Chady Kharrat

Runner Up Emerging Entrepreneur Award

I'm an electrical engineer holding a PhD from the University of Grenoble and a Master's degree from École Centrale de Nantes.

I believe I deserve this award because I’ve spent my career turning cutting-edge research into real-world impact solutions. Since I was in EDF R&D and when I founded EDF Store & Forecast later in 2014, at a time when smart management of renewable energy was still an emerging idea, my entrepreneurial vision helped me not only to adapt to change but to create it. That's how I ended up founding Likewatt, with the will to push the boundaries of AI integration in renewable energy management, well before it became a market trend, and to keep challenging the status quo with my team of experts.