AI Proving Ground Podcast: Exploring Artificial Intelligence & Enterprise AI with World Wide Technology

25:29

OpenClaw, Inference, AI Factories: What We Learned at...

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2026/03/20

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 forcing CIOs and CTOs to rethink infrastructure, governance, trust and leadership. Brooks, WWT's Chief AI Advisor, said the industry is moving beyond fascination with model releases and into the harder work of managing inference, agents, infrastructure and...

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44:25

Why Private AI Is Winning in the Enterprise

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2026/03/18

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 best balance of performance, cost and control.In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, VMware by Broadcom’s Chris Wolf, NVIDIA’s Chad Olds and WWT CTO Mike Taylor explore why private AI is gaining momentum across the enterprise. What began as a design

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23:23

The CEO's Job in the AI Era: Accelerating Idea to...

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2026/03/12

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 culture: how fast an organization can learn, adapt and change. The new leadership challenge is moving fast without creating downstream chaos.More about this week's guest:Jim Kavanaugh is globally recognized as an innovative business executive and is renowned

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36:43

Compressing Idea to Outcome (I2O): WWT Co-Founder and...

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2026/03/11

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 is organizational: companies must rethink leadership, data strategy and workforce skills to compete in an AI-native world. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares his vision for how coding assistants are emerging as one of the most ...

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33:56

AI Moves Fast. So Do Breaches. Now What?

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2026/03/04

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, Fortinet’s Aamir Lakhani and WWT’s Dave Pisarek lay out a practical path forward. No hype — just the controls that actually work. We cover: Why prompt injection isn’t going awayHow attackers hide payloads in unexpected encodingsWhy identity and access management ...

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36:57

The Hidden Cost of Bad AI Prompts (And How to Fix Them)

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2026/02/25

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 endless iteration loops that quietly burn tokens, waste GPU cycles and drag down ROI. As generative AI moves into production, AI literacy becomes operational leverage — not a soft skill. We cover: • A practical prompt blueprint that improves output quality fast • W...

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39:02

AI Isn’t a Pilot Anymore: How Cox Scaled It

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2026/02/18

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. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Matt Shorts, AVP of AI at Cox Communications, joins WWT’s Greg Schoeny to share how Cox moved AI from isolated pilots into production across a customer-facing network where uptime, trust, and scale matter daily. You’ll...

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37:38

Why Observability Has Become the Control Plane for...

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2026/02/14

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's Tapan Shah and NVIDIA's Shashank Sabhlok discuss why observability, when treated as foundational, becomes the connective tissue between infrastructure, applications, security and user experience. More about this week's guests: Ivan Wintersteiger bring...

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50:04

The Shift from AI Pilots to AI Infrastructure

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2026/02/13

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 and Cisco VP Daniel McGinniss talk about how organizations are rethinking where AI runs, how it's secured and how value is measured. More about this week's guests: Neil Anderson has over 30 years of experience in AI, Software Development, Wireless, Cyber...

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35:02

The Network Is Becoming the Real Unit of AI Performance

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2026/02/12

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 this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT's Justin van Schaik, Cisco's Dave Jansen and NVIDIA's Taylor Allison talk about how a well-designed network fabric extends time to value, increases risk and quietly erodes the economics of AI initiatives. ...

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46:44

Why Production AI Exposes Security Gaps Organizations...

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2026/02/11

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 Ground Podcast, WWT's Istvan Berko, Cisco's DJ Sampath and NVIDIA's Ofir Arkin discuss why as AI becomes core infrastructure, security becomes the mechanism that determines whether that infrastructure scales or undermines itself. Support for this episode ...

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42:43

Why the AI Factory Is Becoming the Enterprise's Next...

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2026/02/10

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, WWT's Neil Anderson, Cisco's Kevin Wollenweber and NVIDIA's Chris Marriott discuss how the Secure AI Factory represents a shift from bolt-on protection to security built into the architecture itself. More about this week's guests: Neil Anderson has ove...

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19:10

Is Security Now a Prerequisite for AI Adoption?...

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2026/02/09

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 Product Officer Jeetu Patel, NVIDIA Vice President Craig Weinstein and WWT CTO Mike Taylor discuss how Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is designed to close the gap between experimentation and execution by treating AI as infrastructure. More about this w...

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51:11

Why Ally’s AI Actually Stuck

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2026/02/04

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 nearly 90% retention. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Ally Chief Information, Data and Digital Officer Sathish Muthukrishnan joins former Bank of America CTO David Reilly to unpack why adoption is a leadership and culture problem, not a technology...

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30:31

The Ferrari Problem in AI | Intel

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2026/01/28

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 infrastructure as a single hardware decision is a costly mistake. As agentic systems push AI into real operations, assumptions like “AI = GPUs” start to crack under pressure from power, cost, governance, and scale. The takeaway from 2025 is clear: performance alone isn...

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44:50

Why Enterprise AI Keeps Stalling

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2026/01/21

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 visibility, and how organizations actually work. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Chris Campbell and Jason Campagna break down what enterprises learned the hard way, why most AI initiatives stall between pilot and production, and what leaders mus...

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35:59

Who Owns AI When It Breaks? | NightDragon

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2026/01/14

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, or create real-world risk — and who ultimately owns the outcome. As organizations look toward 2026, boards want visibility, CEOs want measurable impact, and the lines between IT, security, and the business have disappeared. AI accelerates opportunity, but it also acce...

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38:05

When AI Changes the Rules of Cybersecurity

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2026/01/13

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 espionage to strategic pre-positioning inside critical infrastructure. AI isn’t introducing new tactics — it’s collapsing timelines. Reconnaissance, phishing, and exploitation now move at machine speed, shrinking response windows from weeks to minutes. The result is a funda...

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31:36

Google Cloud’s New Math for AI

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2026/01/07

Enterprise AI is growing up. Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza breaks down how focus, data discipline, and workforce fluency separate AI hype from real business impact. More about this week's guest: Francis deSouza is Chief Operating Officer and President of Security Products at Google Cloud, where he leads operations to scale the business and oversees Google Cloud's global security portfolio, spanning products, threat intelligence, consulting, and governance. He joined Google in January 2025 ...

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29:43

Can Legal Teams Keep Up with AI Advancements?

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2025/12/31

As AI adoption accelerates inside global enterprises, chief legal officers are emerging as architects of governance, trust, and responsible innovation—not as roadblocks, but as strategic enablers. In this episode, Edgewood Management Chief Legal Officer Olivia Fleming and WWT General Counsel and EVP of Compliance Erika Schenk discuss how AI is reshaping legal leadership. From fragmented data and evolving governance models to gray-area regulations across jurisdictions, they explain why the rea...

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