I speak about the decisions leaders and organisations face once AI starts doing work that people used to do: who may decide what, how it is controlled, and what people need in order not to be left behind.
Audiences are usually executive teams, public-sector managers, technology professionals, teachers and students. Each talk is adapted to the audience and to the confidentiality of internal material. Talks are given in Vietnamese or English.
AI agents do more than answer: they send emails, change records and call other systems. This talk helps organisations decide what to hand to AI, what people must keep, and the conditions that go with it: delegated authority, logs, limits on actions and human approval points.
For: executive teams, IT, operations managers.
Given at: HPT D-Day 2026 (write-up in Vietnamese).
Most organisations already have responsible AI principles. The harder question is proving they follow them. This talk turns principles into processes, delegated authority, controls, monitoring and an evidence trail, using the framework of the book AI Ethics: Principles and Practice.
For: boards, risk, legal, compliance and internal audit.
Given at: the book launch at FAHASA Tân Định (write-up in Vietnamese).
Three questions for leadership: which technology shifts are real, how they affect the organisation's competitiveness, and which decisions on data, people and investment need preparing now.
For: senior leaders in business and government.
Given at: Viettel Semiconductor Institute (2026); Central Commission for Propaganda and Mass Mobilisation (2025).
As AI takes on more knowledge work, people's value shifts to judgement, asking good questions and owning their choices. A talk for students, teachers and parents: use AI, question AI, and still decide for yourself.
For: students, teachers, parents, community audiences.
Given at: Deakin Open Day 2026 (write-up in Vietnamese).
45–60 minutes
A clear map and a shared language for a large audience, opening the way to dialogue.
90 minutes
A closer look at the effect on strategy, the investment portfolio and the operating model.
180 minutes
Work through the organisation's own cases, choose priorities and sketch a roadmap.
FPT University, Hanoi · Speaker
FAHASA Tân Định, Ho Chi Minh City · Author
GEM Center, Ho Chi Minh City · Speaker
HCMC People's Court, over 1,000 officials · Trainer · Reported by Sài Gòn Giải Phóng and Công lý
Reported by Nhân Dân · Panel moderator
Central Commission for Propaganda and Mass Mobilisation · Invited briefer
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Dao Trung Thanh (Uncle Dao) is the author of AI Ethics: Principles and Practice (Vietnamese edition, 2026), an independent researcher on AI ethics and governance and an AI strategy advisor. He has more than 30 years in telecommunications, IT and cybersecurity, and served as CTO of MVV Group and CIO of Vinschool. He is a former Deputy Director of the Institute of Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ABAII). He briefs and teaches on AI for central government agencies, businesses and universities in Vietnam.
Dao Trung Thanh (Uncle Dao) is the author of AI Ethics: Principles and Practice (Vietnamese edition, Science - Technology - Communications Publishing House, 2026), an independent researcher on AI ethics and governance and an AI strategy advisor. The book argues that AI ethics has to be put into practice through processes, delegated authority, controls and evidence.
He has more than 30 years in telecommunications, IT, cybersecurity and digital transformation. He started as a telecommunications engineer at Ho Chi Minh City Post and Telecommunications, then served as Deputy Director of Netsoft (VNPT Ho Chi Minh City), CTO of MVV Group, CIO of Vinschool and Deputy Director of the Institute of Blockchain Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ABAII). He holds a master's degree in cybersecurity from the Institut National des Télécommunications (France) and a master's degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology.
He has briefed central Party and government bodies in Vietnam on AI, contributed comments on the Law on Digital Technology Industry and the Law on Artificial Intelligence, and taught programmes for Viettel, Vietcombank, BVSC and other organisations. He sits on the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) and is an administrator of the Bình dân học AI community, which has more than 650,000 members.
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