Govlaunch Podcast

On this episode, Devta Kidd, Innovation Director for Bloomington, Indiana joins me to talk about low budget, impactful innovation that any local government can try. We'll talk about cross-departmental buy-in strategies for engaging the community and what questions we should be asking as we progress through a project lifecycle to ensure innovation remains at the center.
Featured government: City of Bloomington, Indiana
Episode Guests: Devta Kidd  – Innovation Director
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The legal division is often assumed to be slow and archaic, even a barrier to innovation. In the City of Hamilton's case, this couldn't be further from the truth. The division has created model policies around some big disruptors, such as the sharing economy, that are now being replicated around the world. 
Featured government: City of Hamilton, Canada
Episode Guests:
Monica Ciriello  – Director Municipal Law and Licensing 
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Back in 2019, the city of Montréal was a successful bidder of the Canadian government Smart Cities Challenge. This allowed Montreal to kick off a multi-year multi-project effort to tackle everything from food security to mobility.
Featured government:  Montréal, Canada
Episode Guests:
Aldo Rizzi, Program Director – Smart City Innovation Program chez Ville de Montréal
Patrick Lozeau, Advisor in charge of data projects for Montreal in Common
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With police forces in many local governments coming under major scrutiny, we'll hear how one government is looking at risk management, crisis management, internal audit, and ultimately ways to improve resiliency to drive impactful and equitable policing.
Featured government:  Paris, France
Episode Guest: Inès Boubaker, Risk Manager, Paris City Hall
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Olivia dives into what this new tech is and what roles local government practitioners can play in these emerging spaces.
Episode Guests: 
Dani Pico, Director of Community at Forum
Dani is a long time start-up operator focused on the education and innovation sectors. Currently, Dani is the Director of Community at Forum Ventures, an early stage fund and accelerator program focused on B2B SaaS.
Zachary Habayeb
Real Estate Tokenization in the UK
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