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
97 episodes
Your AI Is Only as Good as Your Data. Here's Why.
Nearly 90% of enterprise data is unstructured. That's a daunting statistic until you realize it may also be your biggest competitive advantage.In this episode hosted at Cisco Live, Brian Feldt sits down with WWT's Jeff Fonke, NVID...
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When the Ground Keeps Moving: The New Reality of AI Security
By the time this episode reaches your feed, the AI landscape may have changed again.That's becoming the new normal.It's tempting to chase every new model, every policy update, every headline. But the organizations making real prog...
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Doing AI Is Easy. Doing It Well Is Hard.
AI has made writing code dramatically easier.Building great software is another story.Recorded live at Cisco Live, Raj Chopra, Cisco's Chief Product Officer for Security, joins WWT's Brian Ortbals and Joe Berger to explore what it...
The Real AI Advantage Isn't What You Think
Everybody says they're data-driven.But according to a Harvard Business Review study, only 7% of enterprises believe their data is actually ready for AI. Not agents. Not advanced machine learning. Just AI.Everyone wants the outcome...
Everybody Wants AI. Who's Paying for It?
For years, technology leaders could afford a little inefficiency.A system that stayed in place longer than it should. Infrastructure that nobody got around to optimizing. Assets that quietly blended into the background.AI is chang...
Your AI Agent Doesn't Sleep. Are You Ready for That? NVIDIA Answers.
The most important shift in AI isn't better chatbots. It's the arrival of agents that can work independently.Give them a task before bed and they may finish it before you wake up. They can write code, access tools, analyze information an...
Cisco Live! 2026: AI Is Taking Away the Luxury of Time
The most interesting thing at Cisco Live! 2026 wasn't a product announcement.It was a shift in tone.For years, technology leaders have had the luxury of studying change before responding to it. They could build a roadmap, socializ...
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AI Is Having Its Dropbox Moment
Remember when employees started using Dropbox before IT approved it?AI agents feel a lot like that moment.People are building them because they're useful. Not because they were told to. The surprise isn't that agents are showing u...
Boards Can't Stay at 30,000 Feet Anymore
AI is collapsing the space between oversight and ownership.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, NASDAQ Global Head of Board Advisory Byron Loflin and WWT Global Head of Cyber Advocacy Kate Kuehn break down why boards are ent...
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When AI Stops Assisting And Starts Acting
What changes when AI stops answering questions and starts taking actions?In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT security leaders Istvan Burko and Jillian Anderson-Nix break down why agentic AI is forcing enterpris...
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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 ...
