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.

Sidecar Sync podcast Episode 95 cover image featuring co-hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, with the tagline 'AI Knowledge for Associations' and images of phones showing 'Introducing GPT-5'.

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GPT-5 Has Landed & OpenAI Opens Up | [Sidecar Sync Episode 95]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 15, 2025, 12:46:17 PM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dive into two groundbreaking releases from OpenAI: the long-awaited GPT-5 and the surprising return to open source with gpt-oss. They unpack the shift toward simplified AI...

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Your Members Need an AI Authority. It Should Be You.

Mallory Mejias: Aug 12, 2025, 11:46:09 AM

You get it. You're reading about AI, experimenting with tools, maybe even using GPT-5 already. But when you bring up AI education at the board...

Education Leadership

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The Association That Bought the Future: AAPC's Bold AI Move

Mallory Mejias: Aug 11, 2025, 1:00:29 PM

In November 2023, the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) made a move that surprised many in the association world: they acquired Semantic...

Leadership AI Augmentation Innovation

A professional woman in business casual attire works at dual monitors displaying medical records, while a friendly white and blue humanoid robot with a medical cross emblem stands beside her in a modern healthcare office.

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The Augmentation Advantage: Why AI Won't Replace Your Members (But Ignoring It Might)

Mallory Mejias: Aug 11, 2025, 11:29:05 AM

Medical coders spend their days translating doctor's notes into standardized codes. Match the diagnosis to the code. Follow the rules. Submit the...

AI Augmentation Innovation

Sidecar Sync Episode 94 featuring an interview with Dr. Nicola Sahar on AI Knowledge for Associations.

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Semantic Health & the Future of Medical Coding with Dr. Nicola Sahar | [Sidecar Sync Episode 94]

Mallory Mejias: Aug 8, 2025, 11:16:10 AM

Summary: In this episode of Sidecar Sync, co-hosts Mallory Mejias sits down with Dr. Nicola Sahar to explore how a University of Toronto med student...

Sidecar Sync Podcast Innovation Healthcare

A stylized bird’s-eye view map of the United States showing AI infrastructure as glowing orange data nodes connected by electric blue lines, with major cities illuminated to represent power consumption.

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The AI Infrastructure Gap That Nobody's Talking About

Mallory Mejias: Aug 6, 2025, 11:15:18 AM

By 2028, AI companies will need twice New York City's peak electricity demand just for training their models. Just for training. Not for the millions...

AI Infrastructure Energy