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Our audio program about the Innovate for Vegas Foundation, our volunteers, our projects, our ideas, and how what we are working on will ideally impact our communities in and around Las Vegas in positive ways, while at the same time empowering our volunteers to make a difference, for their friends and neighbors and for themselves.

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September 1, 2026Episode 18555 min

Episode 0185: Age Verification

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Online age verification is coming, and in some cases has already been here for quite some time, our Global Innovation Hub should take the lead here where checking ID is par for the course in Greater Vegas. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Wikipedia info (ongoing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_laws_in_the_United_States Nevada DMV (ID section) https://dmv.nv.gov/nvdl.htm Wikipedia Real ID Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act Nevada Real ID https://dmv.nv.gov/realid.htm COPPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is 100% Human. Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements. A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.

August 25, 2026Episode 18447 min

Episode 0184: Back to Work

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Directors seated, taxes filed, LinkedIn deprecated, one or two more things on the to-do list, it is time to get back to work to enable the Civic Volunteer Spring and, of course, the upcoming Smarter Smart City Challenge come January 2027. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation AI Disclosure Unless otherwise specified, ALL writing and speaking contained in this episode of Let’s Innovate for Vegas is 100% Human. Cover art, a single frame image, may be constructed with a combination of generative AI, clip art, real photographs, visual elements, various type faces, and other miscellaneous elements. A single cover art image may be converted to Video, to which the same disclosures apply.

August 18, 2026Episode 18356 min

Episode 0183: Connection

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A wandering missive concerning the way a smarter smart city might foster more connection within itself, and maybe beyond… Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation Toronto Sidewalk Labs (tomorrow.city) https://www.tomorrow.city/sidewalk-toronto-the-vision-behind-googles-failed-city/ Toronto Sidewalk Labs (governing.com) https://www.governing.com/urban/lessons-from-a-failed-tech-urbanist-dream Toronto Sidewalk Labs (wikipedia.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto Smart City Vegas (this is our initiative…) https://smart-city.vegas Smart City (wikipedia.org) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city

August 11, 2026Episode 18236 min

Episode 0182: Making Noise

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Being a part of one’s community means many things, one of them is being informed. We should all have some idea what is happening around us, and why, and what might come of it, and we could all also be a part of making progress toward making that happen more and better. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

August 4, 2026Episode 18138 min

Episode 0181: Slight Change of Plans

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: “The best-laid schemes of mice and men, go oft awry,” so said Robert Burns by way of his poem, To a Mouse, in November, 1785. Our plans are changing for September of this year, for the concerned mice in our audience. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation To A Mouse, Robert Burns (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Mouse As read by Sir Billy Connolly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kFST60dNgY CityCamp Events https://citycamp.com/events

July 28, 2026Episode 18047 min

Episode 0180: Infra

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Every journey may begin with a single step, but that step better be on a navigable path that enables each step, first and all that follow. Let’s call it Infrastructure. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

July 21, 2026Episode 17950 min

Episode 0179: Water

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Nevada, certainly Southern Nevada, leads the way on water sustainability research and implementation, with much of the share of water allotted from Lake Mead recycled and returned, which helps a lot with the math. There are ways we can contribute to the looming challenge brought on by the lack of snow pack, though, let’s talk about it. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation SNWA Water Shortages Page https://www.snwa.com/water-resources/drought-and-shortage/index.html USBR Colorado River Basin https://www.usbr.gov/ColoradoRiverBasin/ Megadrought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_North_American_megadrought Clark County https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_County,_Nevada Water use article August 2025 https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-valleys-water-use-more-efficient-snwas-goal-is-a-10-improvement/

July 14, 2026Episode 17854 min

Episode 0178: Connections

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: A few years ago we had decided that proactive recruitment of civic volunteers didn’t really make much sense, that the drive to participate really needs to come from within; however, if that drive is present, our organization needs to be discoverable, and in Vegas this is tricky business. Business we are already pursuing, of course. Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

July 7, 2026Episode 17751 min

Episode 0177: Back to Architecture

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Year five started, new board members seated, time to get back to work… a refresher for repeat listeners, an overview for newcomers. Links Innovate for Vegas Cohort https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation

June 30, 2026Episode 1761 hr 2 min

Episode 0176: Four Years In

Show Notes Host: Dan Hugo Summary: Our fourth fiscal year ends today, June 30 as we record today’s episode, almost requiring a retrospective episode, so here we are… Links Innovate for Vegas Activity https://innovateforvegas.org Innovate for Vegas Foundation https://innovateforvegas.foundation