Digital Literacy Day 2022

Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son has had 20 years of experience at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) – the top school in Vietnam in Science and Technology. As the president of HUST during 2015 to 2020, Deputy Minister Hoang Minh Son has successfully led HUST to higher ranking into the group of 801-1000 best university by Times Higher Education 2020 Rankings.

Mr. Seán Farrell is currently the Deputy Head of Mission for the Embassy of Ireland in Hanoi covering Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia. Seán joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2021. Prior to this, Seán has over 25 years experience managing development and humanitarian programmes in a number of countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Professor, Dr. Pham Hong Chuong studied Bachelor of Economics at the University of Essex, UK (1994); Bachelor of Transport Economics, Moscow Railway University, Rusia (1986) and Master Degree at University of Saint Mary’s (Canada). After that, he studied for the doctoral programme in Economics at the National Economics University (2003).
He has 32 years with the National Economics University. During his work, Mr. Chuong was a lecturer, Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality, National Economics University; holding the position of Deputy Head, Department of Scientific Management and International Cooperation; Head of Department, Department of Scientific Management, National Economics University. In the period 2013-2018, he held the position of Vice Principal of the school. In 2019, he was appointed as Principal.

Azah Anir Norman is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT), University Malaya (UM). She has been appointed to head the FSKTM Technovation, a business arm of FCSIT. She obtained her academic qualifications from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) for a bachelor’s and Master’s from the Royal Holloway University of London, the United Kingdom, in electronic commerce security in 2004. She completed her Ph.D. from the UM in 2014. Her area of research interest is Information Systems Security. She is involved in various research, leading to the publication of many academic papers in the areas of information security governance and management in reputable ISI and SCOPUS journals. Before joining the academic field, she was the Head of Customer Service at MSC Trustgate.com, an MDEC subsidiary with the collaboration of VeriSign Inc. (now part of DigiCert Inc) in the USA. She had consulted multiple top 500 companies for Internet Security implementation, including oil and gas companies and financial institutions while in MDEC.

Ms. Tran Thi Bao Que graduated with a Master’s degree in Foreign Trade Economics – Foreign Trade University. She has been working with MB for nearly 20 in many important positions. In 2019, she was appointed as Human Resources Director – Human Resources Division of MB Bank. She has contributed to many successful projects of MB Bank in enhancing human resources quality, making MB become the TOP 3 banks with the best working environment.
 

Dr. Chalothon Chootong is Assistant to the Dean for International Affairs, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Sriracha Campus, Thailand. In 2021 she earned her PhD in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE), National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. Her current research interests are in AI and machine learning, learning path and material recommendation, and social media mining.

Mr. Hung Doan has more than 7 years of practical experience in IT, cloud computing, AI, and globalizing the ICT industry. Currently, Hung is the Marketing Manager of Alibaba Cloud Intelligence in Vietnam. Marketing is the soul of the business, Hung handles that by bringing the cloud computing, AI, and network infrastructure, which provides global customers from different industries comprehensive solutions in cloud services such as IaaS, PaaS, AI, security, IoT, etc. closer to the community.
Graduated from Frankfurt University of Applied Science, majoring in Electrical Engineering & Information Technology, Mr. Hung Doan continued to work in his passion, the ICT industry. In 2014, he started by being in charge of Microsoft Student Program, then he was responsible for Microsoft South-East Asia device market as Device Marketing Manager in 2019. In 2021 he became Sales Representative at Samsung, played a key role of the initial New Computing department which brought Vietnam Galaxy Tab S7FE sales revenue to be in the top of Global ranking. Hung joined Alibaba Cloud in Jan 2022 as one of the first employees in Vietnam, and diligently transform and create positive impact to the overall society.

Ms. Tina Wu is General Manager of ICDL Asia, the wholly owned subsidiary of ICDL Foundation managing ICDL Programme in all the Asia Pacific territories. She has been working with ICDL Asia since 2006, started as Business Development Executive and then Partner Relations Manager and then being promoted to General Manager in 2014. Prior to joining ICDL Asia, Tina has been working with MediaCorp News as a news reporter and INSEAD Business School as a research analyst in the InnovAsia Centre. She graduated from National University of Singapore with Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours). She is Singaporean, born in China, and perfectly bilingual with English and Mandarin.