Andres Carvallo is the founder and CEO of CMG Consulting LLC a.k.a. 512CMG, a strategic planning and advisory firm focus on Smart Grids, Smart Utilities, Smart Cities, and Smart Buildings. Carvallo is known as the “Godfather of the smart gridâ€' for designing and building the very first smart grid in the US at Austin Energy, the author of “The Advanced Smart Gridâ€' and has published 48 titles in Power Engineering, Telecom/IoT, and Building Technologies. Carvallo has received 36 industry awards since 2005. Carvallo has held c-suite and senior executive roles at Austin Energy, Philips Electronics, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Borland, and six IoT, telecom and Internet startups. Carvallo is a former EE professor and fellow and Texas State University. Carvallo started his career as a Windows Product Manager at Microsoft in Redmond, WA. At Austin Energy, Carvallo was the CIO/CTO and led a storied $4billion deployment of technology, in 2,500 projects, with a 98% on-time and on-budget transformat