Let’s Innovate for Vegas

By Innovate for Vegas Foundation

Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positi... more

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The podcast currently has 187 episodes available.

Let’s Innovate for Vegas episodes:

September 08, 2026Episode 0186: Visibility Transparency Observability
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: We literally just talked about Age Verification in the previous episode of this program, and the world then learned about many millions of identity records held by a third party stolen in a security breach. Or why open systems are a better idea.

Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
PII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data
Pseudonymous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonym
Visibility (sort of) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_perception
Transparency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_(behavior)
Observability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability

AI Disclosure
Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is 100% Human.
Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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57min
September 01, 2026Episode 0185: Age Verification
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Online age verification is coming, and in some cases has already been here for quite some time, our Global Innovation Hub should take the lead here where checking ID is par for the course in Greater Vegas.

Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
Wikipedia info (ongoing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States
Nevada DMV (ID section) https://dmv.nv.gov/nvdl.htm
Wikipedia Real ID Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act
Nevada Real ID https://dmv.nv.gov/realid.htm
COPPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act

AI Disclosure
Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is 100% Human.
Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
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56min
August 25, 2026Episode 0184: Back to Work
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Directors seated, taxes filed, LinkedIn deprecated, one or two more things on the to-do list, it is time to get back to work to enable the Civic Volunteer Spring and, of course, the upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge come January 2027.

Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

AI Disclosure
Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is 100% Human.
Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements.
A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.
...more
48min
August 18, 2026Episode 0183: Connection
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: A wandering missive concerning the way a smarter smart city might foster more connection within itself, and maybe beyond…

Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
Toronto Sidewalk Labs (tomorrow.city) https://www.tomorrow.city/sidewalk-toronto-the-vision-behind-googles-failed-city/
Toronto Sidewalk Labs (governing.com) https://www.governing.com/urban/lessons-from-a-failed-tech-urbanist-dream
Toronto Sidewalk Labs (wikipedia.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto
Smart City Vegas (this is our initiative…) https://smart-city.vegas
Smart City (wikipedia.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city
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57min
August 11, 2026Episode 0182: Making Noise
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Being a part of one’s community means many things, one of them is being informed. We should all have some idea what is happening around us, and why, and what might come of it, and we could all also be a part of making progress toward making that happen more and better.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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37min
August 04, 2026Episode 0181: Slight Change of Plans
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men, go oft awry,” so said Robert Burns by way of his poem, To a Mouse, in November, 1785. Our plans are changing for September of this year, for the concerned mice in our audience.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
To A Mouse, Robert Burns (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse
As read by Sir Billy Connolly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kFST60dNgY
CityCamp Events https://citycamp.com/events
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39min
July 28, 2026Episode 0180: Infra
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Every journey may begin with a single step, but that step better be on a navigable path that enables each step, first and all that follow. Let’s call it Infrastructure.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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48min
July 21, 2026Episode 0179: Water
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Nevada, certainly Southern Nevada, leads the way on water sustainability research and implementation, with much of the share of water allotted from Lake Mead recycled and returned, which helps a lot with the math. There are ways we can contribute to the looming challenge brought on by the lack of snow pack, though, let’s talk about it.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
SNWA Water Shortages Page https://www.snwa.com/water-resources/drought-and-shortage/index.html
USBR Colorado River Basin https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/
Megadrought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_megadrought
Clark County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County,_Nevada
Water use article August 2025 https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-valleys-water-use-more-efficient-snwas-goal-is-a-10-improvement/
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51min
July 14, 2026Episode 0178: Connections
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: A few years ago we had decided that proactive recruitment of civic volunteers didn’t really make much sense, that the drive to participate really needs to come from within; however, if that drive is present, our organization needs to be discoverable, and in Vegas this is tricky business. Business we are already pursuing, of course.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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55min
July 07, 2026Episode 0177: Back to Architecture
Show Notes
Host: Dan Hugo
Summary: Year five started, new board members seated, time to get back to work… a refresher for repeat listeners, an overview for newcomers.
Links
Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org
Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation
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52min

FAQs about Let’s Innovate for Vegas:

How many episodes does Let’s Innovate for Vegas have?

The podcast currently has 187 episodes available.