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Bob Befus is an entrepreneur, presentation technology innovator, and recognized expert in regulatory presentations. For most of his career, he has focused on helping medical and pharmaceutical organizations communicate complex information clearly and persuasively in high-stakes settings. He works with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies preparing for critical presentations, including FDA Advisory Committee meetings.
Bob supported his first FDA Advisory Committee presentation in July 1996 for a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee. As part of that engagement, he developed the first interactive digital display system designed specifically for an FDA Advisory Committee presentation. This technology helped the sponsor manage hundreds or even thousands of data visuals, enabling presenters to rapidly identify the information needed and display it in real time in response to questions from committee members.
Since then, Bob has continued to develop presentation technologies that improve how organizations create, manage, and deliver important scientific and business communications.
In this conversation, Bob discusses ScriptAssist, a PowerPoint teleprompter that lets presenters hold eye contact on video calls while still reading their script.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Delivery, Interviews, Presentation Skills, Robert Befus, SlideSource
This issue is about the signal lost in the noise. David Tang and I look at five metrics every CEO actually uses, cutting through dashboards that show everything and decide nothing. Laszlo Diewald explains how presentaid’s Design Checker catches brand drift before it reaches the boardroom. And Maurizio La Cava introduces the MLC Assets Portal, a single place for presentation-ready visuals that removes the usual detour through multiple stock libraries. The topics are different. The underlying problem is the same: too much friction between a good idea and a clear presentation of it.
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Ezine
Tagged as: Ezine, Indezine, News, PowerPoint
By Geetesh Bajaj and David Tang
There is a story about an airline pilot who spent twenty minutes studying the in-flight entertainment system while the fuel gauge quietly ticked toward empty. It is not a true story. No pilot would do that. But plenty of executives do the equivalent every Monday morning, absorbed in a dashboard that looks impressive and tells them nothing they can act on.
A dashboard is not a decision. It is raw material for one.
A dashboard and a decision are not the same thing. One shows you the data. The other does something with it.
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Data
Tagged as: Data, David Tang, Geetesh Bajaj, KPI
Maurizio La Cava is Co-Founder and CEO of MLC Presentation Design Consulting, the leading presentation design agency in Italy. He is the author of Lean Presentation Design, Presenting Data, Startup Pitch Presentation, and AI Fluency, and teaches pitch and presentation strategy at Politecnico di Milano. He developed the Lean Presentation Design methodology, combining lean thinking, cognitive science and storytelling to help corporate teams communicate with clarity and impact. Before founding MLC, he worked at Accenture and Ferrero International.
In this conversation, Maurizio discusses his new MLC Assets Portal.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Assets, Clip Media, Italy, Maurizio La Cava, Pictures, Templates
Laszlo Diewald has been working as a consultant for more than 10 years now. He started his career as an employee right after his study at the Technical University of Munich. Shortly after, he decided to become self-employed as a freelance consultant. In 2017, he founded his own consultancy, with a focus on large scale projects in the financial sector. In parallel, he started working on presentaid, which was finally launched in April 2022.
In this conversation, Laszlo talks about presentaid’s new Design Checker option.
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Interviews
Tagged as: Add-in, Design, Interviews, Laszlo Diewald, presentaid, Presentation Check
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