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 en...
12 Nov 202528min
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...
29 Okt 202528min
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 Metropo...
15 Okt 202522min
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 collabor...
1 Okt 202524min
"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 bein...
17 Sep 202530min
"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 bein...
3 Sep 202538min
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 tradin...
20 Aug 202528min
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 Res...
6 Aug 202528min
