The Smart Grid in China, 2012-2016: Markets, Technologies and Strategies

Kamil Bojanczyk is a researcher and consultant in smart grid technologies. His engagements include Cornell University, GTM Research, Tokyo Electric, and Wireless Glue Networks. Kamil worked for over two years as a research engineer in the Energy and Environment Research Lab at Cornell University, where he led a team to work on projects including a real-time pricing mechanism with renewable energy for Verizon Wireless, a home energy management system demonstration, and a vehicle-to-building project with GM and OnStar, utilizing the Chevy Volt. He received research funding from Verizon Wireless and the Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS). Prior to Cornell, Kamil worked at Barclays Capital for a year as a technology analyst in equity derivatives and at Wireless Glue Network, where he worked on home area network applications. Kamil’s independent consulting work includes a demand response assessment of the U.S. market for a major international meter vendor, advising an investment bank on clean technology investments, and bringing a small (30MW installed) European solar developer to America.

Kamil is an active board observer at the MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City. He is also involved with the NYSERDA-funded Energy InfoTech NYC group. Kamil consults for New York tech startups and ran the highly successful TEDxBigApple Disruptive Innovation event in New York this past February. Kamil graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Biological and Environmental Engineering.

David Leeds directs the smart grid research practice at GTM.  Mr. Leeds has guest lectured on the subject at MIT, Stanford, and The Wharton School of Business (University of Pennsylvania). He has been quoted as an expert by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post; his perspective pieces have appeared in a variety of publications including BusinessWeek, Power Magazine and Fortune.  He is the author of the groundbreaking report “The Smart Grid in 2010,” which has been downloaded more than 10,000 times.

An avid world-traveler, David has come into contact with many of our most pressing environmental and social challenges. His research, focused on the convergence of IT, telecom and energy networks, leads him to believe that a smarter future is possible if we can reinvent our collective relationship with energy. Mr. Leeds completed his degree in international business and finance at Trinity College at Oxford (U.K.) and the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He lives and works in New York City.