"Ecosystem" articles pertain to buildings, developments, changes to large swaths of land that related to business. It also includes institutions that make up the Utah tech ecosystem, such as universities, accelerators, government entities and related groups.
Ecosystem
"Ecosystem" articles pertain to buildings, developments, changes to large swaths of land that related to business. It also includes institutions that make up the Utah tech ecosystem, such as universities, accelerators, government entities and related groups.
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.
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.
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.
Utah's 47G Institute convened 195 investors, defense researchers, and startup founders at the University of Utah for Critical Ventures 2026, addressing rare earth supply chain vulnerability through the DARPA-backed SMART testbed, AI sourcing tools, and federal permitting reform.
