Problem before product
Every session opens with a municipal decision, not a platform. Speakers earn attention by advancing the decision.
About the series
Municipal challenges do not arrive in product categories.
They arrive as a street that must be rebuilt, a water main that will not stop breaking, or a wildfire season that is getting closer. One City. One Problem. brings three complementary experts around one realistic municipal problem and asks a practical question: what should the city do next?
The format is deliberately simple: one problem, three expert contributions, one candid roundtable, audience Q&A, and a clear takeaway municipal teams can use.
Editorial principles
How we keep it useful
Honest about uncertainty
Evidence has limits. Contributors distinguish what is known, what is assumed, and what must be verified in the field.
Disciplines that connect
The value is in the handoffs. The moderator tests dependencies, sequence, cost, and risk between the three contributions.
Useful after the call
Each episode ends with a three-step decision path and a takeaway artifact a team can use next week.
The 75-minute format
- 01 · 10 minutes
The problem
The moderator introduces the city, the stakes, the constraints, and the decision.
- 02 · 15 minutes each
Three expert contributions
Each expert answers one assigned question and shows one useful visual or example.
- 03 · 20 minutes
Moderated roundtable
The speakers connect the pieces, surface tradeoffs, and agree on sequence.
- 04 · 10 minutes
Audience Q&A
Attendees bring the problem into their own operating context.
- 05 · 5 minutes
The takeaway
The moderator closes with three practical next steps.
Who produces the series
One City. One Problem. is produced by ConnectMii with AssetMapping, bringing municipal practitioners and infrastructure specialists into the same conversation about what to do next.
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