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Enterprise adoption of AI agents is spiking, with industry surveys showing most large enterprises are already piloting AI agents. But there's a lot of hype out there. In this episode of the AI Proving Ground Podcast, Technical Solutions Architect Ina Poecher and Senior Director of WWT's AI Practice expose widespread "agent-washing," highlight practical but ROI-heavy use cases you can pursue now. Tune in to discover how agentic architecture turns generative AI hype into secure, measurable enterprise AI outcomes — and what's next for multi-agent ecosystems.

More about this week's guests:

Ina Poecher is a Technical Solutions Architect at World Wide Technology (WWT) and collaborates with customers and internal teams to design and validate innovative technology solutions. Working within WWT's Advanced Technology Center, she leverages extensive experience across IT infrastructure, cloud, networking and automation to develop and test complex architectures that drive business outcomes and support strategic initiatives.

Ina's top pick: Hack the Future: AI Meets Security

Jason Campagna leads AI solution strategy at World Wide Technology, helping enterprises adopt intelligent systems from AI assistants to autonomous agents. A technologist since 2001, he brings deep expertise in cloud, automation and platform architecture. Jason is known for bridging disruptive tech with real-world execution and building agile, diverse teams to drive innovation at scale.

Jason's top pick: WWT at ONUG AI Networking Summit—Dallas 2025

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.

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Chapters

1. Introduction to AI Agents (00:00:00)

2. Defining Agents vs Agent Washing (00:01:37)

3. Evolution from Legacy AI to Agents (00:04:45)

4. Data Readiness for Agent Deployment (00:08:02)

5. Building Adam AI and Agent Orchestration (00:11:24)

6. Trust and Security in Agent Architecture (00:19:10)

7. Future of AI Agents (00:29:13)

8. Key Takeaways and Conclusion (00:51:46)

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