Adopting AI at the level of organizational transformation requires a cross-functional team of experts. To fully capture and evaluate AI team-building needs, we recommend establishing an AI Center of Excellence (CoE) from the outset. While at Cisco Live, we caught up with Monica Livingston, who leads Intel's AI Center of Excellence, and the Senior Director of WWT's AI Practice, Mike Trojecki, about the key decisions and people that need to be involved in building an AI COE from the ground up. We also talk with Monica and Mike about measuring ROI for AI strategies, emerging use cases they're seeing in the market and emerging trends taking place in the fast-moving AI industry.

Generative AI may sit atop the executive agenda, but few organizations are fully prepared to harness the full potential of AI and AI-powered technologies. While at Cisco Live, we caught up with Cisco's David Jensen and WWT's Justin van Schaik to talk about the need to modernize and scale enterprise data centers for the surging growth in AI. We also talk with David and Justin about managing AI environments and workloads and how Cisco Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters make it easy for enterprise customers to build infrastructure to run generative AI models.

Cisco has been busy bolstering its Full Stack Observability Platform with acquisitions of AppD, ThousandEyes and, most recently, Splunk. While at Cisco Live, we caught up with ThousandEyes' Prab Singh and WWT's Christine Fierro and Joe Berger about how observability is delivering transforming the digital employee experience. We also talked with Prab about Cisco's broader plan for ThousandEyes, AppD and Splunk, and what new capabiliteis may be on the horizon.

As enterprise AI solutions go mainstream, IT leaders need to pay close attention to the growing roster of cloud-specific tools designed to jumpstart their AI initiatives and accelerate innovation. While at Cisco Live, we caught up with AWS Director of ISVs Mona Chadha and WWT VP of Cloud, Infrastructure and AI Solutions Neil Anderson to talk about the evolving cloud marketplace landscape, its role in driving AI solutions at scale and a new strategic partnership between the two that will make an impact moving forward.

IT leaders are bought into the transformational power of AI, but fatigued with trying to put it into action. Most are experimenting, but a significant majority are looking for a clear roadmap to separate hype from reality. While at Cisco Live!, we caught up with NVIDIA's Marty Jain and WWT's Neil Anderson to talk what is real when it comes to AI and what is hype. We also talked with Marty about the growing partnership between WWT, NVIDIA and Cisco, and the potential of Cisco Nexus HyperFabric, a breakthrough AI cluster solution with NVIDIA for the data center.

AI journeys are beginning to take shape across all industries. But one common challenge we hear across all client verticals: How do I get started with AI in a meaningful way that drives value and mitigates risk? While at Dell Technologies World, we caught up with Patrick Olson of Intel and WWT's Jeff Fonke to talk about practical ways you can advance your AI journeys today while keeping an eye on long-term strategy that will pay off tomorrow.