Vietnam’s AI Token Economy Forum
AI is moving from experimentation to production. The next strategic question for companies is no longer simply, “Which AI model should we use?” It is:
How do we turn compute into useful tokens, tokens into software, and software into economic advantage?
Join us for a curated executive forum in Ho Chi Minh City exploring Vietnam’s AI Token Economy — the emerging stack of AI factories, inference engineering, software factories, sovereign infrastructure, and AI-native companies.
Featuring Hien Luu, an AI/ML leader from the Bay Area, and Kartick Narayan, Founder & CEO of qode.world, this event is designed for senior leaders who want to understand where AI is going after the hype — especially as companies move from AI demos to production-grade systems.
Key Topics
Inference Engineering — why cost per token, latency, throughput, routing, and reliability are becoming boardroom topics.
Token Efficiency at Scale — how AI-native platforms can manage token cost, workload growth, and production reliability.
AI Factories — how GPUs, cloud infrastructure, model serving, and data centers turn compute into intelligence.
Software Factories — how AI agents will transform how companies build products, automate workflows, and scale.
Agenda
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration, Coffee & Pre-Event Networking
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM
Opening Remarks: Why the AI Token Economy Matters Now
9:10 AM – 9:45 AM
Keynote: Inference Engineering & the New Economics of AI
Speaker: Hien Luu, AI/ML Leader from the Bay Area
The cheapest token is the one you never generate. A lot of inference optimization happens on the serving side: better kernels, faster hardware, smarter caching. It's real, but it's not always where the biggest wins are for companies.
Some of the biggest wins tend to be model-side: deciding which tokens never need a frontier model in the first place.
9:45 AM – 10:05 AM
Founder Sharing: Token Efficiency at Scale
Speaker: Kartick Narayan, Founder & CEO, qode.world
As AI platforms scale, token cost becomes a real business and infrastructure challenge. Kartick will share how qode.world, a platform powering AI tools for recruiters, companies, and job seekers, has adopted practical techniques to reduce token cost while supporting increasing customer workload. The session will cover lessons from building and scaling AI products in production, including token optimization, workflow design, and cost-aware AI architecture.
10:05 AM – 10:20 AM
Coffee Break & Curated Introductions
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM
Fireside Chat: From GPU-as-a-Service to the AI Token Economy
A conversation on infrastructure, inference cost, enterprise adoption, AI sovereignty, and how Vietnam and Singapore can collaborate across the AI stack.
11:00 AM – 11:25 AM
Executive Workshop: Designing a Token P&L
A practical session helping leaders map an AI use case into business value, token cost, latency, data sensitivity, infrastructure requirements, and ROI.
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Networking Lunch
Who Should Attend
This forum is designed for CEOs, founders, CTOs, CIOs, AI/ML leaders, enterprise innovation teams, investors, cloud and infrastructure companies, venture builders, and senior ecosystem leaders from Vietnam and Singapore.