The electric utility industry is changing rapidly as it faces disruptive, emerging and innovative technologies with changing business models and increasing customer expectations that energy be sustainable in its production, transmission and distribution. Distributech will showcase these technologies. But, what about the next generation of men and women that need to deploy and use the technology, respond to new business models and meet customer demands. This panel of engineers with 10-15 years of industry experience will share their vision of the future of the grid. How will the technology be implemented and accepted? Can electric utilities compete for and retain customers if the regulatory business model changes? This younger panel will specifically address the technology of artificial intelligence, the business model of a distributed system (platform) operator with no end-use customer connection, and their opinions on working with big social media (data) companies to retain a retail customer relationship as long as possible. It will be a long-term perspective from people engaged in the front lines today.