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.