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Vietnam Fintech Summit 2024: Official Event of Techfest Vietnam

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HAIPHONG, Vietnam, Nov. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Vietnam Fintech Summit 2024 (VFS) officially opens today at Pullman Hotel, Haiphong. Co-hosted by VINASA and the Fintech Community – Techfest Vietnam, the event serves as a key gathering for leaders, entrepreneurs, and financial technology experts globally, fostering innovation and sustainable development in the fintech sector.

Fintech Potential in Vietnam

Vietnam stands out as one of the fastest-growing fintech markets in the region, with over $19 billion in electronic transaction value, making it the second-largest fintech market in ASEAN. The market has grown from $0.7 billion in 2016 to $4.5 billion in 2022, now serving over 29 million users. To capitalize on this growth, the Vietnamese fintech community needs a conducive environment, knowledge-sharing platforms, and access to global expertise. VFS provides an ideal opportunity for startups to deepen their understanding of Vietnam’s financial landscape and connect with world-leading fintech experts.

Event Details

Date: November 26, 2024Time: 8:00 AM12:00 PMVenue: Pullman Hotel, 12 Tran Phu, Ngo Quyen District, Haiphong City

Conference Highlights

The event features deep-dive discussions and panel talks covering key fintech topics such as Open Banking trends, Open API collaborations, cashless payment technologies, expanding access to financial services through technology, and AI applications in finance. Speakers will share practical insights and global experiences to drive sustainable growth and foster collaborations in Vietnam’s fintech ecosystem.

Esteemed Partners and Experts

Vietnam Fintech Summit 2024 is proud to collaborate with esteemed financial and tech organizations, including APAC DAO and Tech Vietnam Advocates. Community partners include the African Fintech Network, Digital Finance Associations, Fintech Associations from Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines, Cyberport Hong Kong, Digital Pilipinas, the Global Fintech Institute, and more.

With strong media support from PRNewsWire, TechSauce, VnEconomy, and others, VFS brings together top experts and thought leaders to share their vision, expertise, and collaborations, contributing to a robust financial technology ecosystem in Vietnam and the APAC region.

Introducing the Organizers and Collaborators of Vietnam Fintech Summit 2024

Co-Organizers

Vietnam Software and IT Services Association (VINASA):

VINASA is a non-governmental, non-profit organization representing over 600 companies in Vietnam’s software and IT services sector. Its members, including prominent names like VNPT, Mobifone, Viettel, FPT, and TMA Solutions, contribute to 70% of the country’s IT workforce and software output. VINASA organizes flagship IT events such as the Vietnam Digital Transformation Summit and Smart City Summit. It is a key player in fostering Vietnam’s digital economy and a member of leading international IT organizations like ASOCIO, APICTA, and WITSA.

Fintech Community – Techfest Vietnam:

The Fintech Community serves as a platform connecting innovative startups in financial technology. It focuses on expanding access to global knowledge and resources while fostering innovation-driven solutions for sustainable economic growth in Vietnam. The community draws talent and expertise from local and overseas Vietnamese professionals.

Supporting Partners

APAC DAO:

A leading B2B tech community in the Asia-Pacific region, APAC DAO boasts over 3,000 members and 800+ projects across 15 countries. Its extensive network reaches more than 4 million tech enthusiasts, contributing significantly to the region’s technology ecosystem.

Tech Vietnam Advocates:

As part of the Global Tech Advocates network with over 40,000 members across 40 countries, Tech Vietnam Advocates fosters global collaboration in tech innovation. With roots in initiatives like London Tech Week, it supports knowledge-sharing and technological advancements worldwide.

Vietnam Fintech Summit 2024 aims to connect domestic and international experts while fostering growth and collaboration in Vietnam’s fintech ecosystem. The event takes place on November 26, 2024, in Haiphong and features expert-led panels and in-depth discussions on industry trends.

