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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Your Association Is a Software Company (Whether You Realize It or Not)

Mallory Mejias: Dec 9, 2025 10:28:32 AM

Microsoft. Google. Salesforce. Adobe.

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Why Your Association Can't Afford to Marry One AI Vendor

Mallory Mejias: Dec 8, 2025 12:37:22 PM

The AI leader from January isn't the AI leader now. And the leader now probably won't hold that spot six months from now.

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Sidecar Sync Episode 111 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias

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The November Model Wave: DeepSeek 3.2, Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Mistral 3, and OpenAI's Code Red Moment | [Sidecar Sync Episode 111]

Mallory Mejias: Dec 8, 2025 12:04:31 PM

Summary: This week on the Sidecar Sync, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan unpack one of the most explosive weeks in AI so far—from the stunning...

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Transforming Institutional Knowledge into AI-Powered Products

Mallory Mejias: Dec 3, 2025 6:30:00 AM

Most associations have decades of content sitting in their archives. Journals, conference proceedings, research publications, technical standards,...

Leadership Innovation AI Products & Services

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The Board Buy-In Problem (And How One Association Solved It)

Mallory Mejias: Dec 2, 2025 10:55:04 AM

If you've been waiting for your board to greenlight an AI initiative, you're not alone. Board buy-in is a common blocker association professionals...

Board Management Leadership AI Products & Services

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Why Associations Have the "Right to Win" in AI Product Development

Mallory Mejias: Dec 1, 2025 3:01:25 PM

A recent podcast conversation with Jay Gilbert, Director of Scientific Programs and Product Development at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT),...

Leadership Innovation AI Products & Services

Sidecar Sync episode 110 cover featuring Mallory Mejias and Jay Gilbert

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Claiming the Right to Win: How IFT Built CoDeveloper with Jay Gilbert | [Sidecar Sync Episode 110]

Mallory Mejias: Dec 1, 2025 12:44:30 PM

Summary: When an association with 85 years of food science knowledge decides to launch an AI product, what happens? In this episode, Mallory Mejias...

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Google's Putting Data Centers in Space - What Moonshot Is Your Association Taking?

Mallory Mejias: Nov 26, 2025 6:30:00 AM

This month, Google announced Project Suncatcher, their plan to build scalable machine learning compute systems in space. The vision: constellations...

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Diffusion Models Are Coming - Here's Why Association Leaders Should Care

Mallory Mejias: Nov 25, 2025 6:30:00 AM

This month, Inception Labs released an upgraded version of Mercury, their diffusion-based language model that first launched in February 2025. The...

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