Biren Gandhi is an Associate Partner at IBM, he leads and manages global advisory consulting practice of Industry consultants in the Work and Asset Optimization and the power generations domain. In this role he has defined IBM’s point of view, offering portfolio and solution delivery strategy (such as cognitive asset and work analytic marketplace). He manages relationship with eco-system of software and cognitive solutions partners. He has advised and worked with clients globally in the area of digital transformation (digitization of the energy value chain), Cognitive solutions, work and asset optimization, power generation business processes, OT-IT Integration Strategy, Operations and maintenance Service transformation, setup of cloud based service delivery platforms. He has been regular speaker at industry conferences and forums on the topic of digital transformation data and analysis, Wind O&M and Internet of things in the Energy and Utilities industry.