Five ways to move AI from intent to adoption.

VIB — AI training and problem-statement workshop

A six-month internal AI training program moved from learning to practice, closing with a four-hour hands-on workshop on real customer pain points.

6

Month program

42

Participants

6

Cross-functional teams

• Challenge: business teams were interested in AI but lacked a shared vocabulary and problem statements grounded in real customer pain.
• Six-month structured AI training across banking units, moving from concepts to applied practice.
• Four-hour closing workshop translating customer pain points into validated problem statements.
• Outcome: 42 participants trained and 6 cross-functional teams prepared for the internal innovation competition.

Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam — management workshop

A cross-department management deep-dive with pre-work assignments and a one-day intensive strategy session.

200

Ideas in the Idea Bank

3

Initiatives approved

• Pre-work assignments surfaced department-level pain points before any workshop time was spent.
• One-day intensive strategy session converged management on a prioritized idea bank.
• Outcome: 200 ideas captured, 3 initiatives selected, approved and moved into execution with named owners.

Hong Kong & Chengdu — public-sector study visit

"Leading Through the AI Transition" — a four-day program for a National Assembly Office of Vietnam delegation led by Mr. Lê Quang Mạnh (27–30 July 2026), co-organized with HKU Business School and the School of Governance and Policy.

• Challenge: the delegation needed a first-hand view of how other governments move beyond AI pilots — what to build, what to buy, and where human judgment must stay in the loop.
• Sessions on China's approach to AI governance and the stages of digital-government transformation, plus a faculty lecture from GenAI Fund's Laura Nguyen on commercial AI in the public sector.
• Chengdu session with the AWS public sector team, and a live Agora (NASDAQ: API) demonstration of real-time translation on delegates' own phones.
• Site visits to Cyberport, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, and the Digital Policy Office's Smart Government Innovation Lab.
• Outcome: alignment on responsible AI as a standing operational discipline, a clearer build-versus-buy position, and shared principles — data quality beats model quality, humans stay in the loop on decisions that matter.

Sime Darby Property — AI construction-safety solution

As appointed Venture Builder for the Malaysia Cradle BIG Programme, GenAI Fund co-designed and implemented AI safety solutions with Sime Darby Property teams and startups, running computer vision on existing site CCTV.

• Challenge: safety compliance across large, distributed sites could not be monitored consistently; manual supervision missed zones and shifts, and incidents were reviewed after the fact.
• Phase 1 — co-design: problem framing with site operations, HSE and digital teams, then sourcing and screening computer-vision startups able to deploy on existing CCTV.
• Phase 2 — build and validate: a time-boxed live-site proof of concept detecting helmets, safety jackets and restricted-zone entry in real time, with weekly accuracy tuning.
• Focus areas: compliance and monitoring, worker safety, and predictive risk reduction using trend data on repeat violations by zone, shift and contractor.
• Outcome: continuous compliance monitoring, less dependency on manual supervision, earlier detection of unsafe conditions, and a validated foundation for organization-wide deployment.

Voice AI integration for hands-free driver operations

Sourced through GenAI Fund's NVIDIA FastTrack AI Accelerator, a Vietnamese-optimized voice AI stack was matched to a leading Vietnamese mobility enterprise and proven in the vehicle environment, with API, on-premise and private-cloud deployment options.

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Re-engaging customers through AI-led service workflows

An AI-enabled customer engagement workflow supports consistent, timely interactions across voice and digital channels for a leading Vietnamese bank.

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LotusHacks

Vietnam's largest-ever AI hackathon — a nationwide build event that surfaces and stress-tests the country's strongest AI builders across days of intensive prototyping.

Qwen AI Build Day

A one-day hands-on build sprint with open models, where teams ship working prototypes alongside mentors and technical advisors from the GenAI Fund builder network.