Shadi Samieifar is the founder of Evan Tech, a technology and strategy company focused on helping industries protect, structure, and amplify their knowledge in the AI era.
Shadi began her career as a mechanical engineer and later earned an MBA, bringing together deep technical training with business and systems thinking. Over more than 20 years, she has worked across engineering-led and asset-intensive sectors, where decision-making depends on accuracy, trust, and speed — and where poorly structured information carries real operational and financial consequences.
Throughout her career, Shadi observed a recurring challenge across industries:
valuable knowledge is continuously generated by practitioners, companies, and projects, yet remains fragmented, difficult to verify, and poorly adapted to modern digital and AI-driven environments. As a result, industries risk losing control over how their expertise is interpreted, reused, and ultimately defined online.
Since 2017, Shadi has conducted pioneering research into blockchain applications, crowdsourcing, and internet trust, exploring how distributed networks could be used to collect, verify, and share knowledge at scale. Her work examines how the power of the crowd can be combined with central coordination and accountability — rather than treating decentralisation and authority as opposing forces.
That research became the intellectual foundation of Evan Tech’s operating model:
crowdsourced input, guided by trusted governance, structured for AI.
Very few — if any — organisations have translated this model into practical, scalable platforms that serve multiple industries. Evan Tech was established to do exactly that.
Under Shadi’s leadership, Evan Tech develops sector-specific digital platforms and knowledge infrastructures that allow industries to:
- contribute real-world knowledge and innovation,
- apply central verification to maintain accuracy and trust,
- and structure information so it can be used by AI systems, search engines, decision-makers, and policy processes.
Evan Tech’s platforms — including MyDrill and eMachine — demonstrate how industries can move from fragmented information to shared, AI-ready knowledge ecosystems, without relying on representation, advocacy, or centralised control.
Shadi’s mission through Evan Tech is clear:
To help industries define themselves — deliberately and accurately — before AI and the internet define them by default.
She works with industry leaders, associations, researchers, and organisations seeking to turn collective expertise into durable digital infrastructure and long-term influence.
