Kay Aikin is the founder and Chief Product Officer of Dynamic Grid, formally CEO of its successor, complex systems research company, Introspective Systems in Portland, Maine. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, holding a degree in energy/sustainability engineering and is a systems architect and complex systems scientist. Dynamic Grid uses the study of AI/complex systems applying it to the integration of Distributed Energy Resources and grid flexibility, into the electrical grid. She is a recognized Transactive Energy expert and is a regular speaker at conferences on this topic as well as distributed intelligence in the electrical grid. She is a member of IEEE-PES, SEPA, and a member of the Grid Wise Architecture Council one of 13 members who set direction for the Department of Energy’s grid modernization and smart grid efforts, among many other industry groups.