Meet October 2025: Celebrating Entrepreneurial Wisdom

"October Meeting" is an annual activity hosted by Saigon Entrepreneur Magazine in coordination with relevant units to motivate and recognize the contributions of Vietnamese entrepreneurs in general and Ho Chi Minh City entrepreneurs in particular. This year's event has the theme: "Family Business - Where Vietnamese brands originate", focusing on exploring the depth of corporate culture, inherited identity between generations of entrepreneurs, while honoring the resilience, creativity and perseverance of the family business sector in the integration journey.

The 5th "October Meeting" event - 2025 will take place with many activities. In addition to the Business and Book Week to honor business knowledge and spread the reading culture, Saigon Business Magazine will coordinate with Nguyen Tat Thanh University to organize the workshop " Ho Chi Minh with businesses and businessmen - From memories to aspirations to rise up". This is a special occasion to look back at the role of businessmen in the revolutionary flow, originating from the first steps of President Ho Chi Minh at house number 5 Chau Van Liem (HCMC) of Lien Thanh Branch, where he was supported by patriotic businessmen.

An important highlight of this year's event is the writing contest "Family Business - The Origin of Vietnamese Brands" launched for the first time, aiming to recognize, spread and honor typical private brands, symbols of national spirit, sustainable development and business families and clans that have created typical private brands, contributing to the glory of the country and arousing pride, entrepreneurial spirit, innovation and inheritance in the Vietnamese business community.

Looking back at the 4 times of organizing "October Meeting", Mr. Tran Hoang, Editor-in-Chief of Saigon Entrepreneur Magazine, said that books and reading culture are the common responsibility of the whole society. Saigon Entrepreneur Magazine responded to the reading promotion activity by choosing a niche path of books for businesses and entrepreneurs. It is easy to see that since 2020, when the "October Meeting" event began to be organized, the spirit of entrepreneurs writing books has been widely spread, attracting the attention and participation of many entrepreneurs across the country.

“In some universities, books by foreign businessmen are often used as teaching and learning materials. American or European businessmen are of course very good, but their success is not necessarily true compared to the actual situation in Vietnam. Not to mention, in Vietnam today, there are many very good businessmen, why don’t we choose books by Vietnamese businessmen to teach Vietnamese students. That is also a way to be proud of our nation, and also lessons that are close to Vietnamese students. I am happy that in the past 5 years, the movement of businessmen writing books has developed very strongly,” said Mr. Tran Hoang.

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/gap-go-thang-10-nam-2025-ton-vinh-tri-thuc-doanh-nhan-post807474.html