An experienced industry professional with over two decades of international experience inbusiness, financial, regulatory/policy, operations and technology aspects of the energy andutility sector, Anant Venkateswaran serves on several technical, standards, advisory and tutorial committees and is a teacher,presenter,panelist,moderator and speaker at international venues including Distributech, isuw, IEEE and CIGRE. Anant has worked with utilities and energy companies across the globe advising them through visioning, strategy, business cases, architectures and deployment. Working across the globe, he has managed major technology investments and advised clients from visioning to validation. A senior member of the team account able for strategy,trusted advisory/consultative,thought leadership and partnerships, Anant has worked both in the traditional aspects of the grid as well new and emerging areas of AMI,Grid-Edge,Protection and Control,Enterprise Solutions,Big Data, IoT, Cloud Computing and Smart Energy. Anant is successfully conducting ISGF Master class Series since 2017 as part of India Smart Utility Week. Anant has worked with several industrial, utility & Govt. customers globally. He is based in Denver, Colorado in the USA.