Geoffrey Cann is an author, professional speaker, and trainer. His mission is to help the oil and gas industry embrace digital innovation as a means to improve its environmental and economic performance, and to buy time for a successful energy transition. Following an early career with Imperial Oil, he joined the world's largest professional services firm as a management consultant, and served hundreds of companies around the world. Today, he specializes in digital innovation in the energy sector, publishes regularly on this topic, and teaches the most popular course on oil and gas on the world's leading on-line learning platform. He published his first book, Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas, in January 2019, with co-author Rachael Goydan. He is also a contributing author for the book Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies, published in March 2021. He is an alumnus of McGill University (BComm, 1984) and the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario (MBA, 1989). Ryan Cann is a researcher and analyst. With both a bachelor's anda master's degree in English, he focuses his writing and researchskills on identifying where digital tools such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, automation, and other technologies arehaving impacts on the energy sector. His focus is primarily in oil andgas, but he has also investigated manufacturing, medicine, automotive, and agriculture sectors. He is an alumnus of Ryerson University (BA,2017) and the University of Toronto (MA, 2018).