The Urban Complex: Recent Episodes
Chris Richardson and Dominic Papa
The definition of complex states "a system of interrelated, emotion-charged ideas, feelings, memories, and impulses." This name takes this and lays out what a listener should expect: A podcast where ideas, feelings, and memories collide, leading towards meaningful change.
Influencing City Energy Outcomes and Progress Towards Carbon Neutrality Through State Policy and Education - Interview with Bill Ritter, Director of the Center for the New Energy Economy Colorado State University and Former Governor, State of Colorado
Bringing Together the Innovation, Technology, and Partnerships Necessary to Move the Needle for the State of Colorado and Beyond - Interview with Tyler Svitak Executive Director, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance
Asking Why a Lot, With the Intent to Reduce the Time to Science - Interview with Kendra Ketchum, Vice President for Information Management and Technology at The University of Texas at San Antonio
Reimagining Power, Solar, and Clean Energy While Bringing a Mindset Shift to a Stagnant Industry - Interview with Jeff Guldner CEO of Arizona Public Service
Universities in a Unique Position to Play a Convening Role, and have the Capacity to Help Execute for And/Both Outcomes - Interview with Lev Gonick, CIO Arizona State University
The Vendor Whisperer, How to Innovate with Many Stakeholders (Vendors and Potential Egos) at the Same Table - Interview with Nicole Raimundo, CIO Town of Cary, NC
This is not Your Parents’ Mill Ave, The Changing of Tempe and a Model for Cities - Interview with Corey Woods, Mayor, City of Tempe, AZ
Paving the Way to Cooler Asphalt, Less Harmful Emissions, and a Cheaper Solution for Roads and Parking Lots - Interview with Klara Moradkhan, CEO & Co-Founder ePave
Innovating (with a Barn) to Build the Circular Economy, Leading the Way as an Intentional Leader- Interview with Amy Aussieker - Executive Director, Envision Charlotte
Creating MOU’s as Commitment Documents and the Blueprint for Catalyzing Economic Development - Interview with Melissa James, President and CEO of REACH
End of Year Update - Chris and Dom Recap Their Experience with the Podcast and Highlights from The Urban Complex
Throwing the OG Smart City Block Party and the Great Idea of City innovation Executive Certification - Interview with David Graham, Chief Innovation Officer, City of Carlsbad, CA
Cities and Counties are the Operating System by Which We Run Our Lives and a Great Free Resource for City Innovation Written and Created by Those Innovating - Interview with Erik Caldwell Director of Data Strategy at the Atlas for Cities
Learn from a City Run not by the Mayor, but the CEO as Well as How 1000 Hours of Staff Time Was Saved in Tech Procurement - Interview with Michael Pegues Chief Information Officer (CIO) City of Aurora, IL
Building a Responsive City and the Story for How Columbus Won the $40M USDOT Challenge - Interview with Jordan Davis Executive Director at Smart Columbus
The Collaboration of Collaborations and How Strong City Leadership is the Driving Champion - Interview with Ryan Trujillo Director of Support Services City of Colorado Springs, CO
Syracuse Surge, a Strategy for Inclusive Growth in the New Economy and Lessons for Managing $123M in Pandemic Relief Funding - Interview with Jennifer Tifft Director Strategic Initiatives City of Syracuse, NY
If Your Job is to Just Run Something at a City, Look for a New Job; Embed the Ability to Continually Innovate.- Interview with Dr. Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University
Continual Evolution and Improvement in First Responders (Police, Fire and Overall Safety Services for Cities) - Interview with Bill Schrier consultant on Seattle’s 911 Center and former Sr Advisor at the First Responder Network
Creating World-Changing Technology That Improves the Life of Every Person on the Planet and the N50 Initiative - Interview with Dan Gutwein Director of Incubation Projects, Emerging Technologies Team and the N50 Initiative at Intel
Professional Collaborator/Convener, Vision to Serve All K-12, Smarter Schools Lead to Smarter Cities - Interview with Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman with the Arizona Department of Education
Helping Cities Be the Best Version of Themselves (Maximize the good and minimize the bad of each unique cities’ aspects) - Interview with Jason Whittet Digital Innovation Lead for Smart Cities at Amazon Web Services
Everything Comes Back to Data and the Where; Not Predicting the Future, but We Don’t Want to be Surprised by It, the GIS Episode - Interview with Karen Rogers Enterprise GIS & Data Visualization Coordinator, State of Wyoming Department of Enterprise Technology Services
Service in Her Roots; Transforming How Government Serves Texans - Interview with Mandy Crawford CIO for the State of Texas’ Department of Information Resources
Learn How to Help Cities Fulfill Their Mission of Safety with AI/ML (but really start with people and process as the tech will follow) - Interview with Kevin Jones COO Cardinality-ai and former CIO Indiana Department of Child Services
What Do You Get When You Combine an Urban Designer, a Passion for Mobility, an Entrepreneurial Mindset, and the Unique Backing of Public/Private/University Thought Leadership and Resources - Interview with Komal Doshi Director of Mobility Programs for Ann Arbor SPARK
Large Funding for Cleveland’s Digital Inclusion Comes Overnight, Find Out How Laying the Foundation for 18 Years Led to a $20M Success - Interview with Dorothy Baunach CEO Digital C and Board Member of the Cleveland Water Alliance
Your city can only be as smart as your infrastructure (social and physical) - Interview with Karen Lightman Executive Director, Metro21 (Carnegie Mellon University)
Systems of Systems Integration and Three Factors Misaligned (spoiler: the business model, voice of residents and budgeting like an IT project) - Interview with Brenna Berman, Founder & CEO at City Tech Collaborative and former CIO & Commissioner Department of Innovation & Technology City of Chicago
