Agenda
6 June 2023
GDI | Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, Rüschlikon
Workday Elevate is your chance to see why Workday is the finance, HR and planning system for a changing world. See what we’ve got lined up for you by clicking on your role below.
6 June 2023
For your convenience, both German and English translations will be available simultaneously in the main conference room.
For customers
10:00–10:30 | Customer Registrations & Refreshments
In order to realize the most out of your Workday investment, we have developed services to unlock the full power of Workday. In this session, you will learn more about our Value Management Services who support investment decisions and help identify & estimate benefits attained with Workday. In addition, our Workday Success Plans are designed to drive value at every stage of your journey with Workday.
Anita Forster, Principal Customer Sucess Manager, Workday
Ana Mislitchi, Head of EMEA Value Management, Workday
Lynda Taumann-Yrisarry, Sr Principal Managing Partner, Workday
All attendees
11:30–12:30 | Welcome Lunch and Registration
12:30–12:40 | Workday Regional Welcome | Welcome to Workday Elevate Zurich
Fred Alran, General Manager Switzerland and Austria, Workday
Ana Mislitchi, Head of EMEA Value Management, Workday
12:40–13:10 | Fireside Chat: Workday's Strategy & Innovation
Carolyn Horne, Sr EMEA VP, Strategic Customer Engagement, Workday
Jens Löhmar, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Continental / DACH, Workday
Phenomenal things happen when you bring your systems together. By bringing Finance, HR, Planning and Analytics on the same Platform, you gain the power to adapt. In this Session you will experience how this empowers and simplifies the day to day experience of your Workforce.
13:45–14:15 | Coffee Break
Breakout sessions
- CHRO
- CFO
- CIO
- Small & Medium Enterprises
14:15–14:40 | Leaders of change: Strategy and vision for CHROs
With the dramatic change that’s taken place in the last few years, CHROs have found themselves in the eye of the storm – and at the centre of converging global crises around skills obsolescence, a post-pandemic reality, equity and inclusion, digital acceleration, a fluid workforce, and economic uncertainty. Learn how Workday is addressing the most pressing challenges faced by HR leaders.
Richard Doherty, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, Workday
In a rapidly changing world, organizations can no longer rely on disconnected and siloed HR and payroll systems that slow progress. We will discuss how Workday and Alight offer a powerful, end-to-end HR and payroll solution that empowers organizations to source, manage and pay their global workforce with a simplified, unified offering.
Dirk Burkamp, Regional Sales Director / Workday Practice Lead DACH, Alight Solutions
Thought leadership session with customers and partners - presented by Alight, Deloitte and Kainos
15:15–15:55 | How leveraging a skills intelligence foundation propels the future of work
Today’s talent won’t meet tomorrow’s needs. With a rapid change in skill sets, leaders need to find a way to pinpoint current and future skill gaps to drive an actionable, skills-based people strategy. Learn how Ferring uses Workday technology to leverage the most powerful skills data to unleash human potential at scale.
Lynn Van Oossanen, Senior Manager HR Solution & Transformation, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Nataliia Chaban, Global HRIT Project Manager, Ferring Pharmaceuticals
Kerstin Stimpfl, Senior Value Manager, Workday
Learn from Swiss Life's Workday journey how the group's HR department collaborates with its various divisions, countries and broad variety of businesses. Swiss Life's Workday journey started in Switzerland in 2019 and has touched more than 9500 employees across Europe to date, and is still ongoing. Close collaboration, a sound understanding of local needs, change management and enablement are critical to the continued success of the HRconnect programme.
Antoine Lombard, Head Operations, Group HR Systems and Processes, Swiss Life
Dominik Löffler, Change Management Lead EMEA, Kainos
Ana Mislitchi, Head of EMEA Value Management, Workday
14:15–14:40 | Value creator: The next evolution of finance
In this highly volatile and uncertain business environment, organizations need to be more agile and adaptable than ever before. This requires finance to be a strategic partner to optimize processes, mitigate risk and seize new opportunities. To become value creators, finance needs the right data, technology and talent to be successful. Learn how Workday enables finance to become a true value partner for the business.
