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August 12, 2026
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. In this conversation, Bob discusses ScriptAssist, a PowerPoint teleprompter that lets presenters hold eye contact on video calls while still reading their script.
You get 8 shape types plus lines as part of this Organic Shapes collection. Each of these 8 shape types have 10 variants. So you end up with 80 hand-drawn shape options! Again each of these 80 shapes have 12 brush stroke styles! Plus you get the lines and arrows in 12 brush stroke styles too. Combine all variations to end up with more than 3000 possibilities.
July 1, 2026
AKVIS provides a range of AI powered photo editing applications that make complex image enhancement tasks straightforward. AKVIS Retoucher AI 13 is designed to make photo restoration and object removal significantly easier and more accurate. The plug in uses AI powered algorithms to repair damaged areas, eliminate unwanted elements, and seamlessly reconstruct missing details in old or imperfect photos.
Explore AKVIS Retoucher AI 13, a Photoshop plug-in that intelligently restores old photographs.
Inserting a New Slide with Copilot in PowerPoint 365 for Windows
August 11, 2026
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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August 7, 2026
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. Think of it like a kitchen full of ingredients. The ingredients do not make dinner. The cook does, and only after deciding what the meal needs to be. A CEO staring at thirty trend lines is akin to someone standing in a well-stocked kitchen with no idea what to cook. The best executives have quietly figured this out. They do not ask, What can we measure? They ask, What do I need to know to make the next call? That shift, from measurement to decision, is where KPIs earn their place. Not every number on a dashboard qualifies. A KPI is the number that actually changes what you do next.
August 6, 2026
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.
August 3, 2026
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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