Overview of the Vietnam New Economy Forum 2025

FROM A SMALL COMPANY TO A LEADING BRAND

Founded in 1993 with just two co-founders, CMC has steadily grown into a technology corporation with nearly 6,000 employees, operating across four pillars: Digital Infrastructure, Technology & Solutions, Global Business, and Research & Education.

The Top 10 Vietnamese Brands Reaching New Heights 2025 award is reserved for enterprises that exert significant influence in strategic industries, demonstrating strong international integration and sustainable impact.

With over 32 years of development, CMC is now ranked among the Top 2 listed technology companies in Vietnam (Forbes Vietnam 2024–2025) and has established itself as a pioneer in AI Transformation and global expansion through:

• Strategic digital infrastructure: Developing a chain of Hyperscale Data Centers in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City – a backbone for digital and AI transformation in Vietnam and the region.
• Core technologies: Building CMC Cloud – Vietnam’s leading domestic cloud computing platform, meeting international standards.
• AI Made in Vietnam: Launching the C-OpenAI ecosystem, inherited from C.Ope2n (2019) and the AI-X strategy (2024), laying the groundwork for Vietnam to enter the AI Transformation era.
• Global recognition: AI products such as CIVAMS.Face (Top 12 worldwide – NIST FRVT 2023), CATI-VLM (Top 12 globally – Robust Reading Competition 2025), and solutions like C-Health and C-Contract have proven CMC’s R&D and commercialization capabilities

This award not only celebrates internal strength but also acknowledges the ability to “reach new heights” – bringing Vietnamese intelligence to the world.

Mr. Ho Thanh Tung, CEO of CMC Corporation, receiving the Top 10 Vietnamese Brands Reaching New Heights 2025 award.

A VISIONARY ENTREPRENEUR – NGUYEN TRUNG CHINH

If CMC is a pioneering brand, Nguyen Trung Chinh is its visionary architect. Since the 2000s, he has pursued an “Open” philosophy: localizing Linux, launching the open technology ecosystem C.Ope2n (2019), initiating the AI Transformation (AI-X) strategy (2024), and now shaping the C-OpenAI ecosystem (2025).

Mr. Chinh once remarked:
“More than 11 years ago, we began research with the principle of leveraging Vietnamese intelligence, Vietnamese data, and Vietnamese knowledge to build the C-OpenAI ecosystem.”

His long-term vision has elevated CMC from a domestic IT firm to a strategic partner of the Government in national digital transformation projects – from e-Government to Digital Government. He currently serves on several key National and Hanoi Advisory Councils for Science, Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation, contributing to shaping macro-level policy.

To experts, Nguyen Trung Chinh is not just a successful businessman but a “visionary entrepreneur” – one who ties corporate interests to national aspirations. As Prof. Dr. Tran Tho Dat, Chairman of the National Economics University’s Council, affirmed:
“CMC is one of the pioneering enterprises, proving that Vietnam not only consumes technology but can also produce, master, and lead technology.”

Mr. Nguyen Trung Chinh, Chairman of CMC Corporation, receiving the Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneurs 2025 award.

VIETNAM’S ASPIRATION ON THE GLOBAL TECH MAP

At the award ceremony, Mr. Chinh expressed his emotions:
“This award is not only for CMC or myself, but for the aspiration of Vietnam to master technology. We will remain steadfast in our journey of Make in Vietnam – Go Global, so that when the world speaks of global technology, they will think of Vietnam.”

With the goal of becoming a billion-dollar global technology corporation with over 10,000 employees by 2028, CMC is turning that aspiration into reality through core technologies, national projects, and an enduring vision.

The simultaneous recognition of CMC as a Top 10 Vietnamese Brand Reaching New Heights 2025 and Chairman Nguyen Trung Chinh as a Top 10 Outstanding Entrepreneur 2025 marks a significant milestone: affirming the strength of CMC and the stature of its leader. It is not only a success story of a single enterprise but also a testament that Vietnamese private enterprises can rise to the top of the world if they dare to think big, act boldly, and nurture the aspiration to shape the digital future.