🔗 Connecting knowledge🤝 Inspiring collaboration🌱 Shaping a sustainable future

📅 5 MAY 2027   |  📍 HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

Hosted by Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance (UEF)
Celebrating UEF’s 20th Anniversary

Digital transformation is reshaping how we work, learn, govern, and connect. Yet progress demands more than technological advancement: it calls for knowledge that informs action, institutions that earn trust, and opportunities that reach across communities.

The International Conference on Development and Integration in the Digital Era (iCDID 2027) provides an interdisciplinary forum to explore these connections. Hosted by Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance (UEF) on 5 May 2027 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the conference brings together researchers, educators, industry professionals, experts, and students from Vietnam and around the world to share research findings and explore responses to the challenges of development and integration.

Marking UEF’s 20th anniversary, iCDID 2027 celebrates a milestone by looking forward: strengthening international academic exchange, building research partnerships, and connecting scholarly inquiry with the needs of business and society.

🔗 CONNECTING DISCIPLINES, ADVANCING SHARED PURPOSE

iCDID 2027 connects research with practice, digital innovation with sustainable development, and international integration with human well-being. Across its programme, the conference asks not only what digital transformation can achieve, but what it should achieve and for whom.

🧭 CONFERENCE THEMES & CONNECTING RESEARCH TO A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Three interconnected thematic clusters bring disciplinary depth into a shared conversation:

          01 | Economics, Business, Finance and Innovation

Exploring digital transformation, strategic management, marketing, financial innovation, international business, entrepreneurship, and           innovation-oriented education to strengthen competitiveness and create sustainable value.

          02 | Governance, Policy and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Examining law, public policy, the digital economy, sustainable supply chains, data and artificial intelligence, ESG communication, and international cooperation for responsible innovation and inclusive, green development.

          03 | Language, Culture, Education, Tourism and Human Development

Connecting applied linguistics, educational technology, intercultural communication, cultural innovation, tourism and hospitality, and socio-economic development to enrich learning, strengthen communities, and expand human potential.

Together, these themes connect economic opportunity with institutional responsibility, technological capability with human needs, and global engagement with cultural diversity.

🤝 FROM RESEARCH EXCHANGE TO LASTING COLLABORATION

Plenary presentations, parallel thematic sessions, poster presentations, and academic networking will offer opportunities to exchange evidence, test ideas, and build connections across disciplines. A plenary discussion on research collaboration, publication, and knowledge transfer will help participants identify shared interests and opportunities for continued cooperation.

With academic integrity and peer review at its core, the conference will select eligible accepted papers for proceedings with an ISBN. Outstanding contributions may be recommended for consideration by the Journal of Development and Integration (JDI) or other associated journals, subject to their editorial and review requirements.

✨ AN INVITATION TO SHAPE WHAT COMES NEXT

As UEF celebrates two decades of development, iCDID 2027 looks ahead with an invitation to those who seek not simply to understand change, but to help shape its direction.

📍JOIN US IN HO CHI MINH CITY to contribute your research, encounter fresh perspectives, and connect with a community committed to knowledge that serves society.

🌱The conversation begins at the conference. 

Its value lives on in what we do together.