The Intelligent Community

In this episode of The Intelligent Community , ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Krista Nightengale , Executive Director at the Better Block Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to showing communities how to build a more walkable, bikeable, liveable neighborhood to improve quality of life and attract talent. Krista Nightengale is the Executive Director of the Better Block Foundation. She beg...

Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is one of America's most trusted epidemiologists. She publishes Your Local Epidemiologist , a widely read website and newsletter covering a range of public health issues that translates evolving science into readable language for the general public. In this episode of The Intelligent Community , she discusses information integrity and the politics of COVID in places as diverse...

Now that COVID is no longer a global pandemic, what is it? And what is the lesson communities learned over the past 3 years? In this episode of The Intelligent Community , ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina , Director of Population Health Analytics, to learn these answers and more.   Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD is an epidemiologist, data scientist and internationally reno...

Connectivity by itself adds little value – it is what people do with it that counts. Learn from communities that have leveraged their broadband assets for business retention and attraction, market differentiation, talent attraction for remote work and regional partnerships. Speakers Include: Tiffany Bower , Project Officer, Economic Development - Future Industries, Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia R...

ICF Co-Founders Robert Bell, John Jung and Lou Zacharilla discuss current issues relating to broadband connectivity in our communities.

In this special edition of The Intelligent Community, Lou Zacharilla is joined by ICF Co-Founder John G. Jung, to discuss Jung's book "Black Rock."   Black Rock is available now and can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rock-John-G-Jung-ebook/dp/B0B75GJMKY   Part 2 of 2.

In this special edition of The Intelligent Community, Lou Zacharilla is joined by ICF Co-Founder John G. Jung, to discuss Jung's book "Black Rock." Black Rock is available now and can be purchased here: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Rock-John-G-Jung-ebook/dp/B0B75GJMKY Part 1 of 2.

In this episode, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla looks ahead to the upcoming ICF Summit, and we look at a community in Southwest Florida that withstood Hurricane Ian's wrath.

Alex Pang is the global programs and research manager for 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit devoted to advancing the 4-day week. He also offers keynotes about deliberate rest through my own company, Strategy and Rest. His work has been written about in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and other venues.

Alex Pang is the global programs and research manager for 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit devoted to advancing the 4-day week. He also offers keynotes about deliberate rest through my own company, Strategy and Rest. His work has been written about in the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Financial Times, the Guardian, and other venues.

Mel Horwitch is a Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was formerly University Professor at Central European University, Dean of CEU Business School, and Director of CEUBS' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project, all located in Budapest, Hungary. He has published and taught extensively on technology strategy, global innovation, and modern entrepreneurship, most recently with...

ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla gives a keynote address on the Intelligent Community movement. Recorded at the Top7 Conference in Binh Duong, Vietnam.

We continue our Leadership series by looking at an issue facing many communities, particularly in the US - Policing. First, we speak with an LA Times crime reporter about some of the issues that face the large city, and then we speak with representatives from two intelligent communities to learn their solutions.

Continuing in our Leadership in Unconventional Times series, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla is joined by Dr. Peter Williams. Dr. Williams is Chair of ARISE-US, part of ARISE Global Network, the UN DRR's vehicle for public-private collaboration in disaster risk reduction. He was also the lead author of the UN City Disaster Resilience Scorecard, now used by over 330 cities globally, and a further Sco...

In this episode, we speak with Dan Circelli of Windsor about the trucker convoy protests that took place in early 2022 in Canada, as well as US Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton about the events of January 6, 2021 and Washington DC's movement towards statehood.

The City of Kyiv's IT Department has reconfigured its city apps to provide citizens with a range of services, including finding bomb shelters and medicines, to a quality of life despite the threat of bombardment and terror. In this episode, city leaders join together to discuss this extraordinary approach.  Speakers for this episode include: Vera Bergengruen, Washington Correspondent at Time Magaz...

The pandemic revealed the essential role of broadband today. It also exposed as never before the dire consequences of the digital divide and the explosive impact of social media in spreading misinformation, fear and outrage. Panelists discuss what the pandemic has taught them about making broadband access more equitable and managing its downsides.

Leaders of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg and the Carter Center in Atlanta share lessons about how parties locked in conflicts can find a path to reconciliation and a new future. Stacia George, M.A. , Director, Conflict Resolution Program, The Carter Center Isha Khan , CEO, Canadian Museum of Human Rights Lou Zacharilla , Co-Founder, Intelligent Community Forum ( Moderator ) 

Taoyuan has kicked off an exciting initiative "She smart Taoyuan", further in collaborating with gender perspective into city and policy design and celebrating what women have accomplished in this field. Learn more in this conversation with Director Karen Yu of the Taoyuan City Department of Information Technology.

A discussion on education, healthcare, and the idea of what a "community" will be in 2031 - and how these changes have been accelerated during the time of COVID-19. With guests Joost Helms, Director, Eindhoven International Project Office and Dr. Rick Huijbregts, Vice-President, Strategy & Innovation, George Brown College.

What do Intelligent Communities know that others do not? Intelligent Communities like  Espoo  (Finland),  Dublin  (Ohio, USA),  Eindhoven  (The Netherlands),  Tallinn  (Estonia) and the current Intelligent Community of the Year,  Winnipeg  (Manitoba, Canada) are no longer just "smart cities." They have gone at least one level higher. In our  Moment of Truth  podcast series, we ask them when they r...

Dan Mathieson is in his fifth term as Mayor and has sat on municipal council since 1995.  During his tenure Dan has been a member on numerous boards and committees in healthcare, municipal affairs, law enforcement, athletics, not-for-profits, universities and colleges.

In his new book,  Me and Telecommunications , Mr. Sangin, who before 9/11 had been living outside of Afghanistan (courtesy of the Taliban) and is once again in 2021 living outside it, has chronicled his life and the struggles of his nation. He played a key role in that nation's advances, having returned in 2002 to build a telecommunications infrastructure that connected the nation, enabled rare de...

In his new book,  Me and Telecommunications , Mr. Sangin, who before 9/11 had been living outside of Afghanistan (courtesy of the Taliban) and is once again in 2021 living outside it, has chronicled his life and the struggles of his nation. He played a key role in that nation's advances, having returned in 2002 to build a telecommunications infrastructure that connected the nation, enabled rare de...

Economic developers from municipalities and counties discuss the changing nature of investment attraction, business stimulation and support, and the collaboration with other agencies and sectors needed to develop the economy of an Intelligent Community in a world being restructured by digital technologies. Speakers include: Jason Bechtold , Assistant City Manager, City of Westerville, Ohio, USA Jo...