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digitalNow 2026 wrapped on Wednesday, October 28, at the Hilton Arlington Rosslyn at The Key, just outside Washington, D.C. Eight keynotes in three days, plus more than 100 attendees who built with AI in the hands-on digitalLab. At the end of the...
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Imagine taking nine years of flat, two-dimensional medical reports and turning them into a living, interactive model of a human body. A DEXA scan...
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If Day 1 of digitalNow 2026 asked who should hold the keys to an association's AI, Day 2 answered a more practical question: once you hold them,...
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Imagine a piece of software running quietly in the background of your organization. It handles event registrations, manages member records, or...
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Anyone who has spent time working with artificial intelligence on complex projects knows the exact moment the system loses its grip on the task. You...
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Day 1 of digitalNow 2026, Sidecar's annual conference on AI and associations, opened on Monday, October 26, at the Hilton Arlington Rosslyn at The...
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Associations have spent decades building some of the most valuable data repositories in their industries. From peer-reviewed journal archives and...
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A master carpenter does not build custom cabinetry with a Swiss Army knife. While a multi-tool offers the convenience of having everything in one...
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A recent federal appeals court ruling sounds like the exact shield content creators have been waiting for. For the first time, a United States...
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Mallory Mejias: Oct 16, 2026, 11:51:52 AM
Summary: Microsoft spent years building Copilot around a single model maker, and the fix turned out to be paying for a competitor's. Amith Nagarajan...
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When association professionals hear about new artificial intelligence capabilities, they often map the concept directly onto the tools they already...
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You open a browser tab, type a question into a chat interface, and watch as a highly sophisticated response appears on your screen in seconds. The...
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Walk into any association board room and mention artificial intelligence, and you will likely hear the same heavy sigh. The consensus is usually that...
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Mallory Mejias: Oct 12, 2026, 5:26:32 PM
Summary: A chatbot can tell you what to do, but an agent can actually do it. In Part 3 of the refreshed Fundamentals of AI series, Amith Nagarajan...
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Every week brings a headline about a new artificial intelligence breakthrough. A major lab releases a model that shatters previous benchmarks. A day...
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Imagine opening the door to a taxi, sliding into the back seat, and finding the driver's seat completely empty. For a moment, the absence of a human...
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Look at any standard process documentation in your association. You will likely see a flowchart made of two primary shapes. Rectangles represent...
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Mallory Mejias: Oct 5, 2026, 9:52:19 AM
Summary: A surprising amount of the work we hand to AI isn't writing at all—it's deciding. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias sort through a busy...
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On a recent episode of the Leading Learning podcast, JD Dillon made a point that should land hard with anyone planning AI training for an association...
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When membership organizations decide to modernize their technology, the immediate instinct is to look for technical talent. The assumption is that...
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The traditional association technology committee is designed to be a safety mechanism. It might bring together representatives from membership,...
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Erica Salm Rench: Sep 28, 2026, 2:17:23 PM
I've had a lot of roles at digitalNow over the past decade. I've been an attendee, soaking up every session I could fit into a day. I've been an...
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Imagine discovering a leaking pipe in the garage. A quick fix is to grab a roll of duct tape and wrap the pipe tightly. The water stops. The floor...
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Mallory Mejias: Sep 25, 2026, 3:07:44 PM
Summary: Vibe coding can patch almost anything, but a duct-tape fix only holds until the water pressure changes. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...
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Imagine an association executive handing a massive problem over to a new technology. The organization is facing a retention crisis, so the executive...
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There is a strong temptation to hand the keys over to the machine. When organizations start experimenting with artificial intelligence, the vision...
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Researchers resigning from major artificial intelligence labs. Open letters signed by thousands of industry insiders asking governments to build a...
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Mallory Mejias: Sep 21, 2026, 12:42:32 PM
Summary: The people building AI are starting to sound scared of what they're building. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias take on the AI safety...
