Vikas Kashyap is Founder and Director of Lead ventures Limited, which is an independent consultancy on Technology & Business Transformation for companies in the utilities and Smart Cities space. Vikas has extensive domain experience with Utilities, Energy management and Smarts (Homes / Grids /metering / lighting / IOT) across many geographies spanning over 32 years. Vikas has been associated with some specific AMI / SMART meters / Smart city / Prepayment projects like Tata power Mumbai, Mysore (Karnataka), Meerut (UP), UGVCL, Beijing China, Accra Ghana, UK Smart meter roll out for electricity & Gas, UK Smart Heat & Electricity metering. Previously Vikas has held the positions of VP at Cyan Connode UK.