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Speaker: Dr. Madhav Manjrekar, Siemens The talk will start with discussing the driving factors behind transforming the power grid. After presenting a cause-effect scenario, speaker will highlight salient differences between the "grid of the past" and the "grid of the future". It will be noted that power grid of the future is expected to undergo transformation in predominantly two areas: "introducing flexible power flow" and "adding distributed intelligence".