Only by going to a conference to hear presentations on the future of the Internet did Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page meet Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, who later gave them an important key for monetizing search results.
"Standard mail is the best way to reach your customer," said Patrick R. Donahoe, the postmaster general, during a presentation last month on the future of the post office.
At the conference, a presentation from Brad Templeton on the future of the auto industry turned out to be a crowd favorite, in part because of the videos he showed of DARPA's robotic cars.
This article is adapted from Mr. Berggruen's presentation to the Council on the Future of Europe in Madrid on Feb. 28.
This short review summarizes the rationale of the answer given in the respective presentation at the Meeting on the Future of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM) in Längenfeld, Austria, to the question of whether or not we should monitor parameters beyond macrocirculatory pressure values.
The party's candidate came eighth with just 2% of the vote in last month's Rotherham by election - down from a 16% showing in the same seat at the general election - and its MPs recently heard a sobering presentation on their future prospects from the new chief of staff Ryan Coetzee, who cut his teeth in post-apartheid South African politics.
Bill Cosby starred last night in a special MSNBC presentation about the future of children in America.
However Moss Bros chief executive Philip Mountford said he had not expressed a wish to do so, and he was being hired after the company gave a presentation on its future plans.
He has just wrapped up his presentation to 75 computer scientists on the future of software, and the grilling begins.
I spent over an hour in a queue into the old town one evening, trying to get back from the presentation on hyperloop and the future of door-to-door transportation.
