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Eli Lilly & Company Chief AI Officer on Why Lilly Bet Big on On-Prem AI
Eli Lilly & Company Chief AI Officer Thomas Fuchs explains why the pharma giant built its own on-prem AI supercomputer, LillyPod, instead of solely relying on the cloud. Fuchs, who has built machine learning infrastructure since long before AI was mainstream, argues that owning compute at scale changes what's possible for medicine discovery, development, and delivery.
Cisco's Jeetu Patel on the Coming AI Infrastructure Supercycle
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel joins the AI Proving Ground Podcast to explain why agents now consume more tokens than humans — and why that signals the beginning of a massive infrastructure supercycle.
From $100,000 to $2 Million a Month: What AI at Scale Really Costs
WWT CFO and Chief Data Officer Tom Strunk and CIO Kevin Dana explain how organizational leaders can create AI cost visibility, govern variable consumption and connect rapidly growing token usage to measurable business outcomes.
Cisco Live 2026 Signals a New Phase of Enterprise AI: Operational Reality
As AI agents, cyber risk and infrastructure demand accelerate, IT leaders must move beyond experimentation and build the visibility, agility and resilience needed to operate at AI speed. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, we dive into the key lessons learned at Cisco Live 2026 and how enterprise business and technology leaders should think about them moving forward.
The Boardroom Reckoning on AI: Why AI Demands a New Kind of Leadership
AI is forcing a new leadership challenge inside the enterprise, in which boards are expected to oversee a fast-moving technology they do not manage day to day, while executives are tasked with deploying it responsibly at speed. In this episode, Byron Loflin, Global Head of Board Advisory at Nasdaq, and WWT AVP of Global Cyber Advocacy Kate Kuehn explore what that means for modern governance — from board-level AI literacy and trust between directors and management to error reporting, escalation paths and the growing need for stronger oversight as AI systems become more capable and more autonomous.
AI Is Entering Classified Networks. Is the Government Ready?
Federal agencies increasingly have access to powerful AI. The harder question is what happens next. Google's Ahmed Ali, Dell Federal's Suri Durvasula and WWT's Walton Smith examine how agencies can connect models, sensitive data, infrastructure and governance to produce measurable mission outcomes. They explore AI at the edge, agents with identities and permissions, cybersecurity operations, disconnected environments and why successful adoption begins with the mission — not the model.
Why the AI Factory Is Becoming the Enterprise's Next Critical Infrastructure
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.
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.
Deepfake Deception: Can You Trust What You See and Hear?
Deepfakes are getting smarter — is your security strategy keeping up? On this episode of The AI Proving Ground Podcast, cybersecurity veterans Kent Noyes and Chris Roberts expose the latest deepfake tactics used by cybercriminals, discuss real-world attacks that have cost companies millions, and share strategies for staying ahead of this AI-driven threat. They'll also unpack the regulatory landscape and the broader geopolitical stakes at play.
Building a Data Strategy for AI at Scale From Storage to Intelligence
AI leaders are moving beyond proofs of concept and confronting a harder question: Is enterprise data ready to support production AI and autonomous agents? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Everpure GM Maciej Kranz and WWT Principal Solutions Architect Bob Watson explain why data must evolve from a stored asset into a governed, secure and continuously available intelligence layer.
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.