“Leaders Inspiring Leaders” back with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as he tackles Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and The Future of Technology for Filipinos! – Orange Magazine

MMI Live is proud to reveal an online event featuring the co-founder of Apple and New York Times very popular author, technologist, futurist, humanist, and acclaimed business speaker, Steve Wozniak.

Dubbed as LEADERS INSPIRING LEADERS, this virtual fireside chat will include Wozniak, along with Filipino magnate– Ernest Cu, President & & CEO of Globe Telecom; and Tommanny Tan, President & & CEO of Filipino Business Owners and Resources Network International (i-fern). The webinar is on December 1, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. via www.beacons.media.

Steve Wozniak is understood as a Silicon Valley icon, an innovation business owner, and a philanthropist for more than forty years. He has actually helped shape the computing market with his style of Apple’s first line of items the Apple I and II and has actually also affected the popular Macintosh. Together with Steve Jobs in 1976, they established Apple Computer system Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I desktop computer. The list below year, Wozniak presented his Apple II desktop computer, including a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. Thus, making Apple II integral in launching the desktop computer market. He is listed as the sole inventor on four Apple patents.
In 1981, Wozniak went back to UC Berkeley and completed his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. To date, Wozniak has received 10 Honorary Doctor of Engineering degrees. In May 1982 and 1983, Wozniak established the business Unuson, an abbreviation of “unify us in tune”, which sponsored two United States Festivals. Initially meant to celebrate progressing technologies, the celebrations wound up as an innovation exposition and a rock celebration as a combination of music, computer systems, tv, and people.

For his achievements at Apple, Wozniak was granted the National Medal of Technology by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators. Came 2000, Wozniak was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment for solitarily designing the first desktop computer and for then redirecting his long-lasting enthusiasm for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of enjoyment for education in grade school trainees and their instructors.

Through the years, he has been included in numerous organization and philanthropic ventures, focusing mostly on computer system capabilities in schools and stressing hands-on, experiential knowing that motivated imagination and innovation by trainees. Making considerable investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak then adopted the Los Gatos School District, supplying students and teachers with hands-on teaching and contributions of cutting edge innovation equipment.
He likewise established the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. In 2014, he was awarded the Hoover Medal, a distinguished honor offered for “impressive extra-career services by engineers to humanity,” and was inducted into the Industry Week Production Hall of Popularity and received the Legacy for Children Award from the Kid’s Discovery Museum of San Jose in 2015. The Tradition for Kid Award honors individuals whose tradition has actually considerably benefited the learning and lives of children. The Cal Alumni Association (UC Berkeley’s Alumni Association) presented him with the 2015 Alumnus of the Year Award.

Wozniak is the author of iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon (Norton Publishing), his New york city Times best-selling autobiography. His television appearances consist of ABC’s Dancing with destiny, The Big Bang Theory, My Life on the D List, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Conan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Celebrity Watch Party.

Wozniak continues to pursue his entrepreneurial and humanitarian interests to this day. In October 2017, Wozniak co-founded Woz U– a postsecondary education and training platform focused on software application engineering and technology development. He has likewise recently co-founded Efforce– which leverages diverse applications of blockchain innovation.

Make sure to see the special virtual fireside chat with Steve Wozniak on December 1, 2020, hosted by popular company reporter, Roby Alampay, brought to you by MMI Live.

Tickets are priced at PhP1680. For more information, you might go to www.smtickets.com and www.beacons.media or at (+63 )917 5301047.