StartFEST returns June 23–24 at Loveland Living Planet Aquarium, bringing founders, investors, and operators together for two days of insights on AI, fundraising, go-to-market strategy, leadership, and growth.

Lunr Capital (Minneapolis, MN) replaced spreadsheet-based loan management with LoanPro’s API-first lending platform, enabling 9x portfolio growth, reducing manual servicing work by 20%, and delivering near-zero servicing errors at scale.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce joined a Dorsey & Whitney roundtable in Salt Lake City to discuss regulatory reforms aimed at making IPOs more accessible, as Utah business and policy leaders examined how to grow the state's pipeline of public companies.

Abs King, Lead Product Designer at Palladyne AI (Salt Lake City, UT) bridges the gap between industrial workers and AI-powered robots through user-centered interface design, drawing on a background in organizational communication.

Utah tech leaders gathered at Thanksgiving Point's Show Barn for the Women Tech Council's "AI Won't Wait" summit, where executives, educators, and practitioners made the case that AI readiness — not AI adoption — is now the defining competitive variable.

A 10-year, 200-mile fiber project finally connects Navajo Mountain High School — one of Utah's last unconnected public schools — to high-speed broadband, marking a milestone for the Navajo Nation.

TechBuzz profiles Alison Smart’s campaign to preserve Levemir, the discontinued insulin detemir that some patients uniquely need, through stories from Michela Belluta, Kirill Zenchenko, Jaime Losinski, and Dr. Maisa Feghali, who warn alternatives can be riskier.

Cy4Data Labs launches Cy4Signal, an additional encryption layer for Signal messenger that protects messages, voice, and video even after extraction from the platform, targeting government and enterprise users facing increasingly sophisticated AI-driven social engineering attacks.