Dr. Walter J. Buga is a serial entrepreneur and strategic thinker with extensive knowledge of high-tech markets, products, and technologies. He is a telecommunications subject matter expert in both wired and wireless networks and technologies, who has designed large-scale systems that have been deployed throughout the world. His new experiences and passions are autonomous and connected vehicles and systems, industrial IoT, robotics, drones and Artificial Intelligence.  Walter is the CEO and founder of Arendai Inc, a San Diego based start-up focusing on the orchestration and automation of logistics centers.   Dr. Buga was a founder and CEO of Arynga Inc (based in San Diego) .Walter started Arynga in April 2012 and sold it to Intel Corporation on April 4, 2016.  Walter co-founded Proximetry, Inc., in 2005 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. Proximetry was acquired by Relayr, the global Enterprise Internet-of-Things (IoT) platform provider (relayr.io).  Dr. Buga held senior management and leadership positions at Bell Laboratories of AT&T and Lucent Technologies, in Holmdel, New Jersey.  Walter holds BS/MSEE and PhD in Technical Sciences from the Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland.