He is currently Vice President of Technology Development and Standardization of PLN,
Indonesia. His main responsibility is to do technology assessment, standardization and in-
house innovation. Until right now, Zainal is Team leader of PLN Smart Grid implementation
(from 2016) and Team leader of Electric Vehicle infrastructure development of PLN (from
2013). He is senior lecture at Power and Energy graduate program of Institut Teknologi PLN and
Energy System Engineering graduate program of Universitas Indonesia.
He was invited to deliver speech at some conferences such Asia Coal Gasification Conference
2013 (Singapore), The Annual Gas Turbine Conference 2014 (Singapore), Gas Fired Power
Plants Conference 2014 (Singapore), Indo Coal 16th Conference 2015 (Indonesia), World Clean
Coal Conference 2015 (Indonesia), Power South East Asia Conference 2016 (Indonesia), World
Clean Coal Conference 2017 (Indonesia), GE Distributed Power Generation 2017 (Indonesia),
9th Korean Smart Grid Week - International Conference 2018 (Korea), Conference on EV
Charging Infrastructure Asia 2019 (Singapore), Asia Power and Energy Summit 2019
(Philippines), Future Grid Forum 2019 (Vietnam).
He also presented paper at some conferences such as The 20th Conference of the Electric Power
Supply Industry 2014 (Korea), International Symposium on Technology Management and
Emerging Technologies 2015 (Malaysia), 11th International Strategic Management Conference
2015 (Austria), International Symposium on Social Science, Arts and Humanities 2015
(Indonesia), The 2015 International Symposium on Frontier Theories in Management (China),
2017 IERE (International Electricity Research Exchange) - TNB Putrajaya Workshop (Malaysia),
The 18th IERE (International Electricity Research Exchange) General Meeting & Japan Forum
2018 (Japan) and IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Conference 2019 (USA).
Zainal is Board Member of Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF) and Indonesia Strategic
Management Society (ISMS). He is also associate member of IEEE Technology and Management
Society. His writing about energy, technology and innovation management is published at
some newspaper, magazines, and book. He has also published articles in peer-reviewed
journal such as International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Advanced Science
Letters, Elsevier Procedia – Social Behavioral Sciences, IEEE Xplore, and Gadjah Mada International Journal of Business.