AusCham’s monthly breakfast “coffee” presentation, in collaboration with LIN Center, provides members with an opportunity to present topics relevant to the greater community, in a casual and engaging discussion and environment. The proceeds raised at the event will be used by LIN Center to assist NGO’s in Vietnam.
We welcome members to present on topics they believe relevant at this monthly AusCham Chats event. If you would like to present a topic of interest, why not contact AusCham to get involved.
Topic: Local responses to the central disasters in Vietnam and what's next” – broader, and in context with the continual natural disasters they are facing.
Time/Date: 10 November, 8.30am – 10am
Location: Old Compass Café, Pasteur St, District 1
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 | Viet Nguyen - Founder, Liter of Light and PowerWells Viet NamMr. Viet Nguyen undertook his studies in Canberra Institute of Technology and University of Canberra in Marketing & Management, System Administration &
Network Engineering and MBA respectively. He had over 20 years of work experiences in the ICT & IoT sectors.
Mr. Viet is very active in contributing his time and values into community developments through CSR programs. He was the first person to form the Vietnam International Student Association in Australia and held the position of President for 5 years from 1998 to 2003. The association helps support Vietnamese students in studying, researching and quickly. quickly adapt to the environment in Australia. In addition, the Association regularly organizes many cultural and social activities and raises funds for charitable activities in Vietnam. He founded two CSR programs: Liter of Light and PowerWells Viet Nam to raise awareness for reducing plastic waste and help the community turn recycled plastic and lithium battery waste into sustainable solar light. This circular economy CSR program has been supporting thousands of people in the rural areas to power up their house and street with solar lights within the first year of running.
Liter of Light is going to implement a project providing sustainable solar lighting infrastructure to the affected areas in the central region using recycled materials found at the local areas in the recovery stage. His sharing will focus on the experiences Vietnam can learn from Philippine, a country facing more significant natural disasters than Vietnam and what Liter of Light will do to support local people in the central area after the typhoons are over.
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 | Victoria Nguyen - Managing Director, William KaineVictoria Nguyen immigrated to Sweden with her family when she was 6 and studied for an engineering degree in mechanical design and project management at the Halmstad University. With her entrepreneurship spirit, she decided to open her own restaurant business after graduation, developing it from a small business into a chain of three large and well established restaurants in Sweden. Later she realized, her heart was, in fact, with fashion. She decided to follow her passion, stopped her restaurant business and moved into the fashion industry. After only one year in the industry, she became the Brand Store Director for Eton Shirts and managed the team that opened their first store in Vietnam. Her coming-back-to-Vietnam journey started from there.
After a few adventures, including developing smart watch products for a local mobile brand in Vietnam, Qmobile, she brought William Kaine to life, a result of years of work and research into product development. The William Kaine brand fulfills her passion in fashion and her desire to introduce innovative products to the young generation who love fashion, creativity and sustainability in Vietnam. Through William Kaine, she wants to create a long lasting impact and contribute her quota to the sustainable development of the country with her business and philanthropy expertise. In October, witnessing what happened in central Vietnam, she mobilized nearly $25,000 from her own network of friends and took her trip to the affected areas to provide essential foods and items to the people who lost everything from the typhoons. |
| Panel Moderator | |
 | Matthew Lourey – Managing Partner, Domicile Corporate ServicesMatt Lourey is a qualified accountant who has lived and worked in Vietnam for over 14 years. Matt assists foreign invested companies enter Vietnam and ensures their ongoing accounting, tax, reporting and compliance are maintained at international levels. He also currently sits on a number of boards in Vietnam, advising as an independent non-executive director and has been an active member of the AusCham Board of Directors as Treasurer and President before stepping down easier this year. |
| Host | |
 | Kelly Vo - Head of Corporate Partnerships & Fundraising, LIN Center for Community DevelopmentTuyen (Kelly) joined the team in March 2018 to lead the Corporate Partnerships & Fundraising department. Prior to LIN, Ms. Tuyen has several years of experience as an international Business Development Manager. She has focused on developing markets for agricultural products, including natural teas and wine; and has extensive experience selling and marketing business processing software. Her NGO experience includes serving as regional coordinator for BeCause, a non-governmental organization based in San Jose that provides educational resources for children in underprivileged and under-resourced regions in Vietnam for 6 years. At LIN, her passion is to promote the philanthropic ways of life in Vietnam and bring different people together to create long term changes.
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