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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Prompt Engineering Lab
Join our virtual lab workshop to master prompt engineering using the Prompt Blueprint—a structured approach for creating effective prompts for AI models. This session covers the fundamentals of prompt engineering, including how to use blueprint elements such as task, context, constraints, persona, format, and tone to progressively improve AI responses. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises, to experiment with prompt design and customization for real-world scenarios. Live Q&A with experts is included—ideal for anyone interested in maximizing the value of generative AI tools in their workflows.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Zscaler Zero Trust – Branch Connector and Airgap
Join our virtual hands-on lab to explore Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch (ZTB) platform, focusing on Branch Connector and Airgap technologies. This session demonstrates how Zscaler's modern approach moves beyond legacy network architectures to enforce least-privilege access and advanced micro-segmentation. You'll see how each endpoint is isolated, dramatically reducing the attack surface and preventing lateral movement—crucial for containing breaches and limiting internal threats.
Participants will tour the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) consoles, and observe how policies and rule sets provide granular control over user and device access for both internal (East-West) and external (North-South) traffic. The lab is read-only, but you'll be able to view all Zscaler modules and their settings in action.
Scaling AI Across the Workforce to Empower Every Employee
In 2024, organizations laid the groundwork for AI transformation, and now in 2025, it's time to cement your AI strategy. Join WWT experts David Rosenblatt and Mike Davis as they share insights from our 2025 Digital Workspace Priorities research report. You'll hear their unique perspectives on treating AI like a new employee and guidance on transitioning from proof-of-concept to organization-wide AI implementation so you can empower every employee.
AI-Native Private Cloud: Scaling Enterprise AI with VMware Cloud Foundation & AMD
Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the transformative partnership between WWT, AMD and Broadcom in enterprise AI. Moderated by WWT's James Harless, Team Lead of Virtualization & Container Platforms, this event brings together experts from AMD and Broadcom to unveil their joint platform—combining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), AMD Enterprise AI software, AMD Instinct GPUs and WWT services. Discover how this collaboration empowers enterprises to build AI-ready private clouds that deliver privacy, security, flexibility and scalable performance. Panelists will address key challenges in AI deployment, including compliance, cost optimization, and workload management, while showcasing innovative use cases such as GPU-as-a-Service, agentic AI and secure content creation. Attendees will gain actionable insights into architecting, deploying, and managing AI workloads confidently on familiar infrastructure, with the flexibility to evolve as their AI strategies grow.
How Forward-Thinking Leaders Integrate Culture and Tech to Amplify Organizational Success
How can my organization become a great place to work? This is a common question we hear from clients of WWT. While there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach to culture, the most successful organizations integrate company culture with advanced technology to leverage data-driven insights and drive measurable business outcomes. Join WWT's experts Joe Berger, VP of Digital Experiences, and Krista Bush, VP of Global Employee Experience, as they discuss a framework for creating a sustainable and resilient company culture — a framework that has placed WWT on the Great Place to Work® list for 13 years running.
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Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infection Core
Join us for an immersive, hands-on Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed for blue team enthusiasts and cybersecurity professionals. The Infection Core lab challenges you to track, contain, and neutralize SHIVR, an autonomous cyber weapon that has escaped onto the public web. Through a series of malware analysis, reverse engineering, memory forensics, and cryptanalysis challenges, you'll develop and test your skills in real-world scenarios. This lab goes beyond surface-level analysis, pushing you to uncover hidden logic and defend critical infrastructure against advanced threats.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI)
Join us for a guided walkthrough of HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI), HPE's turnkey solution for on-premises AI workloads. This lab introduces the industry's first full-stack private cloud for AI, designed to accelerate innovation and manage enterprise risk. Combined with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, PCAI delivers a scalable, container-native environment for running diverse AI workloads—from inference and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to model fine-tuning and training.
You'll explore the PCAI interface, learn how to navigate its menus, and understand how the platform simplifies AI deployment and management. The session also highlights integrated tools such as the Kubeflow Platform, Jupyter Notebooks, and HPE MLIS for streamlined model deployment, deployment, and monitoring.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1: VXLAN EVPN Fabric Deployment
Join us for an interactive VXLAN EVPN lab session that combines guided walkthroughs, real-world insights, and hands-on practice using Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1. During the lab walkthrough, we'll discuss the workflow for onboarding Cisco Nexus switches, configuring vPCs, and building VRFs and networks. You'll learn how segmentation and tenant connectivity are implemented, along with key concepts such as route leaking, external route advertisement, and the roles of Border Gateways and Border Gateway Spines, as well as an overview of additional Nexus Dashboard labs and learning resources, and a look at what's coming next.
