Barack Obama welcomed Prezi’s Chief Executive

Hungarian businessman was welcomed by Barack Obama: U.S. president met Prezi software development company’s co-founder Chief Executive Árvai Péter, and the Adobe company’s representatives because these two companies joined the ConnectED educational program. The goal of this program, announced by Obama, is to make high-speed, broadband internet and high-speed, wireless connection available to every American student within five years.

In order to spread the 21th century’s classroom technology, Adobe contributes with a software and a software license worth 300 million dollars, and Prezi with their presentation software named EduPro worth 100 million dollars. The two corporations joined the line of the ConnectED’s sponsors following Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Autodesk and O’Reilly Media.

Those community-funded schools will get Prezi’s aid which otherwise would not have the chance to obtain these technologies, said Árvai to the Hungarian News Agency (MTI). He also said: “What really fantastic in this whole thing is that from all of the big companies participating in the program, Prezi is the only one with a European background. We are very proud.”