Dr CLAUDIO LIMA

Houston | Partner

Dr. Claudio Lima is a seasoned executive, Global CTO, VP of Innovation and thought leader in advanced energy (utilities, oil and gas) and telecom/IT working with advanced technologies, new businesses and digital transformation.

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He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 1995 at UKC (England) and has Fortune 500 industry and high tech start-up experience as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and VP of Innovation, including R&D Labs, leading teams in advanced energy systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Enterprise Blockchain and AI, Smart Grid, Microgrid and Distributed and Intelligent Energy Resources (DER). He served as Vice Chair of the IEEE 2030 Smart Grid Standards, where he made significant contributions to the development of global smart grid. Previously, Dr. Lima worked as Global Smart Grid CTO of Huawei Technologies in Europe-Asia-Pacific and as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS)/ Sr Research Scientist at Sprint Advanced Technology Labs (Sprint ATL), in Silicon Valley-CA. He has set up and led global advanced research and engineering projects with collaboration in a wide variety of industries, including energy, telecom and IT/IoT. He is the co-inventor of a disruptive patent on Microgrid Energy Transactive Energy to enable new energy business models. He has more than 100+ conference keynote speaker presentations and scientific research that has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals, including 12 USPTO patent awards.

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He is Co-Chair of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)/Energy, Utility and Oil & Gas, promoting Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Machine Learning/AI and Industrial Blockchain Energy collaboration with industry partners, driving the Digital Oilfield transformation, including IoT Cybersecurity emerging technologies. He is also Co-Chair of the EPRI Energy Storage System (ESS) Procurement Working Group, working with electric utilities on the development of utility scale energy storage engineering frameworks.