Zoomtopia's Americas virtual day was Tuesday, Oct 20, so here's a recap for anyone who couldn't make it. I've been using Zoom's My Notes for a while, and for the keynote I tried the Long Lecture Note template, one of the My Notes summary templates, instead of the default summary. It splits the notes into four parts: the core concept, what I understood, what I didn't fully get, and what "might show up on the exam." After 30+ years in technology I've sat through a lot of keynotes, and these notes came back organized the way I'd actually study them. The big idea is a three-circle model: 1. Conversation. Meetings, phone, chat, and rooms are the raw material. 2. Context. Zoom builds a live map of people, topics, and decisions from those conversations, updated in near real time. 3. Completion. Agents and people act on that context to get work done, and every finished outcome feeds new context back into the loop. A few features that stood out: - Follow Meeting (upcoming): get the notes from a meeting you couldn't attend. - Notes without transcript (upcoming): meeting notes for compliance situations where the raw transcript can't be kept. - Agentic Search: ask for a ship date and get the plan date plus the decision that changed it in this morning's meeting. That meeting-decision piece is in private preview. - MCP access: Zoom says AI tools like Claude can pull its context without you being inside Zoom. (MCP is a standard way for AI tools to connect to other apps.) - Sensitivity labels and AI Guardrails: one controls who can read a summary, the other controls what the AI is allowed to say. Letting labels also limit what AI agents can read is still coming. The complete summary is attached as a .md file, including the customer stories, the hardware announcements, and the "what I didn't fully get" section. It's Zoom's AI summary with only two name spellings corrected, so it may still have transcription errors in quotes. If you use Zoom, try a template on your next meeting and tell me which section you'd keep.

Out of more than 450,000 global members, it is a privilege to have been selected to speak about my AI OS build—at the AISLive Virtual Event this weekend. Just 18 months ago, I began pursuing AI full time with my new agency, AI & Data Strategies. Armed with sheer curiosity and determination, I started building my AI skills and dove in headfirst to learn how to build advanced AI and automation solutions through AI Automation Society. It started with watching @Nate Herk on YouTube, and then I decided to join AIS, then AIS+. It would not be an understatement to say that @Nate Herk, @Yash Chauhan and @Usman Mohammed helped to welcome me into AIS+ and literally change my life and career. Fast-forward to today. I have been able to combine more than 30 years of enterprise experience with AI technology. Through AI & Data Strategies, we are helping dozens of small, medium, and large companies transform their businesses with AI. However, building an AI OS is the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. To see how far I have advanced in AI through this community, check out my website: https://aidatastrategiesllc.com I share this with humility and gratitude, and I want to encourage you to believe that through this community, you can acquire the skills to transform your business and life, too. AISLive Event: At the event, I will share how an AI OS has changed the way I operate my business, create capacity, and deliver for clients—and what that journey has looked like from learning the basics to applying an AI OS in the real world. Join The Event Online Oct 17, 8:00AM - Oct 18, 8:00PM CDT 🎟️ Learn more and get Tickets Also, look for posts after the event in AIS+ where I will share the details of the build and lessons learned.

AIS started as a community about automation. It’s now 450,000+ people all over the world learning AI together, and the old logo didn’t fit that anymore. The globe stands for what we’re building: the largest network of AI professionals, and a place where anyone can find where they fit in AI, whatever their background. Watch the reveal below and tell me what you think in the comments. Welcome to the new era of AIS.

I rarely post in AIS. If you know me, I usually post in AIS+ or another community. But I think this one is useful for a lot more people, because tons of us have allergies. If you suffer like I do, there's a prompt toward the end to build your own. TLDR; No site shows everything in the air in one place. So I had Claude research why, then build the thing. 5 data sources, one page, a 6:30am email every morning, and alerts on bad days. About 2 hours from first question to live URL. Screenshot attached. WHY I WANTED IT - I have allergies. Hay fever, whatever you want to call it. And I don't know WHAT I'm allergic to. - To figure that out I need everything in the air on one screen, broken down by plant, next to how I actually feel that day. I couldn't find it. Claude couldn't find it either. So I built it. - Every air site I tried showed part of the picture. One has AQI. Another has pollen, but lumped into "trees" and "grass." Nobody has mold. Almost nobody has Saharan dust or smoke. - Turns out Fredericksburg has no official air monitor at all. The closest one is San Antonio, 66 miles away. So every local AQI number you've ever seen for here is a model, not a measurement. Most sites don't tell you that. - That's why it has a symptom log. I score each day 0-5 (0 = great, 5 = miserable), and it saves that day's pollen, mold and air levels with the score. After a couple of weeks the pattern table should show which ones line up with my bad days. HOW IT WENT (8:21am to live at 10:24am) 1. Research first. 5 agents fanned out: air quality feeds, pollen, mold, dust and smoke, and a survey of every existing dashboard. Verdict: nothing does all of it. IQAir came closest and still has no plant-level pollen, no mold, no dust. 2. Plan. Data sources, cost per month, what's licensed for personal vs commercial use, and how accurate each number actually is. 3. Build. Claude Code wrote it. I reviewed each piece and made the calls. 4. Ship. Live behind a login only I can pass. Morning email wired about 10 minutes later.

From a $30K Phase 2 agreement and Web Summit acceptance to first paid clients, first automations, and AI systems finally clicking into place - this week inside AIS+ was all about moving to the next stage. 🚀 Standout Wins of the Week inside AIS+ 👉 Michael Wacht closed a $30,000 Phase 2 AI Consulting Agreement after a successful Phase 1, with the projects targeting around $300K in annual ROI. 👉 @Mohammad Sallam demoed Aquila during a Web Summit Qatar 2027 screening call and was accepted on the spot as an Alpha-stage startup. 👉 @Miriam Chin shipped her first website and landed her first official paid client in the same push. 👉 @Malik Wilson landed his first project through warm outreach just one month in, with another scoping call already booked. 👉 @Saad Lakhani shipped 11+ finance AI agents covering reconciliation, dashboards, valuation, working capital, month-end close, KPIs, and more. ⸻ 🎥 Super Win Spotlight | @Erfan Atoofi Erfan joined AIS+ without a programming background and initially found automation overwhelming. Within around two months, he went from struggling to copy basic tutorials to building valuable AI systems inside his company, enough impact that his base salary doubled. He’s now also launched his own agency and had his first client discovery call. His biggest lesson? The community helped him compress what might have taken six months alone into a fraction of the time. But the shortcut still requires the work. Learn. Practice. Build. Repeat. 🎥 Watch Erfan’s story 👇 ✨ Whether you’re landing your first project or closing the next phase of a bigger one, progress comes from moving up one rung at a time. Step inside AI Automation Society Plus and start building the skills, systems, and opportunities that compound 🚀