Smart in the City – The BABLE Podcast

About Smart in the City – The BABLE Podcast

Hop on the journey toward a better urban life and hear from top actors in the Smart City arena about stakeholders and themes most prevalent for today's citizens and tomorrow's generations. At BABLE, through our platform and services, we enable processes from research and strategy development to co-creation and implementation. Visit us at www.bable-smartcities.eu

Publisher

BABLE Smart Cities

Category

business · society & culture · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Jan 2022

Latest episode

9 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

110 of 192 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #177 McKinney: Why Innovation Starts with Culture, Not Technology

   Paul Grimes, City Manager, and Brandon Opiela, Chief Data and AI Officer, discuss how McKinney, Texas, fosters innovation through culture reform, not just technology, in this interview.

2. 

   1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #176 Green Bay: Building a Problem-First Innovation Culture

   Host [Host Name] interviews Ishu Gupta, Innovation and Data Strategy Lead for the City of Green Bay, discussing how the city builds a problem-first innovation culture and uses data as civic infrastructure.

3. 

   24 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   #175 Kyiv: How Mental Guard Brings Wellbeing Support to Schools

   Host Kateryna Mohylnytska, Head of the Mental Health Project, discusses how Kyiv's Mental Guard initiative proactively supports student wellbeing within schools, an interview.

Inside a recent episode

#177 McKinney: Why Innovation Starts with Culture, Not Technology

Published 9 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So that would be my advice. I'm not quite certain I know what you're talking about when you say the word AI. I haven't heard that word before. So the only thing I would add, you know, I agree wholeheartedly with what Paul was saying. And I would go back to something Paul said earlier, and then I'm going to kind of merge it with what I said about starting small, right? Mm-hmm. Don't start with technology. Start with trust and culture. If your leadership and management teams aren't willing to give people room to try something and occasionally fail, no tool or platform will fix that, right? We've been working on our culture and organizational performance for nearly 10 years. […]

Who has been a guest on Smart in the City – The BABLE Podcast

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• Paul Grimes
• Brandon Opiela
• Ishu Gupta
• Kateryna Mohylnytska
• Natacha Beauchesne

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

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Quality

96

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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