Co-founder of Apple Wozniak to come to Budapest

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc., Steve Wozniak is coming to Budapest on 30 October 2019. He is going to be the special guest at Novathon, which is a conference on banking, finance and technology.

Stephen Wozniak is coming to Budapest this October to attend a fintech conference, 24.hu reports.

Stephen ‘Woz’ Wozniak

Stephen Wozniak is an American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur. He co-founded the world’s largest information technology company by revenue and the largest company in the world by market capitalisation: Apple Inc. in 1976. He and Steve Jobs are widely recognized as pioneers of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Wozniak developed Apple’s first product; the Apple I, the first personal computer in the world. He alone designed the hardware, circuit board designs, and operating system for the computer.

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of US$ 666.66. Wozniak also primarily designed the Apple II, which is known as one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputers. Due to various reasons, Wozniak left Apple in 1985.

Apple released the first-generation iPhone in 2007, which changed telecommunication forever. Apple laid the foundations of what we now know as smartphones. In the world of smartphones, emerged a new field of technology called fintech.