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Let’s Innovate for Vegas
by Innovate for Vegas Foundation
Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positive ways, while at the same time empowering our volunteers to make a difference, for their friends and neighbors and for themselves.
Episodes
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Episode 0191: Foundation and Cohort
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We mention the two homepages and the reason for having two entrances to our organization, let’s go into some detail for the curious… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation...
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Episode 0190: Smart City Sprint 2026
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge approaches on the January 2027 horizon, but what about Global Entrepreneurship Week in November 2026? A good time to spend a week of Ideating around Civic Innovation possibilities that could elevate your community and maybe turn...
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Episode 0189: Hacktoberfest 2026 is Different
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Another year, another Hacktoberfest, the format has changed drastically so some of the issues have magically disappeared, but is it right for what we’re doing? Maybe not… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0188: Challenge Code of Conduct
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge is right around the corner, and we always want our activities and undertakings to be a good and safe experience for all, so let’s take a look at Code of Conduct requirements and expectations. Links Innovate for Vegas...
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Episode 0187: The Challenge Approaches
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge 2027 will be upon us soon enough, and while it is to last through the entire year, it also needs to be ready to start on the start date, so the Meta Planning continues, again… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort...
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Episode 0186: Visibility Transparency Observability
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We literally just talked about Age Verification in the previous episode of this program, and the world then learned about many millions of identity records held by a third party stolen in a security breach. Or why open systems are a better idea. Links Innovate…
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Episode 0185: Age Verification
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Online age verification is coming, and in some cases has already been here for quite some time, our Global Innovation Hub should take the lead here where checking ID is par for the course in Greater Vegas. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort...
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Episode 0184: Back to Work
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Directors seated, taxes filed, LinkedIn deprecated, one or two more things on the to-do list, it is time to get back to work to enable the Civic Volunteer Spring and, of course, the upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge come January 2027. Links Innovate for…
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Episode 0183: Connection
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A wandering missive concerning the way a smarter smart city might foster more connection within itself, and maybe beyond… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Toronto...
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Episode 0182: Making Noise
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Being a part of one’s community means many things, one of them is being informed. We should all have some idea what is happening around us, and why, and what might come of it, and we could all also be a part of making progress toward making that happen more and...
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Episode 0181: Slight Change of Plans
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men, go oft awry,” so said Robert Burns by way of his poem, To a Mouse, in November, 1785. Our plans are changing for September of this year, for the concerned mice in our audience. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort...
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Episode 0180: Infra
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every journey may begin with a single step, but that step better be on a navigable path that enables each step, first and all that follow. Let’s call it Infrastructure. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0179: Water
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Nevada, certainly Southern Nevada, leads the way on water sustainability research and implementation, with much of the share of water allotted from Lake Mead recycled and returned, which helps a lot with the math. There are ways we can contribute to the looming...
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Episode 0178: Connections
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few years ago we had decided that proactive recruitment of civic volunteers didn’t really make much sense, that the drive to participate really needs to come from within; however, if that drive is present, our organization needs to be discoverable, and in…
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Episode 0177: Back to Architecture
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Year five started, new board members seated, time to get back to work… a refresher for repeat listeners, an overview for newcomers. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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Episode 0176: Four Years In
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our fourth fiscal year ends today, June 30 as we record today’s episode, almost requiring a retrospective episode, so here we are… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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Episode 0175: Municipal Partners vs Autonomy
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The roots of our organization are found in the original Code for Vegas, part of Code for America and that model of operation. We have since gone another way… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0174: Cross-Cohort Collaboration
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: With Greater Vegas suffering somewhat from a silo structure, intended or otherwise, we have had much to ponder concerning the way former brigades and newly-formed and forming cohorts of civic volunteers pursuing civic innovation could, maybe should collaborate....
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Episode 0173: Civic Innovation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Civic Volunteerism, Civic Co-Creation, and now Civic Innovation. A lot of Civic stuff to talk about lately… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation From One Perspective...
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Episode 0172: Civic Co-Creation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have talked about Co-Creation before, as well as Civic Volunteerism and more recently Civic Innovation, now we can talk about bringing these together in Greater Vegas during CityCamp Las Vegas and the Smarter Smart City Challenge, and perhaps all of the time…...
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Episode 0171: Testing a LinkedIn Newsletter
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: LinkedIn is not a good platform, we have covered this previously more than once, but we are going to give it one last try before our Unconference events coming up in September 2026 and January 2027, wherein we will find out if Follow & Forget is also Follow &...
