Walter Buga

Bio

Dr. Walter Buga is the CEO and founder of Arendai Inc.—a San Diego (U.S.)-based startup with offices in Łódź and Wrocław that automates factories and warehouses, preparing them to work with robots. Previously, he founded and led Arynga Inc. (based in San Diego with an office in Łódź), which was sold to Intel Corporation in 2016, generating more than a 10-fold return on investment for its investors in less than four years. He earned his Ph.D. in engineering from the Wrocław University of Technology and began his professional career at Bell Labs (AT&T/Lucent Technologies), where he developed a plan for AT&T’s successful entry into the Polish and Eastern European markets after 1989. He is an expert in telecommunications and autonomous systems, currently focusing on industrial IoT, robotics, and AI.