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.

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The Physical API: When Robots Become as Easy to Program as Software

Mallory Mejias: Jul 30, 2025, 3:52:24 PM

Here's a simple line of code: email.send("Hello world") In just a few characters, you've instructed a computer to perform an incredibly complex series of actions. Your message will be formatted, encrypted, routed through multiple servers, checked...

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How AI Learned to See the World: The Data Revolution Powering Tomorrow's Robots

Mallory Mejias: Jul 29, 2025, 12:45:28 PM

June 2009, Miami Beach. A small team of researchers stands by their poster in the corner of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference....

Robotics Physical AI Computer Vision

Friendly humanoid robot cooking in a warm, modern kitchen, stirring a pot and chopping vegetables on the counter.

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The Physical Turing Test: Why Associations Should Care About the Robot Revolution

Mallory Mejias: Jul 28, 2025, 11:50:01 AM

Last week, I saw a delivery robot rolling down the sidewalk with someone's Uber Eats order. I was genuinely impressed! This little robot with...

Robotics Physical AI

Sidecar Sync Episode 92 cover with hosts Mallory Mejías and Amith Nagarajan, tagline ‘AI Knowledge for Associations,’ and cartoon robots on both sides.

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Physical AI: The Robot Takeover We Actually Want | [Sidecar Sync Episode 92]

Mallory Mejias: Jul 25, 2025, 2:45:19 PM

Summary: Are we ready for a world where AI agents write our blogs and robots clean our homes? In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...

Artificial Intelligence Sidecar Sync Podcast Robotics Physical AI

Illustration of a traffic light with icons: a sparkling laptop in a green light, two people talking in a yellow light, and a padlock in a peach light, on a dark pole against a light background with subtle geometric shapes.

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Your AI Guidelines Should Be a Green Light, Not a Stop Sign

Mallory Mejias: Jul 23, 2025, 4:50:55 PM

Most AI policies read like a list of don'ts. Don't share confidential data. Don't trust AI outputs. Don't use unapproved tools. Don't, don't, don't....

Organizational Culture Innovation AI Guidelines

Open planner showing Tuesday morning with handwritten tasks: Meeting Prep, Event Brainstorm, and Lunch. A cute sage green robot peeks from the page edge; coffee cup and pen blurred in background.

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The Tuesday Morning Test: Your AI Reality Check

Mallory Mejias: Jul 22, 2025, 4:29:13 PM

Most AI training starts with possibilities—what AI can write, create, analyze, summarize, generate. We've all sat through these presentations,...

Practical AI

Cartoon of a father and son posing in front of a pagoda-style temple in a busy Nepalese square.

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When a 16-Year-Old Teaches AI: The Conor and Finn Grennan Story

Mallory Mejias: Jul 21, 2025, 2:20:56 PM

The organizations Conor Grennan has trained on generative AI are undeniably impressive: OpenAI, McKinsey, Google, JP Morgan, NASA. But perhaps more...

Artificial Intelligence Education Technology