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Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the country’s largest power company, plans to accelerate its digital transformation during the 2021-2025 period.

About 1,400 apprentices and university students in work-study programs will start their professional careers at 23 Siemens locations in Germany on September 1, 2020. Together with Siemens Mobility and Siemens Healthineers, Siemens is continuing its training program in full despite the coronavirus crisis. Training at Siemens Energy will be continued separately. Nearly 1,190 young people who are being trained for Siemens’ own needs will be joined at Siemens Professional Education by about 190 participants from the company’s external partners.

Vietnam is entering a very exciting time and digitalization is an opportunity for Vietnam to leapfrog and become an industrialized nation. Siemens is at the forefront of digital innovation. The company has already developed the relevant solutions for cities  – for more efficiency, sustainability and security. Siemens is highly committed to being the partner of choice of Vietnamese customers, as well as supporting Vietnam in leading the way to digital transformation. Siemens recently organized its first Siemens Digitalization Day in Vietnam. On this occasion Vietnam Energy Review has arranged an interview with Mr. Cedrik Neike, Member of Siemens AG Managing Board.

Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has just issued the Decision No. 1201 / QD-BCT (dated 29/03/2016) on applying digital signature and keeping electronic documents in the power market transactions.

GE just recently inaugurated the first-of-its-kind ASEAN Digital Start Up Competition 2017 for university students from Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand. The competition, open across disciplines with a focus on IT, Computer Science, Engineering and Business segments, aims at creating opportunities for young startups to show their intelligence, aspiration and passion using Predix – GE’s operating platform.

Implementing the "National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with orientation to 2030" of the Government, EVN has clearly demonstrated the pioneering role of state-owned enterprises, actively transforming the thinking and ways, taking advantage of the power of digital technology to improve operational efficiency, and serving customers better.

Today in Hanoi, Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) and Siemens have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote mutual cooperation in science and technology development towards Industry 4.0. As part of this MoU, HUST will consider Siemens as a technology partner and mobilize Siemens’ knowledge and experience in the development of its Digital Factory Lab while Siemens is committed to providing HUST with state-of-the-art technology so as to enable this leading technical university in Vietnam to sustain its world class quality in education and training, as well as to empowering the next generation of digital talent for Vietnam. In particular, Siemens will grant HUST 200 Solid Edge Licenses with a commercial value of about US$30,000 each.