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For generations, professional associations have operated under a fundamental economic premise. Expertise is hard to build, difficult to scale, and...
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Bring up artificial intelligence in any boardroom, and the conversation inevitably turns to the same roadblock. Someone will point out that language...
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The process of buying an association management system is a familiar ritual. It begins with a massive request for proposals. Committees form to...
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Mallory Mejias: Sep 14, 2026, 1:49:47 PM
Summary: Intelligence is turning into a resource you can scale like electricity, and that shift changes what's actually worth your attention in the...
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Imagine a real estate professional looking for highly specific, county-level zoning regulations from two decades ago. They open a generic AI model...
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Anyone who has spent four years studying a language in high school knows the exact feeling of landing in a foreign country and realizing they cannot...
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Association leaders often approach new technology with a familiar playbook. They form a committee, draft a comprehensive request for proposals, hire...
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38 min read
Mallory Mejias: Sep 7, 2026, 1:18:40 PM
Summary: A drug company CEO just made the best case yet for why platform choice matters less than most associations think. Marking three years of...
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When a company goes bankrupt, its physical assets are typically the first things auctioned off to pay creditors. When budget carrier Spirit Airlines...
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A persistent critique of artificial intelligence is that the technology is nothing more than a sophisticated autocomplete. Critics often refer to...
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There is a famous psychology experiment involving a video of a basketball court. Viewers are asked to watch the players moving around and count the...
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Mallory Mejias: Aug 31, 2026, 4:25:43 PM
Summary: When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its...
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There is a conversation that repeats itself constantly with association staff who use AI every day. They describe themselves as heavy users, and by...
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Consider where things stood in the middle of 2024. If your association was trying to do something serious with AI, the decision was close to...
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Ask ten association leaders what they make of AI right now and you'll get two answers that seem impossible to reconcile.
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Mallory Mejias: Aug 24, 2026, 1:19:56 PM
Summary: AI may feel like it arrived overnight, but its foundations have been decades in the making. In part one of a refreshed Foundations of AI...
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The pressure on association leaders to maintain the integrity of their content has never been higher. Whether you are managing a peer-reviewed...
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The recent flurry of activity from tech giants like Meta and NVIDIA has sent a clear signal to the association sector. Meta recently released its...
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The word hackathon often conjures images of darkened rooms, rows of glowing monitors, and software engineers fueled by caffeine and complex code. For...
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Mallory Mejias: Aug 17, 2026, 10:28:02 AM
Summary: Meta and NVIDIA are turning up the heat in the open-weight AI race, while Anthropic is taking a very different approach by watermarking...
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Many association executives view artificial intelligence as a technical challenge to be solved by the IT department or a specialized task force. They...
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For decades, the standard for success in member services has been defined by the dashboard. We look for green lights, low numbers, and empty queues....
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Many association leaders treat artificial intelligence like an optional professional development elective. They might offer a stipend for an online...
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Mallory Mejias: Aug 10, 2026, 11:22:59 AM
Summary: In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of the American Society of Landscape...
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The reality of cybersecurity changed in mid-July when a fully autonomous attack hit Hugging Face, the world's largest hub for open-source AI models....
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In the middle of July, the digital infrastructure of Hugging Face, a central hub for the global artificial intelligence community, experienced a...
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Imagine booking a five hundred seat jumbo jet just to fly a single passenger across the country. The plane will certainly get the job done, but the...
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Mallory Mejias: Jul 31, 2026, 1:02:15 PM
Summary: This week, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a whirlwind of AI developments shaping the future of associations. From Anthropic’s...
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Many association executives feel a reflexive hesitation when they hear about powerful new artificial intelligence models emerging from international...
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Imagine a high-stakes professional sports match where the rules are being written as the players run down the field. One team introduces a new play...
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Many association leaders feel a quiet pressure to pick a side. In the early days of any technological shift, we look for the winner—the one platform...
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Mallory Mejias: Jul 24, 2026, 10:59:46 AM
Summary: In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a rapidly shifting AI landscape where powerful, low-cost open-weight models from...
