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What We Learned at NVIDIA GTC 2026
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.
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.
Compressing Idea to Outcome (I2O): WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh on Why AI Coding Assistants Could Reshape the Enterprise
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.
The CEO's Job in the AI Era: Accelerating Idea to Outcome (I2O)
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.
Invisible AI: What AI Leaders Can Learn from IHG Hotels & Resorts' AI Strategy
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.
Is Prompt Engineering Dead?
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.
Transform business workflows with Microsoft Copilot and agents | Microsoft Ignite 2025
Explore how Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, and AI Agents are revolutionizing business workflows. Drawing on real-world enablement programs and customer cases, this session reveals strategies for scaling AI adoption, selecting impactful scenarios, operationalizing agents, and empowering IT leaders to drive sustainable transformation and value across organizations.
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.
Why Your AI Strategy is Failing to Scale: Lessons from Ally Financial's Rollout
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.
Building AI-Native Nations with Core42's Edmondo Orlotti
Core42 Chief Growth Officer Edmondo Orlotti dives into how Core42 and G42 are building sovereign, national-scale AI infrastructure and what enterprises can learn as they face their own challenges with data governance, GPU scarcity, fragmented environments and global regulatory pressure.
Private AI vs. Cloud: How Enterprise Leaders Can Make Smarter Build-or-Buy Decisions
Is your organization ready to own AI or are you better served by leveraging the speed and scale of the cloud? In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT High-Performance Architecture Director Jeff Fonke and VP of Advanced Technology Solutions Jeff Wynn break down the toughest question facing IT leaders today: should you build or buy your AI capabilities? From the economics of inference costs to hybrid cloud realities, the two Jeffs share practical strategies on private AI, workload orchestration, data readiness and overcoming the enterprise skills gap.
Business Innovation Summit Series: Unfiltered Conversations About the Future of Enterprise AI
This special episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast kicks off a weeklong series of daily releases from the WWT Business Innovation Summit — bringing you unfiltered conversations with the leaders shaping the next decade of AI, cybersecurity, cloud and enterprise strategy. Featuring insights from executives at Cisco, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA, NightDragon, Morgan Stanley and more, this series offers urgent, real-time perspective on how AI is transforming the global economy, redefining risk, and rewriting the rules of competitive advantage.