These 8 CEOs are changing the way we work

It's the beginning of the week, and you've got a big meeting to prepare for.

Fortunately, you've got technology on your side. Artificial intelligence not only scheduled your meeting - after consulting your calendar and finding the best time - it's helped give you dossiers on the people you're meeting with. Meanwhile, you can send a robot off to retrieve the box of materials you'll need for the meeting from the storage room.

Sound futuristic? Probably. But all of this technology exists today.

Work as we know it is changing. Artificial intelligence and robotics are advancing rapidly and become commonplace. And young companies are using these and other emerging technologies to address some of the common complaints within the contemporary workplace.

Here are the executives at eight of the companies who are changing the way we work today - and breaking ground for the way we'll work tomorrow.