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

World Wide Technology: Artificial Intelligence Experts

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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26:08

OpenAI, Meta and Microsoft Race to Put AI to Work...

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2026/10/03

OpenAI is giving AI agents more work to do. Meta is making a bigger push into enterprise AI. And the industry is racing to connect those systems to company data — and control what they do next. In this episode, World Wide Technology CTO Mike Taylor unpacks the stream of news coming out of the White House regarding AI policy and regulation, OpenAI’s DevDay announcements, Meta’s new enterprise business, Microsoft and Google’s push for shared business definitions, and agent security efforts fro...

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31:55

Cisco’s Jeetu Patel: Everyone Is About to Manage AI...

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2026/09/30

AI agents are consuming more tokens than humans, and Jeetu Patel thinks we’re only at the beginning. The Cisco president and chief product officer joins the AI Proving Ground Podcast to explore what changes when AI stops waiting for prompts and starts taking on the work itself. Suddenly, using AI well becomes an exercise in judgment: knowing what to hand over, what it’s worth and where human oversight still matters. Patel also makes the case for a different measure of AI productivity. The goa...

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26:01

Cheaper AI Models Are Here: Can Enterprises Keep Up...

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2026/09/26

AI was on the agenda for world leaders this week as OpenAI and Anthropic released cheaper models and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang called for stronger testing and verification before developers release systems they cannot safely evaluate. Meanwhile, a specialist model called Jev is drawing attention for making fast decisions inside software, and established software companies are discounting or bundling AI as customers weigh what these tools are worth. On this week’s AI Proving Ground P...

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37:53

The Leadership Behaviors That Drive AI Adoption

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2026/09/23

The AI Proving Ground podcast teamed up with Great Place to Work’s Better podcast for a conversation that puts the technology in the background and the people navigating it front and center. Every leader talks about change. Few talk about what it actually feels like. In this episode of Better, Roula Amire and guest co-host Brian Feldt sit down with World Wide Technology CIO Kevin Dana to talk about the human side of AI adoption. While many organizations are focused on the technology, Kev...

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36:08

AI Slowdown Calls Mount as Enterprises Push Ahead...

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2026/09/19

AI safety warnings are intensifying, frontier labs are calling for a slowdown and businesses face growing pressure to keep agent security and spending under control. What should enterprise leaders make of it all? WWT Chief Technology Officer Mike Taylor unpacks the debate over AI’s pace, the risks of agents acting without authorization and Salesforce’s latest push to connect AI to enterprise workflows. He also examines a mounting challenge: determining which AI spending delivers value as toke...

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40:46

AI Doesn’t Transform a Business. People Do. | WWT CEO...

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2026/09/16

AI investment is rising fast, but figuring out what actually creates value is still a work in progress. For WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh, that uncertainty isn't a reason to slow down. It's a reason to get closer to the work. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares what WWT is learning by putting AI to work inside its own business. That means experimenting aggressively, seeing what holds up in a real enterprise environment and giving people across the organization room to learn, ...

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35:14

AI Moves Weekly, Your Company Doesn’t

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2026/09/09

AI is changing by the week. Most companies are still planning by the quarter. Softchoice CEO Andrew Caprara joins the AI Proving Ground Podcast with a refreshingly practical take on what it actually takes to keep up. Forget starting with the latest tool or another sprawling AI transformation plan. Start with a broken workflow, put the right people around it and build something in days, not months. Andrew talks openly about Softchoice’s own experience. The first year brought a lot of activity ...

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29:32

What Your AI Spend Is Really Telling You

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2026/09/02

AI spending is climbing fast. But the number itself may be less important than what it reveals about how an organization is actually using AI. WWT CFO Tom Strunk and CIO Kevin Dana are watching that shift firsthand. As token consumption moves from thousands to millions, the spend becomes a signal: where people are experimenting, which use cases are gaining traction and where it may be worth looking more closely for value. They also get into a challenge traditional IT budgets weren't built for...

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45:37

Eli Lilly & Company Built an AI Supercomputer to Ask...

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2026/08/26

What changes when scientists stop thinking about how much compute they can afford to use and start thinking about what they could discover with more of it? That question sits behind LillyPod, Eli Lilly & Company’s on-prem AI supercomputer. Chief AI Officer Dr. Thomas Fuchs sees compute less as infrastructure and more as a scientific instrument, something that allows researchers to work at a scale that changes not only the answers they can find, but the questions they’re willing to ask. &n...

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50:27

The Greatest Risk Isn't Failure. It's Standing Still.

