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HITLAB x UVU World Cup Innovation Hackathon takes place this week at Utah Valley University, offering $96,000 in bounties and industry networking.

Pattern Group has filed a secondary stock offering enabling a major shareholder to reduce its stake. The transaction raises no new capital, but underscores Utah tech's evolving public-market maturity.

Troomi (Orem, UT) launches the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G with Troomi OS™, a $199.95 child-safe smartphone featuring AI content filtering, parental controls, and curated app access — the company's most capable device yet in the kids-phone market.

GoForth Foundation, an American Fork, Utah nonprofit, built an AI pipeline that takes a sacred site from research to published page in 15 minutes. It has its sights set on every temple, cathedral, and holy site on earth.

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.