Geoffrey Cann

Geoffrey Cann

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Vancouver, British Columbia

Digital Innovator in Oil and Gas | Energy Transition & Digital Transformation Expert

Geoffrey Cann is an author, professional speaker, trainer, and independent management advisor to the Oil and Gas industry with over 30 years of experience. Geoffrey Cann accelerates digital innovation in energy, helps solve the supply-demand imbalance, and advises oil and gas, energy, and technology companies to help create lasting values.

GEOFFREY CANN BIOGRAPHY

Geoffrey Cann is an international author, professional speaker and corporate trainer in the Oil and Gas industry. Following an early career with Imperial Oil,  Geoffrey Cann joined Deloitte, where he carried out several hundred consulting assignments around the world, including Canada, the US, Australia, the Caribbean, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and China. During that time he led several businesses, services and industry programs.

Today,  Geoffrey Cann specializes in digital innovation in the oil and gas industry, produces a weekly article and podcast on digital issues in energy, provides marketing support for companies that sell digital innovations to the industry and teaches an executive course on digital awareness.  Geoffrey Cann published his first book, Bits, Bytes and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas, in January 2019.

Geoffrey Cann is also a contributing author for Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools and Case Studies, released in March 2021. His third book, Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas, was published in March of 2022. Geoffrey Cann is an advisor to several digital technology companies in such areas as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, robotics and the Internet of things.

From this rich background, Geoffrey Cann brings an economist’s understanding of the ebbs and flows of the energy industry, and a technician’s understanding of the technologies at play in the transformation of the economy. Geoffrey Cann draws on an early career as an award-winning stage performer to bring these subjects to life, with a theatrical flair and an engaging style that moves audiences to deeper understanding and action.

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Geoffrey Cann Topic Presentations

carbon, capital, and the cloud

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • The oil and gas industry has learned two powerful lessons from the pandemic—that it can change very quickly when it needs to, and that its digital investments proved key to surviving the pandemic. Climate pressures are now pushing fossil fuel-consuming nations and companies to decarbonize faster than ever, and capital markets no longer place any value on traditional energy companies. If there ever was a time for industry incumbents to accelerate their ability to embrace change, improve their environmental performance, and win back capital markets’ attention, it is now.

    But how? How to move quickly? What parts of the industry can change? Who does this well? What does well even look like?

    This engaging talk presents the most important findings from the new book, ‘Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud’. Explore the digital sweet spot, where investments offer extraordinary value. Learn the seven stages of digital adoption that the best in the industry accelerate their people through. And above all, discover the playbook for digital adoption as a change agent and as a company.

digital innovations in energy industry

Geoffrey Cann travels from Vancouver, British Columbia & delivers customized and tailored keynote speeches, presentations, workshops and training sessions. on the topics enlisted below. These services are designed for a variety of audiences, industries, and event types and event formats.

Testimonials

I’m so excited that you have Geoffrey Cann here to speak to you! I absolutely had to sneak into the back door to catch this!

Laura Kennett

Director
Enbridge

Thank you again for a remarkable talk at our symposium.  I have received much positive feedback about the discussion and know our students benefited alongside our alumni and business community. You really came through for us, which means a lot.

Director
Texas Christian University

I’ve involved Geoffrey in our change management process related to digital transformation. He helped us understand the big reasons for change, the urgency of doing it now and the great opportunities that lay ahead of us if we act timely. Focus on the goal, i.e. “the view from the top of the mountain” and you’ll convince your people to take the journey with you. It’s been inspiring and eye-opening and I’m pleased to see that now my colleagues often quote Geoffrey when referring to the changes that are shaping our future as an industry. Creating awareness is the first step to succeed.  

Francesco Ferri

Director
Transocean

It was a pleasure to have Geoffrey come and speak to us.  Being adaptive and agile are critical components to ensure the energy sector stays ahead of the change curve.  Thanks for the eye-opening dialogue and fresh perspective highlighting the upside potential that exists within our sector.  I am confident there is a niche where resiliency and agility can co-exist and convinced we must find it through the use of technology as things continue to evolve at an ever-increasing rate.  

Ryan Champney

Director
Enbridge

One of the best received keynotes at SAP’s recent ASUG Best Practices for Oil, Gas, and Energy was delivered by Geoffrey Cann, author of “Bits, Bytes, and Barrels”, and more recently, “Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud”. Geoffrey’s content, based on key messages from his most recent book, was both compelling and inspiring, and his delivery was impeccable. If you ever get a chance to see him speak in person, I highly recommend you attend.  

Brent Potts

Senior Director
SAP

I just spoke with the other members of my team that attended your presentation as well, and they are thrilled about having you for 15 minutes walking us through the magnificent job you do in your virtual presentations.  We all agree that your knowledge and charisma prin esenting the topic is what makes it so engaging, however, we are also intrigued about the great effects you put in place to make an overall fabulous presentation.  

Yvonne Moore

HR
CNRL

Articles & Media

Making a Smart Industry Even Smarter

ENI World Energy

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Digital Wildcatters

SBC

Ever Google Your Name?
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ASUG

SBC

The Digital Paradox of Change in the Oil and Gas Industry’
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Books

Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies
Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry: Best Practices, Tools, and Case Studies
Machine Learning and Data Science in the Oil and Gas Industry explains how machine learning can be specifically tailored to oil and gas use cases. Petroleum engineers will learn when to use machine learning, how it is already used in oil and gas operations, and how to manage the data stream moving...
 Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas (Madcann Press 2019)
Bits, Bytes, and Barrels: The Digital Transformation of Oil and Gas (Madcann Press 2019)
Recent low prices, rapidly growing alternative fuels like renewables, the permanent swing from peak oil to super abundance, shifting consumer preferences, and global pressures to decarbonize suggest a challenged industry for the foreseeable future. Digital advances offer ways to lower costs of...
Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas
Carbon, Capital, and the Cloud: A Playbook for Digital Oil and Gas
Forces of change have reconfigured the playing field for the oil and gas industry: Volatile crude oil and natural gas prices. Global recession. Pandemic. Climate change. Capital market pressures. Rising demand for renewable energy sources. To survive, companies have been compelled to adopt digital...

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