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Women in Power Engineering: International Women’s Day 2022 – Live interview with Sruti Chakraborty

On the International Women's Day - 8 March - we have Sruti Chakraborty as our guest and the interview is conducted by Mazana Armstrong.

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Hosted by: Sruti Chakraborty and Mazana Armstrong

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This interview is a part of the WiPE – Women in Power Engineering rubric of the Transformers Academy. The purpose of the WiPE rubric is to highlight some female colleagues with a significant impact in our industry in order to empower all women working in our field.

On the International Women's Day - 8 March - we have Sruti Chakraborty as our guest and the interview is conducted by Mazana Armstrong.

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The discussion with Mrs. Chakraborty will include the questions such as:

·         How has the transformers industry changed over the last 10 years

·         Have these changes impacted the company

·         More about some of the asset management solutions and whether they are applicable to distribution and small power transformers

·         Customers’ expectations from digitizing condition monitoring of transformers

·         COVID19 impact on business

 

About our guest

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Mazana Armstrong

Mazana Armstrong is the Senior Manager of the High Power Lab at Powertech Labs, a subsidiary of BC Hydro. She has 25 years of professional experience in operations, maintenance, design and testing of high voltage electric power systems, specifically electrical aspects of 69 kV to 500 kV transmission systems. Mazana holds a B.Sc. from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and an M.Sc., and a Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia. She is a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia.

Sruti Chakraborty

Sruti Chakraborty is a research engineer and budding entrepreneur with a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology-Jaipur, INDIA. She is the co-founder of Seetalabs SRL, an innovative tech start-up located in Turin, Italy. She develops low-cost solutions for risk management and failure mitigation of industrial assets including power transformers. She is hugely passionate about optimizing asset reliability and reducing data complexities in transformer industry using artificial intelligence (AI). She works closely with industry partners and other organizations to improve their transformer asset management experiences. She also hosts periodic tech-talks with industry professionals on various challenges and solutions in the field of clean technology, AI, cyber-security, and smart grids.