Prof. Luis F. Gonzalez focuses on Data Science/ AI solution research and Development for the power industry for the last 28 years. He is a key enabler and thought leader of the transformation of the power business. In his dual role at Aboitiz Data Innovation (ADI) and Aboitiz Power Corporation. His team drives the program for the deployment of AI solutions in the Generation, Distribution and Energy trading business while assuring the incubation of future Industrial AI applications for the Digital start up. Luis is also the head of applied research with ADI being the sole partner of MILA (Montreal Institute of Learning Algorithms -University of Montreal) in Southeast Asia. He is a former MD for Element AI (sold to ServiceNow in 2020) and has 25 years of experience in leading and developing AI solutions, enterprise software and digital transformation in the power industry. Is a former Chief Digital Officer of GE Power in Asia, and Senior Director for Energy and Resources at SAP APJ. He has been involved with over 50 customers in Asia Pacific, North & South America, Europe, and the Middle East. He is also a Co-founder of the AI Asia Pacific Institute, a not-for-profit research institute for the ethical deployment of learning algorithms in society. He is an Emeritus Faculty under the North Western-Kellogg and Harvard Data Science Programs at Emeritus Learning Platform, and sits on the board of the Computer Science School at La Salle university, as well as other 3 deep tech stealth startups in Singapore. He is a Post Graduate from MIT Data Science-Schwartzmann School of Computing, with an Undergrad in CUHK and University of Victoria in Computer Science, and has postgraduate diplomas for SMR Nuclear Power technologies as well as Agentic AI architecture. He sits on the advisory board for La Salle University Faculty of Computing Studies.