Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making. Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends. We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world's transition to a more sustainable future.

While the majority of businesses are just getting their feet wet in the machine learning space, many are already reaping the benefits. The technology is moving forward rapidly. Getting left behind is a big concern for the early adopters and a driver for fast followers. Staying competitive in a rapidly moving, emergent technology is already a challenge. With machine learning, that's compounded by technical complexity, a talent shortage, and a constantly changing landscape of open source products. Recognized experts in the field like Google are employing some creative thinking to stay ahead of companies like Facebook, IBM, and more recent challenger Microsoft. Through acquisitions, an active presence in open source projects, and crowdsourcing solutions to problems they've been unable to tackle internally, Google has managed to stay at the top of their game.