Two UVU students demonstrated practical AI agent-building to 52 USHE internal auditors, showing how Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI's GPT 5.4 can transform tedious manual audit workflows and improve efficiency.

The Society for Causal Inference is holding their annual conference in Salt Lake City, May 11-14. UVU professor Brian Knaeble, president-elect of the society, will host a free networking event after the conference on Thursday for Utah's tech community.

Abbey Lasater, Associate Vice President of Data Engineering at Sunwest Bank, shares her journey from uncertain student to confident tech leader, encouraging young women to embrace curiosity and persevere through challenges in STEM.

Milford Mining Company Utah and Furnace Japan launched a partnership to recover tungsten and critical minerals from mine tailings using cleaner processing technology, advancing sustainable mining, domestic supply chains and rural economic growth.

A UVU undergraduate has built DIFFRAX, a laser-and-AI diagnostic device that detects bacterial infection in knee implants without surgery. Presented at the 2026 Utah NASA Space Grant Consortium Symposium, the tool achieves 99.2 percent accuracy at a parts cost under $400.

Enzo Health raises $20M Series A to modernize home health with an AI-native platform, addressing workforce shortages, regulatory complexity, and surging demand as aging demographics accelerate the shift to in-home care.

Paige Knudsen and Cameron Woolstenhulme launched ReVroom out of BYU's Sandbox program to demystify the rebuilt title car market. Their Utah-based marketplace brings transparency, affordability, and data-driven listings to a $40 billion niche nobody else is watching.

At Salt Lake Community College's Miller Campus, Utah's innovators, policymakers, and educators spent a day wrestling with a deceptively simple question: can the state that leads the nation in economic growth also lead in human flourishing?