Zarko Sumic

Zarko Sumic, Ph.D., is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner, where he provides innovative strategic and operational advice to Gartner utility clients using his extensive IT leadership and business experience. With more than 40 years of IT experience in academia, the energy utility industry and technology providers, Dr. Sumic is an established leader in applying IT and OT in the utility sector. His coverage areas include new energy provisioning business models and digital transformation of the utility sector, the impact of IoT on technology convergence in the utility sector, and consequent implications on utility IT organizations and application portfolios. Dr. Sumic leads Gartner Smart Grid research, covering technologies and business processes with implications on utility infrastructure modernization, customer engagements and back-end processes, such as meter-to-cash.