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Sidecar Sync

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 pers...

Website ↗ Last published 29 October 2026 158 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Sidecar Sync

“The safety, in my opinion, comes more from what we call the harness, which is how you hold the model and how you interact with the model than the model itself.” — Amith Nagarajan, Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan · 17 Sep 2026 Listen →
“I'm a technologist at heart. I love the technology. It's fun, but I don't care about it at the end of the day. What matters is whether or not we as associations, like broadly, are advancing our missions or not.” — Amith Nagarajan, Sidecar Sync
Amith Nagarajan · 27 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Sidecar Sync is hosted by Mallory Mejias and Amith Nagarajan .

Recent Episodes

  1. 29 Oct 2026

    Bill Gates on the Turbulent AI Era | 158

  2. 22 Oct 2026

    Why Gemini 4 Argon Puts Google Back at the Frontier | 157

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    Microsoft Pays Anthropic to Fix Copilot, Meta Returns to the Frontier, & Courts Put a Price on Your Content | 156

  4. 8 Oct 2026

    Fundamentals of AI, Part 3 | 155

  5. 1 Oct 2026

    Jev Kicks Off the Decision Model Era, OpenAI Pulls GPT-6.1 Astra, & Waymo Outdrives Us | 154

  6. 24 Sep 2026

    Why Vibe Coding Still Needs Engineers with Han-Shen Yuan | 153

    With Han-Shen Yuan

  7. 17 Sep 2026

    Will AI End Us All? | 152

  8. 10 Sep 2026

    Fundamentals of AI, Part 2 | 151

  9. 3 Sep 2026

    How Pfizer thinks about AI, Thomson 1.0, & Who's Behind Ox Alpha? | 150

  10. 27 Aug 2026

    Spirit Airlines' Data Sale, the Model Too Powerful to Ship, & the Landlords of AI | 149

  11. 20 Aug 2026

    Fundamentals of AI, Part 1 | 148

  12. 13 Aug 2026

    Open-Weight Models, AI Watermarks, and How to Run Your Own Hackathon | 147

Guests

John Spence (2 episodes), Sharon Gai (2 episodes), Robert Plotkin (2 episodes), Neil Hoyne (2 episodes), Thomas Altman (2 episodes), Juan Sanchez , Noah Cheyer , Torey Carter-Conneen , Bruce Reed , Jay Gilbert , Bill Jewell , Param Dedhia , and 26 more.