The AI Proving Ground podcast teamed up with Great Place to Work’s Better podcast for a conversation that puts the technology in the background and the people navigating it front and center.

Every leader talks about change. Few talk about what it actually feels like.

In this episode of Better, Roula Amire and guest co-host Brian Feldt sit down with World Wide Technology CIO Kevin Dana to talk about the human side of AI adoption. While many organizations are focused on the technology, Kevin argues that trust is what determines whether people embrace change or resist it.

Drawing on World Wide Technology's experience, he shares practical lessons on creating space for experimentation, learning from failure, building peer-to-peer support, and helping employees navigate uncertainty. One powerful takeaway: AI can help with the work, but people still own the outcome

More about this week's guest:

Kevin Dana has held significant roles at Accenture, Avanade, and Deloitte before joining WWT in 2018. His extensive background in IT and cybersecurity has positioned him as a leader in guiding WWT's digital transformation efforts. At WWT, Kevin leads the Information Technology organization, focusing on establishing and growing joint business and technology partnerships. His approach is centered on delivering outcomes through innovation, starting with process design and followed by technology implementation. Kevin's leadership has been instrumental in driving WWT's technology strategy, ensuring secure, resilient, and innovative technology 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.

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.