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.

Bird’s-eye view of a conference room split in half: left side shows rows of professionals seated in theater-style, isolated and focused on laptops or phones; right side shows small round tables with groups leaning in, talking, gesturing, and collaborating.

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The Cohort Solution: Why Small Groups Drive Big Engagement

Mallory Mejias: Sep 18, 2025, 7:00:00 AM

After formal education ends, professionals lose their built-in peer groups. No more classmates, no more study partners, no more cohorts. Just isolated career climbing in organizations that promise collaboration but deliver endless Zoom calls with...

Retro Pac-Man style maze of a conference center with blue ghost association vs yellow Pac-Man influencer, member icons as dots, power-ups, and scores 300K vs 60K.

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When Influencers Become Your Competition

Mallory Mejias: Sep 17, 2025, 4:34:25 PM

A 75-year-old association with 300,000 members. A six-year-old startup that's already reached one-fifth of that scale. One has decades of...

Artificial Intelligence Strategy Influence

Surrealist landscape of sheet music hills with red copyright symbols as landmines, musical notes in hardhats walking a vinyl record path labeled “LICENSED,” one triggering an explosion of papers, while a robot conductor leads an orchestra near a neoclassical building under melting clocks with notes.

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The Music Copyright Minefield: Why Smart Associations Choose Licensed AI for Music

Mallory Mejias: Sep 15, 2025, 8:25:19 PM

Your association needs music constantly. Conference walk-in music, gala entertainment, educational video backgrounds, virtual event transitions,...

Artificial Intelligence ElevenLabs AI Music

Sidecar Sync Episode 99 featuring Mallory Mejias and Jackson Boyar

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When Influencers Disrupt Institutions with Jackson Boyar | [Sidecar Sync Episode 99]

Mallory Mejias: Sep 15, 2025, 8:23:50 PM

Summary: Is the future of associations being rewritten by influencers? In this episode, Mallory Mejias is joined by Jackson Boyar, co-founder and CEO...

Artificial Intelligence Member Engagement Sidecar Sync Podcast

A retro-style diptych illustration shows a woman feeding gray association documents into a gramophone-like machine on the left, while on the right, colorful musical notes and speech bubbles emerge from its pipes.

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From Text to Talk: Turning Your Association's Written Content Into Engaging Audio Experiences

Mallory Mejias: Sep 11, 2025, 3:18:31 PM

Your association is sitting on thousands of pages of valuable content that most members will never read. Board minutes, research reports, white...

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft AI Audio

Comic book–style illustration of a large ear with colorful greetings in Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, and French entering it, transforming into English words like “HELLO,” “Hi!,” and “Greetings!” in bold speech bubbles.

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Breaking Down Language Barriers: How Real-Time AI Translation Opens Global Doors for Associations

Mallory Mejias: Sep 9, 2025, 9:06:32 PM

Most associations accidentally limit themselves geographically—not by choice, but by language. Take a moment to consider your organization's name. If...

Artificial Intelligence google Real-time Translation

Conference center floor plan with labeled halls and session rooms dissolves into glowing streams of light and vibrant data nodes, forming a cosmic web of connections.

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Running 10,000 Experiments While You Sleep: AI's Next Evolution

Mallory Mejias: Sep 8, 2025, 8:12:58 PM

What do 14 million labeled images of cats, dogs, and hot air balloons have to do with your next strategic planning session? What does a computer...

Leadership Technology Innovation World Models

Sidecar Sync Episode 98 featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Inside the AI Audio Revolution: Translating, Conversing, & Composing | [Sidecar Sync Episode 98]

Mallory Mejias: Sep 4, 2025, 10:04:37 PM

Summary: In this audio-focused episode of the Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan explore three groundbreaking advancements in AI audio...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast google Microsoft AI Audio ElevenLabs

Illustration of a man on a cliff shouting into the wind, colorful speech bubbles with AI symbols swirling away into a stormy sky.

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The Lonely Work of Innovation: Why Being Right Too Early Still Beats Being Late

Mallory Mejias: Sep 4, 2025, 1:06:36 PM

I recently interviewed Thomas Altman on the Sidecar Sync podcast, and his story perfectly illustrates the innovation journey many of you are already...

Leadership Technology Innovation

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