Joseph is a writer from Eagle Mountain, Utah, studying English education at UVU. Before working with The Kahlert Applied AI Institute and as an Intern at Techbuzz, Joseph served as managing editor of UVU's speculative fiction journal, Warp and Weave.
Students and startups competed for $96,000 at UVU's two-day HITLAB World Cup Innovation Pitchday & Hackathon, producing working AI prototypes in digital identity, data governance, and maternal health that Utah's chief privacy officer says will directly inform state legislation.
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.
Utah's landmark Senate Bill 275 creates SEDI, a state-endorsed digital identity system built on a legally binding "Duty of Loyalty." A World Cup hackathon at UVU on June 17–18 invites global teams to help build it
At Utah’s second Data Governance Summit at UVU, officials said the state’s privacy agenda has shifted from legislation to implementation, highlighting digital identity, local-government support, shared services, deadlines, and the challenge of building public trust.
The final plenary session of the American Causal Inference Conference tackled the question everyone in AI is asking. Then a UVU professor, Dr. Brian Knaeble, convened a meeting of a smaller group of Utahns to figure out what the answer meant for them.
A UVU undergraduate has built DIFFRAX, a laser-and-AI diagnostic device that detects bacterial infection in knee implants without surgery. Presented at the 2026 Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Symposium, the tool achieves 99.2 percent accuracy at a parts cost under $400.