Agenda

Time

Sessions

Speakers

Position

8h30 – 8h40

Opening Doors

8h40 – 8h50

Introduction of Distinguished Guests and Opening Remarks

Introducing guests

8h50 – 8h55

Opening Remark

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thang

President of Vina Fintech Club – VINASA

Head of Advisory committee to Fintech Community, Techfest Vietnam 2024

8h50 – 9h00

Welcome Speech

Dr. Pham Hong Quat

Head of General Department, National Agency for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization Development, Ministry of Science and Technology

9h00 – 9h20

Keynote: Fintech adoption landscape in Vietnam

Mr. Truong Gia Bao

President of DTS Group

Steering Committee of Fintech Community, Techfest Vietnam 2024

9h20 – 10h00

Panel: Growth drivers of Fintech in the region and the role of Open Finance

Aries Setiadi

Executive Director, Indonesia Fintech Association (AFTECH)

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thang

President of Vina Fintech Club – VINASA

Head of Advisory committee to Fintech Community, Techfest Vietnam 2024

Mr. Hoang Van Quang

Hai Phong branch director, Military Commercial Jointstock Company (MBBank)

Andrew Lee

CEO, Credos Partners Ltd.

Nicole Nguyen (moderator)

Co-founder, APAC DAO

Organizing Committee of Vietnam Fintech Summit

10h00-10h10

Fintech Startup Awarding Ceremony

Asso.Prof. Dr. Pham Thi Tuyet

Head of Fintech Community, TechFest Vietnam 2024

Hana Ngo

Founder & CEO, HanaGold

10h10 – 10h45

Panel 2: Roadmap for Financial Technology to reach mass adoption in Vietnam and the region

Hana Ngo

Founder & CEO, HanaGold

Vincent Le

Chief Risk Office, EzyRemit

Nhan Huynh

CEO, AthenaFS

Dang Thanh Phong

Director, OnePay

Chinh Nguyen (moderator)

Partner, PENTAIP Founder Fund

10h45 – 11h00

Keynote 3: Fintech x AI: The Future of Insurance

Ian JianLiang Low

AI Lab Program Head, Prudential

11h00 – 11h40

Panel 3:Fintech x AI – What’s next after GenAI and Conversational AI?

Sean Wolfman

General Director, Beryl8

Cuong Bui

Head of Fintech Center, TMA Solutions

Ian JianLiang Low

AI Lab Program Head, Prudential

Nguyen The Duy

CEO, ADT Global

Abynprima Rizky (moderator)

Director of Marketing Communication & Community Development, AFTech

11h40 – 11h45

Closing Remark

Asso.Prof. Dr. Pham Thi Tuyet

Head of Fintech Community, TechFest Vietnam 2024

For further details, please contact:

Ms. Nicole Nguyen, Representative of the Organizing Committee

Phone: +84 943 378 452Email: vnfintechfestival@gmail.comEvent Registration: Register Here

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Foresite Named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for North America

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Recognition highlights leadership in practitioner-governed, AI-enhanced security operations

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Apr. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Foresite Cybersecurity today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year in the North America category, presented at Google Cloud Next ’26 in Las Vegas.

Foresite named 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year

Organizations looking to operationalize AI-driven security on Google Cloud can learn more at next.foresite.com.

Foresite delivers fully managed security operations on Google Security Operations (SecOps), enabling customers to detect and respond to threats in seconds, reduce investigation fatigue, and maintain continuous audit readiness without expanding internal teams.

Operating as the human control layer for AI-driven security, Foresite combines Google’s agentic investigation capabilities with practitioner-validated accountability. Every autonomous investigation is reviewed and authorized by a named analyst before response actions are executed, giving customers clear visibility into how decisions are made and risk is managed.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Foresite a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

As a Google Cloud Premier Partner with Security and MSSP specializations, Foresite delivers managed services through its Catalyst platform — extending Google SecOps with operational governance, automation, and continuous compliance capabilities. Over the past year, the company expanded its SecOps delivery practice while sustaining 96% customer retention, reflecting growing demand for managed, AI-enhanced security operations.

Across its managed services portfolio, Foresite delivers a 90% reduction in mean investigation time and sub-15-second automated threat response for its customers — enabling security teams to focus on strategic risk decisions rather than alert triage.

