Mallory Mejias

Mallory Mejias is passionate about creating opportunities for association professionals to learn, grow, and better serve their members using artificial intelligence. She enjoys blending creativity and innovation to produce fresh, meaningful content for the association space. Mallory co-hosts and produces the Sidecar Sync podcast, where she delves into the latest trends in AI and technology, translating them into actionable insights.

Episode 149 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | [Sidecar Sync Episode 149]

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 data. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias use that sale to dig into what's actually valuable in AI right...

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Episode 148 of the Sidecar Sync Podcast cover art featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | [Sidecar Sync Episode 148]

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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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 147 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Open-Weight Models, AI Watermarks, and How to Run Your Own Hackathon | [Sidecar Sync Episode 147]

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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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 146 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Torey Carter-Conneen

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AI-Powered Service for Landscape Architects with Torey Carter-Conneen | [Sidecar Sync Episode 146]

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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Rogue Agents, the Open-Weight Revolt, & Claude Gets Cheaper | [Sidecar Sync Episode 145]

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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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 144 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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The Open-Weight Wave & the Push for AI Referees | [Sidecar Sync Episode 144]

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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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 143 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Vicki Deal-Williams

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Suspenders & Double Dutch: Scaling AI Without Losing the Human Touch with Vicki Deal-Williams | [Sidecar Sync Episode 143]

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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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 142 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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The Data Episode | [Sidecar Sync Episode 142]

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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Anthropic’s Rapid Model Releases, GPT 5.6’s Gated Launch, and The Real AI Jobs Story | [Sidecar Sync Episode 141]

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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