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How AI Is Rewriting Customer Expectations Across Healthcare, Utilities and Retail
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 like — and how their industries are rethinking service models, operational workflows and human touchpoints to keep pace with a new, AI-shaped standard.
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 evolution of Zero Trust and what it means to secure AI itself. From poisoned prompts to quantum threats, they warn the biggest risk isn't just deploying AI — it's trusting it. A sharp, real-world look at how enterprises can protect their future as machines begin to make decisions of their own.
Executive Leadership in the Age of AI: Lessons from WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh
AI 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-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh explains why executive leadership is the critical factor in moving beyond pilots, how companies should build the right foundations for AI and why waiting on the sidelines may be the biggest risk of all.
Building AI-Native Nations 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 environments and global regulatory pressure.
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 management, incident response and operational scale to deliver faster resolutions, stronger security and smarter decisions across the enterprise.
A New AI Operating System with Cisco's Jeetu Patel and WWT's Jim Kavanaugh
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 innovation. They'll also talk about how secure, scalable architectures enable organizations to innovate confidently and compete at AI speed.
Inside NVIDIA: The $5 Trillion Engine Redefining the Future of AI
AI 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 Podcast, NVIDIA leaders Jay Puri, Charlie Wuischpard and Craig Weinstein break down how the entire AI stack — from the silicon driving breakthroughs to the software shaping intelligent experiences — is redefining how we build, operate and compete.
This conversation gives leaders a clear view of what's coming next—and what it takes to align their organizations, scale AI innovation, and stay ahead in a race where velocity, architecture, and ambition now determine advantage.
Private AI vs. Cloud: How Enterprise Leaders Can Make Smarter Build-or-Buy Decisions
Is your organization ready to own AI 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 Advanced Technology Solutions Jeff Wynn break down the toughest question facing IT leaders today: should you build or buy your AI capabilities? From the economics of inference costs to hybrid cloud realities, the two Jeffs share practical strategies on private AI, workload orchestration, data readiness and overcoming the enterprise skills gap.
AI's Trust Problem: What Great Leaders Know That Most Don't with Great Place to Work CEO Michael Bush and WWT CTO Mike Taylor
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 culture, leadership and access — not just technology — determine whether AI pilots fail or flourish, and why people-first leadership may be the ultimate competitive advantage in the age of AI.
Business Innovation Summit Series: Unfiltered Conversations About the Future of Enterprise AI
This special episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast kicks off a weeklong series of daily releases from the WWT Business Innovation Summit — bringing you unfiltered conversations with the leaders shaping the next decade of AI, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise strategy. Featuring insights from executives at Cisco, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA, NightDragon, Morgan Stanley and more, this series offers urgent, real-time perspective on how AI is transforming the global economy, redefining risk, and rewriting the rules of competitive advantage.
Enterprise AI Adoption: How Workforce AI Is Changing the Future of Work
Organizations are racing to unlock the potential of workforce AI, but only a few have cracked adoption at scale. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, VP of Digital Experiences Joe Berger and workforce AI expert Kait Miller break down why AI pilots stall, how to move from pockets of success to enterprise-wide impact and why employees often trust consumer AI more than company-approved tools. Kait and Joe explore the hidden gap between employee adoption and enterprise rollout, address the build vs. buy conundrum and walk through a real-world case study at WWT that slashed days of work into hours and generated new revenue.
Cloud, FinOps and AI: What You Need to Know About Unit Economics, GPUs and the ROI Flywheel
AI 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 portability is the strategy; how to start greenfield with containers and abstraction; what a real FinOps model for AI looks like (unit economics, tagging, token/GPU visibility); where neo clouds fit versus hyperscalers; and how to handle cross-cloud risk and skill gaps; and the governance moves that accelerate—not restrict—innovation.