Embarking on the AI journey involves traversing the triad of Adoption, Integration, and Alignment, each presenting its own distinct challenges. Adoption necessitates a cultural shift and skill development, while Integration demands seamless tech assimilation and adept people management. Alignment, the ultimate goal, requires orchestrating systems towards a unified impact. The annual DataConnect Conference Main Panel will explore strategic insights and solutions for organizations navigating these pivotal phases, empowering them to embrace AI transformation with confidence and clarity.
Rehgan Blelie is the Co-Founder and CEO of AlignAI, an AI Adoption and Governance Platform that is helping enterprises get value out of AI quickly and safely. With a decade of experience in this space, she has worked with highly regulated companies to design and architect data and AI solutions. As an industry leader, she has keynoted and spoken at over 50 conferences and several top podcasts discussing the challenges of the organizational changes needed to maximize the value of artificial intelligence.
In addition to her role at AlignAI, Rehgan is also the Founder of Women in Analytics, a global organization aimed at elevating diverse voices, fostering collaboration, and building a strong community in data, analytics, and AI. This community has over 7000 members and hosts a global conference that has put over 250 women on the stage.
Olivia is an AI Ethicist who specializes in utilizing ethics-by-design to drive AI innovation, and a Responsible AI strategist who works with disruptive leaders to redefine success in emerging technologies. She has advised various organizations from Fortune 500 to Series A startups across the healthcare, financial, and media sectors in utilizing ethics as a decision-making tool for success in artificial intelligence.
Olivia is the founder and CEO of Ethical Intelligence, an AI Ethics advisory firm providing Ethics-as-a-Service through the world’s largest network of Responsible AI practitioners. She is the author of the upcoming book "Responsible AI: Implement an Ethical Approach in Your Organization" with Kogan Page Publishing.
Jana’s a math and computer nerd who took the business path for a career. She’s CEO of Nara Logics, the AI Advisor software company. Her career has taken her from 3-person business beginnings to 50,000-person enterprises. She opened the European logistics optimization software offices as part of American Airlines, dove into the internet and natural language processing in ’96 at Lycos, founded Intuit’s corporate Innovation Lab, helped define mass customization at Spreadshirt, and researched conducting polymers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her passions are working with teams to define and deliver products customers love, developing algorithms and their intelligence, and inspiring teams to do more than they thought possible.
Ursula is the Chief Data Officer and leads the Enterprise Data and Information Management Office. In this capacity she is driving the end-to-end processes for Citizens Bank’s strategic enterprise asset, data.
Her leadership role includes: Partnering with executive leadership and the businesses of Citizens Financial Group to align an enterprise data strategy and business-unit level data plans with the strategy and priorities of the business.
Leading the creation of an organizational capability to support the technical and business aspects of our data supply chain to ensure data is treated as an enterprise asset.
Driving the synchronization of enterprise data initiatives to ensure value across the corporation. Executing on a common process for sourcing data, organizing data into a ‘data lake’, replacing an existing customer file with a master data management solution, and implementing a metadata repository. Creating and maintaining the data management and quality processes and standards, including the establishment of a data stewardship community.
Previously, she was with KeyBank for more than 16 years in various roles. Most recently, Ursula served as the first Chief Data Officer providing vision, strategy and policy guidance for data acquisition, usage and management activities. Prior to that, she led the support related functions of the Corporate Bank, as Chief Administrative Officer. Her Six Sigma Green Belt was critical to her time managing 12 branches in Cleveland, as well as many facets of the Client Experience program, including the design, development and deployment of a single instance of Siebel 7 across multiple lines of business.
Ursula received her Bachelor of Science degree in business from Bowling Green State University, her MBA from Cleveland State University and certification from the Stonier School of Banking, while maintaining her Series 7 license.
She is currently on the Board of The Centers for Families and Children. In addition, she volunteers her time with United Way, Junior League of Cleveland and Cleveland Bridge Builders. Ursula has been recognized with the KeyCorp Chairman's Award in 2005, the YWCA Women of Professional Achievement in 2010 and as an Honorary Member of Beta Gamma Sigma in 2012.