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 Maia 200 Breakthrough, Project Genie’s Living Worlds, & The New Rules of Work | [Sidecar Sync Episode 122]

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 beneath the surface—from Microsoft’s new Maia 200 custom AI chip and the race to lower inference...

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What the World's Largest Machine Learning Community Can Teach Associations About Connection

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...

Innovation AI Education

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The Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off: The Best Mental Model for Your AI Strategy

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....

Artificial Intelligence Strategy

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Why Constraints Are Your Association's Secret Weapon for AI Innovation

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...

Artificial Intelligence Innovation Algorithmic Sovereignty

Sidecar Sync Podcast episode cover 120 featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Benjamin Rosman

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From Deep Learning Indaba to Algorithmic Sovereignty with Benjamin Rosman | [Sidecar Sync Episode 121]

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...

Sidecar Sync Podcast Innovation AI Education Algorithmic Sovereignty

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6 min read

The Infrastructure Gap Holding Your AI Strategy Back

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...

Data Management AI Data Platform

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Big AI Is Coming for Your Industry: What Claude's Vertical Plugins Mean for Associations

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,...

AI-Assisted Software Development Anthropic Domain Specific AI

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4 min read

Agent Swarms: What It Means When AI Can Build Its Own Team

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...

AI Agents Open Source

Sidecar Sync Podcast episode cover 120 featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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Kimi K2.5’s Swarm of Agents, Claude Goes Vertical, and AI Data Centers in Space | [Sidecar Sync Episode 120]

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...

AI Agents Sidecar Sync Podcast Open Source AI Infrastructure Demand AI-Assisted Coding

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