AVSE Global and Ho Chi Minh University of Banking (HUB) are pleased to announce the 6^th Vietnam Symposium in Global Economic Issues (VSGE), The symposium will be held IN-PERSON on 27 - 28 October 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This event is formerly known as Vietnam Symposium in International Business (VSIB) and benefits from the support of De Montfort University and the Emerging Markets Society. 

The VSGE conference is broadly intended to provide a platform for academics, practitioners, researchers and policymakers from various fields to exchange knowledge and evolutions of disciplines related to international trade policy, the impacts of globalisation, the experience of countries at different levels of development and the interaction of different countries, different institutions in the global context. Participants will also have an excellent opportunity for presenting new researches, exchanging information and discussing current issues of international economics, business and finance.

Submissions are particularly encouraged (but not limited to) in the following interdisciplinary areas:

• Global Trade Conflicts: Regional Trade Redirection Dynamics
• Global Trade Conflicts: Sectoral Vulnerability Analysis
• Global Trade Conflicts: Macroeconomic Policy Responses
• Global Trade Conflicts: Long-Term Strategic Shifts 
• AI/blockchain tools for agricultural/fishery sustainable certification 
• Circular production networks 
• Localized carbon accounting frameworks for compliance with EU CBAM/ASEAN trade policies
• Climate adaptation models for Mekong Delta agriculture (salinity intrusion, flood forecasting)
• Renewable integration pathways: AI-optimized wind/solar microgrids for industrial zones
• Urban Sustainability: Smart city economics
• Urban Sustainability: Waste-to-energy systems
• Labor & Digital Governance: Skills gap analysis
• Labor & Digital Governance: Gig economy governance
• Cross-border labor migration analysis 
• AI sovereignty strategies
• Data governance frameworks for ASEAN digital trade agreements
• Economic impacts of AI
• AI and jobs
• AI and government policies 

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Submission deadline:

31 August 2025

Notification of review results:

20 September 2025

Registration deadline:

10 October 2025

Conference event:

27 - 28 October 2025

Edward Cartwright, De Montfort University, UK

Gene Grossman, Princeton University, USA

Tuan Anh Luong, De Montfort University, UK

Duc Khuong Nguyen, EMLV Business School & AVSE Global, France

Xuan Nguyen, Deakin University, Australia

AVSE Global

Ho Chi Minh University of Banking