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Welcome to Sidecar Sync: Your Weekly Dose of Innovation for Associations. Hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias, this podcast is your definitive source for the latest news, insights, and trends in the association world with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in shaping the future. Each week, we delve into the most pressing topics, spotlighting the transformative role of emerging technologies and their profound impact on associations. With a commitment to cutting through the noise, Sidecar Sync offers listeners clear, informed discussions, expert perspectives, and a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities facing associations today. Whether you're an association professional, tech enthusiast, or just keen on staying updated, Sidecar Sync ensures you're always ahead of the curve. Join us for enlightening conversations and a fresh take on the ever-evolving world of associations.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Sidecar Sync: Your Weekly Dose of Innovation for Associations. Hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias, this podcast is your definitive source for the latest news, insights, and trends in the association world with a special emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its pivotal role in shaping the future.
Sidecar Sync is hosted by Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias. The show has published 157 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Bill Gates on the Turbulent AI Era | 158" (29 October 2026, 38 minutes), "Why Gemini 4 Argon Puts Google Back at the Frontier | 157" (22 October 2026, 47 minutes), and "Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Fix Copilot, Meta Returns to the Frontier, & Courts Put a Price on Your Content | 156" (15 October 2026, 50 minutes).
Sidecar Sync publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 157 episodes.
Booking probability for Sidecar Sync is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Sidecar Sync requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Sidecar Sync's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Sidecar Sync are Associations, Unions & Political Groups. Sidecar Sync has a business audience and around 620 subscribers on YouTube.
Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias hosts Sidecar Sync, a business podcast with 157 episodes published.
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Episode #158
Send us Fan Mail Bill Gates believes the move into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human history, and that there's still no real plan for it. Flying solo, Mallory Mejias breaks down Gates's...
Episode #157
Send us Fan Mail Most model releases don't earn a full episode, but Google's Gemini 4 Argon makes a strong case for one. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias spend this deep dive on what Google's new frontier model means...
Episode #156
Send us Fan Mail Microsoft spent years building Copilot around a single model maker, and the fix turned out to be paying for a competitor's. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack three stories that matter for...
Episode #155
Send us Fan Mail A chatbot can tell you what to do, but an agent can actually do it. In part three of the refreshed Foundations of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias move from the brain in a jar to the AI...
Episode #154
Send us Fan Mail A surprising amount of the work we hand to AI isn't writing at all—it's deciding. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias sort through a busy stretch of AI news for association leaders who want to know which...
Episode #153
Send us Fan Mail Vibe coding can patch almost anything, but a duct-tape fix only holds until the water pressure changes. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias welcome Han-Shen (Han) Yuan, who built mobile at eBay and...
Episode #150
Send us Fan Mail A drug company CEO just made the best case yet for why platform choice matters less than most associations think. Marking three years of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias dig into...
Episode #149
Send us Fan Mail When Spirit Airlines went bankrupt, its planes and gates weren't the only assets on the auction block — Google paid $10 million for its data. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias use that sale to dig into...
Episode #148
Send us Fan Mail AI may feel like it arrived overnight, but its foundations have been decades in the making. In part one of a refreshed Foundations of AI series, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack the essential...
Episode #147
Send us Fan Mail Meta and NVIDIA are turning up the heat in the open-weight AI race, while Anthropic is taking a very different approach by watermarking Claude-generated content. Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias...
Episode #146
Send us Fan Mail In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Torey Carter-Conneen, CEO of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), to explore what it really looks like when AI...
Episode #145
Send us Fan Mail This week, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a whirlwind of AI developments shaping the future of associations. From Anthropic’s release of a more efficient Claude Opus 5 with dynamic “effort...
Episode #144
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack a rapidly shifting AI landscape where powerful, low-cost open-weight models from Chinese labs are challenging the dominance of major U.S...
Episode #143
Send us Fan Mail In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Vicki Deal-Williams, CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), to explore how a century-old organization...
Episode #143
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>In this interview episode, Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan sit down with Vicki Deal-Williams, CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), to explore how a century-old...
Episode #142
Send us Fan Mail It’s been 130 episodes since Sidecar Sync last did a true deep dive on data—and a lot has changed. In this refreshed 2026 perspective, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack what “association data”...
Episode #142
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>It’s been 130 episodes since Sidecar Sync last did a true deep dive on data—and a lot has changed. In this refreshed 2026 perspective, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias unpack what...
Episode #141
Send us Fan Mail This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind week in AI, from Anthropic’s rapid-fire Claude releases to OpenAI’s tightly controlled GPT 5.6 rollout. They unpack...
Episode #141
<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>This week on Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias break down a whirlwind week in AI, from Anthropic’s rapid-fire Claude releases to OpenAI’s tightly controlled GPT 5.6 rollout. They...
Episode #140
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Sidecar Sync, Amith Nagarajan and Mallory Mejias explore one of the most provocative ideas in AI yet: companies owned and operated entirely by artificial intelligence. Sparked by a...
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