This year marks IBM’s 90th anniversary in Hungary, a rare milestone in the history of Hungarian companies – nine decades of history that reflect not only of technological progress, but also a sustained commitment to corporate values.
As part of this celebration, IBM Hungary’s Country General Manager, Árpád Pikéthy, reflected on the company’s journey, highlighting both its achievements and its most difficult chapters. His presentation did not shy away from difficult times: the wartime bombing of the office building, years of imprisonment in the 1950s. “Yet it was the same professional integrity, perseverance, and community spirit that carried the company forward, adapting time and again, yet remaining true to itself,” he emphasized.
Focusing on the present, the head of IBM Hungary believes that we are witnessing an incredibly exciting era, as the industrial revolutions of artificial intelligence and quantum technology are unfolding simultaneously.
Two industrial revolutions are taking place, and this has never happened before in history, thus we can be proud to be part of it.”
He emphasized that the two revolutions are not happening independently of one another, but rather reinforce each other’s impact.
“The computing and economy of the future will be shaped by bits, qubits, and neural networks, therefore, it is important for us to be present in all three areas,” he pointed out.
Fact
IBM, or International Business Machines, is a multinational technology company headquartered in the United States. The company’s Hungarian subsidiary was established in 1936. Amid the political and economic changes following World War II, it was spared nationalization from 1947 onward under the name Business Machines Corporation Magyarországi Kft. During the Cold War, it helped facilitate the technological development of strategically important state-owned enterprises by circumventing the trade embargo imposed by the COCOM list. In 1999, the company moved from the office building on Ménesi Road, built in 1986 on the southern slope of Gellért Hill, to Infopark. And since 2023, the domestic representative office has been operating on Szigony Street in the Corvin Quarter.
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