Artificial intelligence (AI) is a vague, slightly tech-y term that is overused by marketing departments trying to show some bona fides. But if you want some real insights on what artificial intelligence is and what it can do, then you should check out these talks that Chris Satchell of Zume and Erik Andrejko of Evolv (the venture arm of Kraft-Heinz) each did onstage at our recent Smart Kitchen Summit. But before you can begin talking about AI you must understand the importance of data. Before you can get into algorithms you need clean, tagged data that is centralized. He recommends that you don't spread out your data teams across the company, and instead cluster them together to get the best results.

From healthcare to agriculture to energy, AI has the power to radically transform the biggest industries on earth. Speaking on Tuesday at the EmTechDIGITAL 2016 conference at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, a panel of business leaders explored how, and why, AI can make an impact. The panel included Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle; Naveen Rao, CEO of Nervana; Tye Brady, chief technologist of Amazon Robotics; Erik Andrejko, vice president of science for The Climate Corporation; and Colin Parris, vice president of GE Software Research--a mix of startups as well as business giants. Here's how each company sees AI changing each industry. Goldbloom is head of "The world's largest community of data scientists"--to be exact, there are more than 550,00 data scientists involved, which is a quarter of the world's total population.