George Rockett talks to the engineer and entrepreneur that developed the Software Defined Power concept in 2012 and is now looking at the largest of grid scale energy solutions with his new gig, The Energy Internet Corporation.

A mechanical engineer that devoted his graduate career to renewables in the 1980s, like all good stories, Shankar's has come full circle and returns to the original energy problem, but in a different time and place. This session will explore how product development cycles and technology adoption need to accelerate to deal with the energy crisis, amongst many other things.