Artificial intelligence is moving beyond predictive analytics into real-time, autonomous decision-making — and enterprises must scale securely and efficiently to keep up. In this episode of The AI Proving Ground Podcast, WWT VP of Networking and AI Solutions Neil Anderson, NVIDIA SVP of Networking Kevin Deierling and Cisco SVP of Networking Kevin Wollenweber unpack the biggest takeaways from NVIDIA GTC. They explore the evolving Cisco–NVIDIA partnership, the critical role of AI infrastructure and how innovations in networking, security and compute are shaping the future of AI-powered enterprises.

More about this weeks guests:

Neil Anderson has over 30 years of experience in software development, wireless, and networking technologies. At WWT Neil is the Area VP for our Cloud & Infrastructure Solutions global practice, with responsibility for Cloud, Data Center, Networking, AI, and Automation Solutions, representing over $15B in revenue. Neil works daily across WWT's customer segments, which include Global Enterprise, Global Service Provider, and Public Sector.

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

Kevin Deierling is the senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA. He has been a founder or senior executive at five startups that have achieved positive outcomes. Combining both technical and business expertise, Deierling has variously served as the chief officer of technology, architecture, and marketing at these companies, where he led the development of strategy and products across a broad range of disciplines including networking, security, cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, smart energy, and DNA sequencing. Deierling has contributed to multiple technology standards and has over 25 patents. 

Kevin Wollenweber is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cisco Networking – Data Center and Provider Connectivity organization. In this role, he leads a portfolio that transforms how our customers build and manage their network architectures. He has worked with the world's largest Service Provider, Enterprise, and Web Companies for the last three decades and has been with Cisco since 1997. As the leader for Cisco's Data Center and Provider Connectivity portfolio, Kevin is focused on how the industry and technologies are transforming and continuously evolving Cisco's products and solutions.

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.

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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.