CROSS-CANADA Roundtables to Focus on Small, Rural, Indigenous Communities

ICF CANADA and Canadian Urban Institute are collaborating to develop 6 Roundtables across Canada from May - October, 2019 in partnership with Evergreen, to focus on discussions with small, rural and indigenous communities about their interests in being or becoming a “Smart Community”. The initial roundtables will be by invitation only to be held on Wednesday, May 22 with Windsor…

Community Solutions Network Announced

The Community Solutions Network is a new platform for communities to connect and build a national centre of excellence in open smart cities. A program of Future Cities Canada, the Network is a community-centric platform, serving every type of Canadian community: big, mid-sized, Indigenous, small and northern. As the project lead, Evergreen is working with OpenNorth and partners to provide…

SMART CITIES CHALLENGE Winners to be Announced May 14

The Smart Cities Challenge is a pan-Canadian competition open to communities of all sizes, including municipalities, regional governments and Indigenous communities (First Nations, Métis and Inuit). The Challenge encouraged communities to adopt a smart cities approach to improve the lives of their residents through innovation, data and connected technology. After a prolonged period of competitions generating 130 eligible applications from…

New Addition to ICF Canada’s Speakers Bureau

ICF Canada offers communities and organizations across Canada, USA and abroad access to qualified Canadian and International speakers who can discuss smart city and Intelligent Community issues, share best practices and expertise with case studies of successful communities.  All of the speakers are qualified to speak about the topics that they indicate in their bios. See: https://icf-canada.com/icf-canada-speakers-bureau/ This month learn…

The Seven Places in the World that should not Surprise You

The best description I have ever heard about ICF as an ideas-driving think tank for enabling Digital Age policy for cities and towns was from Rob van Gijzel, the former mayor of Eindhoven, The Netherlands and the ICF Foundation’s first chairman. He called us, “The method of transformational decision making for cities.” And we are. Or at least “a method”…

Join ICF’s MATCHMAKING DAY FDI Investment and Business Event on June 11, 2019

Smart Infrastructure Solutions for your Intelligent Communities Since 2014, the Intelligent Community Forum has been organizing some form of business and investment attraction sessions at its Intelligent Community meetings. The initial meetings in NYC were held at the Canadian High Commission in NYC and were basically a glorified business card exchange. For 5 years the meetings were an excellent ice…

ICF Global Summit, NYC, June 11-13

Meet the TOP7 Intelligent Communities, thought leaders, business leads and smart city experts and companies that are making an impact and helping to transform their smart cities into Intelligent Communities. Click here to see the programme from the 2018 Global Summit for more information on what you can expect at an ICF Summit. The ICF Summit is unlike any” smart…

Commtech East and West

COMMTECH EAST • April 15-17, 2019 Where ICT Professionals Network… Mississauga Convention Centre, 75 Derry Road West, Mississauga, ON KEYNOTE ADDRESS James Myles, Director, Service Assurance, GTA East, Rogers Communications The Canadian CommTech Show & Seminars made its debut in Kelowna, BC, in 2006, and in 2019 celebrates its 14th Anniversary. Canada’s premiere multi-industry ICT event is all about content and value and…

Tech Executive & Former Columbus Deputy CIO Appointed as Chair of ICF’s International Jury

The Intelligent Community Forum (www.intelligentcommunity.org) announced the appointment of Moez Chaabouni as Chair of the independent international jury that helps ICF select the Intelligent Community of the Year. Mr. Chaabouni, an entrepreneur and tech executive, is the former Deputy CIO of Columbus, Ohio and currently works as a senior account executive for Informatica, a world leader in enterprise cloud data…

The Intelligent Community Forum Names the Global Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2019

Small, Medium & Large Communities from Four Nations Show Transformative Change Press Release: (New York, USA and Quebec City, Canada – 11 February 2019) – In an announcement this evening at an event at Laval University in Quebec City, the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) named the Top7 Intelligent Communities of 2019. The 17th annual Top7 list includes cities and counties from…