Shawn Chandler
Shawn is an Executive Director at Capco, leading their Western U.S. energy practice. He brings more than thirty years of experience in the energy industry focusing on grid operations, market systems, data & analytics, and IT/OT. Shawn is a frequent contributor to industry thought leadership and is a member of the GridWise Architecture Council. He has served as the Chair of the IEEE PES Smart Buildings, Loads and Customer Systems technical committee from 2015 to 2019, advancing standards for grid interaction with distributed energy resources behind-the-meter, and is a past chair of the IEEE Smart Cities steering committee contributing to the National Governor’s Association Smart States initiative, the U.S. Congressional Smart Cities Caucus, and the IEEE World Forum on Smart Cities. Shawn currently Chairs the IEEE’s P2418.5 Blockchain for Energy – Interoperability Taskforce, advancing energy industry technology interests through the application of distributed ledger systems, and also serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine as an Associate Editor.