Ray Kurzweil, CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc., sits down with NAMM CEO & President Joe Lamond to explore the process of innovation.  Ray shares his remarkable perspective and ideas with the audience, and in doing so, sparks NAMM members to think how these breakthroughs can be applied to improving their businesses and relate to their future chance of success and indeed their lives.  During the Breakfast of Champions, Joe Lamond presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Ray, an American author, scientist, inventor and futurist in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments.