Rebecca Moore directs Google’s geospatial initiatives driving societal impact, including Google Earth, Earth Engine, Crisis Response, and Outreach. In 2017, her team launched the “new” Google Earth, reinvented for the web for the first time. She initiated and leads the development of Google Earth Engine, a cloud technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite data online and enables scientists to conduct global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes in the earth’s environment. In 2017, Earth Engine won the ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement award. Rebecca also conceived and leads the Google Earth Outreach program, which supports nonprofits, educators and indigenous communities in applying Google's mapping tools to the world's most pressing problems in environmental conservation, human rights and cultural preservation.

Rebecca’s personal work using Google Earth was instrumental in stopping the logging of more than a thousand acres of redwoods in her Santa Cruz Mountain community. She received a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence with honors from Brown University and a master’s degree from Stanford University. In 2013, Rebecca received the Zoological Society of London Award for Conservation Innovation, and was recognized by the White House as a Champion of Change for Open Science. In 2016, she was honored with the Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society.

Matt Hancher is engineering manager for Google Earth, Earth Engine, Earth Studio, and Environmental Insights. He co-founded the Earth Engine team in 2009 to bring Google’s datacenter computing expertise to bear on large-scale satellite data processing and global challenges in Earth science and related fields. In addition to managing these teams, he works in application areas ranging from deforestation monitoring to global public health. He spent his early years building robots at the MIT Media Lab, and prior to joining Google he was a researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he designed robots and processed Moon and Mars satellite data to prepare for future exploration missions.

Since joining Google’s Geo team in 2009, Gopal Shah has worked on myriad projects that share his love of imagery and storytelling. For the past three years, he’s helmed the Google Earth team as product manager. Last spring, on Earth Day, Gopal led the launch of the new Google Earth, helping bring Earth to users on modern devices. He also worked as a consultant on the Academy Award-nominated film, Lion, and co-created Earth View — a collection of 1,500 striking satellite images that have been featured on everything from flagship Android phones to the world's biggest billboard in Times Square! Throughout his career, Gopal has collaborated with the New York Times, the BBC and NASA to help bring stories to life with maps, and his team has won several awards along with way including, most recently, four Webby awards for the new Voyager feature in Google Earth. When not geeking out on satellite imagery, Gopal can be found taking photos in the mountains around Boulder or hanging with his dog Decker.

Sean is the Engineering Manager for the Google Earth team. He has a particular interest in geospatial storytelling, data visualization and empowering Earth's users to create their own maps and stories. Sean is one of the Google's resident experts on KML, previously worked on Tour Builder and was on the Google Earth Outreach team for many years. He has a background in biology and ethnobotany.

Tania Wolfgramm is of Māori / Tongan / Pacific descent. A cultural psychologist, strategist, voyager and storyteller, Tania is the founder of GRID Pacific, who in collaboration with Google Earth and Street View, aims to transform Pacific Nations and Indigenous Communities into 21st century tech powerhouses. Tania is the founder of the HAKAMANA System of Transformative Design which has been applied across health, education, creative, and technology sectors in many countries. She is passionate about showcasing the beauty and charisma of her Pacific cultures and languages, landscapes, oceans, and people to the world. An advocate of Indigenous technological sovereignty, Tania “seeks to embed and imbue Pacific values of Aroha (love), Pono (goodness), and Rangimarie (peace) into GRID Pacific’s traditional and technological experiences.”

Wikuki Kingi is a native of Aotearoa New Zealand with Hawaiian ancestry. A 26^th generation Master Carver, Wikuki is a leading world expert in Māori / Pacific symbology and design. He has an extensive history of creating artistic treasures for local and global communities, including Pou Kapua, the largest Pacific carving in the world. A Pacific voyager, Wikuki is now taking the knowledge of his seafaring ancestors into cyberspace, creating multidimensional cultural treasures in virtual and augmented reality. In his words, Wikuki “seeks to unshackle the power of creativity and innovation encoded in our DNA, releasing the “taniwha” / dragon of transformation upon the universe.”

Amanda Bishop is the Product Manager for the Geo team focused on improving gender equity. Prior to this role, she drove many new Google Maps features focused on emerging market populations, including Offline Maps. She lives on 17 acres near Seattle and is a homesteader and avid mountain biker. Amanda holds an MBA from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Doug joined Google in 2007. In 2015 he founded the plus codes project that aims to give everyone in the world an opportunity to have an address. Previously, he worked on Google Maps, automating detection of road networks and incorrect directions, and also improved the ability of transit agencies to publish their networks.

Prior to Google, Doug worked with internet technologies for companies including Mirapoint, Sun Microsystems, and SolNet Technologies.

Doug holds a bachelor's degree in commerce and administration from Victoria University, New Zealand, and lives in Switzerland.

Pete Giencke has been at Google for 11 years, starting his tenure as an engineer on the Earth team, working as a tech lead on the Google "Oceans" project. Since then, Pete has been a Product Manager on Search, launching the Public Alerts and SOS initiatives to improve public safety at scale, and working on AI and Cloud-based initiatives to improve wildfire and flood outcomes worldwide.

