Utah Tech Spotlight Events

A few updates on local events and the Tech Spotlight

Posted by Steve Spencer

Article posted on Mar 03

Howdy all!

Wow. I don’t know about everyone else, but altough there may well be a financial downturn around the corner, we are definitely not feeling it yet. I have never in my life been busier. But I did want to update you on a couple of local events that I attended recently, and an upcoming item for the Tech Spotlight.

40 under 40:

Utah Business Magazine held their awards luncheon for the annual 40 under 40 last week. The luncheon was really nice, and it was a great bunch of people to hang out with. I also really like how diverse the field was. There were companies represented from all different areas from Tech, Financial, Health, Modeling, Outdoor, Construction, and pretty much everything else under the sun. What I would really LOVE to see as a side benefit of this type of event is a quarterly Alumni type get together. It was just so neat to hang out for a couple of hours with these folks, that it would be good to keep in touch. UTC, here’s a suggestion for you, Utah Business, and Digital IQ: You guys do sucha great job with your CEO Peer 2 Peer meetings, and really get discussion and comradery going. A similar event to get the 40 under 40’s interacting at that same level would be inredible!

Utah Entrepreneurial Challeng, Meeting of the Minds:

The Utah Entrepreneurial Challenge had their Meeting of the Minds event last week. This is an opportunity to pair up local entepreneurs to brainstorm with these up and coming companies. Officially, the entrepreneurs are referred to as “Mentors”, but I think I speak for all of us who were sitting at a table, brainstorming with our team, that the learning was definitely flowing both ways. Perhaps, “older pupils” is more apt

I am working wit Qgia, a really exciting idea around video (sorry can’t share much more than that yet.) I am really impressed with how events like the Entrepreneurial Challenge, Funding Universe’s Speed Pitching events, and so many of the student mentoring programs that folks like Alan Hall and others put in place to help grow the future innovators of this state. It’s amazing how much some people are doing to ensure the futures of our children for generations to come.

You oughta be in pictures:

The last week of March I am having my crew ready to do a several video podcast sessions. We will then be trickling these out once per month. So if your company is super cool, or you know of one who is, let us know. Will do a video with them, and have it transcribed (so anything said will also be searchable), and get them plenty of exposure, all for free. Just trying to help bring more visibility to Utah and all the cool stuff going on here!