Mark is Co-founder/Editor of TechBuzz News. From Ogden, UT, Mark attended WSU, BYU, and Tufts. He has been involved in tech, media, publishing since the 80s.
Implementing Ideas marked 20 years in business with a ribbon-cutting open house at its new Orem facility, featuring remarks from CEO David Zoppetti, 47G's Gerritt Vander Linden, and keynote speaker Johnny Ferry of the Utah Manufacturers Association.
The University of Utah and XPRIZE are exploring incentive competitions as a model for tackling Utah challenges, including Great Salt Lake restoration, minerals, climate innovation, healthspan, and research commercialization, connecting researchers, entrepreneurs, investors, industry and government.
UVU's Kahlert Institute for Applied AI trained faculty to build custom AI tools this summer. Across six profiles, a pattern emerges: instructors engineering restraint into AI, and shifting from teaching AI use to teaching AI management.
Utah’s $5 million AI Moonshot program will fund research addressing challenges in mental health, water, healthcare and autonomous systems, with university-sponsored proposals due October 15.
Hypercraft (Provo, UT) unveiled its Razorback autonomous ground vehicle at a West Jordan briefing with Fortem, Base Case, and 47G, pairing a software-defined UGV platform with Fortem's counter-drone payload amid Utah's fast-growing aerospace and defense sector.
A hybrid-electric aircraft from Ampaire (Long Beach, CA) completes a demonstration flight across Utah as part of UDOT's uFLY initiative. The flight is helping evaluate how next-generation aircraft can safely operate within today's aviation system while reducing fuel consumption and emissions
Nuclea Energy signed an MOU to explore siting a lead-cooled test reactor at Utah's San Rafael Energy Lab in Emery County, a technology with no existing Western Hemisphere precedent.
AlphaTech Research Corp (American Fork, UT) CEO Matt Memmott delivered the keynote at Weber County's nuclear symposium, using safety data, a radiation-as-weightlifting analogy, and a deep-aquifer desalination case study to build public support for molten salt reactors in Utah.
