Member News April 2026 Archives - Arizona Technology Council

Employee Spotlight – Diana White

Image: Linkedin Inside the Council with Diana Diana White is a dynamic executive leader with over three decades of experience in retail, servant leadership, and entrepreneurship, driving innovation and economic growth across Arizona’s technology and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Her entrepreneurial/coaching career spans founding D.E.W. Business Solutions, LLC (2014), directing the C...

Shaping Federal Policy to Power Arizona Innovation: Highlights from the Arizona Technology Council’s 2026 DC Fly-In

In April, the Arizona Technology Council returned to Washington, D.C., for its annual DC Fly-In, bringing together Council leadership, members and national partners for a powerful agenda of policy engagement, collaboration and advocacy on behalf of Arizona’s fast-growing technology ecosystem. AZTC’s 2026 DC Fly-In Delegation: Arizona Technology Council Staff: Steven G. Zylstra, President a...

City of Avondale Announces Promotion of Jennifer Stein to Assistant City Manager

AvondaleAZ Jennifer Stein, who joined the City of Avondale as Economic Development Director in 2024, has been promoted to Assistant City Manager. In her new role, Stein will continue to play a key leadership role in advancing the city’s strategic initiatives while overseeing critical operational areas that support Avondale’s continued growth and success. Stein brings more than 25...

How Tech Brands Should Measure Organic Search Success Today

Image: Intero Digital SEO Beyond Rankings: How Tech Brands Should Measure Organic Search Success Today Key Takeaways: Modern SEO metrics for tech focus on business outcomes, not just rankings. Organic search performance should be measured by qualified traffic and conversions. Visibility in AI-driven search is now a critical success metric. Content performance vari...

Comcast Business Guest Blog: From Data to Decisions: Unlocking the Power of Smart Technology

Comcast Business As enterprises deploy an ever‑growing web of internet-connected sensors, cameras, and digital touchpoints, they’re swimming in data. Yet, only organizations that can quickly transform that data into actionable insight will reap the full benefits of smart technology, like intelligent automation and more informed decision making across the enterprise.  Join us for a pra...

Arizona Science Center taps longtime exec to lead 120-employee museum

Phoenix Business Journal The Arizona Science Center has announced Tammy Stewart as the organization’s new president and CEO. Stewart had been serving as interim president and CEO for the past six months after the departure of Guy Labine, the previous CEO who took a new job in 2025 after being with the museum since March 2022. Labine is now CEO of TELUS Spark ...

Honeywell looks to manufacture jet engines for Navy training in Phoenix

Image: Axios Honeywell is expanding its Phoenix manufacturing operations to include engines powering the planes that the Navy may soon use to train pilots. The big picture: Honeywell announced Monday that it will begin manufacturing F124 jet engines at its Phoenix Engines campus if the plane it powers is chosen for a Navy training program. The Fortune 500 aerospace company chose the Valley f...

SRP Board of Directors Approves Temporary Summer Rate Decrease

SRP The Salt River Project (SRP) publicly elected Board of Directors approved a temporary overall 3 percent summer price decrease through a reduction in its Fuel and Purchased Power Adjustment Mechanism (FPPAM). This decrease, which is effective with the May 2026 billing cycle through the October 2026 billing cycle, will provide bill relief to customers during the hottest time of the y...

Avnet named 2026 CIO 100 Award winner for enterprise AI innovation

Avnet CIO 100 Award recognizes enterprise excellence and innovation in IT PHOENIX – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) has been named a 2026 CIO 100 Award winner for an internally developed AI-driven sales support project. The annual CIO 100 Awards recognize organizations that exemplify excellence and innovation in information technology and deliver measurable business value. Avnet’s AI project add...

SRP Brings 55 MW Solar Project Online

Image: inBusiness PHX InBusinessPHX Salt River Project’s first owned and operated solar facility, the 55-megawatt (MW) Copper Crossing Energy and Research Center (CCERC) PV Solar Project, is now serving customers. In addition to providing enough solar energy to power 11,000 Arizona homes for a year, the CCERC PV Solar Project is helping SRP teams research the effectiven...

TSMC Reports 35.1% YoY Revenue Growth in First Quarter

Image: inBusiness PHX InBusinessPHX TSMC announced consolidated revenue of NT$1,134.10 billion, net income of NT$572.48 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$22.08 for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. Year-over-year, first quarter revenue increased 35.1%, while net income and diluted EPS both increased 58.3%. Compared to fourth quarter 2025, first quarter results r...

Crating Technology Guest Post: How Do Reusable Crating Systems Reduce Environmental Impact in the Supply Chain?

Reusable crating systems reduce environmental impact by minimizing material waste, lowering carbon emissions, and improving long-term logistics efficiency. They also support ESG goals while reducing total packaging costs over repeated shipments. Sustainability in industrial logistics has shifted from a preference to a requirement. Procurement teams are now evaluating vendors based ...

