Let me first start of by saying a massive thank you to everyone who has been following GridTalk over the past couple of years (we are now at over 800+ subscribers which is just incredible). For those of you who have been around since Edition #1, you will remember that DTech holds a special place for us at Grid Transformation. It was at DTech 2024 where we had our very first booth at the Initiate Startup Arena and got to meet over a hundred folks from utilities, consulting fir

It is time for the second installment of Grid Talk - Watt's New in Power. Before we jump into the deep dive of the month, want to share a quick update from DistribuTECH last month. The week started off with a half day training session on enterprise DERMS implementation by Oracle and some of the industry leading personnel. In the next two and half days, on the exhibition floor, we had over a hundred a folks stop by our booth, which included utility personnel, consulting profes

Let me start of by saying a big thank you to all the folks that have signed up to my monthly newsletter (we just crossed 500 folks). I am hoping that folks find this informative as well as engaging at the same time. Since this is my first newsletter, let me layout the format for this one and the rest to follow. I will be addressing the latest topic of interest that will be broken down in more detail, then I'll share a few news stories at the bottom that will be related to tec

As 2024 has progressed (can't believe the first 7 weeks of the year are about to be over), it has been very interesting to see the rapid developments in the field of AI (GenAI, Computer Vision, ML, RAG, etc.), i.e., the latest technology that is looking to disrupt our lives. In the last year or so, AI has already had an impact on how we work and live our lives today and it is going to fundamentally change our lives in ways that we have not even thought about yet. This brings

Second City Graduation Day As someone who has been a comedy buff since I was a child and grew up on TV shows like 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' where these performers would make me laugh not on their accents or impressions but content that they would come up with on the spot. It made perfect sense for me to enroll myself in the world famous Second City Improv Program which was the home to some of the most popular and famous comedians (Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, Chris Farley,