Steve Wozniak to speak about innovation, entrepreneurship, future of tech for Filipinos | ABS-CBN News

Steve Wozniak MANILA– Apple co-founder, New york city Times best-selling author and well-known business speaker Steve Wozniak is set to headline an online event where he would deal with development, entrepreneurship and the future of innovation for Filipinos.

Installed by MMI Live, the event is called “Leaders Inspiring Leaders” which will likewise include Filipino magnate such as Ernest Cu, president and CEO of World Telecom; and Tommanny Tan, president and CEO of Filipino Entrepreneurs and Resources Network International (i-fern).

The virtual fireside chat will be streamed via www.beacons.media at 4 p.m. on December 1.

Wozniak is understood as a Silicon Valley icon, a technology business owner, and a benefactor for more than forty years. He has actually helped shape the computing market with his design of Apple’s very first line of items, the Apple I and II, and has also affected the popular Macintosh. Together with Steve Jobs in 1976, they founded Apple Computer system Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I desktop computer.

In 1981, Wozniak went back to University of California Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering/computer science. To date, Wozniak has received 10 Honorary Medical professional of Engineering degrees.

Wozniak also founded Unuson, an abbreviation of “unite us in song,” which sponsored two United States festivals. Meant to celebrate progressing innovations, the celebrations ended up as an innovation exposition and a rock festival as a combination of music, computers, television, and individuals.

For his achievements at Apple, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Innovation by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s leading innovators. In 2000, Wozniak was likewise inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was granted the prominent Heinz Award for Innovation, The Economy and Employment for creating the very first individual computer and for redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronic devices toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and their instructors.

Through the years, he has actually been involved in various business and humanitarian endeavors, focusing mostly on computer abilities in schools and stressing hands-on, experiential learning that encouraged creativity and development by trainees. Making considerable investments of both his time and resources in education, Wozniak then adopted the Los Gatos School District, offering students and instructors with hands-on teaching and donations of advanced technology equipment.

He likewise established the Electronic Frontier Foundation and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet and Kid’s Discovery Museum of San Jose.

In 2014, he was granted the Hoover Medal, a prominent honor given for “impressive extra-career services by engineers to mankind,” and was inducted into the Industry Week Manufacturing Hall of Fame and got the Legacy for Children Award from the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose in 2015. The Legacy for Children Award honors individuals whose legacy has actually significantly benefited the knowing and lives of kids. 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 specialist to Cult Icon” (Norton Publishing), his New York Times best-selling autobiography.

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 engineering and technology advancement. He has also recently co-founded Efforce, which leverages disparate applications of blockchain technology.