Zurich, The Quietly Emerging Machine Learning Hotspot

The news of the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal did not just bring privacy concerns to the fore, it also signified how valuable a commodity data has become in today's information age. It showed us how impactful the process of leveraging data can be, and why companies across the board are adopting Machine Learning to learn from their data and completely transform their businesses. Despite the clear need, global enterprises and start-ups are struggling to scale their Machine Learning initiatives. One of the major factors limiting scale is the inability to acquire and retain the right talent. In a recent Zinnov Talent Hotbeds Forecast, we analyzed multiple cities for Machine Learning talent and predicted new hubs that would emerge over the next two decades. In the study, we found that Global top 500 R&D spenders together employ over 92,000 employees skilled in Machine Learning technologies and that 32% of this number are employed by the world's Tech Giants such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.