María Ridruejo is the AI Services lead for the WW Advisory and Professional Services AI and data segment at HPE. She leads a global team of solution architects, owns the strategy for HPE AI Services portfolio, and drives the innovation road map that brings new AI capabilities and offerings to enterprise customers around the world. Previously, María served as the technical lead for establishing the AI & Data Global Center of Excellence in Madrid. In this role, she defined the COE’s technical blueprint, implemented best practices across data engineering, AI use case development, and MLOps, and built and mentored the founding teams. With more than 20 years of IT experience across diverse technology domains and every stage of the solution lifecycle, María specializes in operationalizing AI at scale, ensuring responsible and trustworthy AI practices, and delivering measurable business outcomes for global enterprises.