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Smart City – More Than Just Technology	Creating a Safe Smart City with Artificial Intelligence

ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla delivers a Keynote address at the 2022 Top7 Conference and Announcement in Binh Duong, Vietnam.	On behalf of ICF, Chairman and Co-Founder John G. Jung made a presentation as part of the 2021 NTPC International Smart City Forum, hosted by New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Is it already 2031?	Aging in Place: Seniors are the New Millennials

A panel of “futurists” discussing education, healthcare, and the idea of what a “community” will be in 2031 - and how these changes have been accelerated during the time of COVID-19.	Thought leaders share innovations in providing information and services to seniors who are now more connected than ever. Moderated by ICF Co-Founder John Jung.

Intelligent Healthcare Solutions: Innovations in products and delivery during COVID-19	Social Media as a Two Way Street

ICF Director of Operations Matthew Owen discusses rural healthcare, challenges faced by smaller hospitals, and how communities can work better with their healthcare providers with Pat Schou of the Illinois Critical Access Network, and then takes a look at some of the healthcare innovations coming out of Taiwan with ICF Taiwan's Phoebe Tseng.	A discussion of how social media can be used not only to communicate with citizens, but to measure sentiment and learn about current demeanor in your communities.

Developing Our Most Precious Resource: Education in Intelligent Communities	How Community Leaders Can Promote Information – and Stop Misinformation

Academic experts look at the lessons learned from the remote education undertaken in many places during the COVID-19 pandemic, discuss the potential of remote learning’s future applications, and discuss the changing landscape of curriculum to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s challenges.	A discussion on how community leaders can use social media to effectively communicate with their constituents, both during normal times and in times of crisis. Also discussed will be how to combat and navigate through misinformation that may be circulating in difficult times.

Leadership in a Time of Crisis	Smart City Innovation in Taiwan: Director Jiunn Shiow Lin of the Industrial Development Bureau at the 2021 ICF Smart21 Conference

ICF Co-Founder Robert Bell speaks with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger about the challenges of leading his community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring clips of mayors from Canada, the United States, and Australia.	Jiunn Shiow Lin is the Division Director for Information Technologies Industries, Industrial Developmet Bureau (IDB). IDB is the administrative agency of Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan that oversees various industries, where Jiunn Shiow is mainly responsible for the the formulation of industrial policies as well as industrial promotion task forces & offices as contact windows to serve the ICT industry. Under his capacity, he oversees relevant areas in ICT such as Tele/Info Communications, Electronics, Optoelectronics, and Information Equipment/Software Technology. Particularly, he is the main lead for matters relevant to 5G Industrial Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Smart City Development under IDB.

Unstoppable Hamilton	Smart City, Intelligent Community

Introduction to Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the nation's Steel Town that is building a competitive and inclusive economy for the digital age.	Find out why it takes a smart city to become an Intelligent Community.

A look at Ipswich - a Top7 Intelligent Community of 2017	A look at Melbourne - the 2017 Intelligent Community of the Year

In 2011, the city of Ipswich published a 20-year economic development plan for its population of 195,000. It forecast the addition of 292,000 new residents, who will require an additional 120,000 jobs, and will live in a network of distinct communities interwoven with centers of employment, recreational facilities and green space. The plan responded to future challenges but also to past ones. Because Ipswich offered affordable housing and an attractive lifestyle, its population has grown rapidly in the booming economy of 21st Century Australia. Yet the decline of industrial employment in the 70s and 80s had left the city with legacy of long-term unemployment and bred unacceptable levels of crime and social dislocation.	Melbourne is Australia’s second largest municipality and the capital of the state of Victoria. A leading financial center, this city of 130,000 is at the center of a metropolitan area of 4.5 million people and is hub for the Australian film and television industries. In 2016, The Economist named Melbourne as the world’s most livable city for the sixth year in a row.

A look at Grey County - a Top7 Intelligent Community of 2017	A look at Edmonton - a Top7 Intelligent Community of 2017

The County of Grey is a rich cultural center of Ontario with a long history of agriculture and bustling water trade. Located in "cottage country" with a population of 92,0000, the county is home to the Summerfolk Music and Crafts Festival and the Festival of Northern Lights, and the county seat of Owen Sound was even named the 2004 Cultural Capital of Canada. Like many rural areas, however, Grey County now struggles to hold onto its agricultural heritage and strength in an increasingly digital world.	In the life of a community, too much of a good thing can be as bad as too little. The city of Edmonton lies close to one of the largest oil deposits on Earth, which has created a foundation for prosperity but saddled the community with major challenges as well. The resource boom has swelled Edmonton into the youngest major city in Canada with the most diverse population. It has also created housing shortages, homelessness and a range of social ills. And when oil boom turns to oil bust, the challenges mount higher. To create a new economy on top of the oil-driven present, Edmonton has built the infrastructure of the new century and engaged its institutions in translating that infrastructure into a new source of prosperity.

A look at Chiayi City - a Top7 Intelligent Community of 2017

Does a Robot Want Your Job?

Chiayi is a provincial city of 270,000 in southcentral Taiwan, midway between Taichung and Tainan. Ninety-five percent of its economy is in the services sector – wholesale and retail, transportation and warehousing, and accommodation and food – which employs three-quarters of the workforce.

In 2014, however, Chiayi was ranked as having the worst air quality in Taiwan, and Mayor Twu Shiing-jer, a physician, has dedicated his administration to improving life in the city in this and many other areas.

The truth is that every technological revolution has wiped out whole categories of employment. But every one has also created substantial economic growth, just as the current one is doing. Here’s a generally unappreciated fact: when the economy grows, that money does not just disappear. It is cycled back into the economy in the form of demand for new and better products and services. That demand creates jobs, and on a national or global basis, we are all better off.

How ICF Started	Waterfront Toronto’s Kristina Verner on the ICF model of development

At a meeting recently in New York City, the Co-Founders of ICF discussed the early beginnings of ICF from its early planning and telecommunications roots to the event in 1995 that sparked the beginnings of ICF. Robert Bell, John Jung and Louis Zacharilla look back at these early days and present their personal perspectives on what motivated them to move these cutting edge ideas forward without government nor private sector sponsorship support. The Co-Founders are committed practitioners who believe it is important to ensure that the world they leave behind for their children is connected, safe, healthy, prosperous and the very best that it could be.	The Intelligent Communities Director at Waterfront Toronto explains why she thinks the ICF development model is unique and uniquely suited to the demands of the 21st Century.

ICF’s Robert Bell interviews Jay Orr & Steve Reneker in Riverside County	How ICF Helps 1

ICF’s Robert Bell interviews Jay Orr & Steve Reneker in Riverside County while in Riverside for ICF’s Community Accelerator Program.