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Many association leaders face a common instinct when a new technology arrives. They want to protect the organization by building a wall of rules....
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In the modern professional environment, the challenge is rarely a lack of information. For most clinicians, researchers, and specialists, the problem...
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Many association leaders find themselves in a difficult position regarding artificial intelligence. On one hand, the technical potential of the...
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Mallory Mejias: Jul 17, 2026, 2:17:32 PM
Summary: In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Vicki Deal-Williams, CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing...
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For years, the standard advice for association executives has been: "Clean your data first." It sounds responsible. It feels like the right thing to...
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For years, association leaders have been told that data is their most valuable asset. They have dutifully collected member records, event...
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Most association professionals view their inbox as a relentless list of tasks to be cleared. It is a digital conveyor belt of requests, complaints,...
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Mallory Mejias: Jul 9, 2026, 11:00:34 AM
Summary: It’s been 130 episodes since Sidecar Sync last did a true deep dive on data—and a lot has changed. In this refreshed 2026 perspective, Amith...
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The narrative surrounding artificial intelligence and the workforce often feels like a foregone conclusion. If you follow the mainstream headlines,...
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Imagine a high-security research greenhouse where the most advanced botanical specimens are kept. For years, scientists and enthusiasts alike could...
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Many association leaders approach artificial intelligence with a single question: which model is the best? They look for the highest benchmark scores...
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Mallory Mejias: Jul 2, 2026, 3:08:35 PM
Summary: This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind week in AI, from Anthropic’s rapid-fire Claude releases...
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Imagine opening your inbox to a pointed question from a long-time member. They noticed your association recently launched a new search tool on the...
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Imagine hiring a brilliant assistant who speaks twenty languages and processes information at lightning speed, but they have no idea where the filing...
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Imagine a corporation with no human employees, no human executive team, and no human shareholders. The marketing campaigns are generated and deployed...
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Mallory Mejias: Jun 25, 2026, 2:44:17 PM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias explore one of the most provocative ideas in AI yet: companies owned...
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“How many hours can we save?” It is the first question most leadership teams ask when they start exploring artificial intelligence. The math is...
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The conventional wisdom in association management dictates that new technology belongs in the IT department. When a new association management system...
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The conventional wisdom in association management dictates that launching a new digital initiative requires a massive budget, a long timeline, and a...
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Mallory Mejias: Jun 18, 2026, 11:45:32 AM
Summary: What if building a million-dollar business no longer required a team, funding rounds, or even technical expertise? In this episode of the...
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The way professionals interact with artificial intelligence is undergoing a quiet but fundamental transformation. For the past couple of years, the...
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Associations are intimately familiar with the concept of vendor lock-in. For decades, technology planning has often meant choosing a single ecosystem...
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For many association professionals, artificial intelligence has become the ultimate administrative assistant. We use it to draft newsletters,...
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Mallory Mejias: Jun 15, 2026, 12:08:51 PM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith and Mallory explore three major developments shaping the future of AI. First, they unpack how an...
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Associations have long thrived on a very specific, highly valuable asset: deep, historical understanding of their members and their industries. This...
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When association leaders discuss the future of artificial intelligence, the conversation almost inevitably turns to talent. The instinct is sound:...
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Many association professionals have already taken the first step with artificial intelligence. They have logged into a platform, typed a prompt, and...
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Mallory Mejias: Jun 8, 2026, 11:09:26 AM
Summary: In this jam-packed “mini” episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind of recent AI model releases—from Anthropic,...
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The volume of scientific and professional knowledge published each year is staggering. For associations and professional societies, which serve as...
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Associations sit on decades of trusted, vetted content. Historically, protecting that intellectual property meant a simple binary choice: keep it...
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For decades, the ultimate measure of success for digital content has been the human click. Association executives and digital teams have spent...
