The World Knowledge Forum (WKF), launched in 2000, is Asia’s largest non-profit forum, designed to “bring together world leaders and share the importance of knowledge in a constantly changing world”. After 19 times, the WKF attracted more than 4,000 famous speakers, such as US President George W. Bush, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, and President of the Federal Reserve. US Janet Yellen …, attracted tens of thousands of attendees from 70 countries around the world.

This year, the 20th World Knowledge Forum bears the theme of Knowledge Revolution 5.0 – Wisdom for common prosperity ”, taking place from September 25-27, in the presence of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who shared his vision and views on Asia’s future strategy, Alibaba Group boss Jack Ma; Vice Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Wang Jia Rui, …

Ms. Thai Huong is the only representative of Vietnam invited to participate in the 20th World Knowledge Forum. In her discussion, the woman who initiated the fresh milk revolution in Vietnam shared her insights how to run a business in many areas, as well as stories that inspire listeners about the power of women who run a business.

“People often think that women doing business will face many disadvantages because they have to find a balance between career and family. But I see, being a woman, especially a mother, is a huge advantage of business women. Nothing compares to the power of a mother. The mother always wants her child to be the most caring, not to allow negligence of anything. Bringing the mother’s heart into any work will give us strength without any obstacle. In order to be successful with her business, the woman besides the efforts, behind the intellectual elements, the inheritance of technical and professional factors, needs the strength to be molded from love for my children, my family and my home. I do not encounter any obstacles when doing business. By being a mother or an entrepreneur, whichever I take care of is the mother’s heart. In TH, after food, now we move into education and health, hospitals … are all things that stem from the worry of a mother for her children. So every job gives me happiness and passion” said the TH Group Founder in response to the large number of international delegates attending the Forum.

In the evening of the same day, in the solemn atmosphere at Jangchung Arena, Ms. Thai Huong was honored to receive the Empowering Women Award. This is the most prestigious non-commercial award in Asia under the ASEAN Entrepreneur Award system. The award within the framework of this World Knowledge Forum is awarded annually to raise awareness of ASEAN as a startup center, towards establishing a stronger and stronger ASEAN and South Korea business community network. .

The Power Entrepreneurs’ Award at the 20th World Knowledge Forum was awarded to Ms. Thai Huong just a month after the Stevie Awards Organizing Committee, arguably the Academy Award in the international business world, for “people fresh milk woman “of Vietnam the title of” Innovator with innovative thinking for true happiness “. Before that, she was constantly honored by prestigious organizations: Top 50 Asian power businesswomen (2 years 2015-2016); Forbes Vietnam’s Most Influential Women 2019, Entrepreneur of the Year at the 2018 Stevie Awards, Responsible Asia Leaders of Enterprise Asia 2018, Asia-Pacific Entrepreneurs APEA’s Enterprise 2018 and the most inspirational leader of the year – awarded by IFM International Finance 2018.

In Vietnam, Ms. Thai Huong is considered an innovator for the changing nature of Vietnam’s dairy industry, helping to change the proportion of reconstituted milk powder in the dairy market from 92% in 2008 (the time before TH market entry) down to only 60% today. Considered the “finder of the golden key for Vietnamese agriculture”, she pioneered the application of high technology in agriculture to produce clean, organic and fresh food products.

TH Group with her leadership mindset, named Vietnam on the world milk map when the dairy farm set a record of “Asia’s largest high-tech application farm 2015” with the scale of herds. up to more than 45,000 cows and many high-tech highlights: Cows are worn on chips and managed by computer software (oestrus management, warning and detection of mastitis before 4 days, cow classification, reproduction , productivity and quality of milk …). The farm has an automatic, closed and computerized milking system to ensure the best milk quality control; The process of disease prevention and biosafety for cows is strictly implemented to minimize the disease for cows. Cows are bathed, listen to music to stimulate the secretion of milk to make the most pure fresh drops of milk.

TH is also a pioneer in initiating and implementing the School Milk Program – For Vietnamese stature.

In December 2018, Ms. Thai Huong was also the first person to announce the Nutrition Project for Vietnamese people, and to carry out the scale and methodical policies of the Government for 10 years, with 6 sub-projects targeting groups of people with specific nutritional needs.

In early 2019, it was she who initiated the sustainable development of dairy farming model along with farmers following the high-tech cooperative model, initially implemented in Lam Dong – through the brand Dalatmilk. This approach initiates a benefit-sharing model between businesses and farmers to win together.