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Dr. Gerhard Kleineidam (Competence Network Water & Energy, Hof) is an expert in systems engineering and automation technologies. He lectures “Automation in Energy Supply” at the University of Bayreuth and operates the field test lab in the territory of the utility and DSO SWW Wunsiedel GmbH in Northern Bavaria. He has been head of the E|Home-Center at the University of Erlangen Nürnberg before, where he has done research on smart home technologies and micro power plants. He has been CEO and founder of InReCon AG (Germany), a company developing high tech solutions in automation. Previously, he was a senior manager at Infineon Technologies for semiconductor backend automation and a project manager at Siemens Automation Group, where he was responsible for managing huge turn-key automation projects. Gerhard Kleineidam is an active member at VDE and heads the VDE working group “Energy Supply 4.0” www.vde-nordbayern.de/ak-EV-40.