The 2026 Zions Bank Wasatch Back Economic Summit began May 11 on an optimistic note.
Natalie Gochnour, who teaches business at the University of Utah and directs its Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, addressed the crowd in the Grand Hyatt Deer Valley.
“There’s actually good news ahead, in the sense that you are in the state of Utah. You are in urban Utah. You are in the back of urban Utah,” Gochnour said. “There’s almost no better place to be in the entire country.”…