Matt Winters briefed the committee on the Utah State Board of Education’s work to support local education agencies and teachers in planning for artificial intelligence in classrooms.

Winters said registrations for a statewide series of AI summits—scheduled in Richfield, Cedar City, Moab, Heber, Ogden and Orem—exceeded initial expectations, with more than 450 registrants across the events and rapid registration growth in many locations. He listed registration increases by site (examples given: Ogden from 75 to 105, Orem from 76 to 101) and said the summits aim to help LEAs develop local policies and shared practices and to surface needs assessments for future support.

He also reported that the Utah Education Network (UBN) launched an eMedia AI hub that aggregates professional‑development resources, LEA policies, RFP tools and teacher lesson plans; USBE’s AI framework is one embedded resource among broader national and state materials. Winters said USBE will continue to add materials, lesson plans and tools to the hub over the next year.

Internally, Winters said USBE staff are meeting with divisions across the agency to identify use cases, and the agency plans an internal USBE AI summit and a series of lunch‑and‑learn trainings for staff. He said the state team is prepared to share registration information and said summit materials and post‑event data will be returned to the committee in future updates.

Committee members asked procedural questions about registration and expressed support; no formal action was taken.