The Intelligent Community

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Intelligence Test: Turn Regional Collaboration Into...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/10/07

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 growth potential – if you can get folks from different places, experiences, assets and needs to collaborate for their mutual benefit. In this episode of Intelligence Test, we ask leaders from the reigning

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44:25

How Do You Get to Columbus?

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/09/30

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! Practice!" The ICF's Top7 are on their way to "Carnegie Hall." In this case it is Columbus, Ohio, host of the Intelligent Community of the Year announcement and conference. The Top7 have achieved at

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50:36

Who Owns the Curb? Robots, Sidewalks & the Soul of...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/09/02

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, transportation and even loneliness, our greatest community disease, has pushed them into cities, especially Intelligent Communities. Large cities like Los Angeles and Seoul have hundreds of PMRs (public area

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20:12

The Purpose of Life is to be defeated...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/08/19

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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53:35

Our Most Incredible Intelligent Community Story: the...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/07/22

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 local government in Kyiv had mobilized and innovated to protect, inform and defend its citizens. It is an Intelligent Community story and amazingly brave journalism in unusual circumstances. The discussion

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17:52

ICF's "AMEN" Factor: the Way to the Top

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/07/01

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 of the city" is found along the way and so is business growth, social trust and a global network of over 220 peers. Not to mention an Award that can change your destiny.

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22:12

Tempe, Arizona Keeps Growing & Getting More Intelligent!

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/06/17

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 national research - and retaining its talent. Tempe doesn't seem to need the ICF method or network. But we were wrong. In this interview with former journalist-turned-Communications Director Kris Baxter, we

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50:29

Voices from the Kitchen: New York's respected...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/05/27

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 people who prepare and serve it drove him to not only engage his workers at a deeper level than most owners, but to write a fascinating book: Voices from the Kitchen: Personal Narratives from New York's

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24:57

The "Town-Gown Knowledge Enterprise." Is it THE Way...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/05/13

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 Freelance Writer" by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for his Next futures column with Columbus Underground. With the ICF Summit being held in Columbus this October and because of Staley's long

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25:33

Intelligence Test: Brain Drain to Brain Gain:...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/05/06

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 facing Bryan Paterson when he was elected as mayor of Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Kingston is a government town, a university town and a tourist town – but had stagnated for years. Hear the story of its

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27:21

A Higher Quality of Innovation: Brightlands-Limburg...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/04/29

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 multiple "innovation campuses" producing products and services focused on sustainability in areas as diverse as chemical engineering and food (it is home to a company that produces 80,000 beefburgers without

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19:00

ICF FOUNDERS TAKE YOU AROUND THE WORLD!

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/04/15

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 the world-famous awards program. The two also discuss ICF's ongoing VIP tours and delegations to Asia and in June, Europe. If you want to get "under the hood" about how seemingly average cities become

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17:20

Forget History Class, We Want our Social Media!

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/04/01

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 passed the Online Safety Amendment. The law took effect in November 2025. We ask an Australian Intelligent Community how it's going in its early stage and why they thought it was or was not a good idea.

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21:54

The Buckeye State is an Intelligent State Too!

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/03/18

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. The State of Ohio, inspired by the Intelligent Community movement in Columbus has since produced several Intelligent Communities thanks to the ICF Institute, located in nearby Dublin, Ohio. The Institute has

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18:35

The Most Soulful City in Brazil No One Heard of –...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/02/18

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 Awards announcements and conferences begins in Brazil, where Curitiba's former City Secretary for Economic Development, Innovation, and Artificial Intelligence talks to Lou about the remarkable success and

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10:57

Looking for the "Soul" of Your City? Check Your Moral...

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/02/04

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 identifies as being core to their energy and success. It is the thing which, in the long run, makes their smart city or Intelligent Community policies successful economically too. They understand reality as it

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18:38

Love & Trash in the Big City

The Intelligent Community ·

2026/01/21

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 group was recently named "New Yorker of the Week." Rachael is a New York resident, lawyer and urban planner who works on some of the biggest construction projects in America. She also gets very

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21:31

Auditing a Champion: What ICF Learned from the...

The Intelligent Community ·

2025/12/23

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 investigating Durham's activities and reporting to the ICF Jury, has three decades of experience in economic development and prior to retirement helped lead Arlington County, Virginia (USA) to three Top7

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44:53

A Conversation with 2021 Intelligent Community of the...

The Intelligent Community ·

2025/12/10

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 industry, education and a rising technology sector. Winnipeg's digital transformation began when local business leaders, frustrated by poor broadband service, established the Manitoba Internet Exchange to

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54:30

Intelligence Test: How Cities Succeed (Bursa and...

The Intelligent Community ·

2025/11/25

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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