“Inefficient meetings are going to be less and less of a common occurrence.”

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In Episode 51 of This Week in Local, Localogy Senior Analyst Charles Laughlin talks to Read AI Co-founder & CEO David Shim about how AI is making online meetings much more efficient and powerful. 

David is familiar to many in the Localogy community as the former CEO of Foursquare and the founder of Placed.

Now, as the co-founder of Read AI, David is right in the thick of the emerging “remote tech” space that we follow closely at Localogy. 

Read uses AI to turn online meetings into a powerful data resource that makes meetings more efficient and accountable. Read uses AI to create meeting transcripts, which are aggregated across organizations and mined to find ways to increase efficiency. For example by reducing duplicated effort. 

David acknowledges that AI adds a new layer of accountability, for example by precisely tracking commitments made by team members during meetings. Yet he emphasizes how it allows organizations to give employees back their time to spend it more productively than by sitting in meetings where they are not required.

Tune in for a primer on how AI is reshaping the way we work, in particular for those spending their days in online meetings. Stay to the end to hear David’s broader views on the pros and cons of AI.

“AI from an adoption standpoint is the fastest-adopted technology I have ever seen at scale,” David says on the episode.

Read AI Makes Good on the ‘AI’ Part

Time Stamps

• • The Read AI opportunity 1:02
  • Meetings as a data resource 2:16
  • Accountability 5:26
  • AI pros and cons 29:14

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