The Intelligent Community

Both National Geographic and the "Today" show recently recognized Boulder as "The Happiest City in the U.S... but what are Boulder's Intelligent community aspirations? ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla sits down with Boulder's Julia Richman to discuss Boulder's plan for the future.

Julia is the Chief Innovation and Analytics Officer for the City of Boulder. She is responsible for the City’s data, performance management, and innovation programs. Prior to working for the City, she spent nearly a decade at Deloitte Consulting, leading projects that advanced service and business operations strategies in the public sector. Mrs. Richman has worked with states, universities, non-profits, and the federal government on large scale, enterprise-wide transformation efforts including restructuring, cost reduction, business processes improvement, operations improvement, enterprise governance, portfolio management, innovation, and organizational design.  Julia is a Colorado native. She is a graduate of Leadership Denver and the Colorado Institute for Leadership Training. She is a mentor for Colorado Based Greenhouse Scholars and also sits on the Colfax Marathon board of directors. She has an MPP from the University of Chicago and an AB from Dartmouth College.

Both National Geographic and the "Today" show recently recognized Boulder as "The Happiest City in the U.S... but what does that mean? ICF co-founder Lou Zacharilla sits down with Boulder's Julia Richman to discuss the award and Boulder's unique characteristics that make it one of the happiest places to live.

Julia is the Chief Innovation and Analytics Officer for the City of Boulder. She is responsible for the City’s data, performance management, and innovation programs. Prior to working for the City, she spent nearly a decade at Deloitte Consulting, leading projects that advanced service and business operations strategies in the public sector. Mrs. Richman has worked with states, universities, non-profits, and the federal government on large scale, enterprise-wide transformation efforts including restructuring, cost reduction, business processes improvement, operations improvement, enterprise governance, portfolio management, innovation, and organizational design.  Julia is a Colorado native. She is a graduate of Leadership Denver and the Colorado Institute for Leadership Training. She is a mentor for Colorado Based Greenhouse Scholars and also sits on the Colfax Marathon board of directors. She has an MPP from the University of Chicago and an AB from Dartmouth College.

Rui Barros joined WeWork in April 2016 as SVP of Global Operations, utilizing his nearly three decades of hospitality experience to serve as a center of excellence and introduce best practices for WeWork’s space, community and services globally. In his current role as Head of Tri-State, Barros oversees all aspects of the company’s fast-growing business for WeWork’s largest market – including management, sales, operations, marketing, and more for WeWork’s 40 buildings and tens of thousands of members across New York City.

Dr. Jack Chu comes from Taiwan as a participant in the Robert M. Immerman Professional Fellows program as a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a graduate of National Taiwan University (NTU), where he majored in civil engineering; he also earned an Master of C.E. and Eng. Doctor from NTU. Currently he is also employed at the Taipei Water Department of the Taipei City Government of Taiwan (R.O.C).

Brad Ferguson is the President & CEO of Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, responsible for ensuring Edmonton and the Capital Region consistently outperform every economic jurisdiction in North America for the next 20 years.

Brad has built his career designing and implementing growth strategies for some of Canada’s most respected organizations, and repeatedly tests the resiliency of those strategies against various economic and political scenarios. He is considered one of the most passionate evangelists for increased competitiveness in business, and provides thought leadership on economic, innovation and international investment policy. His experience draws from leading practices around the globe, and his facilitative approach to problem solving is welcomed across the public, private and non-profit sectors.

In today’s episode, we’re going to be hearing from Andy Lee, Technology Investment Director with the state of Victoria, Australia. ICF's Lou Zacharilla spoke with Andy at Silicon Harlem’s 4th Annual Next Gen Tech Conference in New York City during a panel discussion also featuring Brad Ferguson from the Edmonton Economic Development Corporation, Dr. Jack Chu from the Weatherhead East Asian Instutute, and Rui Barros of WeWork. We'll be featuring each of them in coming episodes, but we wanted to start with Andy Lee, as much of our discussion surrounds Melbourne, our current reigning Intelligent Community of the Year for 2017. We'll be hearing from him why collaboration really is key in developing an intelligent community.