• Opening speech by Mr. Le Trong Minh, Editor-in-chief of Vietnam Investment Review, Head of the Organising Board
• Welcome speech by leader from Ministry of Planning & Investment
• Awarding ceremony for the best M&A deals and advisory firms of the 2019-2020.

Panel discussion: 

• Will Vietnam be able to rise up, paving the way for M&A activities in a new normal period when the country is welcoming a great opportunity to capital investment inflows from large-scale but unsafe markets after the Covid-19 pandemic? Opportunities from new trade agreements, amended law on investment, including more open and transparent regulations on M&A activities, as well as opportunity from speeding up M&A activities of many large-scale corporations and groups.
• Evaluating M&A activities in Vietnam during the 2019-2020 period: difficulties of M&A activities in Vietnam, the most outstanding deals (both successes and failures) in the past time.
• Forecasting potential sectors and fields for M&A activities in the coming time: retail, real estate, finance-banking, energy and so on.
• How have interests from South of Korea, Japan and ASEAN community changed to M&A activities in the new normal status?

Panelists:

1.  Mr Masataka Sam Yoshida, Head of the Cross-border Division and CEO of Vietnam, RECOF
2.  Mr Phan Duc Hieu, Deputy Head of the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM)
3.  Mr. Nicolas Audier, Chairman of EuroCham
4.  Mr Warrick Cleine, Chairman cum CEO of KPMG Vietnam and Cambodia.
5.  Mr Paul DiGiacomo, Senior Managing Director, BDA Partners
6.  Mr Pham Duy Khuong, Managing Partner, ASL Law
7.  Mr Seck Yee Chung, Managing Partner, Baker McKenzie (Moderator) 

Panel dicussion:

• Strategies for restructuring and completing ecosystem and value chains of corporations through M&A activities.
• How to build an M&A strategy optimally and how to create a breakthrough growth in a corporation's business? How should enterprises choose their M&A strategy, by vertically or horizontally? How is the value chain of the enterprises established?
• What is a suitable management strategy for post M&A activities? Using current labour at member companies or changing enterprises’ leaders?
• Should some member companies be sold to focus on core business? How is the sale strategy? Advantages of M&A among member companies.
• Building a common culture for enterprises in the ecosystem, practical experiences from large-scale groups.

Panelists:

1.   Mr. Danny Le, CEO, Masan Group
2.   Mr. Nguyen Thai Phien, Senior Corporate Finance Director, Novaland Group
3.   Mr. Denis Brunetti, President & Head of Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia & Laos
4.   Mr Pham Phu Ngoc Trai, Chairman of GIBC (Moderator)

• Evaluating M&A activities in the real estate sector in 2020 and forecasting prospects in the time ahead.
• Identifying bottlenecks for M&A activities in the real estate sector. How will be excited and breakthrough of those activities in the coming time if those bottlenecks are removed?
• Regarding M&A activities in housing projects, when land funds in the cities are run out, especially when a range of projects related to public land have been in halt process. Will investors be interested to land areas far from the city centre or satellite cities?
• Discussing post M&A issues. How projects are implemented after M&A? How do they change the market after being acquired by capable enterprises?

Panelists:

1.  Mr. Angus Liew, General Director, Gamuda Land (HCMC)
2.  Mr. Lim Hua Tiong, CEO, Frasers Property Vietnam
3.  Mr. Vu Minh Tien, BOD Member in charge of controlling investment and M&A strategies, An Thinh Group
4.  Mrs. Khanh Nguyen, Senior Director of Capital Markets, JLL Vietnam
5.  Mr. Nguyen The Nhien, Deputy CEO, Hung Thinh Land
6.  Mr. Michael Paul Piro, COO, Indochina Capital Corporation (Moderator)

 (The detailed schedule may be subject to change and be updated later)