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...
10 Des 202544min
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...
25 Nov 202554min
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
