Attending the event were Tran Van Nam, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Head of provincial National Assembly delegation; Tran Thanh Liem, Vice-Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Chairman of provincial People's Committee; Mai Hung Dung, member of provincial Party Standing Committee, Permanent Vice-Chairman of provincial People's Committee, Head of the Steering Board of the Binh Duong smart city project; Nguyen Van Hung, member of provincial Party Standing Committee, CEO of Becamex IDC together with leaders of sectors, departments, Mary Ann Schreurs, Deputy Mayor of Dutch city of Eindhoven; Peter Portheine, member of North Brabant city's Council, development director of Brainport Group.
Delegates at the opening ceremony
Students and candidates attended the opening ceremony
Overview of the opening ceremony
This year's competition taking place from 25 to 26 November 2017 attracted 300 candidates from 74 teams of technology enterprises, startups and university students. The competition focused on building applications to improve the quality of services in Binh Duong as preparation for Binh Duong smart city in the future.
Tran Thanh Liem, chairman of provincial People's Committee spoke his opening speech
Speaking at the ceremony, Mr.Liem stressed that the competition is playground for the young who are interested in technology. It is also the opportunity for them to expose their innovative and creative ideas with essential products and applications for the sake of building and developing Binh Duong smart city.
With the above significance, it is hoped that the competition will choose excellent ideas and useful solutions to serve the common benefits of the community; especially basic ones in synchronous investment and development in all aspects, creating the premise for Binh Duong to soon become a smart city.
Tran Van Nam. Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Binh Duong Party Committee presented flowers to Mary Ann Schreurs, Deputy Mayor of Dutch city of Eindhoven
Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Tran Thanh Liem presented flowers to Mary Ann Schreurs, Deputy Mayor of Eindhoven city
Mai Hung Dung, Member of Provincial Standing Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee presented flowers to sponsors
Candidates designed the applications