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Praveen Kathpal is a Vice President with AES Energy Storage. His responsibilities span energy storage project development in the U.S. and energy storage market development globally across AES’ platform. Mr. Kathpal joined AES in 2007. Prior to joining AES, Mr. Kathpal was a consultant in the whole... Read more
Prof. Vijaymohan K. Pillai assumed charge as Director, CSIR-CECRI on April 24, 2012. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Dr. Pillai's research work of more than 20 years is primarily focussed on batteries, fuel cells, bio-electrochemistry, electrochemical sensors, chemically modified elec... Read more
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Dr. Rajit Gadh is Professor of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA, Founder and Director the Smart Grid Energy Research Center(SMERC) and Founder and Director of the UCLA WINMEC Consortium. He has taught as a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, has been an Assistant, ... Read more
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Mr. Rakesh Malhotra, Founder, SAR Group, carries an illustrious business background spanning close to 28 years of experience in the field of design, development & marketing of power conditioning & electronics products, telecom equipment & projects, corporate management, human resource de... Read more
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After a 35+ year career in Canadian Electric Utilities and Power Systems area, Ravi Seethapathy is now an Advisor to the Utility Industry. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto in its Energy Systems Group and sits on the Boards of Smart Grid Canada, India Smart Grid Forum, Tor... Read more
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Reji Pillai is the President of India Smart Grid Forum since its inception in 2011 and is an internationally renowned expert with over three decades of experience in the electricity sector in diverse functions covering the entire value chain and across continents. He is spearheading a mission to lev... Read more
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Rustam Sengupta is a solar energy expert with over 10 years of on-ground experience in marketing, technology and finance of both off-grid as well as on-grid rooftop systems. Founder and CEO of Boond, one of India’s leading solar energy access enterprises that originates and engineers projects in s... Read more
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Mr. S. K. Soonee has been the Chief Executive Officer of Power System Operation Corporation Limited since May 2010. He served as an Executive Director of System Operations at Power Grid Corporation of India Limited and has 30 years of work experience. He has three decades of first-hand experience of... Read more
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Sachindra Prosad Saha will be remembered among Indias industrialists not only for his pioneering enterprise, but also for his simplicity and philanthropy. The qualities were his own. Yet they were also part of Indian tradition that was forged in the crucible of the struggle for independence, of whic... Read more