Julio Romero Agüero, PhD, MBA, Executive Advisor, Vice President, Strategy & Business Innovation, Quanta Technology, LLC has 27 years of experience, he provides leadership to Quanta Technology in the areas of strategy, innovation, grid modernization, distribution systems planning, reliability, resiliency, 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 and currently serves as Vice President, Membership & Image in the IEEE PES Governing Board. He has served as Chair of the 2020 and 2021 Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference – North America (ISGT – NA), Chair of the IEEE Distribution Subcommittee, Chair of the IEEE Working Group on Distributed Resources Integration, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE PES and an Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina at Charlotte.. E-mail: [email protected]