Suzannah Hicks is the Senior AI Center of Excellence Manager at Ferguson, where she leads the enterprise AI CoE focused on responsible AI scale, governance, adoption, and value realization. She brings more than 15 years of experience across data, analytics, AI strategy, organizational transformation, and enterprise enablement, with a professional background that bridges technical capability, business strategy, and human-centered change.

Suzannah holds a Doctorate in Business Administration with a focus on Organizational Development and a Master of Science in Analytics and Data Science. Her work sits at the intersection of AI strategy, governance, operating model design, and practical execution, helping organizations move from experimentation to trusted, repeatable, business-centered AI capability. Her transformation-minded approach emphasizes that AI success is not only a technology challenge, but a leadership, fluency, governance, and organizational readiness challenge.

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.