#1 VIETNAM BLOCKATHON

Building Blocks to Vietnam's Future

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What's special about Blockathon?

  • #1 Blockchain Hackathon in Vietnam
  • Component of Fintech Challenge Vietnam, co-organized by Mekong Business Initiative, Fintech Club Vietnam
  • 10+ world class mentors and trainers
  • 1 week intensive blockchain training
  • 36 hour competitive challenge
  • 2 key cities: Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city
  • Cash prize and rewarding incubation opportunities

Why Blockathon in Vietnam?

Emerging economy: One of the world's fastest growing economies (6-7% growth per annum)
Young population: Over 40% of the 95 million population under the age of 24 (UNFPA 2016)
Robust tech talents: 40k engineers graduate per annum
Appetite for emerging technologies: including blockchain and 4.0 tech
Strong government initiatives: fostering innovation

How?

  • Awareness

    Generate mass-scale awareness and engagement with blockchain

  • Education

    Blockchain training week open to the public with first-class mentors and trainers

  • Solution

    Tackle chronic challenges to Vietnam through blockchain applications

  • Incubation

    Empower innovative and valid blockchain proof-of-concepts

  • Ecosystem

    Unite key players to nurture an emerging blockchain ecosystem in Vietnam

Cash prizes

Winner

50.000.000 VND

Runner up

30.000.000 VND

Second runner up

20.000.000 VND

Incubation prize up to 200 million for qualified early stage products

Organizer

  • Infinity Blockchain Labs is a visionary R&D company engaged in intermediary and RegTech services employing blockchain technology. We aspire to empower Vietnam to become the global leader in blockchain research and development.

  • UP was launched in March 2016. After a long time researching and investing in many business models supporting Start-up. Up is building and developing the strongest Vietnamese Start-Up community in Southeast Asia. Bringing dramatically, positively and sustainability changes for the country’s economy and the whole region.

  • Run by Ho Chi Minh city Department of Science and Technology, Saigon Innovation Hub (SI-HUB) assists initiatives for innovation and start-up businesses and provides a public forum for innovation and startup. It also enables startups to benefit from the city’s support policies in four of the city’s key industrial sectors: food processing, electronics and information technology, mechanical engineering, and rubber-plastic-pharmaceuticals.

  • Vietnam Fintech Club (VFC), under the auspice of Vietnam Banks Association, aims to establish a playground for Vietnam’s Fintech community and foster an ecosystem which promotes the use of technology to provide financial service in Vietnam. VFC collaborates with financial institutions & related partners to explore untouched markets and demand for financial services and consult Regulators and Influencers/Donors/Sponsors to establish profound Fintech legal framework for Vietnam.

Sponsor

  • Diamond sponsor

  • Gold sponsor

  • Silver sponsor

  • Silver sponsor

  • Media partner

JUDGE

Thomas Leiritz

CTO, Blockpass IDN

Business Director, Infinity Blockchain Labs

Managing Director, Ozerside

Co-creator, Folklor

Creator Tact iOS application, Ozerside

Loi Luu

CEO & Co-founder, Kyber Network

Phd Candidate, National University of Singapore

Co-Founder and Main Developer, truongnha.com

Tran Huu Duc

CEO, Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator VIISA

Director, FPT Ventures

CIO/CTO, FPT Trading Group

CTO, FPT Mobile Applications

Robert Vong

Co-founder, Blockfin Asia

MBA, New York University

Van Dang

Founder & CEO of Savvycom

Vice president at VNITO alliance

Matsui Joutarou

CEO of PROTEUSION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Thuc Vu

PhD in computer Science of Stanford university

CEO Ohmnilabs, Founder Kambria<, Founder Weeby.co

Mentors

Tom Howard

  • Chief Product Officer, Hacker Fleet
  • CEO, DigitalEngine.io
  • Growth Hacker & Web Developer, Slam Dunk Interactive
  • Information Technology, UPS logistic

Toan Hoang

  • Technical Lead, Infinity Blockchain Labs
  • Technical Lead, Skoolbo
  • CTO, JOY Entertainment
  • iOs Programmer Supervisor, Gameloft
  • HD+ Programmer Supervisor, Gameloft

Helen Bui

  • Founder & CEO, Skylet
  • Co-founder, Women in Fintech
  • Advisor, DataBlade,Inc
  • Advisory Board Member, Dream Project Incubator Vietnam

Khong Quoc Phu

  • Technical Lead, Infinity Blockchain Labs

Long Vuong

  • Founder of Tomoapp and Tomocoin
  • PhD candidate in economics, University of Massachusetts

Nguyen Duc Dinh Nghia

  • Masters in transportation optimization, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
  • Lecturer of Asia Blockchain Education

Son Nguyen

  • Engineering Director of Tomoapp
  • Seasoned technical leader
  • Dev-Ops and microservice architecture expert.

Hua Le Thanh Vy

  • R&D Director + Solution Architect At Piksal Jsc
  • Internet Of Things Researcher At Artificial Intelligence Lab
  • Co-founder + Solution Architect + Devops Admin At Zenithtek
  • Researcher At Selab - Embedded System Division

Binh Vu

  • Senior Software Engineer
  • WorldQuant
  • Former Project Manager Cazoodle

Marcus Ellison

  • Founder/CEO at VentureMark
  • Founder/CEO HackerFleet

Ha Bui

  • MsC at LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY, major in Computer Engineering
  • Former lecturer of Alabama in Huntsville University and Louisiana at Lafayette University, USA
  • Research Assistant at Texas A&M University

Organizer Committee

  • Nguyen Thi Hai Thanh

  • Lam Huynh Thuy Lien

  • Tran Kieu Diem

  • Phan Ngoc Thanh Van

TIMELINE

Contact Us

For event enquiries and sponsorship opportunities please contact:

  • Infinity Blockchain Labs Co., Ltd
  • Level 5, The Flemington Tower, 182 Le Dai Hanh, Ward 15 District 11, Ho Chi Minh City

  • info@blockchainlabs.asia