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AI Proving Ground Podcast

AI leaders these days have little time for proofs of concept. They need ROI. If you're leading AI transformation in a large organization, this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast is your blueprint. AI consultants Kathleen Nowicke and Yoni Malchi share how top enterprises prioritize use cases, align across business units and unlock lasting ROI, and detail a three-step process to get AI right from the start.

Support for this episode provided by: VAST Data

More about this week's guests:

Kathleen Nowicke is an experienced consultant in data-driven digital transformation, with a broader background in Enterprise Architecture and a passion for healthcare. Skilled in leading delivery of complex services engagements, business development, and building high-performing teams. Previous consulting experience with Boston Consulting Group; PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Kathleen's top pick: Building for Success: A CTO's Guide to Generative AI

Yoni Malchi is a Managing Director in Consulting Services at WWT focused on AI and Cloud Strategy. He leads AI engagements with key customers bridging the gap between the business and technology teams. Yoni also leads the AI R&D efforts which researches cutting-edge AI techniques, tools, and platforms to provide differentiated recommendations to our clients.

Yoni's top pick: A Guide for CEOs to Accelerate AI Excitement and Adoption

The AI Proving Ground Podcast leverages the deep AI technical and business expertise from within World Wide Technology's one-of-a-kind AI Proving Ground, which provides unrivaled access to the world's leading AI technologies. This unique lab environment accelerates your ability to learn about, test, train and implement AI solutions.

Learn more about WWT's AI Proving Ground.

The AI Proving Ground is a composable lab environment that features the latest high-performance infrastructure and reference architectures from the world's leading AI companies, such as NVIDIA, Cisco, Dell, F5, AMD, Intel and others.

Developed within our Advanced Technology Center (ATC), this one-of-a-kind lab environment empowers IT teams to evaluate and test AI infrastructure, software and solutions for efficacy, scalability and flexibility — all under one roof. The AI Proving Ground provides visibility into data flows across the entire development pipeline, enabling more informed decision-making while safeguarding production environments.

Chapters

1. The AI Maturity Challenge (00:00:00)

2. Shadow AI and POC Chaos (00:01:45)

3. The Three-Step AI Framework (00:05:10)

4. Comprehensive Use Case Identification (00:08:30)

5. Organizing and Prioritizing Use Cases (00:14:15)

6. WWT's Internal AI Strategy Success (00:20:00)

7. Selecting Use Cases: The 80-20 Approach (00:30:50)

8. Common Stumbling Blocks and Solutions (00:36:00)