Annette Werth is an Italian engineer and researcher passionate about technologies that can help to accelerate the adoption of renewable energies and prevent climate change. She worked on Energy Group at Sony CSL Paris and before that at CSL Tokyo, always looking at microgrids. Her last research focused on off-grid microgrids in collaboration with startups such as Okra in the Philippines and SOLshare in Bangladesh. She also worked in, or with, utilities and was a founding member of the startup TRENDE Inc, an online retailer offering free roof-top solar subscriptions in Japan. She holds a PhD in Systems Innovation department from the University of Tokyo, where she is still acting as a visiting researcher.