Orem, Utah — January 23, 2026
Utah Valley University will host the AI Agent Behavioral Science Conference on January 30, 2026, bringing together researchers, developers, educators, and industry professionals to examine how AI agents are shaping human behavior, decision-making, and real-world systems.
The free, half-day conference runs from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Clark Building, Room 510, and is organized by UVU’s Kahlert Institute of Applied AI. The event brings together researchers, developers, educators, healthcare leaders, and students to examine how AI agents are already being used across industries—and how their behavior can be studied, governed, and responsibly integrated into society.
As AI systems increasingly act autonomously—coordinating tasks, making recommendations, and participating in decision-making—the conference shifts the focus beyond technical capability to behavior: how AI agents act over time, how they interact with people and organizations, and how responsibility and accountability are shared when humans and machines work together.
“Today, AI is rapidly and dramatically impacting every area of our lives, and most especially our work,” said Tyler Small, Sr. Director of UVU’s Kahlert Applied AI Institute. “Preparing faculty and students to work with AI agents is a top priority for UVU. This conference highlights that effort and represents many other internal initiatives and external partnerships that enable our people to develop AI and deploy agents responsibly.”
The event is organized around two breakout strands:
Applied Strand: How Are People Using AI Agents?
This track explores real-world deployments of AI agents, focusing on design decisions, practical use cases, and lessons learned. Sessions will examine how agents function as tools, collaborators, and decision-makers—and how human behavior shifts when they do.Research, Philosophical, and Theoretical Strand: How Do We Study AI Agents?
This strand takes a deeper look at how AI agents are studied and evaluated, covering topics such as agent behavior modeling, human-agent interaction, ethics, emergent behavior, and interdisciplinary research methods.
Tamara Moores Todd, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer; Vice President for Digital Technology Services, Intermountain Health
The conference keynote will be delivered by Tamara Moores Todd, MD, Chief Health Informatics Officer and Vice President for Digital Technology Services at Intermountain Health, and an attending physician with Utah Emergency Physicians. Her talk will focus on designing and deploying AI-driven systems responsibly in complex, high-stakes, human-centered environments.
Refreshments will be provided.
The conference is open to anyone building AI agents, studying human or social behavior, or interested in how intelligent systems interact with people and with each other.
Registration is free.
Register here: https://bit.ly/UVUAIAgents
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