Patricia Gestoso

Inclusion Strategist, Technologist, and Researcher

Dr. Patricia Gestoso is an award-winning inclusion strategist that helps leaders to leverage diversity into their organizations to reach untapped markets, boost revenue, increase reputation, and attract and retain talent. Alongside this, she is Head of Scientific Support and Customer Operations for a large Fortune Future 50 tech company. Patricia is also DEI board advisor for We and I, a British non-profit focused on activating diverse communities to make AI work for everyone, including the collaborative programme Better Images of AI that aims to create a new repository of images that more realistically portray AI and the people behind it.

Patricia has 20+ years of experience in scientific digital transformation spanning customer operations, client services, acquisition integrations, artificial intelligence, and inclusive and ethical design of technology and workplaces.

She has spearheaded numerous initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion in tech products and the workplace that were recognized with the UK 2020 Women in Tech Changemakers award. She has created the Ethics and Inclusion Framework©, a tool to help designers to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for the actual and potential negative impact of the services and products they create.

Patricia holds a B.Eng. and M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and a Ph.D. in computational chemistry.