Growing up, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri spent four months each year on a remote family farm in the mountains outside Bogotá, Colombia, where she spent halcyon days riding horseback amid dairy cattle and fruit trees. But she also understood the rigors of her rural setting, which had no electricity for many years. Through those experiences on the farm, she found her calling: solving energy problems for human and planetary good.
Last year, Patiño-Echeverri joined forces with Jesko von Windheim, Chair of Business and Environment, to launch GridSeer, an AI-driven software and analytics platform designed to improve energy system management through smarter forecasting and robust risk analysis. The aim is to optimize how energy supplies meet demand.
