Evan J. Zimmerman is an entrepreneur, investor, and writer. Evan is the founder of Jovono. He is also the co-founder of Edge, an IP assistant software company that leverages AI. Edge's products include Certus, the leading AI trademark clearance product that clears marks in minutes with unparalleled depth, and Ingenia, a patent drafting suite that optimizes and speeds up the drafting process. Edge is used globally by Fortune 500 and Am Law 100 firms to boutiques and sole practitioners alike across all practice fields. Evan has a law degree from Berkeley Law School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar with certificates in technology law and business law and won a Prosser award. His scholarship has been published in leading law reviews and his papers have been distributed tens of thousands of times. He graduated from the University of Chicago, where he was a University Scholar, with general and departmental honors in economics and conducted his thesis work on the economics of embargoes as a visiting undergraduate at Harvard University. Evan is a member of the XPRIZE Brain Trust, where he helps design future prizes. Previously, Evan was Chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative technology council, which advises the technology of global public health in dozens of partner countries and is a member of the strategy board for Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine at USC. He has been recognized as a leader in business with awards like Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2023. Evan also speaks and writes on technology, with publications in places like Techcrunch, Stat News, Palladium Magazine, the California Management Review, the San Francisco Standard, the South China Morning Post, and others. He was inducted as the youngest member of the MAK Museum in Vienna's Biennale Circle, which planned the 2017 Vienna Biennale on the “Future Of Work.