47G’s annual Utah Aerospace & Defense Day (Salt Lake City, UT) convenes 50-plus exhibitors, live drone demos, and industry leaders at the Capitol, spotlighting AI, robotics, space, and advanced manufacturing innovation, statewide ecosystem impact.

UVU hosts a free AI Agent Behavioral Science Conference examining real-world use, research, and ethics of AI agents, featuring a healthcare informatics keynote, January 30.

Resolve Integration Technologies (Roy, UT) uses DOS 2.0™ and the 10th Floor™ interlock to enforce deterministic, auditable AI decision-making, bridging probabilistic outputs with physical safety and post-quantum trust.

Utah’s housing crisis constrains economic growth. Legislative reforms, capital initiatives like KeyBank’s $43.4M supportive housing project, and workforce affordability challenges highlight the intersection of policy, finance, and the state’s tech ecosystem.

Founder Tyler Jensen built FictionForge (Provo, UT) to solve AI’s hardest storytelling problem: sustaining narrative coherence across long-form fiction, using engineered structure to help creators turn unrealized story ideas into finished novels.

PicPortal (Lehi, UT) enables photographers to transfer images instantly from camera to editor, streamlining workflows for freelancers and media teams. Built by photographers, it combines speed, affordability, and user-driven design.

PhotoPharmics (American Fork, UT) has published peer-reviewed Phase 2 data for its Parkinson’s photo-neuromodulation device Celeste, demonstrating safety and secondary efficacy signals that informed its fully enrolled Phase 3 pivotal trial.

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