Last week, Silicon Slopes brought together founders, engineers, operators and executives for two days of conversations about the technology decisions companies are making right now. Six tracks, but increasingly, one big conversation.

AI is changing how products get built. Cybersecurity is shaping how quickly companies can move. Data determines what those systems know. And leaders are figuring out how to put all of it to work.

HUGE shoutouts to SLACKED Summit partners Atonom and AIM (Association for Information Management) for their support!

And a massive thanks to everyone who showed up, shared ideas and made the first STACKED Summit one worth remembering.

Because the next chapter of Utah tech won't be defined by who has access to the newest technology. It will be defined by what we choose to do with it. Now, let's build what's next.

The best conversations in business rarely happen on a stage. They happen in rooms where people can be candid. For the past couple of years, Silicon Slopes has created one of those rooms.

Founder Circle brings together Utah founders leading companies valued at $100 million or more for monthly conversations about the issues shaping our businesses, communities, and state—from housing and the Great Salt Lake to private equity and Utah's affordability crisis.

The conversations have been valuable. What happened outside the room has been even more interesting. Relationships formed. Friendships grew. Deals got done. Founders started helping one another solve problems long after the lunches ended.

We didn't engineer that. We put the right people in the room with two rules:

1. Show up.
2. Give more than you take.

Now we're expanding the idea.

Introducing Silicon Slopes Executive Circles

Silicon Slopes is launching eight peer communities for Utah's CEOs, COOs, CTO/CIO/CSOs, CMO/GTM leaders, CROs, CXOs, CHRO/CPOs, and CLOs/General Counsels. Each circle brings together leaders who sit in the same seat and wrestle with many of the same problems. Because sometimes the person who best understands what keeps a CRO up at night is the CRO down the street.

Each circle meets monthly and has a private community inside the Silicon Slopes Hub with a full member directory. Members will create their own programming track for the Silicon Slopes Executive Forum and help select finalists and winners for the annual Silicon Slopes Awards.

Every other month, leaders from across the circles will come together for dinner. Circle members will also mentor Start School founders and produce workshops for participating companies, helping the experience inside these rooms reach Utah's next generation of leaders. And the members—not Silicon Slopes—set the agenda.

Each circle elects its own Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary and decides which conversations matter most.

Founder Circle taught us something simple: Put the right people in a room consistently, give them a reason to help one another, and remarkable things start happening.

Now we're opening more rooms.

Silicon Slopes Executive Circles invite Utah's leaders to show up, contribute, and become part of something bigger than their own company. Learn more here.

This October, trade the conference room for the golf course and spend the day with Utah's startup founders, executives, investors, and community leaders at the Slopes Cup.

You'll make new connections.
You might close a deal.
But, you probably won't fix your slice.

Slots are going fast!

More details here:

The Utah Islanders are an independent collegiate-development football program built to give athletes more time, structure, and opportunity to reach their full potential.

Based in Utah, they compete against high-level collegiate and developmental programs from across the country while preparing players for opportunities at the NCAA, NAIA, junior college, and professional levels.

Come support our team and all of the U.S. Military branches for Military Appreciation Day on September 19! See ticket info here or use the QR code.

Sessions will explore creator-led selling, paid media, conversion, affiliate and UGC programs, product discovery across search, social and AI, and the changing relationship between content and commerce.

When: September 16, 2026
Where: USANA Headquarters, Salt Lake City

Qualified brand operators can apply for complimentary passes.

Learn more and register for the Utah Social Commerce Summit

Join Utah’s technology community at the Women Tech Awards to celebrate 35+ extraordinary women shaping what’s next and hear their rapid perspectives on AI, innovation, leadership and reinvention.

Connect with leaders you don’t already know and help inspire nearly 200 high school students who will be in the room meeting role models and imagining what’s possible.

Check out the impact represented by this year’s honorees:

-78+ peer-reviewed publications

-12+ patents and patented innovations

-$47M+ in identified savings and economic impact

-Innovation spanning AI, space, healthcare, cybersecurity, financial services, transportation and more

These are leaders you should know, and a room you should be in.

September 17 | 3:00–5:00 PM | The Grand America

Almost sold out — Reserve Your Seat!

Everyone is exploring agentic AI. Almost none of them have a GitHub repo to prove it. Most programs teach concepts. Only a few make you actually ship something.

Saras AI Institute's Advanced AI Engineer Certification does. Generative AI, Autonomous Agentic Systems, and Multimodal AI — 5 months, 6–10 hrs/week, alongside your full-time job. Curriculum designed in collaboration with Microsoft's Chief Data & AI Officer and Google Cloud's Head of AI Research.

You will build a GitHub portfolio of 4 production-grade projects, from autonomous multi-agent dev teams to multimodal intelligence engines, using LangGraph, Claude Code, PyTorch, and Docker. You will also earn 12 academic credits stackable into a complete Master's in AI Engineering.

Start with $0 due today. Test-drive the curriculum and code the first module risk-free for 14 days.

Cohort starts October 1^st . Registration closes September 15^th . Enroll Now.

Enroll now: https://www.sarasai.org/masteraidev 

New Kahlert Children’s Mental Health Center brings specialized care for young children and families closer to home.

For more than 60 years, The Children’s Center Utah has provided specialized infant and early childhood mental health care to young children, families, and caregivers in Salt Lake County. Now, that care is expanding.

The Children’s Center Utah has opened Kahlert Children’s Mental Health Center in Lehi, its first Utah County location and an important step toward expanding access to specialized early childhood mental health services statewide.

Why Utah County?

Utah County is the fastest-growing county in the state, has Utah’s youngest median age, and is home to approximately 60,000 children from birth through age six.

Until now, many Utah County families seeking The Children’s Center Utah’s specialized services had to travel to Salt Lake County for care. The new Lehi center brings that support directly into one of Utah’s fastest-growing communities.

The center was made possible through broad public and private support, including state funding, generous private donors, and land donated by Intermountain Health on its Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Campus in Lehi.

Located directly across the street from Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, The Children’s Center Utah operates as an independent mental health care provider. Its services complement the pediatric mental health care available at Primary Children’s Hospital, reflecting a shared understanding that children’s physical and mental well-being are deeply connected.

Specialized Care for Utah’s Youngest Children

At both its Salt Lake County and Utah County locations, The Children’s Center Utah provides comprehensive mental health care exclusively for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families and caregivers.

The Kahlert Children’s Mental Health Center is now providing outpatient mental health services for children from birth through age six. Its Therapeutic Preschool Program will begin at the Lehi location in January.

By bringing these services closer to home, The Children’s Center Utah can help reduce barriers to treatment and reach more children during some of the earliest and most formative years of their lives.

Join Us to Celebrate

The Children’s Center Utah invites the community to celebrate the opening of Kahlert Children’s Mental Health Center with a press conference and ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Thursday, October 1
10:00 a.m.
Kahlert Children’s Mental Health Center, Lehi

RSVP for the Ribbon Cutting below!

Want to See Inside?

A limited number of guided tours of the new center will also be available. Because space is limited, tours must be scheduled in advance.

Schedule a Guided Tour below!

Sept 15: Keith Nellesen

Oct. 7: Mark Newman

Oct 19: Christina Qi

Oct 26: Fraser Bullock

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