Building Your Intelligent Enterprise and the AI Innovation Awards | Domo BUILD 2026

All right. Hello, everyone and welcome, welcome, welcome. Thank you for joining our first ever Domo Build virtual event. My name is Matt Mecham. I am the Chief Customer Officer here at Domo and I am thrilled to be your host for the day. I was just checking in on who we have and wow, we have representation all over the world. We have Canada, we have London, we have Alberta, a bunch of people from Georgia. Welcome, welcome from Georgia, Dallas, New York. This is going to be a great, great event. We're so excited to be with you. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join us for Domo Build Now.

There has never been a more exciting time to be in the world of data. And over the next two hours, we are going to talk about how to build an intelligent enterprise with AI. To do this, we have brought on a fantastic lineup of Domo customers, Domo partners, and even our very own Domo employees to show us how they are putting AI to work in their business and our business.

So our goal is really threefold. What we want to do is we want to show you how you can become an AI powerhouse. We are going to talk about how you can create the right conditions to thrive in this new AI world. And you can do it. You can become an AI powerhouse. We are also going to show you how AI Forward organizations are not only building but driving real quantifiable impact for their business. And of course, governance, governance, governance, governance, right? We are going to show you how you can thoughtfully build these solutions in both a smart and a governed way.

So as we go throughout the day together, you're going to hear from AI Forward thinkers like Amanda Hull, the CFO at Massman. Her and her team eliminated a manual hours of work process with just a single AI agent that verifies purchase orders. We're also going to hear from my friend Shawn Thompson at Freddy's. Shout out to the best custard and steak burgers out there. Shawn Thompson built an AI Always on monitoring process that streamlines their pricing process across stores.

So as we go throughout the day, you're going to see customers are seeing success with AI and you can too. That is our goal for you. And as we follow all of these stories, I think what you're going to notice is that there is a similar pattern. There are principles that all of these cutting edge AI forward thinkers are using in order to push the bounds of what's possible. And before we jump into our customers because that's who you want to hear from, I wanted to share a little bit of my own point of view about what are those principles and patterns and how you can implement them in order to build a truly intelligent enterprise.

So as I think about things, what I often say to our customers and our partners when it relates to AI is your AI strategy starts with your data strategy and your data strategy starts with your data foundation. So whether your foundation is built on Snowflake or Big Query or data Bricks, to be successful, we have to get our data house in order and we have to get AI ready. We have to connect all our data we get, we have to get it centralized in one single place. And the goal ultimately is to create a single source of truth that your AI can trust and use.

Now the second thing, once we have our data foundation in place, the next step is activation. This is where all the magic happens. This is where your AI agents begin working on your behalf. They can analyze data at scale. They can identify patterns, surface anomalies, answer questions, automate decisions, execute workflows. This is really where you get a ton of leverage out of your AI capabilities as it relates to activation.

And then of course, finally, you have to distribute that out. This is where the rubber really meets the road. This is when intelligence, when you are able to deliver intelligence where the work happens to the right people at the right time, everybody is able to move faster. They're able to make better decisions and ultimately drive stronger business outcomes.

So this is the process and all the agents you are going to see today and in all our online content that we're going to post on the website are going to use some version of this pattern. And what do we love about Domo? Well, Domo is here to help you every step of the way. Domo's here to help you govern your data. We're here to help you activate it with AI agents and automation and of course, distribute that intelligence directly to the people and into the workflows where work gets done.

And the other thing that's great is we want to do it your way. Customer choice is a huge, huge thing for us. We want you to be able to run these things on your cloud. We want you to be able to leverage the AI models that you have, your inference layer. And of course you're going to receive the benefits of Domo's enterprise grade governance that we built into the system right from the start. So building an intelligent enterprise, it isn't just about buying another AI tool and there's many and thousands will come over the course of the next months and years. For us, our mission has never changed. It's about creating a system that turns data into intelligence, intelligence into action, and then finally action into outcome. And that's what we're here for. That's what gets us excited is the business value that you're realizing from Domo and that you're implementing using AI and all these new AI forward techniques.

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