Sesame Solar CEO Lauren Flanagan was a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) pioneer who worked with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs during his NeXT days. And she’s been in a leadership role at the women-focused startup accelerator Springboard Enterprises. Technology shapes Flanagan’s career.

But it was watching the harrowing conditions at darkened hospitals, nursing homes and grocery stores in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina that accelerated this entrepreneur’s most recent career update: climate-friendly, technology-enhanced “nanogrids.”

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