Evan Tann
Evan Tann is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Cloudwear. While attending university, he founded an artificial intelligence startup in New York City with General Electric and OMD, contributed to software used by top American universities, and contracted with Fortune 500 companies in software development and research.
Entrepreneur
Tann is best known for his role as co-founder and CEO of Cloudwear, which drives higher revenue for clients using artificial intelligence models and big data algorithms. Under Tann’s leadership, Cloudwear announced its partnerships with Samsung and Telefonica. Samsung launched Cloudwear’s first product, a marketing platform for mobile and wearable devices called iwunta, in Barcelona at the 2014 Mobile World Congress.
While attending the University of Southern California, Tann moved to New York to build a startup with the financing and mentorship of executives at General Electric and the world’s largest media agency, OMD. Using algorithms from the field of natural language processing (NLP), the company’s technology automatically managed people’s calendars around their social media content and interests.
Computer Scientist
In 2013, Tann designed and implemented visual A.I. algorithms that enabled zero-latency augmented reality on Google Glass. CBS used an early version of the technology at Comic Con to announce their television premiere, Intelligence. Tann presented his research to engineers and computer scientists at a Hacker News event in Los Angeles.
Tann has been active in software development in the United States. He built an API and image-processing server for the Silicon Valley-based startup Tint, which went on to raise funding from Idealab. Today more than 40,000 brands use Tint, including Sony, TechCrunch, and the NBA. Tann also contracted with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society on Zone 1, a document management and storage system for Harvard and MIT.
Tann is also a contributor to the open-source community and projects, including the web development frameworks Ruby on Rails and Meteor.