Digital Inclusion for All, the Use of Sustainable Development Goals to Scale - Interview with Erin Carr-Jordan, Ph.D., Head of Social Impact and Co-PI of the NSF ADVANCE program at Arizona State University; CEO of Five-11
Great Innovations are Likely not Born from City Hall, Find Out Why an Outside-in Perspective is Necessary - Interview with Bas Boorsma Chief Digital Officer of the City of Rotterdam and Professor of Practice Thunderbird School of Global Management
An Intrapreneurs Story for Navigating Digital Inclusion (at scale) and Great Solutions for Funding a New Initiative - Interview with Joshua Edmonds, Director of Digital Inclusion, City of Detroit, Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT)
Deep, Passionate Empathy and a Great Ecosystem, How the 'Venice of Portugal' Became a 'Tech City' - Interview with Andre Costa Head Office for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship at the City of Aveiro, Portugal and Lead for Aveiro Tech City
CivicTech inspirations from one who gets things done - Interview with Rob Lloyd CIO of the City of San Jose
Put your market in a position to meet the changing needs, running economic development like a sports team - interview with Chris Camacho CEO Greater Phoenix Economic Council
Cities are not smart if there are homeless, hungry and the poor - Interview with Aarti Tandon CEO Smart City Expo Atlanta and CEO of Citizen Eight
Moving New Orleans, How to Reduce Automobile Trips 50% by 2030 - Interview with Laura Bryan Director, Mayor’s Office of Transportation, City of New Orleans
Living at the Intersection Point Between Community, Data and Technology - Interview with Jen Sanders, Executive Director, Dallas Innovation Alliance and North Texas Innovation Alliance
Reimagining City Waste, in Fact All Dynamics of Production that Lead to Waste - Interview with Ron Gonen Founder & CEO Closed Loop Partners, Author The Waste-Free World and Former NYC Deputy Commissioner for Sanitation, Recycling and Sustainability
Innovation in Transportation, Incentivizing Other Modes of Travel Beyond the Car - Interview with Joshua Schank Chief Innovation officer at Los Angeles County Metropolitan and Nolan Borgman Manager, Transportation Planning, Office of Extraordinary Innovation
Sharing Insights and Capabilities, the Background Behind the Sponsorship - Interview with David Stevens, Chief Strategic Advisor - SLED at World Wide Technology and former CIO Maricopa County
There is No End State to Smart Cities and the Win: Win, Thinking About Incentivizing for Cultural Differences and for Different Time Horizons - Interview with Debra Lam, Founding Executive Director of the Partnership for Inclusive Innovation and former Chief of Innovation & Performance at the City of Pittsburgh
Shed Your Probability Mindset, On the Road to Possibility You Need Ideas, Test Ideas and Don't Scale Them Linearly, But Exponentially (build, measure, learn model) - Interview with Mitchell Weiss Author of We The Possibility and Former Chief of Staff to Boston's Mayor Thomas Menino
It's Infrastructure and trying new things, not either/or - Interview with Mike Grigsby, Director Innovation & Technology City of Sioux Falls
Avoid Tech for Tech Sake (If you can't take a picture, it didn't happen) and the introduction of Boundary Spanners (those who move between the edge of cities, industry, universities, and citizens - facilitators of conversation) - Interview with Michael Guerin Programme Manager - Smart Docklands: Dublin's Smart City Testbed
Horizontal Integration Model ‘This isn’t about IT, everything we do is part of our strategic plan’ - Interview with Raimundo Rodulfo Director of IT/CIO and Julian Perez Economic Development Director both at the City of Coral Gables
Build It and They Will Come (investing in sound infrastructure that will differentiate your smart city) - Interview with Brandon Branham, Assistant City Manager City of Peachtree Corners
The Importance of Planning (including getting it off the shelf to keep it fresh) and the Evolution from a Data Desert to a Data Oasis - Interview with Grant Ervin, Chief Resiliency Officer City of Pittsburgh
Living Carfree and Building Community - Interview with Lava Sunder, General Manager Culdesac
Sourcing Pilots and Changing the Mindset for City Teams - Interview with Emily Yates, Smart Cities Director for the City of Philadelphia
Inspiring City Collaboration Through Entrepreneurship - Interview with Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri Executive Director CIV:LAB & Emily Dabish Director CIV:LAB Detroit
Challenge in Life, Being Content With What You Have Without Losing Your Ambition: Giving Back at Scale to His Birth Country of India - Interview with Suresh Shenoy, President of the Wheels Global Foundation
Not a Smart Cities Dummy (he wrote the book) - Interview with Jonathan Reichental, Founder Human Future, Author Smart Cities for Dummies, and former CIO City of Palo Alto
Exploring Bureaucracy, Agility, and Partnership - Interview with Mark Schwartz, Enterprise Strategist at Amazon Web Services (AWS), multi-time author of books like The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy and A Seat at the Table
The Power of the Pilot - Interview with Michael Sherwood Chief Innovation Officer (and Chief Information Officer) City of Las Vegas
City Police Force of the Future, No Bullets or Killing? - Interview with Rick Smith, CEO and Founder Axon (formerly TASER)
Teamwork makes the dreamwork - Interview with Mark Wittenburg Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Rosa Inchausti Director of Strategic Management and Diversity, both with the City of Tempe.
Interview with Jenn Daniels, former Mayor Town of Gilbert and now Director at Horizon Strategies AZ.
This podcast won't be about Chris and Dom, but check out this Introduction where they do talk about their intent for the podcast and what to expect going forward.