6–7 SEPTEMBER 2026Wyndham Hotel Golden Bay, Da Nang
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WHY IT MATTERS
TECx brings technology, entrepreneurship and investment into one focused conversation about sport, human performance and the industries forming around them—giving Da Nang a practical lens on how participation, content, intelligent hardware, health and capital can become a new economic cluster.
01Two-day programme
02Four featured conversations
0318 named speakers and leaders
04Sports technology, investment and human performance
AGENDA & CONTENT
The programme at a glance
Compiled from the official agenda and speaker directory
Welcome to TECx Da Nang
Huy Do opens the VIP programme and frames TECx as a bridge between Vietnam's sports ambition, technology builders and the investment ecosystem.
Botanical Performance Experience
A practical look at how Vietnamese botanical ingredients can be developed into contemporary wellness and performance products.
Seven Summits: Performance Beyond Limits
Vietnam's first woman to complete the Seven Summits reflects on preparation, technology, recovery, risk and resilience under extreme conditions.
Why Sports Tech? Why Vietnam? Why Da Nang?
The opening connects sports participation, national opportunity and Da Nang's potential role as a location for sports-technology companies and communities.
Sports as an Engine for Economic Growth
From IRONMAN Vietnam to a wider endurance-sports ecosystem, this conversation examines how sport can create participation, tourism, media, services and investment activity.
The Modern Athlete Journey: Technology, Family & Education
An athlete-and-parent perspective on equipment, wearables, training tools, recovery, nutrition, performance data and flexible education for elite young athletes.
From Fans to Industry: Sports Media, Content & Fan Engagement
How audience communities, sports storytelling, digital media and content products can convert participation into a durable industry.
The Intelligent Hardware Side of Sports Tech
Robotics, AI cameras and connected products turn sport into an applied market for computer vision, automation, analytics and new devices.
Investing in the Performance Economy
Investors examine the opportunity across sports technology, health, wellness, media, hardware, venues, data and consumer participation.
From Idea to Industry
Operators discuss how the next generation of sports and performance companies can progress from user insight and product development to market and scale.
Longevity, Health & Human Performance
Wearables, sleep and stress data, movement, nutrition, therapy and recovery are explored as tools for personalised performance, injury reduction and healthy longevity.
From Conversation to Action
The closing converts the forum's themes into a call for collaboration among athletes, founders, technology companies, investors, health professionals and ecosystem builders.
KEY MESSAGES
What matters beyond the stage
01
Sports technology is a cross-sector economy
The opportunity extends from equipment and participation into media, tourism, intelligent hardware, health, wellness, education, data and finance.
02
Athletes are demanding technology users
Extreme and elite performance makes product value visible: measurement, recovery, safety, personalisation and decision quality must work under pressure.
03
Da Nang has a credible location thesis
Climate, tourism, active communities, major events and a growing technology base can support testing, experiences, performance services and sports-tech ventures.
04
Industry requires more than events
A sports economy emerges when participation converts into companies, media, intellectual property, recurring customers, investable products and skilled jobs.
05
Human performance links prevention and longevity
Wearables, training load, sleep, stress, movement, nutrition and recovery connect sports technology with healthcare and healthy-city ambitions.
06
The next step is a venture pipeline
TECx can become a scouting and conversion point for founders, corporate pilots, athlete-led product validation and investment in the performance economy.
AN ECOSYSTEM PERSPECTIVE
TECx adds a distinct sports-technology and human-performance layer to Da Nang's ecosystem narrative. The strongest opportunity is not to treat sport as a standalone vertical, but as a real-world demand platform for AI, computer vision, hardware, content, tourism, health and wellness. The ecosystem value will depend on whether post-event working groups can identify test users, pilot sites, corporate buyers and investable teams.
SWISS EP
Use TECx to identify sports-tech and performance-economy founders, connect them with capable support organisations and international experts, and convert event conversations into pilots, customers, investment readiness and companies anchored in Da Nang.
