The deadline for entries for the 7^th National festival for innovative startups, Techfest Vietnam 2021, has been pushed back to October 26 in a bid to allow more time for people to submit their entries.

Accordingly, the timelines have also been adjusted. The semi-finals and finals are set to be held from February 1 to 12, two weeks behind the original plan.

Techfest Vietnam, the biggest annual event for innovative start-ups, was co-organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and the Viet Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI).

This year’ event is held with the theme ‘Embracing Innovation - Reshaping the Future’. In 2021, the Covid-19 pandemic continues to be extremely complicated which makes the start-up path even more difficult. Innovating, changing the way of living, working and interacting is no longer an option, but has become a must.

This year, TECHFEST aims to promote technology solutions of innovative start-ups, an "open" innovation platform in solving society's problems in the context of Covid-19 and recovering the post-COVID economy. It is about time when startups need to seize new opportunities to rise up, to "shape the future" through technology initiatives. At the same time, using intellectual power, innovation as the center to develop combined with the strength of national unity.

Reporting MINH LE – Translating by M.D