Vivek Chidambaram runs Accenture’s Resources strategy business globally. He specializes in large scale AI, Gen AI and digital transformations at energy clients.  Specifically, he applies systems thinking across the value chain and functional domains to drive these transformations.  His work typically focuses on value, ways of working and talent just as much as Technology platforms/AI/features.  As a result of this cross industry expertise, he is passionate about the emerging energy transition, and the potential convergence of industrial sectors (e-mobility, industrial clusters, carbon, energy system models etc.).

On these topics, Vivek is a regular speaker at major industry events (CERAWeek, PESA, SPE, CAPA, American Energy Society), and prolific developer of leading industry ideas referenced in the media and major publications.  Most recently he has been working on Accenture’s Energy System Model – a view into the inherent energy (joules) available in a region as various sectors decarbonize and the impact this will have on portfolios, ways of working, consumption patterns and operations at both energy clients.

Outside the workplace, Vivek serves as the Chairman of the World Affairs Council in Houston.  This role allows him to work with students, and on global commerce/travel and innovation in the city of Houston. Vivek graduated from the University of Michigan with an MBA and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute with an MS.  He has lived and worked in India, France, South Korea and several states in the US.  He, his wife and daughter enjoy traveling and working on causes close to education.