For challenge owners
Enterprise, public-sector and community owners put validated problems in front of solution providers and a 90-day sprint team. The strongest reach the Forum stage — and become real pilots.
How it works
The Forum is credible because of what happens before it. Every brief on stage has already travelled this path:
A real Cần Thơ problem is sourced from enterprise, public-sector or community owners.
Solution providers and sprint teams apply against a validated brief.
CICT + TIC match the strongest teams to the right challenge.
A 90-day sprint builds a deployable prototype, guided by the team already on the ground.
The strongest outputs reach the Forum stage in front of funders and hosts.
Commitments, timelines and capital turn the work into a real pilot.
What we look for
A strong challenge has a named owner, a measurable outcome, and an environment where a 90-day pilot can actually run. If that’s you, the sector is almost certainly in scope:
Focus areas
The programme leads with two core pillars — each already paired with a named industry partner — and runs adjacent streams where the Delta’s challenges are sharpest.
Workforce credentials, verification and compliance for industrial and data-centre growth — active solution-analysis with Kinatico.
Energy-resilience modelling tuned to Mekong conditions, delivered through VoltaRocks (.volta) — TIC’s own ClimateTech venture.
Distributed energy, renewables and agri/aquaculture challenges, sourced with local owners and Delta networks.
Live challenge briefs
Illustrative briefs — shaped and awaiting CICT validation. Challenge owners are named only once confirmed.
Workforce credentials and compliance in Cần Thơ’s data-centre growth need a deployable verification approach suited to local context.
Owner: industrial / data-centre partner — to be announced.
Looking for: identity-verification / RegTech providers + a sprint sponsor.
Households and small enterprises face energy insecurity under intensifying climate stress; a deployable resilience model is needed for Mekong conditions.
Owner: to be announced.
Looking for: ClimateTech providers + a challenge sponsor.
A 40-strong team already operating in Cần Thơ provides the footing — interns, students, academics and companies take ownership of the briefs, guided and de-risked by people who know the market.
Submit a challenge
A short brief is enough to start. We’ll come back to you to validate scope and fit.