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The Intelligent Community
by The Intelligent Community Forum
In the official podcast from the Intelligent Community Forum, we speak with the movers and shakers in the intelligent community movement around the world. Hear how communities are embracing the 21st century for economic prosperity, enriching their cultures, and improving the quality of lives of their citizens.
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Top7 Cities Reveal Their Souls to ICF
In the last roundtable with this year's Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year, leaders from every corner of the globe discuss how they achieved this honor, are preparing for the big announcement on October 15th in Columbus, Ohio and how they will react if chosen as #1. From Brazil to…
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Intelligence Test: Turn Regional Collaboration Into Economic Growth
A new report from the Economic Developers Association of Canada describes the work of its members as "a sprawling, multi-mandate profession." How much more sprawling must it be when economic development serves not just a city but a vast urban and rural region? Yet that very diversity offers great...
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How Do You Get to Columbus?
In New York locals love to tell a joke that reflects the challenge and excellence required to reach the top in this world capital. It goes like this: A shy young tourist approaches a lifetime New Yorker, "Excuse me, how do I get to Carnegie Hall?" The New Yorker grins and replies, "Practice, kid!...
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Who Owns the Curb? Robots, Sidewalks & the Soul of the City
What happens when nobody works except the robots? Why did Bill Gates say AI, which is at the heart of robotics, is "our biggest threat?" Even Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei admits we "only understand 3% of how they work." Yet, the promise of AI and robots to address delivery, industrial processing,...
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The Purpose of Life is to be defeated...
In this Summer reflection podcast of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla discusses the purpose of Intelligent Community development, the upcoming Awards event and looks ahead to a future of AI-driven cities and where the boundaries are for humanity.
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Our Most Incredible Intelligent Community Story: the IT Mobilization of Kyiv
Shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ICF organized a panel to discuss leadership in times of great challenge and the role a city's IT department can play adapting to a conflict. A lead story in TIME Magazine by reporter Vera Bergengruen stunned us with frontline reporting about how the...
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ICF's "AMEN" Factor: the Way to the Top
Becoming an Intelligent Community offers four distinct advantages for regions, cities and towns on their way upward. In this unique edition of The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast, Soul of the City, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla describes the beauty of the "AMEN" stages of the ICF program. The "soul...
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Tempe, Arizona Keeps Growing & Getting More Intelligent!
Tempe, Arizona is the city everyone likes. With a population of 190,000 it has been growing and prospering for several years. A tourist attraction with its amazing Tempe Town Lake and a university town, with a school nicknamed "The Sun Devils," it is producing significant volumes of global and...
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Voices from the Kitchen: New York's respected restaurant owner cooks a conversation about local sourcing, immigrants and community!
Most New Yorkers and many of the 63 million people who visit New York each year as tourists will connect the words "Cookshop," "Shuka," and "Vic's" as outstanding restaurants and part of a chain owned by Marc Meyer. But Meyer admittedly is more than a cook. His vision of community, food and the...
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The "Town-Gown Knowledge Enterprise." Is it THE Way Back to Economic Stability?
David Staley has been described as an "avant garde scholar." A professor in the departments of History and Design at The Ohio State University in the USA he is the author of several books including Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets. In 2022 he was named the "Best...
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Intelligence Test: Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Kingston, ON, Canada
In this edition of the Intelligence Test podcast, ICF co-founder Robert Bell has a conversation with Bryan Paterson, Mayor, Kingston, ON, Canada and Kelly Rowe, Fellow, Canadian Urban Institute. How can you grow a city's economy if the best and brightest keep leaving town? That was the challenge...
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A Higher Quality of Innovation: Brightlands-Limburg Hosts the Top7 Conference
For most cities and regions the idea of a real circular economy and stable, sustained innovation in every detail of business and life remains a goal to be chased. In the Brightlands-Limburg region of The Netherlands however, a region of 1.1 million people, the goal is being achieved. With…
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ICF FOUNDERS TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD!
In this edition of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, Lou speaks with fellow ICF Co-Founder John Jung. In response to requests from ICF podcast listeners the two dive into a robust conversation about the connection between the world's Intelligent Communities, the history of ICF and...
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Forget History Class, We Want our Social Media!
In this edition of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla gives speaks with Dr. Karen Sutherland, SFHEA, Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Across Australia, young people under 16 were from social media use after the Government...
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The Buckeye State is an Intelligent State Too!
The 2015 Intelligent Community of the Year will celebrate the anniversaries of its award and its hosting of the 2016 ICF Summit this October. Since it was named Intelligent Community of the Year the city of Columbus has built on its prowess as representative of the rise of the American Midwest.…
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The Most Soulful City in Brazil No One Heard of – Until 2024!
In this edition of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla gives speaks with Dario Paixão, CEO of the Curitiba Agency for Economic Development and Innovation, Curitiba, Brazil. The ICF trilogy of conversations with the three cities that will host this year's...
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Looking for the "Soul" of Your City? Check Your Moral Imagination
The 200+ Intelligent Communities in the world are conservative and liberal. Rich and poor. Large, medium and small. They are located in Asia, South America, North America, Europe and Australia. Despite their vast differences culturally they share something which ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla...
