Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development

• Department of Workforce Service
• FreshBrain
• Granite School District
• Salt Lake City School District
• Salt Lake Community College

• The Leonardo - STEM Works: Biotechnology
• Utah Science Technology and Research
• Utah State University
• Utah Valley University Biotechnology
• Westminster College - The Great Salt Lake Institute

WIRED Partners

The WIRED partners include representation from public and higher education, government and philanthropic or community groups.  Industry plays a key, integrative role by defining the current and future needs of the life science industry.  Thus, all activities and programs that are a part of the WIRED initiative reflect the input of industry. 

The partners engaged in the WIRED initiative work to develop and implement programs and activities that focus on outreach and recruitment, training and education.  The outreach activities target the “K-grey” audience recognizing that if Utah is to meet the future needs for a science and technology literate workforce then outreach activities must have a broad impact.  

Dr. Tami Goetz, the Utah State Science Advisor and who is the lead for the WIRED initiative sees the WIRED initiative as “creating the crossroads where economic and workforce development partner with education and training to provide excellent job opportunities for Utahn’s and meet the talent needs of the life science industry.”  She goes on to say that “a strength of the WIRED initiative is that it looks at what we as a State are doing well and builds on those successes.  Yet at the same time the partners in the initiative are looking to the future to ensure that we do not miss any evolving needs for the industry.”