
A teenager in Greece learned to tinker with code because his father switched off the Wi-Fi. Years later, Nick Chapsas turned a London engineering career into a classroom with customers in 144 countries.

Long before AI promised to write the code, Gerardo Saborío Molina was focused on the harder problem: getting people to agree on what the code should do.
Rakesh Vartak is the CEO of WAI Technologies, a Santa Clara-based AI-powered software and Microsoft solutions company with 250+ employees and offices in the US and India. With over 30 years in IT and ITES, he leads a company building next-generation developer platforms - including AI Pundit (spec-driven AI development) and Raaghu (open-source React design system) - that promise to deliver digital transformation 3x faster for enterprises across healthcare, finance, and logistics.