Brittney Vierra, Co-founder and CTO of Amphora (Salt Lake City), shares her journey from physics to data science with SheTech media interns, Samhita Chavakula and Jaswitha Jadapalli. She shares how curiosity, not frustration, can challenge bias, drive innovation, and reshape AI’s role in healthcare.

Shurugwi Prime Breeders wins the 2026 Tim Draper Utah Entrepreneur Challenge, leading a cohort of standout student startups competing for $75,000 and showcasing innovation across healthcare, AI, sustainability and marketplaces.

Utah fintech founders often treat banking as a utility, but the right partner functions as infrastructure. Early, strategic alignment with a bank can prevent scaling bottlenecks and quietly enable long-term growth.

CurrentClient (Provo, UT) raised a $1.25M seed round led by Thicket Ventures (Jackson Hole, WY) to expand its compliant communication platform for financial advisors, addressing regulatory risks while enhancing client engagement through integrated voice, messaging, and CRM-connected workflows.

Salt Lake City startup Intactis Bio Corp, backed by a new $250,000 investment from Nucleus Fund, has demonstrated living neurons performing math and language tasks — a key milestone toward ultra-efficient, biologically powered AI computing.

Google Cloud's Jim Fairweather challenged Domopalooza 2026 attendees to honestly assess their company's AI adoption, framing enterprise data as the critical differentiator and urging leaders to disrupt themselves before competitors do it for them.

The Silicon Slopes AI Summit on March 31, 2026 brings together global AI leaders from NVIDIA, Google, and Databricks with Utah academics and builders to showcase what's working in AI today.

Qualtrics CEO Jason Maynard, in a conversation with Domo CEO Josh James at Domopalooza 2026, outlined AI's rapid evolution from insights to real-time outcomes, argued that context beats raw model power, and stressed that human agency remains irreplaceable in an AI-driven enterprise future.