Data-Smart City Pod
Data-Smart City Pod
Data-Smart City Solutions
Building an AI-Ready City Government
28 minutes Posted May 27, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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City leaders are eager to deploy AI, but the real opportunity lies in preparation: building the right organizational structures, expertise, and culture first.
Host Stephen Goldsmith speaks with Teddy Svoronos, senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, about how to structure your city government for Agentic AI, why small, empowered teams work better than broad rollouts, and what mental models and skills leaders actually need to manage this new relationship with AI tools.