Control+Alt+Delete the Middleman: Top AI Use Cases Reshaping Business as Usual

Andre Smith

Andre Julius Smith, Founder of Chosn AI Journal, brings 9 years of operational management expertise across manufacturing, healthcare, investor research, and digital marketing. After earning his finance degree from UNC Charlotte, Andre's entrepreneurial journey began in Mortuary Science, providing him with foundational insights into innovation challenges.

His work with proSapient researching digital health solutions positioned him uniquely to understand how AI is eliminating traditional gatekeepers across industries. Join Andre at "Control+Alt+Delete the Middleman" as he shares practical examples of how AI tools are creating direct connections, flattening hierarchies, and opening new paths to success for entrepreneurs and creators who previously faced significant barriers to entry.

Panel: "Control+Alt+Delete the Middleman: Top AI Use Cases Reshaping Business as Usual" @ 2pm in Zeke Landres

Links:

• LinkedIn
• Chosn AI Journal
• YouTube
• Chosn Conversations Podcast

Lori Ryan

Lori Ryan helps entrepreneurs and businesses make sense of AI without the overwhelm. She’s not here to geek out on algorithms—she’s here to show you how AI can be your brainstorming buddy, problem-solver, and secret weapon for working smarter. With a background in tech, media, and business strategy, she keeps things practical, fun, and refreshingly real. Through her company, Lorignite, she helps people see AI as the sidekick they didn’t know they needed.

Caroline Swift Holden

Caroline Holden is a creative technologist with a background startups, AI, venture, advertising, comedy, and film. She has helped sell a data / AI startup in four months as head of marketing, scaled a grocery delivery app 10,000%+ YoY in the first three months of the pandemic, built and shut down her own social real estate app, and worked in NYC in venture capital, and as a freelance comedian. Nowadays, you can find her consulting on marketing / product / AI projects, creating content about AI with her brand Swift Start Go, or telling jokes at startup networking events to anyone who will listen.