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Newest AI Proving Ground Podcast episodes feature WWT Co-Founder and CEO Jim Kavanaugh on how AI-powered coding assistants and AI-first leadership are changing the speed of business.
Featured Insights
AI Security Is Now a Machine-Speed Problem
AI has moved the security goalposts. Organizations are being asked to pour more data into models to unlock value, while attackers use those same techniques to move at machine speed. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Fortinet's Aamir Lakhani and WWT's Dave Pisarek deliver a CISO-level playbook for enabling AI at scale while defending against AI-driven attacks — by tightening visibility and governance (especially for agents and shadow AI), modernizing identity and using automation to defend at machine speed without abandoning security fundamentals.
Private Cloud: What Teams Get Wrong (and How to Fix It)
Private cloud sounds simple until you sit in the room where the decisions get made. Everyone agrees they want it — but everyone means something different. That's where things start to drift. Teams buy hardware, timelines get tight, and suddenly the foundation is poured before anyone agrees on what the cloud is supposed to deliver.
F5 celebrates outstanding partners with 2025 North America Partner Awards
Honoring partners who are driving innovation, growth and customer impact across North America
Using AI-Powered Digital Humans for More Efficient Care
At the ViVE 2026 conference in Los Angeles, WWT demonstrated an AI-powered digital human to showcase how healthcare entities can optimize vaccine schedule referencing.
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The 2026 Tech Elite 250
CRN's annual Tech Elite 250 recognizes solution providers in the U.S. and Canada that have achieved top-tier status within the partner programs at some of the leading IT vendors.
2026 ZKast - Moving AI from Lab to Factory Floor: A Conversation with Jim Kavanaugh
Cisco is making a massive pivot toward Silicon One and AI-ready Ethernet, and as their largest global partner, WWT, is at the center of this evolution.
BEYA40: Inspiring STEM Leaders and Trailblazing Students
For four decades, the BEYA STEM Conference has honored excellence in science, technology, engineering and math.
The 2026 Managed Service Provider 500
CRN's Managed Service Provider 500 list recognizes the top technology providers and consultants whose forward-thinking approach to providing managed services is changing the landscape of the IT channel.
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Computer Vision Demo for Healthcare
The WWT Industry Solution Experience (WISE) is a state-of-the-art facility within WWT's Advanced Technology Center (ATC) that simulates industrial technology environments to demonstrate the possible ways to digitize, monitor and secure the architecture and its control systems.
Palo Alto NGFW Crafting Basic Security Policies Lab
This lab is a part of a larger collection of mini challenges designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's NGFW solution.
Package Management with Helm in Kubernetes
Learn how Helm simplifies application packaging and deployment in Kubernetes. This lab walks through installing Helm, creating charts, and managing repositories with ChartMuseum in a three-node cluster.
Rubrik Agent Cloud: End-to-End AI Agent Governance Overview
See Rubrik Agent Cloud in Action. Take back control of your AI and unleash agents without all the risk. Watch our short product walkthrough to learn how you can monitor your agents, govern their actions, and remediate their mistakes in minutes. Rubrik Agent Cloud enables your organizations to deliver AI transformation and deploy agents at scale with confidence.
Partner POV | Red Hat AI Enterprise: Bridging the gap from experimentation to production scale
Red Hat AI Enterprise revolutionizes AI deployment with a unified platform for hybrid cloud environments, bridging the gap between experimentation and production. It enhances operational efficiency, reduces costs, and ensures data sovereignty, empowering organizations to innovate sustainably and securely in the AI-driven era.
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.
Partner POV | What 500,000 Interconnections Reveal About the Future of Enterprise Connectivity
To support new distributed applications and more complex architectures, enterprises are changing the way they connect
Partner POV | Red Hat Named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management for the Third Consecutive Year
Red Hat OpenShift is celebrated as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, highlighting its robust execution and visionary strategy. This recognition underscores OpenShift's prowess in hybrid environments, AI integration, and container management, affirming its role in advancing modern, secure application development and delivery.