Erin is Geo for Everyone's User Experience Research (UXR) lead. Her goal as a UX Researcher is to deeply understand the needs, motivations and behaviors of people to help drive strategy and product decisions that are grounded in user empathy. Erin has been at Google for five years focused on creating more valuable products for the next billion users. Before Google, she worked for seven years for the design consultancy, frog design, where she helped large organizations create products at the intersection of design and technology. She is also an original author of the Collective Action Toolkit, a tool built to help empower communities to make better decisions through design thinking.

Tasso Azevedo is a consultant and social entrepreneur in the fields of forests, sustainability and climate change and general coordinator of the System for Estimation of GHG Emissions (SEEG) and the Initiative for Annual Mapping of Land Cover in Brazil (MapBiomas). Tasso was founder and director of the Institute of Forest and Agriculture Management and Certification (IMAFLORA), Director of the National Forest Program at the Ministry of Environment, Secretary General of the National Forest Commission and former Chief & Director General of the Brazilian Forest Service. Tasso was one of the key people involved in the design and implementation the National Plan to Combat Deforestation in the Amazon, the Amazon Fund and the Brazilian targets to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. He is Affiliated Scholar at Princeton University. In 2013 he won the Bright Award, Stanford University's Global Sustainability Award, was a TED Global Lecturer in 2014 and a climate and forest consultant for the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

Joel is an accomplished Canadian academic and filmmaker and former Fulbright Chair in Arctic Studies. He has 20 years of Arctic experience working with Inuit communities combining his expertise in ecology, sea ice dynamics, Inuit knowledge and mathematical biology. He has led development of a network of Community-Driven Research Programs, curriculum for northern schools, directed/produced the 16x award winning film People of a Feather (www.peopleofafeather.com). He is Executive Director and co-founder of the Arctic Eider Society (www.arcticeider.com), a registered Canadian charity based in Sanikiluaq Nunavut, and recent winner of the Google.org Impact Challenge in Canada for SIKU: the Inuit knowledge Wiki and Social Mapping Platform.

Chad a Product Manager for BigQuery. He is an avid skier and surfer. When he’s not working on Big things or playing in nature he’s at home with his wife and two young children. Chad holds a PhD from Stanford University and he comes to Google from the startup world.

Carly’s principal motivation is to help ensure that natural places and wild species can thrive together with humanity now and into the future. To that end, she works to bring to the table (or into the field) uncommon partners, novel approaches, and an open mindset. Carly has worked for large organizations - such as Conservation International - where she led biodiversity planning efforts in Asia, Africa, and South America, as well as the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, where as the Wildlife Director she helped design and implement conservation programs across the US. She was fortunate to do her PhD work in the Cerrado of Brazil, where she studied how the landscape matrix affected maned wolves and other large, wide-ranging mammals. Currently, as a Principal at Osprey Insights and Strategic Partner with RESOLVE, Carly helps bring advances in science and technology to support conservation efforts at regional and global levels. Currently, she is working with a team in Cascadia (Washington State and British Columbia) to design a Google Earth Engine-based decision-support tool that will help ensure conservation plans are dynamic and account for climate change. Earlier this year, Carly co-authored a Science Advances paper calling for A Global Deal for Nature, which lays out ambitious conservation targets that must be achieved to solve the twin biodiversity and climate crises.

Pete Takeda is a writer and professional climber. He’s one of a handful of American climbers who’s mastered every aspect of the climbing game and lived to tell of it. He is a WGA screenwriter and writes for Alpinist, Rock and Ice, Outside and Backpacker. Takeda is author of PETE’S WICKED BOOK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXTREME SPORTS: CLIMB! and AN EYE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD.

Takeda is a long-time sponsored athlete for Marmot Mountain.

Over the last three decades, Takeda has climbed in the Himalayas, Alaska, the Andes, Scotland, Iceland, the Alps, Australia, China and most parts in between. He’s competed in the X-Games and appears in national television and print ads. Takeda has won the GORE-TEX® Shipton/Tilman Award, the Polartec® Challenge Grant, the Lyman Spitzer Cutting Edge Award and the Copp-Dash Inspire Award. He’s used Google Earth for a decade to explore stage expeditions to untouched areas of the world’s Great Ranges.

Dr. Jeff Ho is the Director of Science and Product at Cloud to Street, where he manages the deployment of the leading mapping and monitoring platform designed to enable access to flood analytics for the world’s most climate-vulnerable communities. Cloud to Street leverages satellite earth observation data for mapping flood exposure, risk, and vulnerability in the developing world, and its remote sensing platform dynamically maps local flood vulnerability globally. Jeff received his PhD and MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, where his research on satellite remote sensing of water quality and water access monitoring in resource-constrained settings has been described in numerous academic publications and featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and PBS News Hour. He is a former Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Doctoral scholar and a former Rising Environmental Leaders Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.