Member News September 2026 Archives - Arizona Technology Council

Comcast Business Guest Blog: To build the next generation of experiences, GenAI demands data in motion

Comcast Business Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way enterprises conduct business, from managing supply chains to optimizing product development. But one of GenAI’s most profound impacts has been powering a new generation of customer and employee experiences. With its ability to process massive troves of data, both structured and unstructured, from multi...

SRP Invests $3M in Arizona’s Public Universities for Power, Water and Wildfire Research

Image: InBusiness PHX inBusinessphx Salt River Project has invested $3 million in 34 research and development projects with Arizona’s three largest public universities – Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Arizona – as part of an ongoing effort to support reliable power and water delivery to SRP customers. Every project awarded funding by...

FPT Guest Blog: The Retention Engine: Leveraging Predictive Data to Drive Aftermarket Service Revenue.

A customer brings her SUV into a Southwest dealership for a routine oil change. The brake pads are close to the end of their life, close enough that a trained eye glancing at the wear indicator would catch it. No one glances. The service advisor processes the visit that was scheduled, not the one that was needed, and the customer drives off the lot with a problem quietly getting worse. ...

Employee Spotlight – Paloma Santiago

Image: Linkedin Inside the Council with Paloma Paloma Santiago is a community and nonprofit leader with more than 20 years of experience advancing workforce development, education, and economic growth throughout Southern Arizona. As Vice President of the Arizona Technology Council, she brings together business, education, and community partners to strengthen the region’s talent pipeline ...

Echoes of the Boom: Arizona’s Fab Explosion Brings Suppliers in Tow

Image: inBusinessphx inBusinessphx Arizona’s semiconductor boom has long been measured by its biggest numbers. Billions in investment. New fabrication plants. Thousands of jobs. TSMC’s latest expansion pushes those numbers to another level, but some of the clearest signs of its impact are showing up in the smaller facilities and industry connections forming around those massive pr...

Searching for breakthroughs in generating fusion energy

AZPM Fusion technology holds the promise of solving the world’s energy challenges. University of Arizona SVP for Research and Partnerships Tomas Diaz de la Rubia discusses the latest breakthroughs in developing fusion energy and how it has advantages over conventional power plants. Tomas Diaz de la Rubia spoke with Tim Swindle, professor emeritus of Planetary Science at the Universi...

TSMC and ASML Partner to Shape the Future of Advanced Chipmaking

Image: inBusinessphx inBusinessphx ASML Holding N.V. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company announced a collaborative initiative to lead the semiconductor industry’s transition to a larger-format Extreme Ultraviolet lithography photomask. While High NA EUV will be adopted for production using the current, 6-inch masks, the transition to larger, 12-inch masks is expected to f...

Axon Executive, UMB Arizona President Tapped to Lead 2027 WM Phoenix Open

Image: inBusinessphx inBusinessphx The Thunderbirds, hosts of the WM Phoenix Open, have appointed Chris Camacho the Tournament Chairman for the 2027 edition of “The People’s Open”, which is set to tee it up Feb. 8-14 at TPC Scottsdale. Additionally, The Thunderbirds announced that John Damiris has been named Assistant Tournament Chairman for the 2027 event, which will be the 92n...

Comcast Business Guest Blog: 3 threat trends driving adaptive cybersecurity

Comcast Business Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity, enhancing both offensive and defensive capabilities. On the one hand, it’s fueling faster, smarter, automated defenses. On the other, it’s given attackers multiple new, easily accessible ways to wreak havoc. And that means that cybersecurity leaders can’t stay in the past. The current moment calls for cybe...

SCOUTz Comes Out of Stealth to Retire the “So, Tell Me About Your IT” Meeting

Scoutzsecurity.io SCOUTz, a security sales intelligence platform for managed service providers, today came out of stealth and opened a 30-day open beta to any MSP that applies at scoutzsecurity.io. The platform is built for the part of the sales process that MSP tooling has skipped: everything between a booked first meeting and a signed client. The channel has no shortage of tools and ...

ASU Among Eight Universities Leading National Manufacturing Workforce Initiative

Image: InBusiness Phoenix inBusinessphx Arizona State University is among eight universities selected to lead a national initiative focused on preparing the next generation of workers to advance American manufacturing. The Foundry School, a U.S. Department of State initiative in partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor, was announced today in Washington, D.C., by Vice President J....

New global hub advances Arizona’s semiconductor industry

Representatives from the organizations forming the Silicon Photonics at Arizona-Kaohsiung Center announce the partnership’s launch at SEMICON Taiwan in Taipei. From left: Mike Czechowski, City of Tucson chief economic development officer; Chih-Peng Li, National Sun Yat-sen University president; Ta-Sheng Lo, Kaohsiung City deputy mayor; Sandra Watson, Arizona Commerce Authority president a...

GCU Targets Arizona Workforce Needs with New Law and Skilled-Trades Colleges

Image: In Business Phoenix, GCU inBusinessphx Grand Canyon University begins another academic year with record enrollment and plans to expand its academic offerings in two dramatically different but equally important areas: law and the skilled trades. GCU expects to serve a record 141,000 students during the 2026-27 academic year, continuing a period of remarkable growth that has posit...

SRP Completes Five-Year Pipeline Project to Secure Valley’s Water Future

Image: In Business Phoenix inBusinessphx As communities across the Southwest face ongoing drought conditions and increasing water supply challenges, SRP announced the completion of the Gilbert Road Pipeline project — a major infrastructure investment designed to enhance water reliability and operational flexibility throughout the Valley. The new system will enable SRP to move water f...

South32 Hermosa Completes FAST-41 Permitting Process, Enabling Development to Begin on Federal Forest Service Land

Federal leaders, including USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden, visit Hermosa as U.S. Forest Service signs Final Mine Plan of Operations authorizing activities on federal land PATAGONIA, Ariz. – The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) signed South32 Hermosa’s Final Mine Plan of Operation (MPO) during a ceremony at the project site in Southern Ar...

Arizona State University surpasses 200,000 students for first time in history

On the first day of the fall 2025 semester, first-year theater students Gabby Opulskas and Milo Buagarini take a selfie with Sparky on Aug. 21, 2025. | Samantha Chow/Arizona State University Phoenix Business Journal Arizona State University enrolled more than 200,000 students during the 2025–26 school year, surpassing that enrollment milestone for the first time in university history...

National Academy of Engineering honors ASU’s Panchanathan with prestigious award

Sethuraman Panchanathan, University Professor of Technology and Innovation at Arizona State University. | Deanna Dent/Arizona State University Phoenix Business Journal In 1969, 8-year-old Sethuraman Panchanathan stood in line outside the American Center in Chennai, India. He was with his father and hundreds of others who had come to see something truly remarkable in the history of hum...

Techbros Becomes the World’s First ITAD Company Certified to ISO/IEC 42001

TechBros Artificial intelligence is no longer an experiment running quietly in a lab. It routes our logistics, screens our data, and increasingly decides what happens to the technology we retire. As AI spreads into every sector, one question keeps surfacing in boardrooms and IT departments alike: who is checking the AI? For Techbros® Electronic Recycle & ITAD, the an...

GCU plans to open new College of Law, College of Construction and Industrial Technologies

AZ Big Media Grand Canyon University begins another academic year with record enrollment and plans to expand its academic offerings in two dramatically different but equally important areas: law and the skilled trades. GCU expects to serve a record 141,000 students during the 2026-27 academic year, continuing a period of remarkable growth that has positioned it as the largest Christi...