Laurent Schmitt has joined dcbel early January 2022 as CEO of Dcbel Europe as well as head of Utility vertical while funding Digital4Grids. He has been working for the last 25 years through the Automation, IT and Digitisation of the Power Industry. Before joining Dcbel, he was the Secretary General of ENTSO-E for the past 4 years and Global Smart Grid Strategy Leader at General Electric Grid Solutions. Laurent worked in Europe, the United States and Asia, on all sectors of the electricity value chain from power generation controls, intro trading and market, Grid management as well as DER integration and Microgrid community. Laurent has contributed to several strategic committees in CIGRE, IEC, EPRI and ETIPSnet and is now the Chair of the Digital Committee of SmartEn (the European association for Demand Side Flexibility) and represents SolarPowerEurope through the Demand Response European Stakeholder meeting. He is also convenor of the Working Group 21 of Technical Committee 57 of the IEC designing data exchange standards between Grid and Market Operators and Behind the Meter Distributed Energy Resources Laurent is French national, strong believer in the need to accelerate the Energy System transformation towards Prosumers to reach netzero ambitions by 2050. He graduated in Power System Engineering from Supélec in Paris and holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD, France.