Dr Yoge Patel FREng

Chief Executive Officer and Owner, Blue Bear Group 

Dr Yoge Patel is an exceptional engineer and business leader who has pioneered the use of autonomy and artificial intelligence in uncrewed systems. She has led a UK SME to be internationally recognised in this rapidly emerging sector. She is a passionate advocate of diversity and of the contribution of SMEs to engineering and the economy. Her technical expertise is in safety-critical flight-systems development and spans all abstraction levels from initial ideas through to in-service operation. Her experience ranges across flight clearance, departure prediction, systems modelling, and simulation.