Foresite’s approach to managed security operations on Google Cloud was the subject of an independent Technical Validation by Enterprise Strategy Group (now part of Omdia), commissioned by Google in August 2025. The report examined how Foresite’s Catalyst platform extends Google Security Operations to deliver threat detection, investigation, and response for organizations at varying levels of security maturity.

“Our Technical Validation of Foresite’s Catalyst platform examined how practitioner-led governance can extend Google Security Operations to deliver measurable detection and response outcomes. Google Cloud’s Partner of the Year recognition independently confirms what our analysis identified — that platform-native expertise, rather than tool access, is what differentiates managed security outcomes for mid-market and enterprise organizations.”— Tony Palmer, Practice Director, Omdia (formerly Enterprise Strategy Group).

“We’re entering an era where AI can investigate threats at machine speed,” said Jeremy Hehl, Chief Evangelist at Foresite. “Enterprise organizations need confidence that those decisions are governed and aligned to real business risk. This recognition from Google Cloud reinforces our focus in helping customers operationalize AI security at scale.”

Foresite is showcasing its Agentic SOC capabilities at Google Cloud Next ’26, demonstrating how security teams can move beyond alert monitoring to govern autonomous response using Google SecOps, Google Threat Intelligence, and AI security controls.

Foresite is purpose-built for organizations that need enterprise-grade security operations without enterprise-scale friction. The company delivers the operational rigor and platform expertise these organizations require to run Google SecOps effectively — without the overhead of building and staffing a full internal SOC.

About Foresite Cybersecurity
Foresite Cybersecurity is a Google Cloud Premier Partner providing managed security operations, compliance automation, and threat intelligence services. Through its Catalyst platform, Foresite helps organizations operationalize AI-driven security with practitioner-led governance and measurable risk reduction. Learn more at foresite.com.

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Tredence Awarded 2026 Google Cloud Global Industry Solutions Partner of the Year Award for Retail

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Trusted for driving the data & AI strategy for 8 of the top 10 retailers, powering $2 trillion in retail revenue

LAS VEGAS and BENGALURU, India, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tredence, a global AI and data science solutions company, today announced it has been named the 2026 Google Cloud Services & Industry Solutions Partner of the Year for Retail. This award reflects Tredence’s demonstrated ability to deliver measurable customer impact at scale. Notably, this is Tredence’s third such distinction, having previously been recognized in CPG and Gaming, a testament to Tredence’s unmatched depth, breadth, and impact across the industries it serves.

For the world’s leading retailers, Tredence has consistently delivered the full AI transformation journey — migrating, modernizing, and deploying scalable AI applications and agents on Google Cloud, powered by Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise. In FY25, Tredence drove transformative impact across 25+ strategic retail accounts spanning four continents, delivering measurable business outcomes and accelerating Google Cloud adoption at unprecedented scale. Tredence’s impact has been defined by three core motions:

Modernization at scale, building agentic foundations – Tredence executed some of the world’s most complex retail cloud migrations, including the largest-ever cloud migration in retail history, migrating 12 petabytes of data for 40,000+ analytics users with 100% operational continuity, and a landmark platform overhaul delivered ahead of schedule, reducing total cost of ownership by 20–40% and building the unified data foundations that power agentic AI at scale.Accelerating agentic AI adoption – Tredence deployed 100+ AI/ML accelerators, including 10+ retail-specific multi-agent systems built on Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise, eliminating up to 70% of manual effort, automating up to 98% of manual ticketing processes, and cutting temporary labor costs by 20%, compressing months of deployment into weeks across some of the most complex retail environments in the world.Delivering global impact at measurable scale – Tredence drove transformative outcomes across every retail format and across geographies unifying supply chain data across 20,000+ stores to automate retail media insights, deploying a full agentic platform in just 6 months for a major wholesale retailer, and delivering greenfield Google Cloud wins, proving that the Tredence and Google Cloud partnership delivers measurable impact across every retail segment and scale of ambition.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name Tredence a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

“Winning Google Cloud’s Retail Partner of the Year reflects one thing: the outcomes we deliver for the world’s most admired retailers, consistently and at scale,” said Amanpal Dhupar, Vice President, Head of Retail at Tredence. “We are the trusted Data and AI partner for 8 of the top 10 global retailers and have built a team of world-class retail practitioners, a proprietary accelerator ecosystem powering over $2 trillion in global retail sales, and a last-mile operationalization capability.”