Is Security Now a Prerequisite for AI Adoption? Inside Cisco's Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA
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.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Zscaler Zero Trust – Branch Connector and Airgap
Join our virtual hands-on lab to explore Zscaler's Zero Trust Branch (ZTB) platform, focusing on Branch Connector and Airgap technologies. This session demonstrates how Zscaler's modern approach moves beyond legacy network architectures to enforce least-privilege access and advanced micro-segmentation. You'll see how each endpoint is isolated, dramatically reducing the attack surface and preventing lateral movement—crucial for containing breaches and limiting internal threats.
Participants will tour the Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA), Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) consoles, and observe how policies and rule sets provide granular control over user and device access for both internal (East-West) and external (North-South) traffic. The lab is read-only, but you'll be able to view all Zscaler modules and their settings in action.
From AI-Powered Attacks to Sovereign AI Security: Strategic Insights from WWT and Fortinet
Join WWT and Fortinet for an expert‑led discussion on how AI is reshaping today's cybersecurity landscape. Hear leaders from both organizations break down the rising speed, scale, and sophistication of AI‑powered cyberattacks, and the parallel challenges organizations face—complexity, skills shortages and expanding attack surfaces. Learn how Fortinet's long‑standing AI and ML innovation, combined with WWT's ARMOR framework and ATC validation capabilities, helps customers secure modern AI environments, simplify SOC/NOC operations, and build resilient, sovereign AI infrastructure. Discover actionable guidance on adopting AI securely, mitigating risks early, and leveraging existing platform investments to stay ahead in an era of agentic AI and accelerated threat evolution.
Are Your Workloads in the Wrong Place?
Ever wonder why your workloads never seem to land in the right place—no matter how much you invest, modernize, or migrate? In this episode of WWT Research's four-part IT Value Creation series, we bring together WWT experts Devang Soni and Jeff Weeks to unpack the real reasons workload placement remains one of the most misunderstood disciplines in modern IT. From cost pressure to risk posture to AI-driven demand, they lay out how enterprises can finally make workload decisions that are intentional, economical and scalable across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Prompt Engineering Lab
Join our virtual lab workshop to master prompt engineering using the Prompt Blueprint—a structured approach for creating effective prompts for AI models. This session covers the fundamentals of prompt engineering, including how to use blueprint elements such as task, context, constraints, persona, format, and tone to progressively improve AI responses. Participants will engage in hands-on exercises, to experiment with prompt design and customization for real-world scenarios. Live Q&A with experts is included—ideal for anyone interested in maximizing the value of generative AI tools in their workflows.
AI-Native Private Cloud: Scaling Enterprise AI with VMware Cloud Foundation & AMD
Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the transformative partnership between WWT, AMD and Broadcom in enterprise AI. Moderated by WWT's James Harless, Team Lead of Virtualization & Container Platforms, this event brings together experts from AMD and Broadcom to unveil their joint platform—combining VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), AMD Enterprise AI software, AMD Instinct GPUs and WWT services. Discover how this collaboration empowers enterprises to build AI-ready private clouds that deliver privacy, security, flexibility and scalable performance. Panelists will address key challenges in AI deployment, including compliance, cost optimization, and workload management, while showcasing innovative use cases such as GPU-as-a-Service, agentic AI and secure content creation. Attendees will gain actionable insights into architecting, deploying, and managing AI workloads confidently on familiar infrastructure, with the flexibility to evolve as their AI strategies grow.
Why Cloud Governance Fails — And How to Fix It
Most organizations adopt cloud before they establish governance—then spend years battling runaway costs, siloed decisions, and commitments they can't unwind. In this episode of WWT Research's four-part IT Value Creation series, Josh Bushman and Jenny Halidik unpack the structural gaps that undermine cloud ROI and explain why FinOps tools alone cannot solve the problem. This episode explores the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) as the foundation for sustainable cloud governance, showing how cross-functional decision-making, shared accountability and continuous optimization transform cloud from a cost risk into a strategic advantage. If your cloud spending is unpredictable, commitments feel misaligned or optimization never sticks, this conversation offers a clear roadmap for building governance that works at enterprise scale.
