Chris Willis

Chief design officer and futurist at Domo

Expertise: Artificial intelligence, design + UX, founders + entrepreneurship

Education: University of New Hampshire; Grenoble Ecole de Man

As Domo’s chief design officer and futurist, Chris Willis is hyper focused on combining data, technology and emerging trends in innovative ways helps to make the platform indispensable for its customers. He has nearly three decades of design leadership experience in web, mobile and data visualization. And as one of Domo’s earliest employees, he’s involved in every aspect from initial design and strategy through execution of building and developing solutions that solve even the most complex problems faced by customers.

Prior to Domo, Chris co-founded HOUR Detroit magazine and Footnote.com (now Fold3.com), which was acquired by Ancestry.com for $27 million. Before moving into technology, he was an award-winning illustrator, j

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Updated on September 14, 2026

You Don’t Need to Trust Your AI, but You Do Need to Control It

The bottleneck in enterprise AI was never the model, and it isn’t trust. It’s whether you can see what your agents are doing, predict what they’ll do next and control how they’re allowed to act.

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