This past weekend, I went with about 25 other UNC Kenan-Flagler MBAs to the Net Impact annual conference, which was up at Cornell in Ithaca, NY.  Over 2000 people attended the conference, which had great speakers such as GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt and Grameen Foundation’s head Alex Counts. My favorite session of the packed two-day conference was entitled, “Innovations in Electricity: The Smarter Grid of Tomorrow, Today”, and had the following three expert panelists: •     Ted Howes, Global Lead of Energy Domain, IDEO •     Cameron Brooks, Senior Director, Tendril Networks •     Michael Jung, Policy Director, Silver Spring Networks IDEO is a leading product design firm, while the other two companies are emerging firms with demand-response technologies that Read More