At IHG Hotels & Resorts, AI is being applied with a clear principle: make the employee more effective so the customer experience feels more human. That approach, according to IHG CTO Jolie Fleming, who joined us in our latest episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, offers a useful model for any leader trying to scale AI adoption without losing trust, control or business focus.

At NVIDIA GTC 2026, the conversation shifted from model novelty to enterprise reality. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Chief AI Advisor Tim Brooks explains why agentic AI, inference-heavy workloads and physical AI are forcing CIOs and CTOs to rethink infrastructure, governance, trust and leadership.

As AI spreads beyond developers into every workflow, the differentiator shifts from tools to leadership. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh argues that winning in AI will lean heavily on culture: how fast an organization can learn, adapt and change. The new leadership challenge is moving fast without creating downstream chaos.

AI-powered coding assistants are rapidly compressing the time it takes to build software and delivering a competitive advantage that can lead to transformational outcomes. But according to WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh, the bigger shift is organizational: companies must rethink leadership, data strategy and workforce skills to compete in an AI-native world. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Jim shares his vision for how coding assistants are emerging as one of the most practical and disruptive use cases in enterprise AI.

From the hidden cost of bad prompts to the shift toward agents and orchestrated systems, AI evangelist Liz Gattra discusses why prompt engineering is still foundational to enterprise AI adoption, and what organizations are getting wrong and how to fix it. If you're responsible for scaling AI beyond experimentation, this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast will recalibrate how you think about workforce readiness.

AI-powered coding assistants are having a significant impact for organizations by significantly boosting productivity and enabling faster, more innovative solutions for both internal teams and customers. In this presentation, WWT's Nate McKie highlights the benefits of AI assistants including examples of debugging production issues, rapid prototyping and handling complex, inconsistent data sets. Nate also reviews the evolution of these tools from IDE integrations to chatbot interfaces and low-code/no-code platforms and the importance of governance and security.

While most organizations struggle to push AI adoption at meaningful scale, Ally Financial is seeing adoption rates north of 50%. Ally Chief Information, Data and Digital Officer Satish Muthukrishnan joins former Bank of America CTO David Reilly on the AI Proving Ground Podcast to break down Ally's "augmentation first" culture and leadership strategies that drove AI adoption at scale.

As enterprises push AI out of pilots and into production, the constraints are becoming clearer—and harder to ignore. In this episode, Intel's Lynn Comp and World Wide Technology's Mike Trojecki unpack what 2025 revealed about AI infrastructure, why "AI equals GPU" is an increasingly risky assumption and how agentic systems are forcing organizations to rethink governance, sovereignty, and centers of excellence.