MEMBER
Shar Govindan
MEMBER TYPE
Think Tank
FOCUS
Water, Digital Twins, Water Modeling, Infrastructure, and Water Infrastructure
WORK
Director of Water Solutions at Bentley Systems
CONTACT
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OFFERING
TedX Talks and content creation.
SUMMARY
Shar Govindan is the Director of Water Solutions at Bentley Systems. He has educated 1000s of people around the World on advancing infrastructure and is a TEDx Speaker (http://www.doyourhow.com). He has co-authored several publications including "Students' LinkedIn Checklist" (Amazon, 2016), “How Companies Succeed in Social Business” (Pearson, 2015), Social BOOM (Financial Times Press, 2011) and Computer Modeling of Water Distribution Systems (AWWA, 2012 and 2017). Shar served as a co-chair of TSIA’s social media round table, on Constellation’s Future of Work research panel, and on AWWA’s Engineering Modeling Applications Committee. Shar has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut and serves on their Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisory Board. He has completed the Business Foundations Specialization through Coursera from The Wharton School, Credential of Readiness program from Harvard Business School, and Project Management Mastery from Stanford University. He is a frequent speaker at learning, technology, and social media conferences, and volunteers as a judge for STEM competitions. He started the Govindan family foundation program that has awarded numerous fellowships to engineering students, hundreds of interest-free loans through Kiva.org and sponsored food grills for FeelGood.org student chapters. Shar received the PATHFINDER and FOUNDERS' awards from Bentley, earned innovation awards from CEdMA and Totango for Bentley, and was elected to the University of Connecticut's Academy of Distinguished Engineers.
ARTICLES
Imagine it is the year 2050 and that with your authorization, a quantum computer has stored and analyzed 20+ years of your daytime voice recordings. It can then create a Personal Assistant with your voice. At the basic level, it could reuse your voice and tell anyone the weather forecast, control smart home devices, play music, set reminders, and search for any information from the world wide web. But what if, at an advanced level, it could answer any question the way you would respond.