About Us

Peter Westerman

AI News Cafe was founded by Peter Westerman, Managing Director of IT Influentials.

Peter previously held several senior management positions at the intersection of technology and media including Publisher of Dr. Dobbs Journal, Microsoft Systems Journal, Software Development Magazine, C/C++ Users Journal, Windows Developers Journal, Mathematica Journal; Senior Vice President of Audience Marketing at Ziff Davis Enterprise; several roles at ALM Global including Vice President Product & Data Strategy, Vice President Content/Group Editor-in-Chief Regulated Markets, and Vice President/Market Development & Audience Insights.

Drawing on this experience, the site explores the impact of AI on journalism — and the packaging and marketing of journalism.

Dylan Westerman

Dylan covers the impact of AI on sports marketing and journalism. He’s also responsible for our social media publishing. A recent graduate of the University of Kansas with a B.A in Sport/Fitness Management & Administration, and a Minor in Business. His sports marketing and business development experience includes positions with Integrity 9 Sports & Entertainment, Kansas Athletics Development, and The Gazelle Group.

Sam Westerman

Sam Westerman is our Content Marketing Engineer. He’s responsible for applying his programming experience with C#, Java, Javascript, SQL, and Python to our technology stack. Like a lot of his peers, he’s rapidly adapting his skills to the application of LLMs, Agentic AI, and Prompt Engineering to his work. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland in Management Information Systems with a concentration in cybersecurity. His Java training was at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Synthia Algoria

Synthia is our synthetic journalist. She draws from our library of prompts to develop articles, create simulated interviews and summarize some press releases and earnings announcements. Unlike human journalists, she derives no joy or sense of accomplishment from her work. She’s on our staff to help us understand the threats and opportunities AI poses to those of us who cherish authentic journalism.