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Love & Trash in the Big City
In this edition of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, Lou speaks with Rachael Cain, Founder of Pick Up Pigeons, a volunteer club with hundreds of participants who nightly during the week scour the five boroughs of New York City picking up volumes of trash and collecting data. The...
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Auditing a Champion: What ICF Learned from the Intelligent Community of the Year
In this edition of THE INTELLIGENT COMMUNITY: The Soul of the City, Lou speaks with Ms. Richmond who was the ICF Site Auditor of the community that was named the new Intelligent Community of the Year in December 2025 (Durham Region, Ontario, Canada). Cynthia Richmond, who was responsible for...
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A Conversation with 2021 Intelligent Community of the Year: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Winnipeg is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, located in the center of the North American continent. Winnipeg's economy is dominated by agriculture, energy, manufacturing and a growing tech scene. Over the past decade, the city has built a new economic foundation by connecting...
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Intelligence Test: How Cities Succeed (Bursa and Hilliard)
John Jung and Wendy Dupley discuss the critical and common elements of community intelligence, using two Top7 Communities of 2025: Bursa Metropolitan Municipality (Türkiye) and Hilliard, Ohio (USA) as examples.
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Small but Mighty (and very Intelligent) in Big Brazil
In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla has a conversation with Michel Ângelo Bomtempo, mayor of Assaí, Paraná, Brazil. Mayor Bomtempo and a team of young people engage ICF to promote their city. It's fresh and shows why the ICF Awards are so important....
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Intelligence Test: Thriving Beside the Neighborhood Giant - Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
In our new podcast, Intelligence Test, Robert Bell speaks with the inventor of a technology that could harvest the waste heat from factories, power plants and data centers and turn it into electricity, Brendan MacDonald, and Alison Burgess, who runs communications and engagement for the Durham...
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Turkey's First Top7 Community: A Conversation with the City of Bursa, Part 2
In part 2 of this conversation with the City of Bursa on The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla has a conversation with Demet Sinmez, Smart Urbanization Branch Manager, Bursa Metropolitan Municipality. The Ottoman Empire's first capital city has transformed itself into a...
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Turkey's First Top7 Community: A Conversation with the City of Bursa, Part 1
The Ottoman Empire's first capital city has transformed itself into a forward-looking community of three million while maintaining its cultural roots and skill at bringing together groups for collaboration. Bursa is a UNESCO Heritage site where one can still see the Ottoman's urban planning. Our...
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"Entrepreneurial, Resilient and No Weeds!" The Top7 Conversation with Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa (Part 2)
The smallest community in terms of population this year, Fairfield, Iowa not only thinks globally – but deep and universally! A unique place in America's heartland, Fairfield has the advantage of being in a rural setting with natural beauty and is a place where people know each other and are…
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"Entrepreneurial, Resilient and No Weeds!" The Top7 Conversation with Fairfield/Jefferson County, Iowa
The smallest community in terms of population this year, Fairfield, Iowa not only thinks globally – but deep and universally! A unique place in America's heartland, Fairfield has the advantage of being in a rural setting with natural beauty and is a place where people know each other and are…
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The Basque's Intelligent Gem: A Conversation with Bilbao, Spain's New Director of Modernization
It has been an urban revitalization like few others in the world. Legendary in fact. Bilbao and its metropolitan district has a strategic location near the sea which confirmed its strength as a trading center and evolution into the great economic giant of the Basque Country in the days of iron…
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Dynamic Metros Rule, Part 2
ICF has its international awards program for which it is famous. But that does it take to become one of America's "Most Dynamic Metro Areas?" and where are they located? Heartland Forward's Chief Reseach Officer discusses the results of the "think and do tank's" long-awaited report and drops…
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Dynamic Metros Rule
ICF has its international awards program for which it is famous. But that does it take to become one of America's "Most Dynamic Metro Areas?" and where are they located? Heartland Forward's Chief Reseach Officer discusses the results of the "think and do tank's" long-awaited report and drops…
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Discussing Smart21 Community Brightlands-Limburg, Netherlands with Mr. Stephan Satijn
ICF's Lou Zacharilla speaks with Mr. Stephan Satijn, Regional Minister for Economy, Finance & Business Operations, Province of Limburg, in this sit-down interview discussing the Brightlands-Limburg Region, a Smart21 Community of 2025. Perhaps best known as the place where the Maastricht Treaty…
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Two-time Top7 Community, Part 2
Fast Company Magazine shocked a lot of people when it published its list of the most Innovative Companies for Economic Development and – whoa! – a city appeared. An Intelligent Community in the USA state of Ohio: Hilliard. The ICF network knows Hilliard as one of the leading cities and a two-time...
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Two-time Top7 Community, Part 1
Fast Company Magazine shocked a lot of people when it published its list of the most Innovative Companies for Economic Development and – whoa! – a city appeared. An Intelligent Community in the USA state of Ohio: Hilliard. The ICF network knows Hilliard as one of the leading cities and a two-time...