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Mallory Mejias: Jun 1, 2026, 10:28:52 AM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias welcomes Dr. Jessica Miles, founder of The Informed Frontier, former VP of Strategy and...
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When the first tablet computers hit the market, there was no training manual required. People simply touched the glass, and the interface responded....
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For the past few years, the narrative surrounding artificial intelligence has been dominated by a single, relentless pursuit: the race for the...
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For nearly three decades, the blank rectangular search box has been the undisputed front door to the internet. We type in a few keywords, hit enter,...
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Mallory Mejias: May 26, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack Google I/O 2026 and what it signals for the future of...
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When organizations begin exploring artificial intelligence, the natural instinct is to reach for the most famous, most advanced models available. If...
5 min read
For decades, the user interface was the product. When an association purchased an enterprise software system, the implicit agreement was that staff...
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For the better part of two decades, the ultimate metric of success for associations has been website traffic. Every few years, organizations embark...
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Mallory Mejias: May 21, 2026, 5:06:53 PM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into two major shifts happening beneath the surface of AI: how...
5 min read
Associations are remarkably adept at creation. When a new industry challenge arises, a new committee is formed. When members request a specific type...
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When a highly anticipated technology suddenly goes dark, it is easy to assume the entire sector is in trouble. Recently, the web and mobile...
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Imagine you want to answer a seemingly simple question about your association's membership: Are there geographic trends in your year-over-year...
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Mallory Mejias: May 12, 2026, 10:38:21 AM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the hidden world of “dark databases”—messy, undocumented...
5 min read
This post draws on Wharton professor Ethan Mollick's recent article, "The IT department: Where AI goes to die," which we analyzed on a recent episode...
5 min read
For many association professionals, the path from a great idea to a finished visual asset is often blocked by a significant bottleneck. You might...
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This post draws on Wharton professor Ethan Mollick's recent article, "The IT department: Where AI goes to die," which we analyzed on a recent episode...
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Mallory Mejias: May 4, 2026, 11:19:44 AM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into Anthropic’s latest moves with Claude Opus 4.7 and the new...
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To understand the current state of artificial intelligence, one must look back at the history of computing. We often feel as though we are living in...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 29, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
If you work on the events side of an association, the math probably looks familiar. Budgets have been flat for years. Costs — venues, catering, AV,...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 28, 2026, 9:15:00 AM
Here's a story you may have heard a version of: a small team launches a free app in the App Store. Two weeks later, Apple calls — unannounced,...
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41 min read
Mallory Mejias: Apr 28, 2026, 8:54:02 AM
Summary: What happens when you put a Siri co-creator and longtime AI pioneer together with a next-generation events strategist? Adam...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Apr 23, 2026, 12:25:40 PM
More associations are building AI-powered knowledge assistants every month. The pitch is compelling: members get instant answers drawn from your...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 21, 2026, 6:30:01 AM
Most AI conversations in associations start with the same question: which model should we use? Claude or ChatGPT? Gemini or something open-source?...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 20, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
In early 2023, if you wanted access to the smartest AI available, you paid about $30 per million tokens to use GPT-4. It was expensive, it lived in...
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38 min read
Mallory Mejias: Apr 17, 2026, 12:16:35 PM
Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias trace one of the biggest stories in AI: how cutting-edge intelligence...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 17, 2026, 11:38:59 AM
Associations have always been in the trust business. Members come to them for credentialing, education, industry standards, and reliable information...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 14, 2026, 3:31:18 PM
Many associations are operating with IT teams of one, two, or three people — and those teams are responsible for protecting sensitive member data,...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Apr 13, 2026, 3:09:21 PM
Many association professionals have moved past the "why AI" question. They've attended the webinars. They've read the articles. Many have...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 13, 2026, 1:37:54 PM
Twelve trillion dollars. That's the estimated annual volume of cybercrime flowing through the dark web — a figure that surpasses the GDPs of Germany...