Frank Mens, Alliances Director oCFO, Workday
14:40–15:15 | Networking Break: Meet the Experts
Thought leadership session with customers and partners - presented by Alight, Deloitte and Kainos
15:15–15:55 | How Finance departments adapt to economic uncertainty - presented by Deloitte
CFO’s and their accounting teams play a key role in helping their organizations weather the toughest storms. Why are they so critical? Join this expert panel discussion with our customers N26 and Frontiers to hear how the role of Finance is changing and how the next generation of accountants is setting a new standard for agility, efficiency and insight.
James Killick, Head of Accounting, Frontiers
Carlo Alberto Verona, Senior Financial Accountant, N26
Sina Bosling, Workday Finance Manager, Deloitte Germany
Marwan Kosbah, Senior Manager Finance & Performance, Deloitte Switzerland
Frank Mens, Alliances Director oCFO, Workday
14:15–14:40 | Achieving the power to adapt: Technology strategy and vision
Basic Design Principles of Workday Architecture & Technology are determining consumer-grade Experiences & best-of-class Adoption, Adaptability & Ownership of our Solutions by our Customers as well as the possibility for unlimited growth supported by automatization & scalability of our platform.
Join this strategy and vision session to hear how Workday has an unparalleled position to create business value with ML and AI due to those design principles. We will show you how our technology investments are empowering organisations prepare for the future of work, enable them to innovate with apps and interoperability on our platform driven by Workday Extend.
Jens Löhmar, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Continental / DACH, Workday
14:40–15:15 | Networking Break: Meet the Experts
Are you a small or medium sized company? This session sheds light on the challenges and needs of smaller companies and how Workday is supporting our customers in this space. Learn about why the majority of Workday’s customers are in our “Medium Enterprise” segment, the benefits they are seeing and how Workday is continuing to invest to help smaller companies simplify their HR and finance processes and confidently set course for growth and change.
Jonathan Randle, Vice President, Sales Workday
14:50–15:10 | Global Payroll Partnership Workday and Alight: A powerful, end-to-end HR and payroll solution for your global workforce
In a rapidly changing world, organizations can no longer rely on disconnected and siloed HR and payroll systems that slow progress. We will discuss how Workday and Alight offer a powerful, end-to-end HR and payroll solution that empowers organizations to source, manage and pay their global workforce with a simplified, unified offering.
Dirk Burkamp, Regional Sales Director / Workday Practice Lead DACH, Alight Solutions
Breakout session with customers and partners - presented by Alight, Deloitte and Kainos
15:15–15:55 | How to address your challenges with the power of Workday - Part 2 - presented by Alight
Bring the previous session to life by learning from our customer Capri Sun and partner Alight. Hear advice, lessons learned & best practices on how to drive your business forward and get the most value out of Workday with a smaller team.
Nicole Uhrmeister, CHRO, Capri Sun Group
Dirk Burkamp, Regional Sales Director / Workday Practice Lead DACH, Alight Solutions
Jonathan Randle, Vice President, Sales, Workday
Hauke von Waaden, Customer Strategy and Value Manager, Workday
All attendees
15:55–16:05 | Coffee Break
16:05–16:35 | Courage for new ways - success through reduction and decisiveness
Dynafit CEO and ski extreme mountaineer Benedikt Böhm, will present what he has learned from the extreme situations to transform the company from insolvency to a world market leader. Benedikt will take us on an expedition and unveil the strategies he and his teams developed to deal with uncertainty and overcome fears - to finally climb the world’s highest mountains in record time.
Benedikt Böhm, Extreme-Mountaineer and CEO, Dynafit
16:35–16:45 | Wrap up and Close
16:45–18:45 | Networking Apero