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
64 episodes
Why Ally’s AI Actually Stuck
Enterprise AI isn’t failing because of models, tools, or budgets.It’s failing because people don’t actually use it.While most organizations stall after pilots, Ally Financial broke the pattern — reaching over 50% AI adoption with nea...
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Episode 63
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The Ferrari Problem in AI | Intel
Enterprise AI is moving out of pilots — and the infrastructure gaps are getting harder to ignore.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Intel’s Lynn Comp and WWT’s Mike Trojecki break down why treating enterprise AI i...
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Episode 62
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Why Enterprise AI Keeps Stalling
Enterprise AI didn’t fail.It hit the wall.In 2025, pilots multiplied, copilots spread, and expectations skyrocketed. Then reality caught up. Scaling AI turned out to be less about model quality — and more about data, security, cost v...
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Episode 61
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Who Owns AI When It Breaks? | NightDragon
AI is no longer an experiment — it’s an accountability test.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Dave DeWalt, Founder and CEO of NightDragon, and Kate Kuehn of WWT unpack what happens when AI systems fail, misfire, ...
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Episode 60
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When AI Changes the Rules of Cybersecurity
Cyber risk is changing — and AI is accelerating it.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, former NSA Director Rob Joyce joins WWT’s Madison Horn to explain how nation-state cyber activity has shifted from quiet espion...
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Episode 59
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Google Cloud’s New Math for AI
Enterprise AI just grew up—and the math has changed.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Francis deSouza, COO of Google Cloud, breaks down why the era of scattered AI pilots is over—and why the winners are moving fa...
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Episode 58
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Can Legal Teams Keep Up with AI Advancements?
AI is moving faster than the rules designed to govern it—and legal teams are now on the critical path.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Olivia Fleming, Chief Legal Officer at Edgewood Management, and Erika Schenk...
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Episode 57
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29:43
F5 Warns: Enterprises Are Running Naked AI
AI is shipping faster than security teams can catch it—and the attack surface is quietly exploding.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Shawn Wormke of F5 and Chris Konrad of World Wide Technology unpack the rise of what the...
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Episode 56
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HPE’s AI Factory Is the New Baseline
AI pilots are easy. Enterprise AI at scale is the hard part.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Craig Dillman of Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Earl Dodd of World Wide Technology break down how enterprises are moving from e...
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Episode 54
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AI Pilots Are Dead. Now What? Dell Explains.
GPUs don’t create value. Enterprise AI does—when it’s built the right way.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Allen Clingerman of Dell Technologies and Matt Halcomb of World Wide Technology break down why the next phase of ...
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Episode 54
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Inside NVIDIA’s AI Factory
AI at scale isn’t about more GPUs—it’s about building a system that can keep evolving.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, John Gentry of NVIDIA and Derek Elbert of World Wide Technology explain why AI factories are...
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Episode 53
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AI Factories: Built or Broken? With Cisco's Nicholas Sagnes
Cisco's Nicolas Sagnes and World Wide Technology's Bob Watson outline why the next generation of AI infrastructure must be engineered as a secure, observable, full-stack system — and why enterprises relying on pilots risk falling behind.
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Episode 52
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The AI Dev Tool Showdown
AI isn’t just changing how software gets written—it’s changing who ships, who scales, and who falls behind.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Nate McKie and Andrew Brydon of World Wide Technology break down how ar...
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Episode 51
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Inside the New Energy Arms Race to Power Artificial Intelligence
As enterprises rush to deploy copilots, automation and secure private AI, energy has become the defining constraint. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, visionary leaders including NightDragon's Dave DeWalt, Morgan Stanley's Jeff ...
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Episode 50
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NVIDIA Leaders on Building AI Factories and Driving AI Innovation
Artificial intelligence is rewriting the rules of the global economy. Powered by leaps in accelerated computing, digital twins and autonomous systems, a new industrial era is emerging in real time. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podca...
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Episode 49
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Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza and WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh on the Future of Enterprise AI
In this episode, Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza and WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh talk about how executives are turning artificial intelligence into a true competitive multiplier by building intelligent operations that run faster, chea...
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Episode 48
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Microsoft AI Futurist Marco Casalaina on the New Innovation Factory
As software and data take center stage in the modern enterprise, the combination of purposeful artificial intelligence adoption, skilled teams and disciplined processes is becoming a catalyst for transformation. In this episode, WWT CTO Mike Ta...
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Episode 47
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Cisco President Jeetu Patel and WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh on the Role of AI, Cloud and Cyber in Digital Transformation
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh and Cisco President Jeetu Patel break down the real constraints shaping the AI era and explore why platforms will define the next decade of enterprise innova...
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Episode 46
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Alert: A Week of AI via WWT's Business Innovation Summit
The AI Proving Ground Podcast team is proud to kick off a weeklong series of daily releases from WWT's Business Innovation Summit — bringing you unfiltered conversations with the visionary leaders shaping the next decade of artificial intellige...
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Episode 45
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Building Sovereign, National-Scale AI with Core42’s Edmondo Orlotti
AI is no longer a pilot. It’s a prerequisite for survival.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Edmondo Orlotti, Chief Growth Officer at Core42 (part of G42), joins Mike Trojecki of World Wide Technology to break dow...
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Episode 44
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The CX Shift AI Just Triggered
Customer expectations are shifting faster than most organizations can respond. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, leaders from healthcare, utilities and retail break down how AI is redefining what “good” customer experience looks...
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Episode 43
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From Hype To Habit: Making AI Work At Work
Back by popular demand, this encore episode breaks down how to turn AI hype into real results.Aritificial intelligence shouldn’t add more work—it should make work smarter. Jon Duren and Jay Custard share how to turn AI hype into real res...
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Episode 42
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When AI Starts to Act on Its Own, Who’s in Control?
As artificial intelligence moves from prediction to action, a new security frontier is taking shape. In this episode, Zscaler’s Head of AI Innovation Phil Tee and WWT’s VP of Global Cyber Chris Konrad explore the rise of autonomous agents, the ...
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Episode 41
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How AI Agents Are Transforming IT Ops
AI agents are moving from hype to the heart of enterprise IT. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Eric Jones and Ruben Ambrose — two leading AI experts — explore how intelligent, human-guided systems are transforming IT service ma...
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Episode 40
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Can AI Be Trusted to Run Critical Networks?
Artificial intelligence is firmly in the heart of the world’s most critical infrastructure — the massive networks that keep our digital lives running. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top trusted advisors to the worl...
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Episode 39
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