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37 min read
Mallory Mejias: Apr 13, 2026, 1:06:01 PM
Summary: In this interview edition of Sidecar Sync, Mallory sits down with Eric O’Neill—former FBI counterintelligence operative, attorney,...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 8, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Computer use — the ability for AI to see your screen, click buttons, open apps, and navigate software on your behalf — has been technically possible...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 7, 2026, 9:40:56 AM
In late March, a misconfigured content management system at Anthropic left nearly 3,000 unpublished assets publicly accessible. Among them was a...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 6, 2026, 5:57:47 PM
If your association has been watching voice AI from the sidelines — maybe impressed by the demos but put off by the cost or complexity — the calculus...
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Mallory Mejias: Apr 2, 2026, 12:18:11 PM
Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a whirlwind of Claude news, from Anthropic’s accidental “Mythos”...
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 31, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
A lot of associations spent the past year or two making what felt like a big decision: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. Teams were assembled....
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 30, 2026, 11:36:54 AM
If you've been anywhere near AI news in the past few weeks, you've probably seen the name OpenClaw. NVIDIA's CEO compared it to the arrival of Linux....
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38 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 27, 2026, 12:43:33 PM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, co-hosts Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into the explosive rise of OpenClaw—an open-source AI...
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 25, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Your members don't compare your website to other association websites. They compare it to every other digital experience they have in a day —...
6 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 24, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
In late January, a group of 14 people gathered at a beach house in Florida for six days. They worked 16 to 18 hour days, mostly self-directed, with...
6 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 23, 2026, 11:44:51 AM
Sidecar recently launched Grace, a voice AI agent that lives on our website. You can talk to her about Sidecar's offerings, ask questions about the...
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30 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 20, 2026, 9:33:03 AM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias pull back the curtain on one of Sidecar’s most ambitious experiments...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 20, 2026, 9:09:37 AM
Ask a room full of association leaders what's standing between them and meaningful AI adoption, and a version of the same answer comes up repeatedly:...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 17, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
There's a version of the current AI story where associations aren't really in the picture. The disruption is happening at the enterprise level, the...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 16, 2026, 11:23:43 AM
Earlier this year, a JP Morgan report flagged something that should get the attention of anyone running an association: the S&P 500 software index...
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John Huisman: Mar 16, 2026, 11:03:15 AM
We built something we're excited about and wanted to share it. If you visit sidecar.ai now, you'll notice something new: a research preview of our AI...
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38 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 16, 2026, 10:12:31 AM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack three major developments shaping the AI landscape for...
4 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 13, 2026, 11:38:01 AM
Eighty percent of organizations surveyed in Anthropic's 2026 State of AI Agents Report say agents have already delivered measurable financial impact....
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 11, 2026, 12:26:12 PM
When organizations across industries were asked what they plan to implement with AI agents over the next 12 months, the top answer wasn't customer...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 10, 2026, 12:10:29 PM
For a long time, the conversation around AI in associations has been about tools — things you ask, things that respond, things that complete a task...
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25 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 5, 2026, 1:05:50 PM
Summary: In this special solo edition of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias unpacks Anthropic’s 2026 State of AI Agents report and translates what it...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 5, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Model Context Protocol — MCP — has quickly become the standard for connecting AI tools to external data sources. If you've heard the term floating...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 4, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
When association leaders hear the term "AI data platform," there's usually a familiar response: "Oh, so it's like a data warehouse?" Not quite.
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Mallory Mejias: Mar 3, 2026, 3:13:36 PM
On a recent investor call, HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan was asked how the company plans to respond to clients using AI agents to pull data out of...
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40 min read
Mallory Mejias: Mar 3, 2026, 1:05:55 PM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Mallory and Amith dive deep into two seismic shifts rocking the AI landscape for associations: the rise...
4 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 25, 2026, 2:08:42 PM
For generations, the trajectory of professional development has pointed in one direction: deeper. You specialize. Then you sub-specialize. You become...
