Toby Bowers is Vice President of Commercial Cloud & AI Marketing at Microsoft, based in the Seattle area. With over 20 years at the company, he leads market strategy across Microsoft's Cloud and AI product portfolios, including business and technical audience marketing, global events, and partner ecosystem engagement. He is the architect of Microsoft's 'Frontier Firms' initiative - a framework identifying and showcasing organizations reimagining their operations through AI - and was a driving force behind the ISV Connect program that grew to 700+ independent software vendors. A prolific blogger on the Microsoft Cloud Blog, Dynamics 365 Blog, and Power Platform Blog, Bowers is one of Microsoft's most visible voices on AI-driven enterprise transformation.
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.