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Dr. Shari Simpson Senior Manager Thought Leadership | Paylocity

Shari Simpson, EdD, is the host of HR Mixtape and a senior thought leadership leader at Paylocity. With over two decades of experience across training, talent, payroll, and employee relations, she brings curiosity, candor, and real-world perspective to every episode. Shari holds a Doctor of Education in Leadership and Innovation, along with an MBA, MHRM, and SHRM-SCP certification.

Artem Koren Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer | Sembly AI

Artem Koren is the Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Sembly AI, a platform that transforms meetings into actionable insights through advanced speech recognition and natural language understanding. With a background in computer science and an MBA from NYU Stern, Artem blends deep technical expertise with business strategy to create AI solutions that enhance productivity, collaboration, and decision-making. He’s passionate about using AI ethically to enrich human work and shape the future of intelligent teamwork.

Human Resources

Meeting Intelligence: Making Every Interaction Count

Hot take: your meetings aren't the problem.

Podcast

May 28, 2026

Your meetings are costing you more than you think. Between time lost to bad notes, missed context between conversations, and documents that take days instead of minutes, the hidden tax of poor meeting intelligence adds up fast. Artem Koren, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Sembly AI, is building the fix. His team started in 2019, well before AI was a buzzword, with one simple idea: if technology can understand what happens in a meeting, it can do a whole lot after one.

Key Takeaways:

How to vet AI vendors on security, and the questions that separate good tools from risky ones.
Why transparency, not restriction, is the right answer to employee trust concerns.
What a $100,000 investment in meeting AI actually returns, and why the number might surprise you.

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