Utah AI Convergence's Industry Panel brought ChipNexus, Enzy, Lease End, Google, and Cisco's Outshift together to detail how calibrated, robust, human-centric multi-agent systems move from demos into high-stakes production deployment.

Nick Thomas spent 25 years building infrastructure that connected the world. Then he had to reckon with what he'd neglected to build closer to home.

Four speakers at StartFest 2026 in Draper, Utah, converged on a single theme: in the AI era, the differentiator is not the tool. It is the human — empathetic, prepared, and self-aware.

A Provo hackathon team, Portobello Health, builds an AI-agent tool letting patients monitor their own medical records, addressing privacy risks in the new national QHIN network — without winning a bounty.

Utah's Chief Privacy Officer unveils SEDI, a state-endorsed digital identity model built on individual control, at a UVU hackathon where a Provo team builds AI health-record agents on the same framework.

Utah's Spaceport Exploration Committee has formally advanced two candidate sites — Delta and Green River — into detailed feasibility study, marking the most significant step yet toward a licensed commercial spaceport in the Intermountain West.

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.

UVU's Emerging Tech Policy Lab and Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy released research showing AI-generated deepfakes influence voter opinion as effectively as real media, with no demographic group able to reliably detect synthetic content.