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Episode 0170: The Road to Unconference x 2
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: So we have two unconference events upcoming, one hackathon style event in September 2026 and one year-long event commencing in January 2027. These will be planned with input from those who will participate, so the more the merrier in every sense, and that is a...
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Episode 0169: Adding CityCamp 2026
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We deferred the Smarter Smart City Challenge from this year to January 2027 so we get a full year to enable and encourage everybody. In the mean time, since CityCamp was a source of some ideas and inspiration, why not add CityCamp to our 2026 agenda? Links...
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Episode 0168: Some Other Vegas Challenges
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: These are not challenges like the Smarter Smart City Challenge, but the sorts of challenges an organization like ours, and maybe others, have to work around to get things done, to get the word out, and to get more people to reach an Ah Ha moment, lean in, and…
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Episode 0167: Join The Production
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our fiscal year of Civic Volunteer Winter is coming to end on 30 June 2026, and our empty director chairs have cooled off just in time for those considering joining our Board. What are we up to for you to consider? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity...
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Episode 0166: Simple Machinery
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Vegas is a strange place when it comes to inviting innovation. Well, the invitations are easy, it’s the RSVPs that appear to go missing… so let’s ponder some simple machines to help make this work. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org...
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Episode 0165: To AI or Not To AI
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Word on the street, actual skill and ability, human interest, a desire to elevate community, all of it can be done with Artificial Intelligence. Or can it? Should it? Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0164: Excelsior pt 3
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: It has been a while since we added a proper sequel to the Excelsior theme (there was an Excelsior episode entering our fourth year but also Part 1 and Part 2 prior), so let us collect a few of our current goals and initiatives and other such things for Part 3....
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Episode 0163: Deferring The Challenge
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: No, not cancelled, but our efforts to kick off the Smarter Smart City Challenge for 2026 here in Greater Vegas were met with exactly the sorts of things we need to work through to enable and encourage ideation, innovation, and implementation at scale. Let’s talk...
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Episode 0162: Innovation Culture Upsides
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our Purpose Statement is fairly clear, and specifically vague, but one of our Missions is to Cultivate a Culture of Innovation in the Greater Vegas area through collaborative pursuit of Community Elevating Initiatives by Civic Volunteers. Why is this a good…
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Episode 0161: Innovate for Nevada
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: During this civic volunteer winter, it seems as though it might be a good time to begin state-wide outreach to like-minded people and organizations who point their innovation efforts back into Nevada for elevation at scale. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity...
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Episode 0160: Analyze That
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge is still in the Early Sign-Up phase until we reach 150, and to be honest, we are still at zero. Seems like a good time to suggest some non-tech ideas for Challenge projects! Links Innovate for Vegas Activity...
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Episode 0159: Coaxing Participation
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Talking about Innovation and all of these things is easy, actually doing it, or more to the point, convincing people to do it, is quite the other thing. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0158: The Wrong ways
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We have been trying out Luma as a calendar platform and of course LinkedIn, we know about that one. And remember, not everything is software. The case for building for purpose. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas...
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Episode 0157: Revisiting Badges
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Holopin never responded to our outreach, so Open Badges it shall be, and this is important in general for reasons we will revisit herein. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0156: Challenges and Challengers
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are putting together the Smarter Smart City Challenge at the time of this recording, seems like a good time to connect Challenges and our Challengers Initiative… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation...
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Episode 0155: Smarter Smart City Challenge HowTo pt 1
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: The Smarter Smart City Challenge for 2026, slightly renamed and coming together nicely, will have people asking questions about the length of the challenge and the goals, not to mention how to participate. A good topic for today! Links Innovate for Vegas…
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Episode 0154: Getting The Word Out In Vegas
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: We are putting together the big hackathon series or challenge or whatever we end up calling it, and never more than now is getting the word out about something in the Greater Vegas area so apparently difficult. Yipes. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity...
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Episode 0153: Commence Meta-Planning
Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Getting ready for Smarter Smart City Hackathon 2026, the meta-planning phase is kicking off this week to set up for the real Hackathon series that will last through the year… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas...
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Episode 0152: Office Hours and Gatherings and Calendars
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…
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Episode 0151: Replacing LinkedIn
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
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Episode 0150: Engage
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…
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Episode 0149: Retrospective 2025
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
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Episode 0148: Why Hackathons
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...
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Episode 0147: 2025 Year-End Misc
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...
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Episode 0146: Cooking with Open Source
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...
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Episode 0145: STEAM and More
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...
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Episode 0144: Winter Wonder Planned
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...
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Episode 0143: Mission Statements
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...
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Episode 0142: Flipping the Script
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...
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Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positive ways, while at the same time empowering our volunteers to make a difference, for their friends and neighbors and for themselves.
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