The CEO 4.0 Business Executive Training Program - Course 1, 2024 has officially closed with a series of grand activities: Calling for investment capital - Displaying booths - Gala meeting and connecting. The event took place on August 14 at Rex Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City.

Opening Ceremony of CEO 4.0 Business Executive Training Program - Course 1, 2024

As one of the outstanding, annual training programs bearing the brand of VCCI-HCM, the CEO Executive Course has been organized by VCCI-HCM for 7 years, bringing countless values to students. The quality of the course content as well as the number of students has continuously increased over the years.

After more than 3 months of study, students have experienced 30 topics with concise and quality training content, focusing on the most necessary values from the information system, modern knowledge, practical examples - typical by experts - good lecturers.

Students can attend talk shows with successful Founders - CEOs to share and immediately resolve problems about vision, mission, success/failure experiences in business so that students can develop appropriate strategies and operate their businesses effectively.

The predecessors have inspired and shared their experiences with young entrepreneurs, inspiring and guiding leaders on their “creative” journey.

Throughout the course, students are given the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities to learn, exchange and connect. And project building and fundraising activities are the activities that determine whether students can graduate or not.

If Vietnam Television (VTV) has Shark Tank, then from 2022, VCCI-HCM will also have Dolphin Bay with “Dolphin” investors with a lot of knowledge, a lot of passion and most importantly, ‘dare to invest’. In the 2022 and 2023 seasons, 2 projects have been selected for investment and are currently operating and developing well.

Entrepreneurs participating in the funding round

The "dolphin" faces participating in the capital calling round include: Mr. Nguyen Tuan Quynh - Businessman/Investor - Chairman of Saigon Books, Head of Dolphin Bay Council, Program Advisor; Mr. Dat Pham - Businessman/Investor - Chairman of FADO Group; Ms. Kieu Ngoc Phuong - Businesswoman/Investor - General Director of Tan Thanh Container Company - Vice President of Thu Duc City Business Association; Mr. Vu Do Tuan Huy - Managing Board of VCCI CEO Program, Founder & CEO of Tinh Hoa Viet Company; Mr. Nguyen Doan Thong - Managing Director of VCCI-HCM CEO Program/Investor.

Groups present their fundraising projects.

Participating in the capital calling round are 8 projects of student groups of VCCI CEO Class 1, 2024, including: Kim Anh Pharmacy Chain Franchise Project; ZÓNG Project - building a community of businesses, Celebs, KOLs, KOCs; HealthChiyo Project - Health care app; Mini AI Platform Project - Marketing platform for businesses; TopSmiles Dental Chain Project; Trong Tin Packaging Production Project; Royal Education Chain Project (Chess Thinking and Soft Skills Club); ESGreen Project - Providing Carbon certificates for businesses.

The projects all received attention and many questions from the "dolphin" judges. The results of the capital calling round had 3 projects honored: Best prize: ESGreen project (group 9). Team prize: Royal Education Chain Project (group 8). Most creative prize: ZÓNG project (group 3).

In addition, the projects that were highly appreciated by the Investment Council and committed to accompany include: Kim Anh Pharmacy Chain; Royal Education Chain; MiniAi App; ESGreen project; Top Smiles Dental Chain.

As part of the activities of the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 CEO course, the booth display activity was organized in parallel with the project reporting - capital calling activities. More than 23 units participated in displaying their products at the event. Some of the exhibitors are businesses of CEO students of Course 1, 2024.

The Gala Night of Reunion and Connection - Closing Ceremony of the CEO 4.0 Business Executive Training Program - Course 1, 2024 took place on the same day with the participation of: Mr. Vo Tan Thanh, Vice President of VCCI; Mr. Tran Ngoc Liem, Director of VCCI HCM; Mr. Nguyen Doan Thong, Head of Membership Department - Training and Communications, Head of CEO Program VCCI-HCM; Mr. Dat Pham, Founder and CEO of FADO Company; along with delegates, guests, representatives of sponsors, lecturers, speakers, successful businessmen, as well as the presence of 130 CEO students of Course 1, 2024 who are business owners, entrepreneurs, administrators, senior managers, Startups, ... and students of the CEO course in previous years.

Mr. Tran Ngoc Liem, Director of VCCI-HCM

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Tran Ngoc Liem, Director of VCCI-HCM, said that this training program is one of the key activities of VCCI-HCM, implementing Resolution No. 09-NQ/TW dated December 9, 2011 of the Politburo on building and promoting the role of Vietnamese entrepreneurs in the period of accelerating industrialization, modernization and international integration.

Most recently, Resolution 41-NQ/TW was issued by the Central Executive Committee on October 10, 2023 to promote the role of Vietnamese entrepreneurs in the new period. Accordingly, entrepreneurs are not only an important team, but also a core force to build and develop the country's economy, Mr. Liem added.

The CEO 4.0 Business Executive Training Program - Course 1, 2024 has officially ended completely and meaningfully with countless values and positive results for the students. Many students jokingly said that they "don't want to graduate" to continue studying, continue going to class and most importantly, continue to see each other.