Tech Innovation Lunch- UDOT

Utah Ignite is a partnership between the Chambers of Commerce (Point of the Mountain, American Fork, and South Valley) and US Ignite, a program under the National Science Foundation. Utah Ignite is one of 25 Smart Gigabit Communities (SGC) throughout the United States.

“US Ignite spurs the creation of next-generation applications and services that leverage advanced networking technologies to build the foundation for smart communities, including cities, rural areas, regions, and states. The nonprofit organization helps to accelerate new wired and wireless networking advances from research to prototype to full-scale smart community and interconnected national deployments.” (See US-Ignite.com).

Utah Ignite is also an important part of the Utah Smart City Eco-System. As a Gigabit Community, Utah Ignite Exists to Find the New Light Bulbs for the Internet Age. “Electricity is history. Today we face the next-generation infrastructure: gigabit networks. Global visionaries here in Utah see the need for these communication networks, even as they struggle to explain the “light bulb” that will make it plain why a super-fast Internet network is as necessary as running water and a universal electric grid.” (See Utah Ignite Exists to Find the New Light Bulbs for the Internet Age.)