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Sidecar Sync Episode episode 143 cover featuring Amith Nagarajan, Mallory Mejias, and Vicki Deal-Williams

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Suspenders & Double Dutch: Scaling AI Without Losing the Human Touch with Vicki Deal-Williams | [Sidecar Sync Episode 143]

Summary: In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Vicki Deal-Williams, CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing...

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The Future of Interaction: Why Voice and Multimodality Are Essential

When the first tablet computers hit the market, there was no training manual required. People simply touched the glass, and the interface responded....

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Beyond Chat: Why AI Needs a New Interface, Platform, and Business Model

To understand the current state of artificial intelligence, one must look back at the history of computing. We often feel as though we are living in...

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The Quiet Shift Reshaping Event Teams: From Planner to Builder

If you work on the events side of an association, the math probably looks familiar. Budgets have been flat for years. Costs — venues, catering, AV,...

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The AMS Replacement Can Wait. Here's Where Associations Should Actually Be Investing.

Ask a room full of association leaders what's standing between them and meaningful AI adoption, and a version of the same answer comes up repeatedly:...

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The Cybersecurity Threat Just Got Smarter. So Should Your Association.

There's a version of the current AI story where associations aren't really in the picture. The disruption is happening at the enterprise level, the...

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Your Software Vendors May Start Charging You to Access Your Own Data — Here's What to Do About It

On a recent investor call, HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan was asked how the company plans to respond to clients using AI agents to pull data out of...

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The Generalist Shift and What It Means for Niche Associations

For generations, the trajectory of professional development has pointed in one direction: deeper. You specialize. Then you sub-specialize. You become...

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World Models Are Here — What Association Leaders Need to Know

If you've been following AI developments, you've probably seen impressive image generators and video tools. You type a prompt, you get a visual....

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