Over the past few months, we've stepped away from the keyboard long enough to get into rooms with people — and those rooms have been more useful than almost anything we've built this year.
Two events worth recapping: a tech meetup and an AI legal seminar, both in Da Nang. Here's what happened, what we learned, and where we're headed next.
The Tech Meetup
The tech meetup was straightforward — a gathering of developers, founders, and operators in Da Nang who are actively working with AI tools. No slides, minimal agenda. We wanted an honest conversation about what's actually working and what isn't.
The themes that kept surfacing:
- Most teams are using AI daily, but almost entirely in chatbot mode — copy, paste, edit. The jump to workflow-level automation hasn't happened yet.
- Local talent is catching up fast. The gap isn't knowledge anymore; it's tooling and framework adoption.
- There's a real hunger for practical, grounded content. Not another "AI will change everything" pitch — specific systems, specific results.
We talked about what we've been building internally — including the Konductor workflow framework — and the response was less "wow, cool tech" and more "how do we actually implement this?" That's exactly where we want the conversation to be.
AI in Business: Operations & Legal (10 April 2026)
On the afternoon of 10 April 2026, Alpha Bits partnered with Luật Tâm Phúc to run a focused workshop — "AI in Business: Operations & Legal" — at KDI Edu (Trần Quý Kiên), with around 30 senior managers and business owners in the room.
Lawyer Đỗ Đặng Hồng Tâm opened with the legal practitioner's perspective: AI can draft, summarise, and search — but legal responsibility, strategic judgment, and navigating grey areas remain firmly human. The case studies she shared weren't hypothetical. They were live situations from the firm's actual files, involving businesses that looked a lot like the ones in the room.
Kent Nguyen (Alpha Bits) followed with a breakdown of 5 levels of AI automation — from basic data aggregation up to multi-agent orchestration — and a live demo of a fully automated event management workflow: creation, registration, QR issuance, post-event survey, and report generation, all without manual intervention. The discussion on deployment models and cost structure (CAPEX/OPEX) drew the most questions.
The line that ended the session: "Tools will change. Knowledge will remain. Context is everything." The hard part of adopting AI isn't picking the right tool — it's changing how you work.
What We Learned
After both events, the pattern is consistent: people are using AI, but they're not building with it.
There's a meaningful difference. Using AI is prompting a chatbot to summarise your meeting notes. Building with AI is having an autonomous agent that monitors your order pipeline, flags anomalies, and routes them to the right team member — without you touching it.
The gap between those two is what we're trying to close. Not with more demos. With practical systems that businesses can actually adopt and maintain.
What's Coming: Da Nang Seminar Series, May 2026
We're planning a structured seminar series in Da Nang in May 2026. The format will be more hands-on than a typical talk — smaller groups, working systems, actual implementation.
Planned topics:
- AI for operational leaders — moving from chatbot usage to workflow automation inside your business
- Automating online operations — practical AI for eCommerce, order management, and customer communication
- AI and the law — what Vietnamese businesses need to understand before they rely on AI decisions
We don't have fixed dates yet. If you want to be notified when registration opens, register your interest here. We'll reach out directly via email with details before any public announcement.
More from our event series: AI Workshop for Operational Leaders covers the full breakdown of our Shopee team workshop earlier this year.