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Hoang Luan

Hoang Luan (35) is known as the voice of League of Legends in Vietnam with his 10 years journey as a shout caster for the game. More than a shout caster, Hoang Luan has taken many roles in the esports scene. He was among the core team in Garena that brought League of Legends to Vietnam in 2012, setting up the standard and practice for esport shoutcasting and acting as the Head Organizer for Vietnam Championship Series for 4 years. Now, he is an esports and soccer content creator at Box MCN.

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Graham Harlow

Graham joined the Consulate General in September 2020. His prior overseas assignments include Mexico, Laos, and Lesotho, where he won a State Department award for Outstanding Leadership. Immediately prior to arriving in Vietnam, Graham worked in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs in Washington. Before joining State, he and his wife met as volunteers in Peace Corps Uzbekistan and worked in disaster relief in in Darfur, Sudan and Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Graham started his career working for Steven Spielberg. During the years of movie marketing, Graham received his MBA from USC. He is continually entertained by his 13-year-old twins.

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LYN NGUYEN

Lyn Nguyen is the Business Development of Wolffun Game, a blockchain gaming company behind the title Thetan Arena. Lyn has led both partnership for the game projects Thetan Arena, Thetan Rivals and the web3 innovation for Thetan World platform.

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TEVINDER SINGH

Tevinder Singh is an Analyst at Quest Ventures, a top venture capital firm in Asia. He works closely with startups to accelerate their growth through a combination of acceleration services and programmes. He is also responsible for market access initiatives for key markets in Southeast Asia. Tevinder was previously with Pace Enterprise where he was responsible for commercial growth through customer analysis, sales forecasting, and planning. In addition, he worked on the development and implementation of sales strategies suitable for the company at its stage of growth. He attends startup events as a guest speaker and panelist. He is also a frequent host for international technology and startup delegations to Vietnam. Tevinder is a Quantitative Finance major from the National University of Singapore. For leisure, he enjoys football, poker, and traveling.

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PHUONG

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MICHAEL THAI

Michael Thai is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker working in the US and Asia. He has written two theatrical films for the Vietnamese market: Saigon Bodyguards (CJ Entertainment), being remade by the Russo brothers and Universal with Chris Pratt and Wu Jing set to star, and Daddy Issues (Lotte), which won the Cinequest Audience Award and topped the local box office. A graduate of USC, Michael’s work has been recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Vietnam’s Golden Kite Awards, Austin Film Festival, Black List, CineStory Foundation, Palm Springs ShortFest and TrackingBoard’s Young & Hungry List.

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MICHAEL KOKALARI

Michael Kokalari, CFA serves as VinaCapital’s Chief Economist, where he is responsible for providing thought leadership and technical acumen on a wide range of global and local macroeconomic issues with a view towards maximizing investment performance.

Mr Kokalari has worked in Vietnam for 12 years, prior to which he was a derivatives trader in Tokyo & London where he ran multi-billion dollar trading books for JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, and Paribas. Mr Kokalari co-authored the CFA guide to Credit Derivatives, and was a contributor to “Risk Management: Foundations for a Changing Financial World”, along with Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes and William Sharpe of Stanford University.

Mr Kokalari holds Masters Degrees in Business, Engineering, and Mathematics from Stanford University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.

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LUONG CONG HIEU

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LE HONG LAM

Sinh năm 1977. Tốt nghiệp khoa Báo chí, trường ĐH Quốc gia Hà Nội (1999) Đã có hơn 20 năm làm báo với vai trò phóng viên, biên tập viên văn nghệ và thư ký tòa soạn báo, tạp chí. Cộng tác với những tờ báo, tạp chí lớn trong và ngoài nước. Cộng tác viên của một vài LHP Quốc tế. Được mời tham dự một số LHP Quốc tế (Berlin, Bangkok) và một số workshop điện ảnh trong và ngoài nước. Hiện là nhà báo tự do và nhà nghiên cứu điện ảnh độc lập. Tham gia thỉnh giảng khóa Cảm thụ điện ảnh, Điện ảnh Việt Nam cho ĐH Hoa Sen và Trung tâm TPD.

Tác giả của 6 cuốn sách đã xuất bản:

  • “Xem chữ Đọc hình” (Phỏng vấn, Phê bình Văn chương & Điện ảnh) (2005)
  • “Chơi cùng cấu trúc” (Phê bình Điện ảnh) (2011)
  • “Cánh chim trong gió” (Tản mạn Điện ảnh) (2016)
  • “Sự lưỡng nan của tình thế làm người” (Phê bình, Tiểu luận Điện ảnh) (2018)
  • “101 bộ phim Việt Nam hay nhất” (Tuyển chọn, phê bình) (2018)
  • “Người tình không chân dung” (Biên khảo về Điện ảnh miền Nam Việt Nam từ 1954-1975) (2020).

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HUY DO

Huy Do started his career in the Silicon Valley at global law firms specializing in cross-border matters for multinational corporations, handling both corporate transactions and dispute resolution, including trying jury cases to verdict. His work with Silicon Valley technology companies attracted the attention of tech startups and he was seconded to work for several companies negotiating deals primarily involving corporate, contract, intellectual property, and securities laws. On the creative side, Huy has worked with different creative constituents around the world to finance, produce, commercialize and distribute creative works. He has traveled extensively representing clients in Europe and Asia. Eventually he joined his clients and co-founded several tech startups, including a talent app, and later transitioned into senior executive investment roles.

Huy has a passion for good stories and even greater affinity for great story-telling. He co-founded his first creative company featuring two fictional child characters with special powers derived from zodiac signs. As the Managing and Production Editor, he co-developed and directed the publication and distribution of a children’s storybook to local schools and libraries. While in law school he served as an editor on Law Review and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law and Social Challenges, a scholarly journal he co-founded.

In 2001, after returning from his first trip back to Vietnam in 2000, he and other Vietnamese-American professionals founded a global network to support Vietnamese tech entrepreneurs. This network expanded and eventually reached Vietnam in 2008, now known as SAVVi Code. The organization’s signature event is TECx, which celebrates the convergence of technology and the creative arts, namely film, and music.