Evren Eryurek

Evren Eryurek, PhD is the leader of Data Analytics and Data Management portfolio of Google Cloud covering Streaming Analytics, Dataflow, Beam, Messaging (Pub/Sub & Confluent Kafka), Data Governance, Data Catalog & Discovery and Data Marketplace as the Director of Product Management. He joined Google Cloud as the Technical Director in the CTO Office of Google Cloud leading Google Cloud and its efforts towards Industrial Enterprise Solutions. Google Cloud business established the CTO Office and is still building a team of the world’s foremost experts on cloud computing, analytics, AI and machine learning to work with global companies as trusted advisors and partners. Evren joined Google as the 1st external member to take a leadership role as a Technical Director within the CTO Office of Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google, he was the SVP & Software Chief Technology Officer for GE Healthcare, ~$20 billion segment of GE. GE Healthcare is a global leader in delivering healthcare clinical, business, and operational solutions with its medical equipment, information technologies, life sciences and service technologies covering settings from physician offices to integrated delivery networks. Evren led software technology programs across the entire GE Healthcare portfolio focused on driving customer success and on helping providers deliver improved patient outcomes through GEHC applications. His responsibilities included overseeing the application development, NPI execution, creation of a harmonized Healthcare software architecture & platform; delivering, harnessing and maintaining common services across the portfolio; driving global strategy and engineering capabilities; developing and delivering Cloud, Mobile and Analytics technologies for clinical, financial and operational customer outcomes; and leading software development as a function including its governance, processes, tools and execution. Evren championed several initiatives across GE Healthcare including GE Health Cloud platform & applications, Cloud & Mobility first design, Software User Experience, Big Data Analytics, Microservices based solutions, and the adoption of Agile methodologies in the software development process. He is a member of GE’s Software & Services Council. As a member of GE Digital leadership team, Evren championed "GE Health Cloud" (re-branded as GEHC Edison Platform), the first industry-specific cloud built on top of Predix, GE's Industrial Internet Platform, as well as IoT, Deep Learning & Analytics applications for Healthcare industry. Received GE's Chairman Award on 2016 for Digital Growth initiative for his efforts on launching GE Health Cloud . Evren began his GE career at GE Transportation, where he served as General Manager of the Software and Solutions business. He led the development of GE’s Movement Planner system, which helps railroads solve capacity issues by better managing the movement of trains. Before joining GE in 2005, Evren was with Emerson Process Management group for over 11 years, where he held several leadership positions and was responsible for developing new software-based growth technologies for process control systems and field devices, coordinating cross-divisional product execution and implementation. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Evren holds a master’s and doctorate degree in Nuclear Engineering. He holds over 60 US patents, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children