Andres Carvallo is an award winning engineer, speaker, author, and executive. Andres is globally recognized by the IEEE as one of the early developers of the smart grid concept and technology. Andres defined the term smart grid on March 5, 2004. Andres championed Austin Energy's industry leading smart grid program design and implementation from 2003 – 2010 and he also architected the Pecan Street Project in 2009, while leading a total utility process and technology transformation and invested and built over $4billion in generation, energy storage, and microgrid projects. Andres co-author the best selling book “The Advanced Smart Grid”. Andres has received 34 industry awards since 2005 for his contributions and successes and he is a popular speaker and guest lecturer.