In this episode of Petri Dish, Russell Smith sits down with Wendy Stusrud, Vice President of Worldwide Channel Sales at ‪DDN‬ to talk about what it really takes to make enterprise copilots and chatbots succeed at scale.

Wendy shares why she joined DDN as the company doubles down on AI, and how DDN positions itself not as a chatbot vendor but as the data backbone that keeps AI assistants fed with the right data, securely, in real time, at massive scale (RAG, training, and high-volume inference).

The conversation also digs into what “ROI” can mean beyond productivity and how copilots can spark better thinking, accelerate early drafts, and unlock innovation over time.

If you’re building copilots, scaling enterprise AI, or trying to move from AI experiments into production, this one’s for you.