Andres Carvallo

Andres Carvallo is the CEO and founder of 512CMG, a digital transformation company focus on Smart Grids, Smart Utilities, Smart Cities, and Smart Buildings. Carvallo is known as the “Godfather of the smart grid” for designing and building the very first smart grid in the US at Austin Energy, the author of “The Advanced Smart Grid” 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, six IoT, telecom and Internet startups. 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 and transformation, in 8 years, 2,500 projects, with a 98% on-time and on-budget from 2003 to 2010. Carvallo is a former fellow and professor of innovation in the College of Science and Engineering at Texas State University. Carvallo received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree from The University of Kansas with a concentration in Robotics and Control Systems. And Carvallo also has received post-graduate certificates in Business Management from Stanford University, in Quality Management from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, and in Power Utility Management from The University of Idaho. Website: https://512cmg.com/