January 7, 2026 - Intelligence Test: "How Cities Succeed: Bursa & Hilliard" ICF co-founder John Jung and Wendy Dupley, Economic Development Advisor, Langley City, BC, Canada, 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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January 21, 2026 - The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast: The Soul of the City. “Trash and Love in the City.” New Yorkers were surprised when its local TV station named the Pick-up Pigeons as the New Yorker of the Week. Led by Rachael Cain, the group is one of the hottest volunteer clubs or communities in the Big Apple. What do they do? Pick-up garbage from the City’s streets together.  Lou talks to Rachael about how this has helped build a new community within the community!

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February 4, 2026 - The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast: The Soul of the City. "Looking for the “Soul” of Your City? Check Your Moral Imagination." 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 is but are fearless in applying their moral imagination to their experience.  What does that look like? Lou gives us his view.

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February 18, 2026 - The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast: Discussing the upcoming ICF VIP Delegations, and "All Our Cities," newsletter with John Jung.

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March 4, 2026 - The INTELLIGENT Community Interview. A conversation with representatives from three Awards sites.

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March 18, 2026 - Intelligence Test. Rob McCann & Raimundo Rudolfo. 

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April 1, 2026 - The INTELLIGENT Community Podcast: The Soul of the City. “Forget History Class, We Want our Social Media!” 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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