Saigon Times to hold seminar on hi-tech agriculture startup

Hi-tech agriculture products are on display at a fair in HCMC’s District 7. The Saigon Times will hold a seminar on hi-tech agriculture startup on September 7 – PHOTO: THANH HOA

The Saigon Times Group will organize a seminar themed “Hi-tech agriculture startup: avoid lagging behind” on the occasion of the introduction of the group’s Startup Support Club on September 7.

At the seminar, which was scheduled to take place at the Liberty Saigon Riverside Hotel, 17 Ton Duc Thang Street in HCMC’s District 1, experts in the hi-tech agriculture sector will speak about current hi-tech agriculture startup activities. They will also share their experience to both startups and those wishing to invest in the hi-tech agriculture sector about strategy formulation, capital mobilization, corporate appraisement, governance and competitiveness enhancement.

In addition, policies to support hi-tech agriculture startups will be proposed.

Particularly, Innovation Capital Management CEO Nguyen Viet Duc will talk about the startup movement in the hi-tech agriculture sector in Vietnam, while Louis Nguyen, chairman of the investment fund Saigon Asset Management, will share his experience in drawing up business strategies and raising capital. 

Besides this, Nguyen Bang Viet, chairman of the Junior Chamber International in Vietnam, and Hoang Minh Ngoc Hai, CEO of Value Commerce Hub, will respectively talk about ways to manage startups, and seek new markets and develop the distribution channels for hi-tech farm produce. Pham Phuong Thao, CEO of Organica Investment JSC, will address the seminar on the process to establish and develop her company.

The seminar, which will be moderated by Le Minh Nhut, head of operation at the Startup Vietnam Foundation, is expected to attract some 200 participants who are representatives of startups, investment funds, financial institutions, consulting firms and press agencies interested in the local startup movement.

Over the last two years, multiple startup investment funds have injected capital into the hi-tech agriculture sector and have pledged to continue the investment in the coming time. The support of the Government and management agencies also helps make the hi-tech agriculture startup movement a potential sector.

However, experts have warned that the local startup movement remains unstable.