Let’s Innovate for Vegas

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Office hours return to weekly, trying out a new event platform for optional RSVPs, but really we are looking for more serious calendar coordination, as you may have heard previously. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: During this week of CES2026 let us ponder the replacement of LinkedIn for a social graph of expertise. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Star Trek TNG fans may be imagining the Captain uttering the title of this episode, as the year actually ends we are changing our approach to connecting with our audience. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have looked into the near term, we have wrapped up a few things, but how about a quick retrospective of the last calendar year? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Hackathons are not always appreciated as the flexible innovation approach they could be, even by those who have participated in a hackathon. Let us discuss the possibilities… (Cover art photo from PennApps X, September 2014 taken by me) Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: As this calendar year draws to a close, during this civic volunteer winter, the time is right to catch up on some of those less-shiny to-do items on the list… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our Foundation Initiatives are all open source endeavors, and we really like to use open source tools to pursue them. What does that mean? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Open Source Initiative https://opensource.org/ Open Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_sou...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: This is a holiday week, at the end of the calendar year, in some part of the civic volunteer winter, as we transition into more accomplishment-centric audio programs over aspirational audio programs (which may be produced now and then, and maybe some interviews and other discussion on occasion), let us take a moment to talk about STEAM and More. Links Innovate fo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: In recent weeks we covered switching the script, our mission statements, tuning up how we are pursuing everything in the near term, and now we can talk about the civic volunteer winter and how we can pass the time effectively while the season passes. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforve...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have covered our Purpose Statement, which is fairly broad and vague by design, what we have not covered so much are our Mission Statements. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Tao of Steve presented an interesting philosophy that we may need to adopt for our efforts in the near term. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation The Tao of Steve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tao_of_Steve

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our foundation is sounding a bit flat, some tuning is necessary, even essential, as we move forward in the Dark City that is Greater Vegas. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Civic Volunteerism is a tough sell, to be sure, but what about general involvement in the world of Innovation in, near, or beyond the Greater Vegas locality? Where are we headed? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Personally, I would like to see a return of the Hackathon here in Vegas, some for public projects and whatnot, others coincident with our Initiatives as we used to have, open for anybody and visible to everybody. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation The Sprint Book https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have not covered these in a while, and not really from the perspective of initiatives into the future. Let us change that today. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges! Or, maybe we do? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Federation is all the rage, helping individuals and cohorts to connect across different types of technology platforms using open protocols and tools to decentralize participation and access. It is something we are leaning into heavily for our Smarter Smart City efforts… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation h...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another year, another Hacktoberfest, this time with some changes on their end, and some chaos in the world. Seems like a good time to put Project-ACT out there. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://ag...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Enable and Encourage, two words which appear in our own purpose statement and which are easy to gloss over perhaps, but I would argue these are integral elements of any effort to cultivate a Culture of Innovation, which you may have heard, we are in need of here in the Greater Vegas area. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about our all-volunteer organization, that we pay zero cash for hard work and dedication, relying instead on other forms of reward and return on investment, not to mention our look toward deploying volunteer initiatives externally for potential monetization. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundatio...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Part of what we are trying to accomplish, and really a part of what any vibrant Entrepreneurial Innovation Ecosystem needs to look after, is ongoing cultivation of a Culture of Innovation, where novel ideas are met with curiosity, novel efforts are met with enthusiasm, and novel implementation is met with interest. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innova...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A collection of various bits of update and novel notion as the summer heat meets a new school year and a calmed tourist season, no time like the present to examine community elevation on a civic volunteer basis… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https:/...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another school year is beginning here in the Greater Vegas area, a perfect time to consider how civic volunteer initiatives might fit into a forward-looking curriculum and student experience. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info Ag...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Call it a side gig, call it a passion project, call it twenty percent time, there are a variety of ways to redirect some volunteer time, effort, and expertise toward community elevation. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileFo...

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Way back in Episode 4 the topic of AI first entered our episodic discussions, where are we today, moving at the speed of insanity this many months later… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Project-ACT.info https://project-act.info AgileForVolunteers.org https://agileforv...