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How to Use ARMOR: A Guide to AI Security Transformation
ARMOR, a vendor-agnostic AI security framework, offers comprehensive guidance across six domains to secure AI deployments and protect against dynamic and fast-moving threats.
AI for Security vs Security for AI with Palo Alto Networks
Join WWT and Palo Alto Networks for an insightful discussion about how AI is transforming organizations and reshaping today's cybersecurity landscape. Learn how Palo Alto Networks comprehensive platform approach combined with WWT's ARMOR framework and ATC validation capabilities, helps customers secure every aspect of AI usage from development to deployment and beyond.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Infection Core
Join us for an immersive, hands-on Capture the Flag (CTF) experience designed for blue team enthusiasts and cybersecurity professionals. The Infection Core lab challenges you to track, contain, and neutralize SHIVR, an autonomous cyber weapon that has escaped onto the public web. Through a series of malware analysis, reverse engineering, memory forensics, and cryptanalysis challenges, you'll develop and test your skills in real-world scenarios. This lab goes beyond surface-level analysis, pushing you to uncover hidden logic and defend critical infrastructure against advanced threats.
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.
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How Wingstop Delivers a Predictive Digital Experience That's Always One Step Ahead
Wingstop partnered with WWT to unify data and leverage AI to power personalized customer journeys, transform internal operations and scale for exponential growth.
Hands-On Lab Workshop: HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI)
Join us for a guided walkthrough of HPE Private Cloud AI (PCAI), HPE's turnkey solution for on-premises AI workloads. This lab introduces the industry's first full-stack private cloud for AI, designed to accelerate innovation and manage enterprise risk. Combined with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, PCAI delivers a scalable, container-native environment for running diverse AI workloads—from inference and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to model fine-tuning and training.
You'll explore the PCAI interface, learn how to navigate its menus, and understand how the platform simplifies AI deployment and management. The session also highlights integrated tools such as the Kubeflow Platform, Jupyter Notebooks, and HPE MLIS for streamlined model deployment, deployment, and monitoring.
The Cloud Advantage for AI
Discover how leveraging the cloud can help organizations accelerate AI adoption.
Cloud, FinOps and AI: What You Need to Know About Unit Economics, GPUs and the ROI Flywheel
AI has pushed cloud into overdrive. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, two of our top cloud experts — Jack French and Todd Barron — reset the approach and detail why cloud is the launchpad but portability is the strategy; how to start greenfield with containers and abstraction; what a real FinOps model for AI looks like (unit economics, tagging, token/GPU visibility); where neo clouds fit versus hyperscalers; and how to handle cross-cloud risk and skill gaps; and the governance moves that accelerate—not restrict—innovation.
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How Wingstop Delivers a Predictive Digital Experience That's Always One Step Ahead
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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.
How to Clone Objects in C# .NET Core
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Trending in Infrastructure Modernization
Hands-On Lab Workshop: Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1: VXLAN EVPN Fabric Deployment
Join us for an interactive VXLAN EVPN lab session that combines guided walkthroughs, real-world insights, and hands-on practice using Cisco Nexus Dashboard 4.1. During the lab walkthrough, we'll discuss the workflow for onboarding Cisco Nexus switches, configuring vPCs, and building VRFs and networks. You'll learn how segmentation and tenant connectivity are implemented, along with key concepts such as route leaking, external route advertisement, and the roles of Border Gateways and Border Gateway Spines, as well as an overview of additional Nexus Dashboard labs and learning resources, and a look at what's coming next.
Scott Data Embraces AI Transformation to Offer GPU as a Service
Learn how a data center leader partnered with WWT to validate and execute a strategic vision for providing on-demand access to the advanced high-performance infrastructure required to run today's most demanding AI workloads.
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.
Powering the Next Frontier of Academic Research at The Texas A&M University System
Discover how The Texas A&M University System partnered with WWT to build VISION, one of the largest supercomputing environments in higher education that's powering a new wave of discovery, collaboration and high-performance experimentation.
