Scaling AI from pilot to production exposes infrastructure readiness, operational complexity, and governance gaps that most enterprises underestimate until deployments are already live. Lakshmanan A V, VP and Global Practice Head, Cloud Infrastructure and Security Services at Wipro, joins Matt Kimball and David Nicholson at HPE Discover 2026 to examine how organizations are building scalable AI foundations through hybrid cloud strategy, operational transformation, and the HPE and Wipro collaboration that connects AI-ready platforms to the operational capabilities required to deliver long-term business value.