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

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• When the Ground Keeps Moving: The New Reality of AI Security 06.07.2026 39分

  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...
• Doing AI Is Easy. Doing It Well Is Hard. 01.07.2026 39分

  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...
• The Real AI Advantage Isn't What You Think 24.06.2026 37分

  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. Far fewer have done the years of work required to make AI useful in the first place. But Matt Pappas has. As Chief Data Officer at Kiewit, he's spent more than 15 years building production machine learning systems that influence billion-dollar decisions, risk ass...
• Everybody Wants AI. Who's Paying for It? 17.06.2026 31分

  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 changing the math. As organizations invest in more intelligence, more automation, and more ambitious digital strategies, every decision about infrastructure, operations, and capacity suddenly matters a little more. Not because the future is out of reach, but because the...
• Your AI Agent Doesn't Sleep. Are You Ready for That? NVIDIA Answers. 10.06.2026 32分

  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 and make decisions without a human in the loop. The productivity upside is enormous but so is the potential risk. In this episode, NVIDIA's Dave Barry breaks down what enterprises are learning about autonomous agents, from secure runtimes and policy controls to...
• Cisco Live! 2026: AI Is Taking Away the Luxury of Time 05.06.2026 37分

  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, socialize a strategy, secure a budget, and move forward on their own timeline. AI is taking that luxury away. Across nearly every conversation this week, the same tension kept surfacing. The technology is improving faster than organizations are adapting to it. Security tea...
• AI Is Having Its Dropbox Moment 03.06.2026 23分

  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 up across the enterprise, it's how quickly they're multiplying. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Softchoice's Craig McQueen and Stephanie Donahue discuss Microsoft's answer to a problem many organizations are only beginning to see: AI adoption is ou...
• Boards Can't Stay at 30,000 Feet Anymore 27.05.2026 36分

  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 entering an age of accountability and what happens when AI moves faster than governance can keep up. As AI moves deeper into the enterprise, the challenge is no longer adopting the technology. It's knowing who owns the consequences. Byron and Kate unpack what ha...
• When AI Stops Assisting And Starts Acting 20.05.2026 32分

  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 enterprises to rethink security from the ground up. These systems are no longer just generating content. They're touching sensitive data, triggering workflows, modifying code and operating with a level of speed and autonomy existing security models were never designed to handl...
• Mythos And The Disappearing Patch Window 13.05.2026 33分

  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 cyber architecture and innovation leader Kent Noyes break down how AI is compressing the timelines cybersecurity teams have relied on for decades. We explore why Anthropic’s Mythos became a wake-up call for the security industry, how agentic AI is accelerating...
• AI Can Move Trillions. You Won’t Let It Send an Email. 06.05.2026 32分

  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 down the real constraint on enterprise AI adoption: trust. We talk about the shift to agentic AI, how it's reshaping thought work, and the tension leaders face between productivity gains and the social contract with employees. If AI gives your team 20% of their time b...
• Your Customer Data Has No Owner 29.04.2026 35分

  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 personalization efforts stall long before AI becomes the problem. The issue is structural. Data ownership is unclear. Governance is inconsistent. Signals don’t connect across the journey. They get into what actually needs to be in place for personalization to work ...
• Your AI Looks Smart. Your Data Disagrees. 22.04.2026 45分

  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 outcomes. It’s subtle, and it breaks trust fast. In this episode, Paul Bruffett, VP of Data and Analytics at Jack in the Box, joins WWT’s Dan Moristro to talk about what it actually took to fix that. A multi-year modernization across core systems set the stage, but ...
• From AI Demo to Production Systems You Can Trust 15.04.2026 37分

  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 from AI pilots to production systems. They discuss sovereign AI as critical infrastructure, what control really means across data and operations, and why trust has to be built into every layer. From governance and observability to regulated environments, thi...
• AI Is Writing Code Faster Than You Can Review It 08.04.2026 30分

  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 development process is collapsing. Code is cheap. Mistakes aren’t. So what actually has to change? We get into AI-native engineering, agentic development and the shift from code generation to code governance. From code review bottlenecks and the “hourglass effect” to m...
• Before You Scale AI, Fix Your Data 03.04.2026 33分

  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 Derek Elbert get into what’s actually slowing teams down. The shift from clean, structured data to messy, high-value, unstructured data that’s harder to find, govern and use in real time. This is where things start to break. Data spread across systems. Inconsistent policies...
• AI Speed Starts in the Data Center 02.04.2026 30分

  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 at all. In this episode, Schneider Electric CTO Jim Simonelli and WWT’s Chris Campbell talk through what happens when AI infrastructure, data center design and workload placement collide in production. Because “speed to first token” isn’t just about model performance...
• AI Doesn’t Break Where You Think: How Storage and Data Readiness Now Decide AI Success 01.04.2026 28分

  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 once AI moves into real use. Data that’s harder to access than expected. Systems that slow things down. Security and governance questions that weren’t part of the original plan. It’s a different kind of conversation than most. Less about what AI can do, more about what i...
• Agentic AI at Scale: How to Build Without Losing Control 31.03.2026 34分

  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 theory, but in practice. As organizations start designing for real usage, new pressure shows up. Systems get more complex. Costs become harder to predict. And security can’t be something you fix later. Cisco’s Kevin Wollenweber, NVIDIA’s Kevin Deierling and WWT’s Ne...
• The Best AI Is the Kind You Don’t Notice (How IHG Is Scaling AI That Actually Works) 25.03.2026 34分

  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. At IHG Hotels & Resorts, AI is being applied with that mindset. Not as a headline, but as a way to make employees more effective and operations run cleaner behind the scenes. In this episode, IHG Chief Product and Technology Officer Jolie Fleming shares what it ...