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

by Andre Smith, Lori Ryan, and Caroline Swift Holden | at Minnebar 19

AI isn't just optimizing workflows—it's completely eliminating traditional gatekeepers and middlemen across industries. From solo founders building empire-level businesses to creators bypassing traditional distribution channels, this panel explores the most transformative real-world applications of AI technology. Join our experts as they dive into case studies spanning mental health, education, creative industries, and entrepreneurship, revealing how today's AI tools are enabling direct connections, flattening hierarchies, and creating new paths to success that were unimaginable just years ago. Learn how these practical use cases are redefining who gets to participate—and win—in tomorrow's economy.

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Andre Smith

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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.

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