Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the brain behind the company’s very first computers, will attend a tech conference slated to take place in Ho Chi Minh City early next month, local media reported.

The American inventor, electronics engineer, and computer programmer will be the keynote speaker at the event on December 2, where he is expected to talk big data and cloud computing, according to newswire VnExpress.

Executives of many leading Vietnamese tech firms will join the Apple co-founder at the event intended to help enterprises enhance their business through technology adaption.

The conference will provide the business community with a chance to hear about global trends in technology and about ICT (information and communications technology) solutions in business administration, according to tech website ICTNews.

In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer and a year later the Apple II personal computer, which was integral to the birth of the personal computer industry.

In 2000, Wozniak 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.

The award also honored Wozniak for redirecting his lifelong passion for mathematics and electronics toward lighting the fire for education in grade school students and their teachers.

Wozniak currently serves as the Chief Scientist for Primary Data and is a published author with the release of his New York Times best-selling autobiography, “iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon.”

The 65-year-old has been a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for more than 30 years, according to Reuters.

The Apple I sparked a revolution in home computing and laid the foundation for the company to become one of the world’s top tech firms today.

An Apple I computer, believed to be one of the first batch of 50 such machines assembled by Wozniak in Steve Jobs’ family garage in Los Altos, California in the summer of 1976, was last year sold for US$905,000 at an auction in New York, according to Reuters.

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