Dr. Julio Romero Aguero is Sr. Vice President, Strategy and Business Innovation at Quanta Technology. He provides leadership to Quanta Technology in the areas of technology and business strategy, innovation, grid modernization, distribution planning, reliability and resilience, and integration of distributed energy resources and emerging technologies. He has developed solutions in these areas for electric utilities and regulatory boards in the USA, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, he serves in the Governing Board of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) as Vice President of Chapters & Membership. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE PES and has served as Chair of the IEEE Distribution Subcommittee, Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources Integration, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, and Chair of the 2020 and 2021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference.