STORYTELLERS
VICKY GIAP
General Manager,
Story Co.
VICKY GIAP
Vicky Giap is a creative manager based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. She is a globe-trotter, having lived in England, Austria, the US and Singapore. She currently serves as General Manager for StoryCo, a tech-enabled production studio specializing in comic-to-video adaptations.
Vicky graduated from VinUniversity in 2024, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of VinMagazine, helping publish print issues and the book “Từ Điển 202X”, with 2000 copies published. She has served as MC for Vietnam Television’s program Zlife, and other events by VinFuture Prize, Vingroup, VinUniversity and USAID. In 2023, she was nominated for the WeChoice Awards in the category “Z-Face: Inspiring GenZ Figures.”
A storyteller at heart, she’s passionate about building creative systems that empower artists to thrive in the digital age.
StoryCo is a collaborative storytelling platform and production studio that uses a community-driven, blockchain-enabled approach to develop multimedia story franchises.
StoryCo is building a new model for entertainment creation, allowing writers, artists, musicians, and fans to contribute creatively to narratives and earn a financial stake in the underlying intellectual property (IP).
StoryCo was founded in 2022 in the USA.
THANH HOANG
Country Manager,
Locket Labs
THANH HOANG
Thanh Hoang builds and scales technology that empowers young people.
She is currently the Country Manager of Locket Labs, a social app backed by Sam Altman and Nikita Bier.
Before this, she was the Founding GTM at Arrowster, taking its AI-enabled global education platform from concept to $1M in revenue.
Thanh spent four years shaping Vietnam’s youth startup ecosystem at UpYouth—eventually becoming President and launching the country’s first student-led incubator, later featured in Forbes Asia.
She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (Early Admit) and studied business and social sciences at VinUniversity and Cornell University.
Locket Labs is a software company that developed the Locket Widget app, which allows users to share live photos with a small group of close friends directly on their phone's home screen. The app functions by displaying a widget with live photos from selected friends, creating a more personal and intimate way to stay connected compared to traditional social media. The company was founded by Matt Moss in 2022 in the US.
Locket Labs is particularly popular among GenZ.
CURATOR
Irene Öhler - Founder of Lightpath Leadership, is passionate about leadership development and women's empowerment. Irene has more than 20 years of international experience in HR development, having worked with Fortune 500 corporates and governments in Europe, China, Brazil, New Zealand, and Vietnam as an executive coach and consultant, Her mission is to ignite leadership and support organizations to nurture talent, through executive coaching and delivery of programs designed especially for female executives.
Since her arrival in Vietnam in 2012, Irene has become a sought-after expert in Vietnam for her work to promote women's leadership. she is the co-author of a best-selling book on Vietnamese women leaders, Ba Trieu's 21st Century Daughters, Stories of Remarkable Vietnamese Women. She also curates the unique live event series, the Women's Storytelling Salon in Hanoi and HCMC.
Since 2014, Irene has organized 36 Women's Storytelling Salons in Hanoi, HCMC and Danang as well as tailored SALONS for Flinders University's Women's Leadership Development Programmes.
