The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Women in the AI field are making research breakthroughs, launching exciting companies, spearheading vital ethical discussions, and inspiring the next generation of AI professionals. And that's why we created the VentureBeat Women in AI Awards -- to emphasize the importance of their voices, work, and experiences, and to shine a light on some of these leaders. We first announced the six winners at Transform 2021 in July, and ever since, we've been catching up with each of them for deeper discussions around their work and emerging challenges in the field. Our conversations have touched on everything from regulation and dealing with messy real world data to how to approach AI more responsibly.

The five-day event hosted around 4,500 exhibitors from more than 100 different countries. An estimated 100,000 visitors attended the annual event which focused on Artificial Intelligence as a key theme. Industry titans such as Google, Amazon, Alibaba and LinkedIn came together to discuss the latest trends. Google's Chief Decision Scientist Cassie Kozyrkov (left), LinkedIn's Chief Data Officer Igor Perisic (center) and Alibaba's Chief Machine Intelligence Scientist Wanli Min (right) debate on how AI is transforming decision making in major sectors On the hot topic of AI investment, the CDO of the networking and jobs portal Linkedin, Igor Perisic, spoke of the "blind spots" that companies integrating the technology into their businesses must be aware of. Alibaba's Chief Machine Intelligence Scientist, Wanli Min also explored how emerging technologies like autonomous vehicles and building smarter cities could meet the demands of swelling populations.

Genevera I. Allen (left) is professor in the Departments of Statistics, and the Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Rice University. Corinne Cath (right) is a doctoral student at the Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science in UK. Below are extracts of recent interviews that are most relevant to our audience. Links to full interviews are provided. Genevera, what do you think of the shift from "Statistics" to "Statistical Learning and Data Science" in the statistics community (The "Data vs Math" Question?)

This is the full interview that David Joyner, Course Developer at Udacity, has conducted with Rob High, IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson. This is the full interview that David Joyner, Course Developer at Udacity, has conducted with Rob High, IBM Fellow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson. Excerpts of this interview are included in https://www.udacity.com/course/... more

Elon Musk took the stage Wednesday night at Code Conference 2016 for a chat with Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg. In a wide-ranging interview, the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO talked about the future of artificial intelligence, his plans to finish the Tesla Model 3, and what a government on Mars should look like. He also thinks that we're all already cyborgs.