Deck:
Patrick Schwerdtfeger, futurist
Author Bio:
Steve Mitnick is Editor-in-Chief of Public Utilities Fortnightly and author of the book “Lines Down: How We Pay, Use, Value Grid Electricity Amid the Storm.”
The keynote speaker for the Summer Conference of the Association of Energy Services Professionals, on August 29 - 31 in Toronto, was Patrick Schwerdtfeger, a business futurist specializing in technology trends including artificial intelligence, Fintech, blockchain and social media. Schwerdtfeger has lectured at Purdue and Stanford Universities, is a regular speaker for Bloomberg TV, and hosts a video blog with over twenty thousand subscribers and four million views on YouTube.