Bio

Patricia Florissi is a Technical Director at the Office of the CTO at Google Cloud. In this role, Patricia engages with strategic customers on collaborative innovation projects, leads research on emerging technologies, and creates thought leadership content. Patricia is passionate about data equality, fostering inclusion, diversity, and ethics of data, researching for sustainable ways to acquire, process, analyze, store and manage any and all data. Patricia aims to design systems that not only enable the capture of as much data as possible, but that also enable the analysis of any data, despite of where, when, how and by whom the data was created. By promoting data equality, Patricia seeks to increase the fairness on how the physical universe is represented digitally. Patricia is a technology thought leader and innovator, with over 50 patents issued and more than 10 patents pending. Patricia is the creator, author, narrator, and graphical influencer of the educational animated video series Big Ideas (http://bit.ly/EMCBigIdeas), on emerging technologies and trends. The series accelerates and expands technical thought leadership using innovative learning methodologies in a fun and easy way. There are over 20 videos in the series, with some videos localized in 10 languages, and with a combined total count of over 700,000 views. Patricia is an active keynote speaker on topics related to Big Data, technology trends and innovation. Patricia delivered a talk at TEDx Springfield in 2013. Patricia has worked in strategic geographical expansion, focusing on emerging countries across the world. Patricia has traveled extensively to interact with customers and to present at international forums. Patricia is devoted to mentoring and to increasing women presence in STEM. Patricia is the chairman of the executive advisory board for the Data Science Graduate Program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute where she advise in the school’s new program. Prior to Google, Patricia was VP & Global CTO for Sales at Dell Technologies and held the honorary title of Dell EMC Distinguished Engineer, having been nominated in 2007. In this role, Patricia strengthened the company's competitiveness and relevance in the market place, while focusing in revenue generating activities for the mid- and long-term. Patricia led Field Strategic Initiatives to increase Dell’s bearing in the context of a geography, industry, or emerging technology, and to transfer field knowledge back into corporate to accelerate technology innovation and gain leadership into capturing new value creation.