Evan is an experienced "zero to one" technology product leader, moonshot builder, idea machine, and conservationist with a long track record of leading teams from idea to launch across several verticals. He is most passionate about biodiversity conservation, the ocean, and connecting people with nature for work and play.He originally joined Google in 2011 on the Maps team, focusing on Street View and computational photography apps for Android devices. In 2014, he moved to Google X where he rapidly evaluated moonshots. There, he founded Tidal, a moonshot using AI for aquaculture, food security, and ocean health, which spun out of Alphabet in 2024.He left Alphabet in 2017 to follow his passion for ocean conservation, becoming the founding CEO of Oceankind (a philanthropic org funded by Lucy Page) where he directed many millions of dollars of grants and impact investments (robotics, cellular agriculture, sensors, wastewater, MPA management, etc.).He then became the Senior Technology Fellow at Conservation International, where he focused a lot on nature based climate solutions and on teaching innovation best practices to the organization. In 2021, he returned to Google to lead the AI Moonshots program on the Brain team (now part of DeepMind) in Google Research. He wrapped up his Google career in 2024 by starting research projects on AI for biodiversity and nature-based climate change.Evan has taught dozens of workshops for thousands of people about innovation and "moonshot thinking" to turn ideas into reality. He has spoken at the United Nations, worked closely with C-level exec's at Fortune 100 companies and the world's largest foundations and non-profit organizations, advised former Presidents, mentored at the Stanford Lean Launchpad with Steve Blank, advised / invested in dozens of startups, and loves guest teaching in K-12 classes. At Google, he led dozens of workshops for 1,000+ new employees on how to go "From Idea to Launch" for new products.Since 2016, Evan has been on a mission to travel the world to see its most wild places while they're still relatively intact. His adventures have taken him to Kenya to volunteer in wildlife conservation, the jungles of Gabon (for gorillas and elephants), the plains of South Africa, and the forests of Colombia, Panama, and Sulawesi. He's dove with manta rays, sharks, sea turtles, and more(!) in Hawaii, French Polynesia, Fiji, and Raja Ampat. He ventured to a remote island in Tonga to swim up close with humpback whales and off the coast of Mexico to swim with dozens of whale sharks.