4 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 25, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
If you've been following AI developments, you've probably seen impressive image generators and video tools. You type a prompt, you get a visual....
3 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 24, 2026, 12:22:02 PM
Most association leaders making AI decisions right now are doing something that feels responsible but is actually a strategic mistake: they're...
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31 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 24, 2026, 9:59:44 AM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias zoom out to explore the AI infrastructure quietly reshaping everything...
4 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 19, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Most associations were built on a promise that still holds: bring the right people together and good things happen. That idea launched thousands of...
5 min read
Mallory Mejias: Feb 18, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
If you've been paying attention to AI news over the past year, you already know the feeling. A new model drops and the benchmarks are unprecedented....
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 17, 2026, 2:25:34 PM
I recently bought a home, and like anyone staring down empty rooms and a budget that isn't infinite, I went deep — books, YouTube channels, design...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 17, 2026, 10:08:57 AM
Summary: If you think the future of AI is being decided only in Silicon Valley or Beijing, this conversation will stretch your perspective. Amith...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 12, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Associations are adopting AI at a pace that would have been hard to imagine even two years ago. Content generation, member service tools, internal...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 11, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
On January 30th, Anthropic released a set of domain-specific plugins for Cowork, their enterprise AI product. The plugins target legal, finance,...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 10, 2026, 10:03:59 AM
Most association professionals have a working mental model for AI at this point. You give it a task, it works through it, and it gives you something...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 5, 2026, 3:12:59 PM
Summary: In this high-octane episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith and Mallory cover an ambitious trio of AI developments with massive implications for...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 4, 2026, 6:30:01 AM
When people talk about AI risk, they tend to focus on dramatic scenarios. Mass unemployment. Superintelligent systems escaping human control. Robots...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 3, 2026, 1:49:26 PM
Most conversations about AI and employment follow a familiar script. Jobs will be lost. Workers will need to reskill. Organizations should invest in...
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 2, 2026, 1:22:02 PM
There's a question lurking in the back of many association leaders' minds right now: Who am I to lead an AI initiative?
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Mallory Mejias: Feb 2, 2026, 12:59:16 PM
Summary: What do AI companions, deepfakes, and White House briefings have in common? Bruce Reed. In this episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 29, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Every association claims to have a focused strategic plan. The board retreat happened. The priorities were narrowed. The strategic pillars were...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 28, 2026, 1:14:51 PM
Economists Philip Trammell and Dwarkesh Patel recently published an essay that's been making the rounds in policy and technology circles. The premise...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 27, 2026, 12:18:18 PM
The United States builds the most advanced AI systems on the planet. American companies created ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. American data centers...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 27, 2026, 11:42:44 AM
Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan unpack two powerful narratives shaping our AI future: the surprising...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 21, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
CES 2026 delivered its usual mix of the practical and the peculiar. But this year, even the quirky gadgets pointed toward a consistent theme: AI is...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 20, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Robotics dominated CES 2026 in a way we haven't seen before. More robots appeared at this year's show than ever, but what's notable isn't the...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 19, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
CES 2026 just wrapped in Las Vegas, and while the Consumer Electronics Show has historically been about TVs, phones, and gadgets, this year's biggest...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 15, 2026, 1:52:05 PM
Summary: CES 2026 brought the heat—and the robots. In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down the biggest stories from the...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 14, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
A study from MIT's Sloan School of Management found that 95% of enterprise AI initiatives fail to reach production with measurable impact....
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 13, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Your AMS vendor just announced an AI assistant module. It's an additional $10,000 per year. Your LMS now offers AI-powered content generation for a...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 12, 2026, 4:51:26 PM
When association leaders decide to "do something with AI," the default instinct is predictable: build a chatbot. It makes sense on the surface....
