Tech executives are buying into the world of professional sports, and say their technology has the power to enhance America's favorite pastime.
From left, Entrata CEO Adam Edmunds, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Larry H. Miller Company CEO Steve Starks speak on the efforts of Big League Utah during the Silicon Slopes Summit at the Delta Center, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.What does baseball have to do with Utah’s tech industry? Plenty, according to several of the speakers at the Silicon Slopes Summit, the two-day tech conference that concluded Thursday in Salt Lake City.
“This is about sports,” Steve Starks, CEO of the Larry H. Miller Company and former Jazz president, said in a conversation with Mendenhall about a potential MLB expansion. “It’s also about economic development. It’s about lifting the community, about connecting that west side.
“We have so many segments of Utah Jazz fans,” Smith responded. “We need a product for every single one of them.”, said his version of the Utah ski resort will cater to the very audience seated in the Delta Center area: People looking for adrenaline, but also “reflection.” Artificial Intelligence, or AI, was the other big theme at this year’s summit. It is tech’s next frontier, several speakers said.
AI’s practical applications are immense, speakers said. Apostle David Bednar of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said he was excited about the technology’s potential to interpret languages in real-time. Latter-day Saints Apostle David A. Bednar, left, said he was excited about technology's potential to reach people around the world during the Silicon Slopes Summit at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.
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