Post by Minh Tran

It took some time for our marketing team at GenAI Fund to put this picture together 😂 (something AI can't do well yet) 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰. 𝟏,𝟎𝟎𝟎+ 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝟑𝟐 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬. 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦'𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 🇻🇳 24 hours from now, the doors will open at VNG Campus in Ho Chi Minh City. 1,000+ builders walk in. 36 hours of hacking begins. And on Demo Day, 32 judges will be waiting. Here's the full judging panel for LotusHacks 2026: 🔹 Gabriel Chua — Developer Experience Engineer, OpenAI  🔹 Rahul Shinde — CIO & Vice-President, Coca-Cola Beverages Vietnam  🔹 Tran Phuong Chi (Alexis) — CEO, Phong Vu  🔹 Louis Vichy — Co-Founder, OpenRouter  🔹 Thanh Nguyen — CTO, McKinsey  🔹 Thanh Nguyen — CTPO, Pharmacity  🔹 Hawkins Pham — Director, Head of VNGGames Publishing Platform  🔹 Tze Phei Tee — CIO, Wasco Berhad  🔹 Frank Luong — Founder & CEO, FAOSX.AI 🔹 Le Quang Huy — Chief E-Commerce & IT Officer, ACFC VN  🔹 Phong Nguyen — Head of Corporate Venture Capital, TASCO  🔹 TUYEN LE — Head of Robotics Research, Vinmotion  🔹 Nghi D. Q. Bui, Ph.D. — Staff Research Scientist, Google  🔹 Caroline Tran — Co-Founder & CEO, Hello Clever  🔹 Linh P. — Co-Founder, Logivan/FreightPilot  🔹 Derek Zheng — APAC Lead of Developer Relations, Agora  🔹 Chelsea O. — GTM Southeast Asia, Agora  🔹 Linh Vo — Co-Founder, Revve AI  🔹 Duy Nguyễn — Director, AI Factory Product, FPT  🔹 Nguyễn Gia Hưng — Head of Solutions Architect (Vietnam & Cambodia), AWS  🔹 Tingxi Tan — Ex-Director of Software Engineering, NVIDIA  🔹 Kai Yong, Kang (江闓荣） — Partner, GenAI Fund  🔹 Paul Ng — Founder, iGOT.AI 🔹 Nhu Tran — Account Manager, AWS  🔹 Valencia Q.. — Founder, VALSEA  🔹 Trung Huynh, PhD — Founder, Blaze AI  🔹 Duy Anh Nguyen— Co-Founder & CEO, ByteRover  🔹 Travis Fischer — Co-Founder, Hacker Residency Group (HRG)  🔹 Minh-Phuc Tran — Co-Founder, Hacker Residency Group (HRG)  🔹 Alex Nguyen — Founder, Feynman AI - Member, HRG  🔹 Daniel Nguyen — Founder, BoltAI - Member, HRG  🔹 Vineet Agarwal — Founding AI Engineer, JigsawStack OpenAI. Google. AWS. NVIDIA. McKinsey. Coca-Cola. Pharmacity. Phong Vu. FPT. VNGGames. And a wave of AI startup founders who are building right now. This is the panel. This is the room. This is the weekend. ---------------------- 📍 VNG Campus, Ho Chi Minh City  📅 March 20–22, 2026  ⏱️ 36-hour build sprint  🏆 Up to $1M in prizes See you tomorrow 👋