First Innovation and Entrepreneurship Day held in Australia

"International TECHFEST in Melbourne" is one of the new and outstanding features of the series of events towards the national TECHFEST 2023 organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The event will be held in Melbourne (Australia) on the afternoon of September 20 at Monash University with the participation of Minister of Science and Technology Huynh Thanh Dat; Mr. Tim Pallas - Minister of Trade and Investment (Victoria State, Australia); Vietnam Science and Technology Representative Office in Canberra and more than 100 experts, investors, investment funds, and prestigious startup support organizations from the two countries.

The event aims to promote Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem, which is dynamic, open, ready to integrate deeply and widely and approach international standards.

At this event, a number of innovative startups that have achieved high results in the Startup Talent Search competition within the framework of the national TECHFEST will have the opportunity to present (pitch) to Australian venture capital funds such as: Magic Edutech Group PTY LTD, Cyberkid, VSEC, Hana Gold, Treeotek….

In addition, creative startup management agencies, units operating startup support programs and many support organizations will have the opportunity to exchange experiences to improve the quality of these activities, while creating a favorable international connection environment for creative startups of the two countries.

The international TECHFEST in Australia was held on the occasion of the delegation of the Ministry of Science and Technology led by Minister Huynh Thanh Dat participating in the Global Entrepreneurship Congress 2023 (GEC).

GEC is an event organized by the Global Entrepreneurship Network, bringing together thousands of delegates and senior leaders from more than 170 countries to connect, learn and share experiences, thereby creating a unified and strong global innovation and startup ecosystem.

From these two important events, the Ministry of Science and Technology hopes to introduce the dynamic and highly open Vietnamese innovation and startup ecosystem to attract international attention and resources, in which overseas Vietnamese are an extremely important element.

Vietnam is ready to participate responsibly to bring innovative solutions to solve economic, social and sustainable development problems in countries around the world and encourage international experts and businesses to develop markets and coordinate with domestic businesses to solve problems in Vietnam.

Since 2019, organizing international TECHFEST in countries with developed innovation ecosystems has been an important direction of the Ministry of Science and Technology with the goal of promoting the ecosystem and Vietnamese innovative startups to the world, while attracting financial resources and experts from investment funds and support organizations of other countries. International TECHFEST has been organized in countries such as the United States, Korea, Singapore, etc.