Jon Palmer

Many teams use AI simply to generate SQL faster, but the more significant shift is changing where the data work begins and ends. When systems move from understanding schemas to understanding business intent, the traditional dashboard often becomes an unnecessary detour. Jon Palmer, Field CTO at Omni, maps out the transition from traditional BI to "Actionable Analytics." He balances a visionary look at a dashboard-less future with the practical evidence we see today—specifically how early adopters are already replacing manual lookups with AI-native interfaces. Jon will outline how to build a data stack that references internal strategy documents and triggers actions via APIs, allowing users to stay in their workflow and move directly from a question to a business result without needing to build a report.