding AI across planning, development, QA, and deployment to accelerate DevOps.
  • Securing Generative AI applications (Taiki Dang): infrastructure hardening, model provenance and bias controls, encrypted APIs, guardrails, and zero-trust patterns.
  • Beyond automation - AI Agents (Michael Armentano): agents as digital co-workers that orchestrate tasks, learn continuously, and boost productivity.

Key Takeaways

Design Mindset

  • Start from business goals, secure executive sponsorship, and manage change alongside technology adoption.
  • Treat GenAI as a stack: data + model + application + security.

Technical Architecture

  • Strong data ingestion, storage, processing, and governance are prerequisites for GenAI at scale.
  • Roadmap GenAI with a phased approach: pilot, validate, and productionize with guardrails.
  • Embed AI into the SDLC (AI-DLC) while keeping human oversight.
  • Design security end-to-end: least privilege, encryption, monitoring, and auditability.

Applying to Work

  • Assess data foundation readiness and governance before scaling AI initiatives.
  • Pilot high-impact, low-risk GenAI use cases with clear success metrics.
  • Prototype AI agents for operational workflows with strict guardrails and observability.

Event Experience

The day balanced executive perspective and deep technical guidance. Keynotes and panels clarified strategy and culture shifts, while the breakout tracks provided practical playbooks for data foundations, GenAI delivery, security, and AI agents. The takeaways are immediately applicable to planning real-world GenAI initiatives on AWS.

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