Tredence recently launched its Transformative Agentic Commerce Solution Accelerators at NRF 2026. Built on Google Cloud services, these accelerators can be customized for each retailer to address unique needs and deliver faster time-to-value.

Tredence will showcase these capabilities at Google Next, Booth #2911, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

About Tredence:

Tredence is a global AI and data science solutions provider focused on solving the last-mile problem in AI, the gap between insight creation and value realization. Tredence leverages deep domain expertise, data platforms and accelerators, and strategic partnerships to provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions to its clients. The company has 4,200+ employees across the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Riyadh, London, Toronto, and Bengaluru, serving top brands in Retail, CPG, Hi-tech, Telecom, Healthcare, Travel, and Industrials. 

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dbt Labs Wins a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award

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PHILADELPHIA, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — dbt Labs, the leader in standards for AI-ready structured data, announced today that it has received the 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award for Data and Analytics: Data Pipelines and Governance. dbt Labs works together with Google Cloud to provide the foundation for an organization’s transition to AI leadership and innovation. The combination of rich data warehousing capabilities and the democratization of complex data transformation removes technical barriers, enabling analysts and business leaders to accelerate their time-to-value.

dbt Labs is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping  joint customers manage data at scale on Google Cloud and turn it into trusted, actionable insights with speed and efficiency. Thousands of organizations run dbt on Google BigQuery globally, an integration designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted analytics and AI. By consolidating data transformation into a single, unified tool, joint customers quickly gain increased operational efficiency through advanced orchestration features. dbt Labs empowers customers to manage and trust results, ensuring high-quality data is ready to power analytics and AI initiatives both today and in the future.

“Every AI strategy needs to be underpinned by a standardized foundation and process to control, govern and document progress for high-quality, trusted results,” said Shawn Toldo, Vice President, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at dbt Labs. “Together, dbt Labs and Google Cloud enable organizations to build that foundation for an AI-ready future. We are excited for the recognition and growing partnership with Google.”

dbt Labs is being recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping  joint customers manage data at scale on Google Cloud and turn it into trusted, actionable insights with speed and efficiency. Thousands of organizations run dbt on Google BigQuery globally, an integration designed to accelerate the delivery of trusted analytics and AI. By consolidating data transformation into a single, unified tool, joint customers quickly gain increased operational efficiency through advanced orchestration features. dbt Labs empowers customers to manage and trust results, ensuring high-quality data is ready to power analytics and AI initiatives both today and in the future.

“The Google Cloud Partner Awards honor the strategic innovation and measurable value our partners bring to customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, President, Global Partner Ecosystem and Channels, Google Cloud. “We are proud to name dbt Labs a 2026 Google Cloud Partner Award winner, celebrating their role in driving customer success over the last year.”

This recognition is the latest example of dbt Labs’ momentum since launching on Google Cloud Marketplace one year ago. The partnership’s trajectory is driven by extensive global adoption and usage across diverse industries and a rapidly expanding community of active practitioners. Additionally, dbt Labs’ partner team earned two Google Partner All Star awards, reinforcing the deep collaboration and commitment to driving mutual success.

By bringing Google AI capabilities into dbt workflows, joint customers gain the trustworthy, well-documented, governed foundation that reliable analytics and AI demand. To learn more about how dbt Labs and Google Cloud are enabling AI-ready data pipelines, watch the on-demand webinar “Building dbt Models Faster with Google AI” at https://www.getdbt.com/confirmation/building-dbt-models-faster-with-google-ai-recording.

About dbt Labs
Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help data practitioners create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt is the standard for AI-ready structured data. Powered by the dbt Fusion engine, it unlocks the performance, context, and trust that organizations need to scale analytics in the era of AI. Globally, more than 80,000 data teams use dbt, including those at Siemens, Roche and Condé Nast.

Learn more at getdbt.com, and follow dbt Labs on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, and YouTube.

 

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