Nestlé Vietnam AI Reinvention
Nestlé has picked their problems. Now they're looking for those who can solve them.
Bring your working AI solution to real business challenges at Nestlé Vietnam. Selected providers can connect with relevant Nestlé teams, demonstrate their solutions and explore opportunities for collaboration.
Open to working prototypes, pilots and established products that can be adapted to the challenges.
- Applications close
- 22 Nov, 23:59 ICT
- Matching Day
- 15 Dec, Ho Chi Minh City
- The opportunity
- Explore collaboration with Nestlé Vietnam
- Who can apply
- Solo builders to established providers
What this program offers
Connect with relevant Nestlé teams, understand business needs and explore how your AI solution could contribute.
Connect with Nestlé's challenge owners
Present your solution to the relevant business teams and discuss how it could address their needs.
Understand the business needs
Pre-screened applicants receive detailed briefings to better understand the challenges, requirements and context.
Opportunities for collaboration
Explore potential areas of collaboration with Nestlé Vietnam based on your solution's relevance and business fit.
Find where your AI solution fits.
Explore business challenges identified by Nestlé teams. Bring a working solution that addresses a challenge or can be adapted to solve it.
Document processing & trade compliance
What it looks like today
Delivery documents move on paper and spreadsheets before anyone can reconcile them. Import documents arrive in English and must be filed in Vietnamese, layout intact. HS codes are researched by hand, and import tax is checked by re-keying the same figures.
What good looks like
Delivery documents extracted and reconciled, translations that keep their layout, support for HS-code decisions and import-tax reconciliation. People handle the exceptions.
Bring us
- Document extraction
- Delivery-document reconciliation
- Layout-preserving translation
- HS-code decision support
- Import-tax reconciliation
Recognise one of these? Apply before 5 November to be considered for the early briefing process. Pre-screened applicants receive detailed briefings from 6 November.
Apply nowHow it works
Explore the challenges, share your solution and connect with relevant Nestlé teams to discuss potential collaboration.
Apply and screening
Submit your working solution and explain its relevance to a business challenge.
Detailed briefings
Pre-screened applicants receive detailed briefings, with an opportunity to engage with the relevant Nestlé AI Champion.
Matching Day
Shortlisted providers demonstrate their solutions to relevant Nestlé teams and discuss business needs, solution fit and potential collaboration.
Explore collaboration
Selected providers may progress to deeper discussions to assess business and technical fit and explore possible next steps.
Who we're looking for
A solo builder with a working prototype and an established provider with a product in forty markets clear the same bar: show it working, and show where.
- Solo builders
- Student teams
- Startups
- Scale-ups
- Software vendors
- Integrators
- Established providers
What you need
- A working prototype, pilot or product (the minimum requirement)
- A clear view of the data and systems it needs
- A straight answer about security and data protection
- The ability to run a pilot in Vietnam
The six questions you'll answer in the room
Answer them well in your application and you've prepared for half of Matching Day.
- How do you understand the business problem?
- What would the pilot prove, and how would we know?
- What solution do you propose?
- What data and integrations does it need?
- Where has it already been tested or used?
- What capability does Nestlé keep afterwards?
- Data protection
- System integration
- References
- Pilot-ready in Vietnam
Program Journey & Key Dates
Apply before 5 November to be considered for the early briefing process. Pre-screened applicants receive detailed briefings from 6 November.
- 12 Oct
Applications open
- 5 Nov
Early briefings
Apply before this date to be considered for an early briefing; pre-screened applicants are briefed from 6 November.
- 22 Nov
Applications close
23:59 ICT
- 27 Nov
Every applicant hears back
- 15 Dec
Matching Day
Ho Chi Minh City
Supporting activities
During applications
- Week of 19 Oct
- Info session · 45 minutes online
- 26 Oct
- Rolling screening · early applicants first
- 6 Nov
- Detailed briefings
Before Matching Day
- 23 Nov
- Finalists confirm participation
- Preparation pack issued
After Matching Day
- December
- 30-day action plans
- A named owner per match
PoCs subject to selection and approvals.
The questions you're actually asking.
Who can apply?
Anyone with a working solution, from a solo builder or student team to an established provider.
Do I need a finished product?
No. A working prototype is eligible. Show what works today, what needs adaptation and what data or integrations your solution requires.
What happens after Matching Day?
Selected providers may be invited to further discussions to assess business and technical fit and explore potential collaboration.
Is there prize money?
There is no cash prize. The program focuses on connecting solution providers with Nestlé Vietnam to explore opportunities for collaboration.
Do I need to be based in Vietnam?
No. You must be able to support a pilot in Vietnam. Matching Day takes place in person in Ho Chi Minh City.
Is there an early briefing?
Apply before 5 November to be considered for the early briefing process. Pre-screened applicants receive detailed briefings from 6 November.
Do I keep my IP?
Yes. Applicants keep ownership of their IP.
When do I hear back?
Everyone hears back by 27 November.
Will your solution be in the room on 15 December? The shortlist is taking shape—submit today for your chance to be selected.
Applications close 22 Nov, 23:59 ICT.
Apply now