The contest is chaired by the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City, in collaboration with the following units: Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Department of Science and Technology, Department of Education and Training, City Youth Union, City Informatics Association, Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association, City Business Association, Young Science and Technology Development Center and Software Park Development One Member Co., Ltd. Organized by Quang Trung.

Contestants are Vietnamese individuals in the country and overseas Vietnamese, foreigners living, studying and working in Vietnam. The contest was implemented with 2 tables: Group A for students and youth and Group B for high school students. Participants register information through the electronic portal https://aichallenge.hochiminhcity.gov.vn.

The contest is organized in the form of a scientific competition to find effective solutions to new problems of interest to serve life. Contestants develop artificial intelligence algorithms to solve problems in life, and apply them to the city. Registration period from launch date to August 10. The organizers will announce the results of the preliminary round on August 8, and the final round will be held on September 30-8. The closing ceremony of the contest is expected in October-October 5.

Representative of the organizing committee information about the contest. 

According to the contest jury, the algorithms and products participating in this year's contest are evaluated on the following criteria: High scientific content, up-to-date; solve specific problems according to the given topic. This result is evaluated on the test sets of the organizers, with the evaluation of the results of the jury.

Comrade Vo Minh Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City said: “The contest wishes to find and apply solutions using artificial intelligence to solve the problems posed. in the context that Ho Chi Minh City is focusing on development investment and promoting smart urban construction. At the same time, contributing to spreading the creativity of new scientific and technological solutions that apply artificial intelligence to be widely applicable.

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