You Built That with Databricks Apps?! A Customer Showcase of What’s Possible

You’ve seen Databricks Apps used for simple dashboards and internal tools—but that’s just the starting line. In this breakout, we’ll showcase some of the most creative, high-impact apps real customers have built on Databricks, from agentic workflows and decision copilots to line-of-business apps that entire organizations now run on every day.

We’ll walk through a curated set of customer stories, each answering three questions: What problem were they stuck on? What did they build on Databricks Apps? What changed in their business as a result? Along the way, you’ll see patterns for building AI assistants on top of your lakehouse, rich operational UIs that write back to Lakebase, governance-aware “self-service” data apps for business users, and more.

If you’ve been thinking of Apps as “just a nicer way to host a notebook or dashboard,” this session is designed to flip that mental model. You’ll leave with concrete ideas, architectures, and inspiration to say, “Wait—we could build our version of that.