As AI moves from predictive analytics to real-time autonomous decision-making, enterprises face a critical challenge: scaling AI securely and efficiently. This episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast explores key takeaways from NVIDIA GTC, the evolving Cisco-NVIDIA partnership and the foundational role AI infrastructure plays in unlocking enterprise-scale AI. Featuring WWT VP of Networking and AI Solutions Neil Anderson, NVIDIA SVP of Networking Kevin Deierling and Cisco SVP of Networking Kevin Wollenweber, the episode covers insights into networking, security, and compute innovations, and how Cisco, NVIDIA and WWT are shaping the future of AI-powered businesses.

Cisco is thrilled to bring in WWTs VP of Engineering- Chris Pupillo, Benita Mordi from WWT and Joel Sprague – Cisco, as we dive into the AI in business discussion with some of the common pain points and questions customers are having as they dive into AI deployment and strategy for the first time.

AI Canvas is Cisco's first Generative UI for cross-domain IT-a shared, intelligent workspace that brings real-time telemetry, AI insights, and team collaboration into one view.

Cisco's end-to-end solution to secure the AI transformation in enterprises.

Cisco's Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution is a highly distributed security fabric optimized to stop advanced threats, protect application vulnerabilities, and implement zero trust segmentation across environments.

Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA is a scalable, high-performance, and secure AI infrastructure from Cisco, NVIDIA, and our strategic partners to help accelerate the adoption of AI for enterprises.

Given the challenges of today's threat landscape, nothing less than a radical rethinking of security will do. Cisco Hypershield is it.

From racetracks to technology hubs, a global workplace needs seamless solutions to connect and collaborate. See how the McLaren Formula 1 Team uses Cisco advanced networking and AI technologies to future-proof workplace operations. Seamless collaboration, secure connectivity, and real-time data analytics empower globally dispersed teams.

In this technology demonstration, we will showcase the deployment of an AI workload using Cisco Intersight automation on a single UCS X-Series blade, leveraging a neighboring X440p (X-Fabric) with an NVIDIA A40 GPU. This demo will highlight the powerful capabilities of both Cisco Intersight and the Cisco AI Toolkit, which includes tools for AI model deployment, system monitoring, and resource management. By utilizing Miniconda for environment management, CUDA for GPU acceleration, and various large language models like Vicuna and Meta OPT, we will feed data into a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model.

Learn how Cisco provides McLaren the speed of connectivity, and a robust AI-ready infrastructure that matches the speed of their car on track.

Watch an exclusive webinar where we  Go Beyond the headlines of Cisco Live 2025. We'll unpack the biggest announcements across Cisco's key focus areas —Security, Networking, and AI.

WWT's Matt Halcomb walks us through the installation of the Cisco FlashStack AI environment in the AI Proving Ground. After the infrastructure is installed, Matt shows us the software component integration. We're excited to continue to build new environments with our partners.