AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology
AI deployment and adoption is complex — this podcast makes it actionable. Join top experts, IT leaders and innovators as we explore AI’s toughest challenges, uncover real-world case studies, and reveal practical insights that drive AI ROI. From strategy to execution, we break down what works (and what doesn’t) in enterprise AI. New episodes every week.
Episodes
87 episodes
Mythos And The Disappearing Patch Window
What happens when vulnerabilities can be discovered in minutes and exploits can be generated faster than organizations can patch them?In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, former NSA Cybersecurity Director Rob Joyce and WWT c...
AI Can Move Trillions. You Won’t Let It Send an Email.
AI moves trillions of dollars in milliseconds. So why won’t companies let it send a customer email?In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Erik Anderson, CEO of Singularity University and former Topgolf leader, breaks ...
Your Customer Data Has No Owner
Most personalization efforts fail long before AI becomes the problem.It fails in quieter ways. A missing identity. A disconnected signal. A decision no one owns.In this conversation, Ralph Jovine and Chris Douglas unpack why most ...
Your AI Looks Smart. Your Data Disagrees.
AI can generate answers instantly. But that doesn’t mean they’re right.Most enterprise AI doesn’t fail because of the model. It fails because the data underneath it doesn’t agree. Different teams, different definitions, different outcome...
From AI Demo to Production Systems You Can Trust
Most AI strategies look good in a demo. The real challenge is getting them to run at scale.Recorded live at NVIDIA GTC 2026, this episode with Ragu Chakravarthi from Core42 and Kraig Ecker from WWT explores what it actually takes to move...
AI Is Writing Code Faster Than You Can Review It
AI is writing code faster than most teams can review it. That’s the tension.Recorded live at NVIDIA GTC with Nate McKie, we get into what happens when developer speed takes off but security and quality don’t.The middle of the deve...
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Before You Scale AI, Fix Your Data
AI is working. Your data probably isn’t.As enterprise AI moves into production, a new constraint shows up fast. Not models. Not compute. Data.In this episode, recorded live at NVIDIA GTC, NetApp’s Tore Sundelin and WWT’s De...
AI Speed Starts in the Data Center
AI isn’t slowing down. Your data center is.As enterprise AI moves into real workloads, physical limits show up fast. Power. Cooling. Space. Timing. The conversation shifts quickly from what model to use to whether you can run it a...
AI Doesn’t Break Where You Think: How Storage and Data Readiness Now Decide AI Success
AI is working. Until it isn’t.Not because the model failed, but because something behind it did.In this episode, recorded live at NVIDIA GTC, WWT’s Mike Trojecki and Everpure’s Kaycee Lai talk through what starts to show up...
Agentic AI at Scale: How to Build Without Losing Control
Agentic AI is getting real fast. The challenge isn’t building it anymore. It’s running it without losing control.Recorded live at NVIDIA GTC, this conversation gets into what actually changes when AI moves into production. Not in ...
The Best AI Is the Kind You Don’t Notice (How IHG Is Scaling AI That Actually Works)
Most enterprise AI tries to be impressive. In a hotel, it just needs to work.No one checks in hoping to experience great AI. They want things to feel smooth, fast, intuitive — like everything is just handled. That’s the standard.A...
OpenClaw, Inference, AI Factories: What We Learned at NVIDIA GTC 2026
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the conversation shifted from model novelty to enterprise reality. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Chief AI Advisor Tim Brooks explains why agentic AI, inference-heavy workloads and physical AI are forc...
Why Private AI Is Winning in the Enterprise
Private AI is quickly moving from niche architecture to a core enterprise AI strategy. As AI workloads move into production, leaders are rethinking where inference runs, how data stays governed and why hybrid AI infrastructure may offer the bes...
The CEO's Job in the AI Era: Accelerating Idea to Outcome (I2O)
As AI spreads beyond developers into every workflow, the differentiator shifts from tools to leadership. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh argues that winning in AI will lean heavily on cultu...
Compressing Idea to Outcome (I2O): WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh on Why AI Coding Assistants Could Reshape the Enterprise
AI-powered coding assistants are rapidly compressing the time it takes to build software and delivering a competitive advantage that can lead to transformational outcomes. But according to WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh, the bigger shift ...
AI Moves Fast. So Do Breaches. Now What?
AI is accelerating everything — including your attack surface.Prompt injection. Shadow AI. Non-human identities. Automated agents making decisions at machine speed. The pressure to move fast is real. So is the risk.In this episode...
The Hidden Cost of Bad AI Prompts (And How to Fix Them)
Most AI teams aren’t losing to the model.They’re losing to bad prompts.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT’s Liz Gattra breaks down the invisible tax of vague instructions, blind trust in outputs and end...
AI Isn’t a Pilot Anymore: How Cox Scaled It
AI pilots are easy.Scaling AI across a live network is not.As organizations move beyond experimentation, the challenge isn’t better models — it’s building AI that operates like infrastructure: reliable, secure, and measurable....
Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for Enterprise AI
As enterprises rush to deploy AI, observability is emerging as the discipline that determines whether those investments create durable value—or quietly erode it. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Ivan Wintersteiger, Cisco'...
The Shift from AI Pilots to AI Infrastructure
As organizations move beyond experimentation, compute has become a deciding factor in whether AI delivers real value or stalls before production. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP Neil Anderson, NVIDIA VP Chris Marriott a...
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The Network Is Becoming the Real Unit of AI Performance
As AI systems grow larger and more distributed, enterprises are discovering that performance, security and time-to-value depend less on individual components and more on how well the system moves, synchronizes and protects data at scale. In thi...
Why Production AI Exposes Security Gaps Organizations Can't Ignore
As enterprises move AI from experimentation to production, security failures are no longer isolated incidents—they are systemic risks embedded deep in infrastructure, data flows, and decision-making systems. In this episode of the AI Proving Gr...
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Why the AI Factory Is Becoming the Enterprise's Next Critical Infrastructure
As organizations struggle to move beyond AI pilots, a new architecture — Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA — is emerging as a missing link between experimentation and real business outcomes. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast,...
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Is Security Now a Prerequisite for AI Adoption? Inside Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
As companies move from chatbots to agents, the hardest work isn't prompting — it's building an always-on, governable, cost-aware system that leaders can trust. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Cisco's President and Chief Produc...
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