NightDragon's Dave DeWalt and WWT's Kate Kuehn on Who Owns AI When It Breaks
NightDragon Founder and CEO Dave DeWalt and WWT's Kate Kuehn join the AI Proving Ground Podcast to unpack why 2026 marks a shift from AI experimentation to accountability — and what that means for cybersecurity, boards and enterprise leaders navigating a faster, more volatile global threat landscape powered by AI.
Avoid Spend You Can't See with Strategic Partnerships
Most enterprises believe procurement is optimized—until they uncover the invisible costs eroding every "discount." In this episode of WWT Research's four-part IT Value Creation series, Robb Boyd talks with WWT VP of business development Matt Long, who unpacks why misaligned teams, lifecycle blind spots and fragmented spend data are costing companies millions and how strategic technology partnerships transform procurement from a cost center into a true value engine.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: SR-MPLS with ISIS for Network Engineers
Join our virtual lab workshop to learn Segment Routing with MPLS (SR-MPLS) using ISIS and Fast Reroute. This session covers SR-MPLS fundamentals, including simplified service deployment via the MPLS data plane and Prefix label advertisement through standard ISIS/OSPF extensions, removing Classical LDP requirements. Participants will configure basic routing and SR-MPLS with ISIS on Cisco routers and set up SR-MPLS over ISIS plus BGP L3VPN/L2VPN on Cisco XRv9000 virtual routers. Live Q&A with experts is included—ideal for Network Engineers interested in transitioning to SR-MPLS networking.
Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza on the New Math of Enterprise AI
In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza explains why enterprises are shifting from experimentation to intentional, top-down AI deployment. and why a strong data strategy now determines who captures real value.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Container Basics for Infrastructure Engineers
Join our virtual lab workshop to explore the fundamentals of container technology tailored for infrastructure professionals. This hands-on session introduces container architecture, their role in modern IT infrastructure, and the responsibilities of infrastructure engineers in designing scalable, container-ready environments. You'll gain practical experience installing Docker, building and managing containerized applications, and understanding how containers fit into today's infrastructure landscape. Engage with experts and get your questions answered during live Q&A. Perfect for aspiring infrastructure engineers and IT pros.
Turn License Chaos into IT Value with Visibility and Optimization
Your biggest IT expense might be the one you never see. In this episode of WWT Research's four-part IT Value Creation series, Robb Boyd talks with Andrew Tookey and Sean McDonald about the silent budget drain hiding in unmanaged software licenses. You'll uncover how "tail spend" quietly grows into millions of dollars in waste, why visibility is the foundation of IT value creation and how strategic partnerships turn license chaos into measurable savings.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Zscaler Unified Vulnerability Management
Join our interactive lab workshop to explore Zscaler's Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) and Risk360 modules. This session is designed for security and IT professionals seeking to enhance their organization's asset hygiene, vulnerability management, and cyber risk quantification. You'll gain hands-on experience with Zscaler's Security Fabric, learning how to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, deduplicate findings, and streamline remediation workflows. The workshop includes practical exercises, expert guidance, and live Q&A to help you master modern vulnerability management strategies.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: WWT AI Agentic Network Assistant
Join our Virtual Lab Workshop to explore the Agentic Network Assistant proof-of-concept. This hands-on session introduces a browser-based application that simplifies network operations through natural language inputs, powered by the Llama 3.3-70B local language model. See how real-time interaction with Cisco Nexus devices bridges the gap between human intent and device-level configuration or diagnostics. Experience practical labs and real-world scenarios that demonstrate how AI can accelerate workflows and reduce operational complexity. Engage with experts and get your questions answered during live Q&A.
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.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Multi-Cloud DNS and IP Address Management with Infoblox
Join our Virtual Lab Workshop to explore the Infoblox DNS Management & Federated IPAM for Multi-Cloud Environments learning path. This hands-on session introduces Infoblox's integrated DNS and IP Address Management (IPAM) solution, focusing on multi-cloud environments. Through guided labs and real-world scenarios, you'll gain practical experience with centralized IPAM, cross-cloud DNS synchronization, federated governance, and policy-based automation. Engage with experts and get your questions answered during live Q&A. Perfect for IT professionals and network engineers looking to modernize and secure their cloud networking infrastructure.