Laurent Boinot is a Power & Utilities Industry Leader for the Americas at Microsoft. In this role, Laurent is responsible for identifying trends, opportunities and use cases leveraging Microsoft and its partners to do more with less. Prior to his current role, Laurent worked in strategy consulting across four continents and built Europe’s first Massive Open Online Course company. He recently co-authored a paper in the International Journal of Sustainable Development on AI methods applied to assessment of environmental risk for World Bank projects.  Laurent is a Chartered Accountant and earned a Master in Public Administration at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.