Objective insights for AI leaders accelerating enterprise AI
Is your AI deployment delivering real value? Join host Ritu Jyoti and other visionaries as they explore AI’s impact on strategic industries and business functions—uncovering essential, actionable insights.
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Guest: Richard Ahlfeld, SVP for Physical and Scientific AI, CoreWeave
Physical AI is enabling advanced engineering teams and manufacturing organizations to streamline simulations and other complex, time-consuming processes. Get insights on the current status of this exciting, vital area of AI deployment—and explore the possibilities on the horizon.
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Guest: Mac Moore, Head of Media & Entertainment, CoreWeave
AI is a powerful enabler bringing new creativity and capabilities to media and entertainment groups. Find out how assistive AI is empowering creatives and streamlining workflows. And learn how an AI-native cloud delivers real value to this evolving industry.
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Guests: Jean English (CoreWeave, CMO)
This hard-hitting C-suite conversation confronts the single decisive strategic choice facing every executive—is their cloud infrastructure driving profit margins or is it an escalating cost center? We will explore why running AI on general-purpose hyperscalers guarantees sub-optimal ROI and a hidden drag for enterprise P&L.
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Guests: Corey Sanders (CoreWeave, Senior Vice President)
Enterprise leaders have to confront a primal fear—the perceived complexity, high cost, and risk of downtime associated with moving to a specialized AI-native cloud. We debunk this "Migration Myth" by advocating for parallel adoption and an incremental, zero-downtime strategy over the risky “big bang” method.
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Guests: James Higgins (CoreWeave, CISO)
Existing cloud security protocols create a dangerous “AI Risk Blind Spot,” since traditional security protects the container but not the algorithmic integrity of the AI model itself. The solution is an AI-native cloud that is purpose-built to embed specialized security, governance, and compliance throughout the AI lifecycle.
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Guests: Lavanya Shukla (Weights and Biases, Director of AI)
The general-purpose cloud’s complexity can turn Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) into a high-cost, low-return project: the “AIOps Black Hole.”
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Guest: Jacob Feldman, Lead Solution Architect, CoreWeave
Why is an AI-native cloud the smart choice for enterprise AI? Maximum compute performance is a start. But an infrastructure optimized for speed and efficiency is essential to escape pilot purgatory—and scale.
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The most significant threat to enterprise AI? Spiraling costs. Find out how an AI-native cloud addresses the costly shortcomings of general-purpose clouds, stops budget bleed-out—and avoids the Hyperscaler Tax.
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Guest: Dimitris Tsementzis, Founder and CEO, hLevel
Applying AI to the volatile, real-time environment of financial markets requires sophisticated tools and robust guardrails to mitigate risk and deliver real value. Explore the frontier of this vital industry, where AI creates significant opportunities for innovation and transformation.
Ritu Jyoti is an award-winning AI thought leader and value strategist who has spent more than 25 years at the crossroads of technological innovations and strategic business outcomes. She draws from this deep experience to help organizations integrate disruptive innovation and unlock new efficiency. Ritu gained her deep AI experience during her time as GM/GVP of AI and Data at IDC, where she guided global vendors, end-users, and investors with actionable research. She is also an expert contributor to CIO Online’s popular blog series “Leading the Agentic Age.”
Dr. Richard Ahlfeld is an expert in physical and scientific AI who joined CoreWeave following its 2025 acquisition of Monolith, the AI platform he founded. He helps the world’s leading automotive, aerospace, and industrial engineering companies accelerate innovation and optimize performance.
Mac Moore brings a deep knowledge of this exciting industry and the technology that fuels it. As CEO of Conductor Technologies (acquired by CoreWeave in 2023), Mac developed Conductor, a platform that enables visual storytellers to render and create at massive scale.
Jane English leads CoreWeave’s global marketing and communications strategy, accelerating the company’s brand, market presence, and business growth.
Corey Sanders leads the development and execution of CoreWeave's strategic initiatives, focusing on scaling innovation and driving sustainable growth in the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem.
A seasoned technology and business leader with 30+ years of experience in advanced technology, James Higgins specializes in information security and public-private collaboration.
Lavanya Shukla is on a mission to put powerful developer tools in the hands of every machine learning engineer and researcher on the planet.
A long-time member of the CoreWeave team, Jacob Feldman works closely with customers across industries and use cases to design and engineer solutions that achieve incredible feats in the cloud.
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