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2026/08/19

Most organizations don't fail because they aren't working hard enough. They fail because they spend too long preparing for yesterday's problems. Retired General Mike Minihan has spent a career leading organizations where the cost of being unprepared is measured in lives, not quarterly results. That experience shaped the Mobility Manifesto, a leadership philosophy built on a simple belief: readiness isn't something you create in the moment. It's something you build long before the moment arri...

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41:06

How to Escape AI’s 'Open Bar' Era: Intelligent Token...

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2026/08/12

For the past few years, enterprise AI had an open tab. Experiment. Build. Give teams access. Put agents to work. Now those agents are running 24/7 and someone has finally looked at the bill. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, AMD’s John Hampton and WWT’s Mike Trojecki dig into what happens when AI moves from experimentation to a real operating expense. Scaling it doesn’t mean simply spending more on compute. It means knowing when a workload needs a frontier model, when it doesn...

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33:41

The Robot Is Waiting on Your Data.

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2026/08/08

Humanoid robots have become the poster child for AI. They're dancing, running, stocking shelves and making headlines almost weekly. It's easy to look at them and think the future has finally arrived. But that's not the hard part. Long before a robot can navigate a warehouse, inspect a factory floor or assist in a hospital, it has to understand the world around it. That begins with trusted data, an accurate understanding of its environment and infrastructure capable of making safe, real-time d...

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44:01

AI Adoption Was the Easy Part. Now Comes the Hard...

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2026/08/05

For the last two years, the conversation has been about getting AI into the enterprise. That chapter is starting to close. Now comes the harder part. Where should AI go first? Which problems are actually worth solving? And how do you build enough trust that people are willing to let AI move from answering questions to taking action? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Brian Feldt is joined by WWT's Walton Smith, Google's Ahmed Ali and Dell's Suri Durvasula for a thoughtful conve...

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31:54

When AI Agents Cross the Boundary: Securing the AI...

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2026/07/29

In July, OpenAI disclosed that models undergoing a cybersecurity evaluation escaped their testing environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability and ultimately reached Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The incident raised a difficult question for every organization deploying autonomous AI: What happens when an agent crosses a boundary — not because it was instructed to attack, but because doing so helps it complete the objective it was given? Recorded before the incident became publi...

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34:32

A New Data Architecture for Agentic AI

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2026/07/22

AI is forcing enterprises to reconsider what their data infrastructure was built to do. Everpure GM Enterprise Maciej Kranz and WWT Principal Solutions Architect Bob Watson discuss why storing data is no longer enough—and what it takes to make information accessible, governed, secure and ready for inference. They examine the shift toward unified data management, whole-stack AI architecture, shorter investment cycles and governance models designed for a world in which applications, employees a...

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29:46

Your AI Agents Are Ready to Act. Is Your Architecture...

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2026/07/18

AI agents are getting remarkably good at deciding what to do. The harder question is whether they should be allowed to do it. For the last year, Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been viewed as a way to connect AI models to tools. As enterprises move from copilots to autonomous agents, it's becoming something much bigger: the architectural layer that determines how agents access data, interact with systems and operate safely at scale. Brian Feldt sits down with WWT's David Geddam and Chandler ...

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35:38

Your GPUs Are Waiting for Something

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2026/07/15

Buying GPUs is easy. Building an AI system that keeps them busy is something else entirely. Recorded live at Cisco Live, this conversation with Cisco's Will Eatherton and WWT's Eric Fairfield explores what happens after the hardware arrives. Networking, storage, orchestration and security rarely get the same attention as GPUs, yet they're often the difference between an AI investment that scales and one that sits idle. The organizations that get the most from AI won't be the ones with the mos...

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25:46

Your AI Is Only as Good as Your Data. Here's Why.

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2026/07/08

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, NVIDIA's Jason Schroedl and NetApp's Mike Hommer to explore why data has become the defining factor in enterprise AI. From token economics and GPU utilization to hybrid AI infrastructure, the conversation keeps coming back to one idea. AI is only as valuable as the data...

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39:37

When the Ground Keeps Moving: The New Reality of AI...

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2026/07/06

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 progress aren't rebuilding their strategy every time the landscape shifts. They're building the resilience to keep moving anyway. Madison Horn and Rob Geis join AI Proving Ground Podcast to explore what this new reality means for enterprise security. The conversation m...

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39:06

Doing AI Is Easy. Doing It Well Is Hard.

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2026/07/01

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 really takes to become an AI-native organization. As AI changes the way software gets built, engineering becomes less about producing code and more about solving meaningful problems, applying domain expertise, and creating the right guardrails for systems that can...

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