Utah's first Salt Lake Art Show, launched under the X5 convergence platform, showcased extraordinary artists including a keyboard-key pop artist, a Navajo-Anishinaabe jeweler, a Burning Man sculptor, and a feng shui painter, signaling Salt Lake City's emergence as a major creative destination.

Utah Valley University and HITLAB are launching a healthcare AI hackathon and innovation competition aimed at connecting startups, students, researchers, and healthcare leaders to accelerate commercialization of emerging technologies in digital health, applied AI, and digital identity systems.

The final plenary session of the American Causal Inference Conference tackled the question everyone in AI is asking. Then a UVU professor, Dr. Brian Knaeble, convened a meeting of a smaller group of Utahns to figure out what the answer meant for them.

NetDocuments (Lehi, UT) launched an AI-focused legal platform using a “context graph” to connect documents, matters, and firm knowledge, aiming to improve legal search, workflows, and AI-assisted legal work.

Utah entrepreneur Joshua Ahlstrom built Tilted Spray Co. into a viral success, selling 45,000 units worldwide — then discovered counterfeiters using his own face and photos on Amazon to sell knockoffs, exposing a systemic crisis facing American product startups.

Proximity (Lehi, UT) launches Smart Messaging Engine, an AI platform that helps civic and political leaders monitor community sentiment and craft targeted outreach — bringing campaign-grade intelligence to any leader, at any level.

Govineer Solutions has secured a growth investment from TA Associates to accelerate its evolution into an AI-powered operating system for local governments, serving 2,300+ municipalities across 43 states through an expanding platform of mission-critical GovTech solutions.

Fortem Technologies (Lindon, UT) will deploy its most advanced radar system at the Farnborough International Airshow this summer, continuing a streak of high-profile global deployments for the airspace security company.