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 almost SOLD OUT!

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Silicon Slopes is proud to be a Title Sponsor of the 2026 Utah Small Business Summit & Expo, a one day gathering of hundreds of small business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals. We'll also have a booth on the floor sharing information about our Start School.

Put your business in front of 1,000+ attendees. As a Silicon Slopes community member, you get 25% off exhibitor booth packages with code: 25Slopes

Booths are limited and the event is coming up fast.
→ Reserve your booth today!

In this session, LinkedIn expert AJ Wilcox shows you how to use LinkedIn to strengthen the signals that help LLMs understand who you are, what you know, and what you should be known for.  And you don’t have to start over or completely change your content strategy.  

You’ll learn how to:

• Build stronger connections between your name, your expertise, and the problems you solve

• Increase the chances that AI systems recognize you as a credible source

• Improve your visibility with both people and the LLMs

• Make simple changes to your LinkedIn presence that can compound over time

If LinkedIn is part of how you build your reputation, attract customers, grow your career, or create business opportunities, this session will help you prepare for the next era of search.

Women are creating extraordinary opportunities with AI right now without compromising their values. The CREATE Conference brings us together to learn, connect, and have FUN.

She Leads AI CREATE Conference 2026

Also worth knowing: Friday programs

• Build Your AI Team: Designing Agents That Work for You, with Lauren Irving and Madina Gbotoe

• Certified AI Educator Intensive. The Certified AI Educator credential, built around the conference for women on a mission.

Come for the elite AI education, stay for the silent disco party and art lab!

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.

Registration closes October 15^th. Enroll Now.

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

Join GuidePoint Security on October 22 in Sandy for the inaugural GuidePoint Security Solutions Summit SLC for an afternoon built for security leaders who want to stay ahead.

On the agenda:

• AI adoption in security

• The evolving threat landscape

• Identity governance

• Data security...and more

Eligible for 4 CPE credits. 

Plus enjoy a vendor showcase, Tiger Cage competition, and real networking with the Utah cyber community. Click here to register:

Silicon Slopes is proud to partner with 47G for its first-ever Hard Tech Week, October 26 - 30, which supports the founders, engineers, and companies building the future of aerospace, defense, space, and advanced manufacturing in Utah.

We're also opening our Silicon Slopes offices during Hard Tech Week to any team or group that needs a place to host their own event. If you're building something in hard tech and want space to bring people together, come use our space.

Email Lindsey Ivie to reserve Silicon Slopes HQ space: [email protected]

Oct 19: Christina Qi

Nov 6: Jeremy Andrus

Nov 9: Steve Arntz

Nov 16: Nick Greer

Dec 2: Adam Edmunds

From inspiring presentations to conversations between peers, last week’s BioHive Premieres event brought together innovators, researchers, and industry leaders to share exciting developments, exchange ideas, and build meaningful connections across Utah's growing life sciences community.

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