Surpassing numerous competing delegations from leading universities nationwide, team TÔN ANH MINH—representing the Faculty of Finance and Accounting 1 at the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT)—distinguished themselves by claiming First Prize at the BizTech Hackathon 2026. Their winning initiative, AN TÂM APP, presents an artificial intelligence-driven solution designed to empower elderly demographics in managing clinical regimens and optimizing medication adherence.
From Conceptual Innovation to Practical Realization
Held from May 6 to June 27, 2026, the BizTech Hackathon 2026: Innovera, organized by the International School of Management and Economics (ISME) at the National Economics University, serves as a premier arena for undergraduates committed to technology, commerce, and innovative entrepreneurship. The competition aims to incubate tech-enabled and AI-driven solutions addressing tangible societal challenges.
Transcending the scope of a conventional ideation contest, the BizTech Hackathon rigorously mirrors the lifecycle of an early-stage startup. Delegations navigate problem discovery, product development, business model refinement, and pitching sessions before an esteemed panel comprising industry practitioners, enterprise leaders, and institutional investors. Through progressive rounds, participants are evaluated across technological acumen, market analysis, collaborative synergy, and the capacity to translate abstract concepts into viable market-ready solutions.
During the Grand Finale, finalists defended operational architectures, feasibility, and scalability profiles against incisive cross-examination. Crucially, the final benchmark required teams to demonstrate empirical value creation for end users and the broader ecosystem.
AN TAM APP: Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Geriatric Care
Team TON ANH MINH comprises Hoang Duc Ton, a Financial Technology undergraduate from PTIT, alongside Quach Thi Huyen Anh and Vu Quang Minh from the National Economics University. The team directed their inquiry toward a profound public health challenge: medication non-adherence among geriatric populations.
In response, the team engineered AN TAM APP—an intelligent, AI-integrated pharmacotherapy management platform designed to reinforce dosage schedules, track therapeutic regimens, and enhance elderly patient autonomy. Concurrently, the platform bridges users with primary caregivers and healthcare stakeholders, facilitating continuous remote monitoring, timely interventions, and assisted care delivery.
The distinguishing hallmark of AN TAM APP lies in its utilitarian deployment of deep tech for fundamental human needs. Departing from technical determinism, the initiative adopts a user-centric design paradigm meticulously tailored to elderly users, who often face steep adoption curves with emerging digital interfaces.
At the Grand Finale, the project garnered exceptional acclaim for functional utility, commercial viability, deployment feasibility, and presentation eloquence, ultimately securing team TON ANH MINH the championship title.
Empowering PTIT FinTech Talent in the Innovation Landscape
For Hoang Duc Ton, the hackathon trajectory represented both an application of domain expertise and an immersion in cross-disciplinary synthesis—a confluence where finance, engineering, strategic business, and societal imperatives intersect.
The successful collaboration with peers from the National Economics University underscores the interdisciplinary versatility of PTIT students—an increasingly vital capability within modern innovation ecosystems, where high-impact ventures invariably emerge at the nexus of distinct academic disciplines.
For Financial Technology students, competitions of this caliber establish a direct conduit between academic theory and pragmatic execution: framing systemic problems, conducting ethnographic user research, building solutions, validating feasibility, and defending value propositions before capital allocators.
The championship at BizTech Hackathon 2026 not only stands as a notable milestone for PTIT FinTech students, but also exemplifies an exemplary ethos among young innovators: that ingenuity must transcend mere novel concepts to deliver actionable, socially transformative solutions. Through AN TÂM APP, the trajectory of Hoang Duc Ton and his team illustrates that when rigorous technical discipline converges with empathetic human-centered design, technology emerges as a catalyst for meaningful societal progress.