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Looking Ahead at the Top 7 Conference
The Top7 Communities of 2025 will be announced in Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain – a Smart21 Community and leading community in Spanish intelligent community development. Las Rozas is a city of just under 100,000 people, and is home to nearly 15,000 companies and self-employed workers. Its success…
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Smart and Smarter Canada, Part 2
Canada has contributed more Intelligent Communities to the ICF global network than any other country. In 2025 Canada once again placed four of its regions and cities on the list of ICF's Smart21, the first step in the annual Awards program. How does Canada achieve this hard-won annual goal? And...
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Smart and Smarter Canada, Part 1
Canada has contributed more Intelligent Communities to the ICF global network than any other country. In 2025 Canada once again placed four of its regions and cities on the list of ICF's Smart21, the first step in the annual Awards program. How does Canada achieve this hard-won annual goal? And...
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A New Idea for Urban Mobility: A Conversation with Doug McCollough
Doug McCollough has been CIO of leading digital cities, including Dublin, Ohio where he helped lead that small city to multiple awards, including ICF's Top7. He recently took over the role of Executive Director for the ICF Institute, and was recently names the first-ever Executive Director of the...
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What It Takes to Make a Better World - A Conversation with Andre L. Jones
Guyana is defined by its dense rainforest. Culturally connected to the Caribbean region, it has become a richer country due to its oil production and GDP per capita. But it has high levels of poverty. Especially in the rural areas. One person with an understanding of connectivity from his years…
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Digital Trust & One Million Trees for New York Part 2
The New York City's Department of Parks' first Director of Data Analytics who contributed the key ingredients to the success of the city's Million Trees Research Conference and knows her way around urban forests discusses her new venture, Helpful Places, and how digital trust can be imbedded in…
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Digital Trust & One Million Trees for New York
The New York City's Department of Parks' first Director of Data Analytics who contributed the key ingredients to the success of the city's Million Trees Research Conference and knows her way around urban forests discusses her new venture, Helpful Places, and how digital trust can be imbedded in…
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Top7 Trends in 2025: A Conversation with the Founders and Executive Leadership of ICF, Part 2
A fun, informative and rolling conversation with the three founders of ICF and the movement, along with its Executive Director. The group discusses the holistic approach to economic and social development and explains why cities from Ohio to Taiwan to Brazil share similar approaches on their...
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Top7 Trends in 2025: A Conversation with the Founders and Executive Leadership of ICF, Part 1
A fun, informative and rolling conversation with the three founders of ICF and the movement, along with its Executive Director. The group discusses the holistic approach to economic and social development and explains why cities from Ohio to Taiwan to Brazil share similar approaches on their...
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2024 Intelligent Community of the Year recipient, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, Part 2
In part one of this conversation, you heard the world's most Intelligent Community of the Year tell you how they have used innovation and planning to evolve into one of the world's elite cities. Today, I want to go deeper to the core of this whole movement and listen as Dario Paixao tells you...
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2024 Intelligent Community of the Year recipient, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, Part 1
Curitiba, Brazil. Ever heard of it? Ever been there? Ever seen or read stories about the building of its railroad and its history of innovation? Ever wonder how a city can be sustainable and flourishing? How about Rafael Greca? Ever heard of him? The outgoing Mayor of Curitiba is one of the most...
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A Talk with Justin Beiber's Hometown Mayor, Part 2
Continuing our look at mistrust of government, doxing and the implications of digital technology on Intelligent Communities, Lou speaks with theformer Mayor of Stratford, Canada, Dan Mathieson. Considered one of Canada's best mayors, whose tech-savvy insights led is city to three Top7 placements,...
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A Talk with Justin Beiber's Hometown Mayor
Continuing our look at mistrust of government, doxing and the implications of digital technology on Intelligent Communities, Lou speaks with theformer Mayor of Stratford, Canada, Dan Mathieson. Considered one of Canada's best mayors, whose tech-savvy insights led is city to three Top7 placements,...
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Doxing and Community Cohesion Part 2: Does AI Separate Us?
What are the corrosive impacts of AI? Are there ways to offset some of the more negative trends in our communities and make technologies instruments of joy rather than menaces? What causes acted-out anger against mayors, council members, school boards, jurists and journalists? What is at the root...
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Doxing and Community Cohesion: Does AI Separate Us?
What are the corrosive impacts of AI? Are there ways to offset some of the more negative trends in our communities and make technologies instruments of joy rather than menaces? What causes acted-out anger against mayors, council members, school boards, jurists and journalists? What is at the root...
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Putting Europe's Intelligent Communities into Overdrive
The CEO and Founder of Bable Smart Cities in Germany is on a mission: to accelerate change for a better urban life by helping a city or a region's stakeholders create sustainable, innovative, and inclusive places. How's he doing? And why is his company called "Bable??" In this episode we speak…
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How DOES Taiwan Do It? Ep 1, Jim Shea
A nation of 23 million people that punches far above its weight is a subject of study and fascination around the world. Its prowess in semi-conductor technology is just the beginning. Much of Taiwan's success comes from the way it has designed its cities and the way its culture embraces…
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