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.
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78 episodes
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...
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Episode 74
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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...
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Episode 73
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25:29
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...
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Episode 72
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44:25
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...
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Episode 71
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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 ...
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Episode 70
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36:43
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...
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Episode 69
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33:56
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...
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Episode 68
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36:57
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....
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Episode 67
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39:02
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'...
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Episode 66
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37:38
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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Episode 66
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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...
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Episode 65
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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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Episode 64
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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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Episode 65
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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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Episode 64
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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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46:29
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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