FPT Guest Blog: Generative Engine Optimization: Building a GEO-Ready Arizona for 2026

FPT The Shift: From Keywords to Conversations For two decades, the “front door” of Arizona’s technology corridor has been the Google search bar. Whether a buyer was looking for aerospace components in Mesa or semiconductor talent in Chandler, the strategy was the same: rank for the right keywords. But in 2026...

Lucid names new CEO

Image: Courtesy Lucid. 2024 LM Gravity at Super Charger Station inBusiness PHX Lucid Group Inc. has named a new leader, secured additional investment and expanded its robotaxi partnership with Uber and Nuro, the electric vehicle maker announced Tuesday. California-based Lucid (Nasdaq: LCID), which manufactures its vehicles south of Phoenix in Casa Grande, appointed Silvio Napoli as chief...

Comcast Business Guest Blog: Why Using AI to Detect Small Cybersecurity Anomalies Is a Big Deal

Comcast Business As the pace of technological change intensifies, so, too, does the volume and sophistication of cybersecurity threats, and enterprise leaders are taking notice. According to a World Economic Forum survey, 72% of organizations said their cyber risks have increased in the past year, and 63% cited the complex and evolving threat landscape as their greatest challenge to cyber ...

Nation’s First K-12 Semiconductor Training Cleanroom Opens in Phoenix

Image: inBusiness PHX inBusiness PHX Western Maricopa Education Center (West-MEC), a public career and technical education school district, is expanding Arizona’s workforce pipeline with the opening of the nation’s first K-12 CTE advanced manufacturing cleanroom at its Northeast Campus in north Phoenix. Designed to replicate real-world semiconductor and advanced manufacturing enviro...

Intel joins Terafab project as chipmaker seeks manufacturing comeback

Phoenix Business Journal Intel Corp. is joining Elon Musk’s long-shot effort to build advanced semiconductors for Tesla Inc., SpaceX and xAI, marking an unexpected alliance as the chipmaker works to reclaim its standing in a fiercely competitive industry. California-based Intel, which has major chip factories in Arizona, said Tuesday it will help the so-called Terafab project “ref...

ASU Breaks Ground on Downtown Phoenix Health Headquarters

Image: inBusiness PHX inBusiness PHX General contractor McCarthy Building Companies, with its design partners, CO Architects and DFDG Architects joined university and state leaders to break ground on Arizona State University’s new Health Headquarters building in downtown Phoenix. The approximately 175,000-square-foot, five-story facility being constructed in the downtown Phoenix...

Five Arizona Utilities Fund Grants for Communities Impacted by Coal Transition

inBusiness PHX Five organizations serving Arizona communities impacted by the transition away from coal-fired power plants will receive grant funds to support their local economies from the Utility Grant Funding Program. The program is jointly funded by Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project and Tucson Electric Power and provides critical support to develop new, sustainable eco...

Six Arizona entrepreneurs named to Inc.’s Female Founders 500 Including Vivian Valenty from VB Cosmetics

Vivian Valenty, the founder of the quick-drying nail care system Dazzle Dry is one of six Arizona women who made the 2026 Inc Female Founder 500 list. Jim Poulin | Phoenix Business Journal inBusiness PHX Several Valley women made the 2026 Inc. Female Founders 500 list. Six Arizona honorees were on The 500 list, which was announced earlier this month. Some were additionally r...

Phoenix Commits $50M to ASU Health, Expanding Bioscience Core

Image: inBusiness PHX inBusiness PHX Mayor Kate Gallego and the City Council approved a $50 million investment into ASU Health, which will house ASU’s John Shufelt School of Medicine and Medical Engineering on the Phoenix Bioscience Core in downtown. The Council’s vote—a unanimous one—pledges an additional $38 million from the City’s Sports Facility, Biosciences, and Touri...

Crating Technology Guest Post: How Phoenix Industries Solve Complex Logistics with On-Site Custom Crating

For Phoenix-based businesses in the semiconductor, aerospace, and medical sectors, shipping high-value assets is a high-stakes operation. Moving sensitive equipment to a third-party packing facility often introduces unnecessary handling risks and potential for damage. To mitigate these variables, many local operations are pivoting toward on-site solutions, utilizing the best custom crating ...

Phantom Space acquires Utah thermal tech firm to speed orbital data center

Phantom Space Corp. plans to accelerate development of its rocket launch vehicle after acquiring assets and intellectual property from Vector Launch Inc. Image: Phantom Space Phoenix Business Journal Phantom Space Co. has made another key acquisition that the Tucson-based company says will speed up development of an orbital data center system it is building. With the acquisition ...