Carolyn Dennis

Legacy Power Capital's strategic vision, presented at the 2025 Utah AI Summit, centers on integrating artificial intelligence with real estate development to enhance asset value and accelerate AI adoption as a core production workload. Key strategic pillars include fostering robust public-private collaborations to establish advanced AI computational capabilities, developing 'human-first' mixed-use real estate ecosystems, and pioneering sustainable, net-neutral data center solutions with non-disruptive power loads. This initiative aims to position Utah as a leader in AI innovation and establish a national model for integrating technology and infrastructure across various industries.

The session focused on academic research in Artificial Intelligence across Utah universities, featuring representatives from the University of Utah, Utah State University (USU), and Brigham Young University (BYU). Discussions centered on the unique roles of each institution, including the University of Utah's Responsible AI initiative focusing on societal impact, USU's efforts to coordinate decentralized AI research across areas like defense contracting (SDL), clean energy (Aspire Research Center), and natural resources, and BYU's focus on service-oriented AI and developing new AI-related majors. Specific research examples highlighted included environmental monitoring (soil moisture prediction), medical applications (prosthetics control, diagnostic aid for hearing loss), educational tools (flipping the chatbot model for math tutoring, Canvas writing tutor), and fundamental research like uncertainty quantification in AI models and developing smaller, more efficient models as data scaling plateaus. Panelists also discussed the current state of AI progress, noting the shift from pure scaling to needing new ideas, and the importance of explainable AI.

The strategic plan for the Utah Department of Commerce aims to strengthen trust in Utah's commercial activities through effective regulation, enforcement, and education. It is anchored on three critical success factors: ensuring the relevance and efficiency of external activities, maintaining robust internal management and system infrastructure, and fostering strong employee communication and department culture. The plan envisions an efficient and fair marketplace, contributing to a robust and prosperous future for all Utahns.

The strategic plan for the Utah Department of Commerce focuses on strengthening trust in Utah's commercial activities through regulation, enforcement, and education. Key areas of focus include improving consumer, licensee, and business education, enhancing user experience for customers and employees, and increasing internal trust through communication and community building. The plan also aims to ensure effective utility rate and reliability advocacy, resolve property rights disputes, and build a proactive communication strategy to empower consumers and provide trusted data for Utah's growing economy.

The Utah Department of Commerce's strategic plan for fiscal year 2025 focuses on strengthening trust in Utah's commercial activities through regulation, enforcement, and education. Key areas of focus include ensuring effective and relevant regulatory activities, modernizing management and system infrastructure, and enhancing employee communication. The plan aims to improve consumer and business education, reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens, encourage innovation in artificial intelligence, address social media concerns for minors, and advocate for fair utility rates and property dispute resolution.