Dr. Varun Sivaram is CEO and Founder of Emerald AI, which transforms data centers into AI-powered grid allies to solve the critical energy bottleneck to the AI revolution. Backed by NVIDIA, Emerald AI has been named to the 60 top AI companies by TechCrunch, 50 most promising start-ups worldwide by The Information, and 50 companies powering tomorrow by Silicon Valley Bank. One of the world's foremost authorities on energy technologies, Dr. Sivaram was formerly the Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Orsted A/S (NASDAQ: DOGEF), a $25 billion Fortune 500 Global energy firm where he led a team of 200, and he previously served as Chief Technology Officer of India's largest clean energy company, ReNew Power (NASDAQ: RNW). He served as a senior U.S. diplomat as the Managing Director for Clean Energy at the U.S. State Department, where he created the First Movers Coalition in partnership with the World Economic Forum. Dr. Sivaram is a senior fellow for energy at the Council on Foreign Relations; a senior advisor at the Boston Consulting Group, Aventurine Partners, and Everview Partners; and a board member of the Atlantic Council.

Dr. Sivaram has also served in state and local government as senior advisor to the mayor of Los Angeles and to the governor of New York. A widely published scientist and innovation scholar, Sivaram has served on the faculty of Columbia University and Georgetown University. ‍He is the author of three books, including the bestselling "Taming the Sun" on the future of solar energy. TIME Magazine named Dr. Sivaram to its TIME 100 Climate list of the most influential climate leaders in the world as well as its TIME 100 Next most influential people in the world, MIT Technology Review named him one of the top 35 innovators under 35, and the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. A Rhodes and Truman Scholar, he holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University, and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.