Maria Apazoglou

Head of AI, BI & Data Platforms

Thomson Reuters

Maria leads the Core AI & Data Platforms at Thomson Reuters, streamlining the user experience for accessing and processing content, data and AI, creating services for first in class content driven technologies and overseeing the implementation of CoCounsel, a leading AI Assistant. She is an advocate of centralized platforms that offer both flexibility and autonomy to users, while also ensuring compliance with data and model governance standards. Maria holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from Queen Mary University London and a degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from National Technical University Athens. She started her career as a quantitative analyst at RBS and VTB Capital, ran at Palantir Technologies data driven projects for a big energy company and a number of financial institutions, and was the Head of Data and Architecture for Digital Business Services at HSBC where she played a key role in their cloud transformation program and the creation of a global operations data platform enhancing the speed of data driven decisions in a compliant and efficient manner across markets.

Sam Kruklis

Sam has a background in computer engineering and a Masters degree in Business Information Systems. After some years in tech related roles, he naturally shifted into data engineering and the artificial intelligence space. At Roche he was running data delivery teams that leveraged models within the clinical operations activities, he then joined Google in 2019 and has been part of the enterprise cloud engineering team since, also contributing to Google Cloud’s Data Analytics AI&ML practice.

Jeremy Maetzener

Jeremy Maetzener is a versatile and experienced tech lawyer and corporate generalist, with a strong expertise in litigation, AI, copyright, data protection, competition and contract law. He has worked as in-house counsel for Google since 2018 and is the GC of Google Switzerland since 2022. Before joining Google, Jeremy practiced in a top tier law firm based in Geneva, Zurich and London and specialized in cross-border disputes and international commercial arbitration. Jeremy studied law in Zurich and Hong Kong and holds a master of arts degree in classical piano performance.