DPI Founder Colleen Chien presented “Diversity Pilots Initiative: An Update,” at Northwestern University at the 2023 PatCon conference. She presented the “innovator-inventor” gap framework for the work, which describes the gap between working in STEM and becoming an inventor in her paper as introduced in her paper, Redefining Progress. She presented DPI work in progress with Professor Jillian Grennan (Opting-In v. Opting-Out of Inventing and Evidence from Engineers) and Professor Gauri Subramani (Country Gender Advantage in Inventing).