(May 15, 2025 – New York, NY, USA) - The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) is pleased to welcome Dependbuild as its newest member, strengthening a shared commitment to advancing smart and sustainable infrastructure development worldwide.

Based in Atlantic Canada, Dependbuild is a leading provider of automated risk and knowledge management solutions for infrastructure projects, and with this membership brings its expertise to ICF’s global network of over 200 cities and regions across five continents.

Through the membership, ICF and Dependbuild will collaborate on:

• Promoting best practices in infrastructure development
• Enhancing risk management practices and knowledge sharing
• Fostering innovation in smart city initiatives

“Our vision at Dependbuild is to build capacity for communities to develop sustainable, future-proof communities,” said Conor O’Brien, co-founder of Dependbuild. “This aligns perfectly with ICF’s mission to help communities find new paths to economic development and growth in the digital age.”

Matthew Owen, Executive Director of the Intelligent Community Forum, added, “Dependbuild offers innovative tools that can help many of our member communities streamline project management, reduce risks, and improve long-term planning. We are excited to explore how we can connect Dependbuild with our network and create new opportunities for smarter infrastructure development.”

For more information, go to www.intelligentcommunity.org/icf_membership.

About Dependbuild
Dependbuild is a startup based in Atlantic Canada, dedicated to transforming the way municipalities build and manage their public infrastructure. The company’s SaaS platform allows municipal staff to identify, assess, and manage infrastructure risks, leading to increased transparency, cost savings, and project certainty.

About the Intelligent Community Forum
Starting in 2000 with a research project comparing cities in various nations, the Intelligent Community Forum (www.intelligentcommunity.org) created a unique, data-driven approach to development that puts citizens first while tapping the enormous economic and social potential of technology. In a world dominated by digital, ICF’s mission is to help communities create innovative and growing economies, inclusive societies and affirming cultures open to the world. We do it for communities large and small, in urban clusters and outlying suburbs and rural places through training, consulting, assessment, certification and award programs. ICF believes that digital connectivity and technology create the opportunity for almost every community to develop a dynamic local economy and the social and cultural strengths that go with it – giving them all a chance to be great places to live, work, learn, grow, raise a family and prepare a path for the next generation.

The Forum sponsors Institutes in North America dedicated to the study of the movement, and national organizations in Canada and Taiwan, both home to many Intelligent Communities. In 2012 ICF was invited to participate at the Nobel Peace Prize conference in Oslo and in 2014, its model and work was recognized by the U.S. Department of Commerce under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which, according to the American government, was "aimed at creating a more flexible and responsive system of workforce development to meet the needs of employers looking to fill 21st century jobs.”

For more information, go to www.intelligentcommunity.org/icf_membership. For more details on the Intelligent Community Forum’s recent publications and programs, www.intelligentcommunity.org.

Contacts:
Jean-Samuel Poirier, COO, Dependbuild
[email protected]

Matthew Owen, Executive Director, Intelligent Community Forum
[email protected]