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 12, 2026, 4:21:34 PM
Summary: In this episode of the Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into the startling findings of a recent MIT study: 95% of...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 9, 2026, 12:42:32 PM
The conversation around AI skills has shifted. What was a "nice to have" a few years ago has become a baseline expectation. According to Microsoft...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 6, 2026, 1:57:14 PM
AI agents have been "coming soon" for a while now. Every year brings new announcements, new frameworks, new promises about autonomous systems that...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 5, 2026, 10:30:51 AM
We're officially in the second half of the decade. And if 2025 felt like the year AI went from interesting to unavoidable, 2026 is shaping up to be...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 5, 2026, 6:30:00 AM
Every association claims to offer excellent member service. Mission statements promise it. Strategic plans prioritize it. Staff work hard to deliver...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 2, 2026, 11:09:49 AM
Summary: In this annual predictions spectacular, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias kick off 2026 by looking back at how well their 2025 AI forecasts...
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Mallory Mejias: Jan 2, 2026, 10:17:23 AM
There's a lot of speculation about how people use AI. Productivity boosters. Coding assistants. Research tools. The assumptions tend to skew toward...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 30, 2025, 10:50:20 PM
Summary: In this special holiday edition of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unwrap two stories that feel wildly different—but point...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 30, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
The NFL has been quietly monitoring a supersonic jet company. Not as an investment opportunity. Not as a sponsorship play. League executives have...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 24, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
Somebody is going to train the lawyers of the world on how to use AI in legal practice.
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 23, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
One in four US doctors now uses OpenEvidence, an AI platform trained exclusively on peer-reviewed medical journals. That's 15 million consultations...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 22, 2025, 2:20:02 PM
In October 2025, two lawyers from a prominent UK firm launched Three Points Law, a legal practice built entirely on AI platforms from day one. No...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 22, 2025, 10:37:08 AM
Summary: Domain-specific AI is having its ‘main character’ moment—and Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down three sharp examples. They unpack...
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Bruce Moe: Dec 19, 2025, 10:30:00 AM
Executive Summary
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 17, 2025, 6:30:01 AM
Many associations have launched online communities in recent years. The pitch was compelling: give members a space to connect, share knowledge, and...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 16, 2025, 12:49:06 PM
Ernie Svenson made an observation in our recent Sidecar Sync podcast conversation that should give association leaders pause. Ernie is a former New...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 15, 2025, 12:10:30 PM
A lawyer recently made a claim that got people talking: most attorneys get more practical help from a $20/month ChatGPT subscription than from their...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 15, 2025, 11:34:49 AM
Summary: In this eye-opening episode, Mallory Mejias sits down with Ernie Svenson—better known as Ernie the Attorney—to talk tech, tradition, and the...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 10, 2025, 6:30:01 AM
A post has been circulating on LinkedIn that should make every association leader uncomfortable. It shows what's now possible with AI image...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 9, 2025, 10:28:32 AM
Microsoft. Google. Salesforce. Adobe.
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 8, 2025, 12:37:22 PM
The AI leader from January isn't the AI leader now. And the leader now probably won't hold that spot six months from now.
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 8, 2025, 12:04:31 PM
Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan unpack one of the most explosive weeks in AI so far—from the stunning...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 3, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
Most associations have decades of content sitting in their archives. Journals, conference proceedings, research publications, technical standards,...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 2, 2025, 10:55:04 AM
If you've been waiting for your board to greenlight an AI initiative, you're not alone. Board buy-in is a common blocker association professionals...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 1, 2025, 3:01:25 PM
A recent podcast conversation with Jay Gilbert, Director of Scientific Programs and Product Development at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT),...
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Mallory Mejias: Dec 1, 2025, 12:44:30 PM
Summary: When an association with 85 years of food science knowledge decides to launch an AI product, what happens? In this episode, Mallory Mejias...
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Mallory Mejias: Nov 26, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
This month, Google announced Project Suncatcher, their plan to build scalable machine learning compute systems in space. The vision: constellations...
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Mallory Mejias: Nov 25, 2025, 6:30:00 AM
This month, Inception Labs released an upgraded version of Mercury, their diffusion-based language model that first launched in February 2025. The...