Alto Cirra (Salt Lake City, UT) is preparing to test autonomous drone-based cloud seeding in the Wasatch Back this winter, combining aircraft, meteorology, sensing and mission data to pursue more targeted, measurable Utah water-resilience operations.

SkillCo, born from an 18-month UVU development partnership, now works with three Utah school districts, helping students turn coursework, skills and real-world experiences into a living career portfolio.

LoanPro (Farmington, UT) launched payments processing, a virtual Mastercard for loan disbursement and an AI servicing suite at its Salt Flats Summit, arguing that compliance guardrails, not model power, will decide who wins in regulated lending AI.

Scribbi (Provo, UT) is challenging gamified ed-tech with a screen-free, e-ink tablet for kids. By prioritizing handwriting over typing, founders Keller and Katarina Seamons offer a calm alternative rooted in cognitive research and distraction-free learning.

Vector (Bluffdale, UT) has been selected for orders of up to 5,000 drones through the U.S. Drone Dominance Program, following a year of fundraising, manufacturing expansion and increasingly significant military contracts.

DigiCert (Lehi, UT) is applying decades of internet security experience to a new problem: how to establish identity, accountability and authority for AI agents as they move across applications, companies and organizational boundaries.

Spotter Global (Orem, UT) unveiled RDID 3.0 at GSX 2026, expanding Remote ID detection to more than five kilometers while integrating pilot tracking, cameras, radar and command-and-control.

LoanPro (Farmington, UT), AllCloud and AWS built a Claude-powered interface that turns raw loan data into plain-language borrower context for servicing agents, cutting call times up to 15% — announced days before LoanPro's invite-only Salt Flats Summit.