Top Labs
Cisco AI Defense Capture the Flag (CTF)
Experience Cisco AI Defense in an interactive Capture the Flag (CTF), designed to showcase how Cisco is securing the future of GenAI.
Cisco SD-Access Fabric with Catalyst Center (2.3.7.9) Foundations Lab
Cisco Catalyst Center takes a software-delivered approach to automating and assuring services across your campus, WAN and branch networks. Based on an open and extensible platform, Catalyst Center allows you to build value on the network, so you can streamline operations and facilitate IT and business innovation. This lab closely matches the Cisco SD-Access Foundation lab.
Cyber Range - Initiation
Initiation is a Capture the Flag (CTF) lab meant to introduce you to the WWT Cyber Range platform and serve as a tutorial for future events. You will be introduced to the features and functionality as well as provided tips for success during future WWT Cyber Range CTFs. This lab will also allow you to test your access using the same platform we use for our live CTF events so you can make sure you will be ready on game day.
Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Version 11 Lab
The Palo Alto NGFW Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of Palo Alto's solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
Fortinet NGFW Foundations Lab
The Fortinet Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Foundations Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the fundamental features of the Fortinet NGFW solution. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.
AI Prompt Injection Lab
Explore the hidden dangers of prompt injection in Large Language Models (LLMs). This lab reveals how attackers manipulate LLMs to disclose private information and behave in ways that they were not intended to. Discover the intricacies of direct and indirect prompt injection and learn to implement effective guardrails.
Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1
This lab is the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 1, and after completion, the student can launch Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 to complete the entire lab. The lab uses the ACI virtual simulator based on ACI Version 6.1(3f), emulating an APIC, 2 leafs, and a spine. Part 2 uses a shared physical ACI fabric to complete the policy and verify data plane connectivity.
The ACI Virtual Simulator was needed to demo the building of the ACI fabric from scratch, bootstrapping the APIC, adding the spine and leafs, fabric discovery, and completing VMM integration. Since the Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab, Part 2 is a shared on-demand environment, to decouple the APIC build process from the APIC policy creation. Due to limitations, the virtual ACI fabric is a control plane-only simulator, and no data plane testing (Ping, SSH) can get done for validation. Cisco ACI Fundamentals Lab Part 2 uses a Tenant inside of a physical ACI, and data plane functionality can get tested ( Ping, SSH)
Crafting Your First AI Agent
Embark on a journey to create AI agents with "Crafting Your First AI Agent." This hands-on lab introduces LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI frameworks, empowering you to build, run, and understand AI agents. Discover the intricacies of AI workflows and multi-agent systems, transforming curiosity into practical expertise.
Partner Spotlight
Akamai
Akamai is the one-stop shop for managed security services and the leading provider of application and API security, Zero Trust, DDoS, DNS security, Abuse and Fraud protection and much more. This is all delivered on a SaaS basis from the industry's most robust network, and underpinned by cyber insights and research.
Akamai Guardicore Centra Foundations Lab
The Akamai Guardicore Centra Foundations Lab aims to give people a hands-on experience with the central segmentation solution through a variety of use cases.
Partner POV | East-West Is the New North-South: Rethink Security for the AI-Driven Data Center
In AI-driven data centers, traditional perimeter security is obsolete as east-west traffic dominates. This shift necessitates microsegmentation to secure internal communications, reduce attack surfaces, and ensure compliance. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation with Aruba CX 10000 offers real-time, in-fabric enforcement, optimizing security for modern applications and AI workloads.
Partner POV | How AI Bots and Agents Will Shape 2026
In 2025, AI bot traffic surged 300% on Akamai's network, driven by AI training crawlers. As AI bots increasingly filter information, businesses must optimize for AI interaction to stay competitive. In 2026, agentic commerce will require trust and permission, shifting the advantage to those embracing AI traffic.