Rebecca MOORE

For twenty years, Rebecca Moore has directed Google’s geospatial initiatives driving environmental sustainability and social impact, including Google Earth and Google Earth Engine. She initiated the development of Google Earth Engine in 2009 as the first cloud-native, planetary-scale geospatial analytics platform bringing an unprecedented amount of satellite data online, together with petapixel-scale computation, enabling data scientists to easily derive actionable insights about our changing planet. In 2017, Earth Engine received the ASPRS Outstanding Technical Achievement award. Moore’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. Moore has been honored with the 2013 White House Champion of Change Award for Open Science, the 2013 Zoological Society of London Award for Conservation Innovation, the 2016 Rachel Carson Award from the National Audubon Society and the 2022 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Industry Leader Award.  She received a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence with honors from Brown University and a master’s degree from Stanford University. In 2024, Moore founded Geo for Good LLC and transitioned from her full-time Google position as Director of Google Earth to a tightly-focused external consulting role advising Google on geospatial AI-powered initiatives and partnerships to drive positive impact at global scale for nature, climate and people.