Qwen AI Build Day Vietnam: Where Builders Met Enterprise Problems
On April 21 and 22, GenAI Fund and Alibaba Cloud brought Vietnam’s AI community together for two connected days with Qwen. The first day focused on builders, live pitches, and enterprise-ready AI solutions. The second day widened the room to SMEs, enterprises, investors, and AI practitioners looking at how those solutions can move into real adoption.
Across both days, one message was clear: Vietnam’s AI momentum is moving from experimentation to real use cases, real decision-makers, and real pathways to deployment.
Day 1: Qwen AI Build Day (April 21)
On April 21, Qwen AI Build Day wrapped up at Riverside Palace in Ho Chi Minh City as the first event of its kind globally, hosted in Vietnam. More than 300 builders joined the program, building on Qwen across four enterprise tracks: Mobility, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Public Sector.
This was not a typical hackathon. It was a focused build program designed to surface AI solutions that enterprises could actually test, adopt, and scale.
Pre-event build journey
Before event day, the 11-day build journey moved quickly:
- April 10: 300+ builders joined the kickoff.
- April 11–17: Teams built across the four enterprise tracks, with 100+ submissions received.
- April 18–20: Industry experts reviewed the strongest projects and prepared the shortlist for live pitching.
Event-day flow
Before the final pitches began, the room got a full view of what Qwen could unlock for builders and enterprises.
The day opened with remarks from GenAI Fund and Alibaba Cloud, setting the context for why Qwen AI Build Day was designed around real enterprise problems rather than demo-only projects.
From there, Febria Roosita (Global Program Manager, AI Advocacy & Developer Experience, Alibaba Cloud International) led a session on Qwen developer community engagement, introducing how builders can connect with the broader Qwen ecosystem and continue developing beyond the event
David Yam (AI Solutions Architect, Alibaba Cloud International) then shared practical insights on Qwen’s capabilities, giving teams and enterprise guests a clearer view of how Qwen can support real product development, workflow automation, and AI-powered use cases.
The program also featured an enterprise panel on AI use cases across tracks, with Phong Nguyen (Deputy CEO, Technology Operations, Tasco), Jason Lin (Global AI Programs Marketing & GTM, Alibaba Cloud International), and Lam Pham (Chief Data Science & AI Officer, Cake by VPBank), moderated by Laura Nguyen. The discussion helped ground the day in real business challenges across mobility, finance, and enterprise AI adoption.
We also introduced an add-in session called Open Pitch, inspired by the open-mic format in stand-up comedy. The session was open to all participating teams, not only the shortlisted teams. Instead of choosing the presenters ourselves, we asked Qwen model to review the full submission pool and pick three of the most interesting projects LIVE on stage. Qwen selected three teams, and each had seven minutes to pitch in front of hundreds of people in the room.
Three selected teams were:
- Healix (Healthcare): Unified AI health platform turning labs, audio, and photos into structured patient records
- Driftway (Mobility): One-way inter-city car-sharing on Tasco’s showroom network, with deterministic pricing and honest AI that labels mocked vs. real features.
- GovFlow Agentic GraphRAG (Public Sector): An AI infrastructure layer that helps public agencies review administrative dossiers against legal rules in minutes, with traceable citations.
After Open Pitch, we announced the 30+ shortlisted teams. Each team moved to its assigned track judge table to pitch directly to enterprise judges from Tasco, Shinhan Future’s Lab Vietnam, Elfie, Logivan, Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) Vietnam, Alibaba Cloud, and Qwen. From there, the top four winners were selected and announced.
The winners reflected the range of AI opportunities emerging across Vietnam’s economy.
| Track | Winning Team | Brief Description |
| 🚗 Mobility | Open Academy | An AI platform that helps enterprises and educators generate, share, and monetize high-quality courses faster. |
| 💰 Financial Services | VoiceIQ | An AI tool that turns insurance documents into scoring rules and automatically audits advisory calls against them. |
| 🏥 Healthcare | Body Graph Scan | A smartphone-based AI tool that estimates body fat percentage and body measurements from user photos, height, and weight. |
| 🏛️ Public Sector | GovFlow Agentic GraphRAG | An AI infrastructure layer that helps public agencies review administrative dossiers against legal rules in minutes, with traceable citations. |
The judging process was anchored by leaders who understand what enterprise readiness looks like in practice. Their role was not only to assess technical quality, but also to evaluate whether each solution could solve a real operational problem.
| Track | Judges |
| 🚗 Mobility |
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| 💰 Financial Services |
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| 🏥 Healthcare |
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| 🏛️ Public Sector |
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By the end of the day, Qwen AI Build Day had done more than name four winners. It created a direct bridge between builders and the enterprises, institutions, and technology partners that can help turn promising prototypes into pilots, contracts, and funded proof-of-concepts.
What Day 1 Proved
By the end of the day, Qwen AI Build Day had done more than name four winners. It created a direct bridge between builders and the enterprises, institutions, and technology partners that can help turn promising prototypes into pilots, contracts, and funded proof-of-concepts.
Day 1 showed what Vietnam’s builders can create when they are given strong tools, clear business problems, and direct access to industry feedback.
But the story did not end there. The next day, the same energy moved into a much broader room at Alibaba Cloud SME AI Growth Day Vietnam 2026, where startups, SMEs, enterprises, investors, and AI practitioners came together to explore how these ideas can move closer to real adoption.
Read the next blog to see how Day 2 expanded the conversation from building with Qwen to scaling AI across Vietnam’s business ecosystem.
