Vietnam wins big at APICTA 2025 international technology award

Vietnam delegation at the Asia-Pacific Information and Communications Technology Alliance (APICTA Awards 2025). — Vietnam delegation at the Asia- Pacific Information and Communications Technology Alliance (APICTA Awards 2025).

Vietnamese technology competes with international technology

The Vietnamese delegation has successfully won important awards, affirming its technological capacity and innovation in the region at the Asia- Pacific Information and Communications Technology Alliance (APICTA Awards 2025), held in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan (China).

The APICTA Awards, dubbed the “Oscars” of the ICT industry in the Asia-Pacific region, are an annual international award organized by the Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) with 14 member economies , to recognize and honor outstanding software products, solutions, and services.

The APICTA 2025 Awards brought together 205 teams with 256 nominations from 12 economies, competing in Kaohsiung from December 5 to 8. This is an essential platform to promote cooperation, technology transfer and investment attraction in the region.

The Vietnamese delegation attending APICTA 2025 included 3 judges and 8 teams, participating in 11 nominations. With a high spirit of determination, bringing pioneering technology solutions, focusing on hot areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity and industrial digital transformation, the delegation achieved very positive results with 3 awards: 1 second prize, 1 third prize and 1 consolation prize.

The APICTA Awards are not only a place of honor, but also an important bridge of trade and technology, opening the door for Vietnamese enterprises to enter the international market. Achieving high achievements at APICTA 2025 is a clear demonstration of the international competitiveness of Vietnamese IT enterprises, especially in key areas such as AI, Industry 4.0 and Security.

These awards create a strong brand leverage, helping Vietnamese businesses easily access demanding markets, attract investment capital and international cooperation. Moreover, these achievements are the driving force for the entire Vietnamese IT industry to continue to innovate, master core technology and assert its position as a new technology center of the Indo-Pacific region, realizing the goal of national digital transformation.

SmartLog comprehensive logistics ecosystem

The Smartlog Logistics solution received the First Runner-up prize.

Specifically, the Second Runner-up prize belongs to The Smartlog Logistics Ecosystem solution of SmartLog Company in the Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Logistics Industry category.

It is a comprehensive logistics ecosystem (End-to-End) that combines SaaS (software as a service) and LaaS (logistics as a service) platforms to optimize the entire supply chain, from warehousing (WMS), transportation (TMS) to network planning.

SmartLog has completely solved the problem of high logistics costs and lack of visibility in the supply chain by applying AI/ML to route optimization, demand forecasting and operations management.

This ecosystem creates three strong competitive barriers, helping customers save 10-20% on overall logistics costs and increase productivity by 30-40%.

SmartLog is a leading company in digital logistics transformation in Vietnam, currently operating a network of more than 24,000+ vehicles and 5,200+ warehouses, affirming its pioneering role in creating a smart logistics industry for Vietnam and ASEAN.

SAM Appliance solution builds a specialized digital signature system

Third Prize (First Runner-up) belongs to SAM Appliance solution of Savyint Company in the category of Business Services - Security Solutions.

SAM Appliance is a pioneering All-in-one Strong Authentication solution, integrating a hardware security module (HSM) and software modules such as TrustSign Mobile App and Trusted Identity.

The product provides data encryption, E2E2E transaction signing and multi-layer authentication (MFA, Passwordless on PKI platform) with the highest level of security. The unique point is the ability to strictly comply with a series of international financial and cybersecurity standards such as eIDAS, FIPS 140-2/3, PSD2/PSD3, and GDPR.

SAM Appliance helps financial institutions and governments build specialized digital signature systems, minimizing security risks and increasing trust in electronic transactions.

Savyint is a cybersecurity company, a member of Savis, providing advanced security platforms for the financial-banking and Government industries.

Dedicated document sovereignty AI platform for healthcare and insurance

Merit Award belongs to MedCAT IDUS product of MedCAT JSC.

The Merit Award went to MedCAT IDUS product of MedCAT JSC in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Startup category awarded by APICTA in cooperation with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

This is a breakthrough Sovereign Document AI platform, specifically designed for the healthcare and insurance sectors. The product uses self-developed Small Language Models (SLM) and Vision-Language Models (VLM), optimized for Vietnamese-English medical languages, allowing data extraction and structuring from complex, non-standard documents (such as clinical reports, hospital bills) with over 97% accuracy.

In particular, the solution ensures data sovereignty, can be deployed on-premise, and complies with strict security regulations.

MedCAT IDUS has increased record processing productivity by 10 times, reduced management costs by 30-50%, contributing to promoting digital transformation in healthcare in a sustainable and effective manner.

MedCAT JSC is a pioneering AI startup in the National Innovation Center (NIC) ecosystem, focusing on building sovereign AI platforms for the healthcare, insurance, and government sectors.

LAM THAO

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