The Art of the Presentation
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Artificial Intelligence Innovations

Jerry Weissman Founder, Power Presentations, Ltd.

Jerry Weissman is the world’s number one corporate presentations coach. His private client list reads like a who’s who of the world’s best companies, including the top brass at Yahoo!, Intel, Intuit, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dolby Labs, Netflix and many others. He is the author of the bestselling Presenting to Win: The Art of Telling Your Story, In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions and The Power Presenter. Mr. Weissman founded Power Presentations, Ltd. in 1988. One of his earliest efforts was the Cisco Systems IPO roadshow. Following its successful launch, Don Valentine, of Sequoia Capital, and then chairman of Cisco’s Board of Directors, attributed “at least two to three dollars” of the offering price to Mr. Weissman’s coaching. That endorsement led to more than 500 other IPO roadshow presentations that have raised hundreds of billions of dollars in the stock market. Mr. Weissman’s focus widened from coaching IPOs to include public and privately held companies. His techniques have helped another 500 firms develop and deliver their mission-critical business presentations.

Sebastian Thrun Founder, Google X

Sebastian Thrun is a Google VP and Fellow, and a Research Professor at Stanford University. He has published over 370 scientific papers and 11 books, and he is a member of the German Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in the US. Fast Company named Thrun the fifth most creative person in business, Fortune Magazine included him in their list of the smartest people in tech, and Popular Science honored him as one of their "Brilliant Ten". In 2011, Thrun won the Max Planck research award.