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
56 episodes
HPE’s AI Factory Is the New Baseline
HPE's Craig Dillman and WWT's Earl Dodd explain why AI Factories rooted in decades of supercomputing expertise are becoming essential infrastructure for enterprises seeking to operationalize AI at scale, ensure sovereignty and brace for next ye...
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Episode 54
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46:29
AI Pilots Are Dead. Now What? Dell Explains.
Rather than chasing GPUs and one-off pilots, Dell's Allen Clingerman and World Wide Technology's Matt Halcomb argue that the winning AI "factories" will be built on use-case clarity, data sovereignty and flexible, end-to-end infrastructure that...
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Episode 54
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Inside NVIDIA’s AI Factory
NVIDIA's John Gentry and WWT's Derek Elbert outline how AI factories are evolving from isolated GPU clusters into flexible, multi-tiered, distributed systems — and why data strategy, security and ecosystem partnerships now determine whether ent...
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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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45:07
The AI Dev Tool Showdown
Artificial intelligence is reshaping software development faster than any shift in the last decade. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT’s Nate McKie and Andrew Brydon break down how AI coding assistants are transforming engine...
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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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36:48
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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42:54
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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50:08
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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15:00
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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45:52
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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4:21
Building Sovereign, National-Scale AI with Core42’s Edmondo Orlotti
Core42 Chief Growth Officer Edmondo Orlotti dives into how Core42 and G42 are building sovereign, national-scale AI infrastructure and what enterprises can learn as they face their own challenges with data governance, GPU scarcity, fragmented e...
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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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30:54
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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57:49
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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45:08
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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Welcome to The AI Proving Ground Podcast
Welcome to The AI Proving Ground Podcast — where enterprise meets artificial intelligence in action. Each week, industry leaders, technologists and innovators join us to share real-world lessons on scaling AI responsibly, securely and ...
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The Multi-Cloud Survival Guide
Artificial intelligence has pushed cloud into overdrive. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top cloud experts — Jack French and Todd Barron — reset the approach and detail why cloud is the launchpad but portab...
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Episode 38
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39:33
Trust: The Missing AI Upgrade
Artificial intelligence investment is exploding, but adoption often stalls. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Great Place to Work CEO Michael Bush and WWT CTO Mike Taylor unpack the real reason why: trust. They reveal how cultur...
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Episode 37
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49:03
The CEO’s AI Roadmap
Artificial intelligence is reshaping business faster than any technology in history. But while employees are already using AI daily, enterprises are struggling to capture value at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-...
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Episode 36
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Agents, Copilots and Beyond: Everyday AI's Jordan Wilson on Future of AI in the Enterprise
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we talk with Jordan Wilson, host of the popular Everyday AI Podcast, to unpack the realities of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) adoption. From tool sprawl and failed pi...
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Episode 35
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58:22
From Pilots to Productivity: Unlocking the True ROI of Microsoft Copilot
Millions of employees now have Microsoft Copilot at their fingertips, but only a small fraction of organizations have scaled it successfully. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, World Wide Technology's Mike Davis and Soft...
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Episode 34
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34:16
AI Acceleration in Action: How Higher Ed Is Balancing Innovation vs. Risk
Artificial intelligence is transforming higher education — from classrooms to research labs — but with innovation comes risk. How can universities protect sensitive data, meet compliance obligations, and still foster discovery? In this episode ...
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Episode 33
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48:28
Private AI vs. Cloud: How Enterprise Leaders Can Make Smarter Build-or-Buy Decisions
Is your organization ready to own artificial intelligence or are you better served by leveraging the speed and scale of the cloud? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT High-Performance Architecture Director Jeff Fonke and VP of...
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Episode 32
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