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What makes Kansas City (and many other cities) so smart?
The smart city at the centre of our podcast is Kansas City and we talk to Bob Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer of Kansas City, and Gordon Feller, founder of the highly influential smart city program Meeting of the Minds, both of whom are tasked with harnessing the power of data and technology for the greater good.
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“I’m not thinking ‘smart city’ in the context of a smarter building delivering a better work experience – which is all good and I want that – but I’m thinking of the whole city as a system and how the employee and their employer can access that information to transform the work itself.”
– Gordon Feller, Meeting of the Minds
Smart cities are popping up all over the world – tackling various issues: cutting crime; reducing traffic congestion; relieving pollution levels. And while the initiatives may vary, every smart city has the same goal – to improve the lives of its citizens.
The smart city at the centre of our podcast is Kansas City, winner of the Edison Award (Gold) for “Collective Disruption” and civic innovation in 2017. We talk to Bob Bennett, Chief Innovation Officer of Kansas City, and Gordon Feller, founder of the highly influential smart city program, Meeting of the Minds, both of whom are tasked with harnessing the power of data and technology for the greater good. Bob and Gordon outline the definition of a smart city; what it takes to make a success of it; and what it means to live in a smart city.
Follow the conversation as Paul Miller asks how smart cities are changing the way we work, whether there can ever be a “smart rural” and what we can expect from our future smart cities.
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Paul Miller is Chairman and Founder of DWG. Also a writer and speaker on the digital future of work, he has given inspirational talks for Microsoft, IKEA, Google, Accenture and the IMF. His most recent book is Nature of Work – The new Story of Work for a Living Age
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Bob Bennett became the Chief Innovation Officer for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, in January 2016 after a 25-year career in the US Army. He leads the Smart City initiatives, a suite of projects including: data analysis, public Wi-Fi, digital kiosk installation and smart lighting programs in the city’s downtown core.
Gordon Feller is the founder of Meeting of the Minds (MotM), a unique international organization established in 2000 as a World Bank spin-off. Gordon formerly worked in the Cisco Systems HQ executive office as Director of Urban Innovation and still advises on the Internet of Things.
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