Apple co-founder Wozniak to attend MobiFone conference

November 24, 2015 | 12:17

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In the digital century, modern technology will create competitive benefits, boosting businesses to reach out to the world. The “SMAC 2015. Connecting values - Evoking potentials” conference on December 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, sponsored by MobiFone, will open great opportunities for Vietnamese businesses to meet up and discuss about the future technology with Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Steve Wozniak

Vietnamese business held back by techno-limitations

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2014 report, Vietnam’s technology level ranked 99th out of the 144 examined countries. The World Bank’s “Review of Science, Technology and Innovation in Vietnam”, published at the end of 2014, also showed that the scientific and technological systems of Vietnam were still weak. This is a warning about the urgency of reforming and implementing new technologies in businesses.

Besides, due to being technologically impaired, lots of enterprises have missed opportunities to take part in foreign-funded investments. According to the World Bank’s report, the limitations on engineering and technology can lead to poor performance, unstable productivity, and therefore, constrains enterprises’ competitiveness. In other words, in several circumstances, engineering and technology are the barriers for Vietnamese businesses to reach out to the world market. In order to enhance the competitiveness of enterprises in particular, and the country in general, innovation in technology is a must.

Currently, many Vietnamese enterprises are expressing interest in implementing modern technology, such as the Cloud and Big Data, to manage their operations and process customers’ data. The Big Data and Cloud are continuously considered as valuable tools to improve performance, reduce costs, enhance security, and control the businesses simply yet effectively. However, it is undeniable that a lot of companies are still utterly confused about how to approach or apply these technologies in their business operations.

SMAC 2015: Connecting values, evoking businesses’ potentials

Understanding entrepreneurs’ worries and hoping to support Vietnamese businesses to enrich their IT capabilities, leading Vietnamese telecommunications company MobiFone will organise the conference themed “SMAC 2015. Connecting values – Evoking potentials”. This conference is a great opportunity for Vietnamese entrepreneurs to pick up on the latest trends in technology development around the world, as well as to meet up and share experiences on implementing new IT solutions (such as the Big Data and the Cloud) in management and business.

As a highlight, the conference will take place with the participation of Apple’s co-founder, Steve Wozniak, who is considered one of the most iconic figures of Silicon Valley, pioneering the computer industry by developing the first Apple computer. At the event, Steve Wozniak will deliver a speech about the latest trends in technology and comment on their impacts on the future of business. The conference will also welcome several leaders of top telecommunication companies, like IBM and MobiFone, as well as leading advisory-services firm KPMG.

With the vision of building a superior business community that can implement new technological trends at a moment’s notice, such as social, mobile, analytics, and cloud into management and operation, MobiFone expects conferences like SMAC 2015 to become dynamic forums for Vietnamese entrepreneurs to approach the world’s leaders, to update and to achieve world standards via the prompt application of IT solutions.

For more information, please visit mobibiz.vn

For ticket information, please contact: 08.7300.7998 / 0901.323.665

Steve Wozniak

A Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than thirty years, Steve Wozniak has helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple’s first line of products, the Apple I and II, and influenced the popular Macintosh. In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced his Apple II personal computer, featuring a central processing unit, a keyboard, colour graphics, and a floppy disk drive. Apple II played an integral role in launching the personal computer industry.

In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy, and Employment for single-handedly designing the first personal computer and redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fires of excitement for education in grade school students and teachers.

Wozniak is Chief Scientist at Primary Data and is a published author with the release of his New York Times bestselling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon by Norton Publishing. For his achievements at Apple, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honour bestowed on America’s leading innovators. In 2014, he was awarded the Hoover Medal, a prestigious honour given for “outstanding extra-career services by engineers to humanity,” and was inducted into the IndustryWeek Manufacturing Hall of Fame.