Agenda
21 May 2024
etc.venues, 133 Houndsditch
Workday Elevate London is your chance to see how Workday is helping EMEA organisations shape the future of work. See what we’ve got lined up for you below.
Strategy & Vision
Live on Workday
- Arrival & Breakfast
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Regional Welcome | Workday Elevate London!
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Daniel Pell
Vice President Country Manager UKI, Workday
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Customer Award | Are you a rockstar?
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Carolyn Horne
VP Strategic Customer Engagements, Workday
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Keynote | The future of work
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Joe Wilson
Global CTO, Workday
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- External speaker announced soon!
- Morning Coffee Break
- Finance
- Human Resources
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Finance 2030: Navigating the Digital Frontier
Sponsored by Deloitte
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Tanya Beckett
Broadcaster, BBC
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Dave Towers
EMEA Workday Finance Lead, Deloitte
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Matthew Guest
Digital Strategy and Innovation Lead Partner, Deloitte
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Tim Wakeford
VP, Product Management, Financials, Workday
Expectations have increased beyond just maximizing shareholder value, to becoming the architects of value creation. This expanded role means finance must have the right data, technology foundation, and people to be successful. Join us for a conversation between Workday and Deloitte, as they share their perspectives on adapting to the velocity of change, and how to leverage AI and ML.
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Strategic Financial Leadership Panel: Aligning accounting, financial planning and analytics for future success
Sponsored by CloudRock
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Tanya Beckett
Broadcaster, BBC
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Wyatt Edge-Morgan
Senior Partner - Workday Financials Practice Lead, CloudRock
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Miles Hubbard
Finance Systems Manager, Thought Machine
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Steve Rayment
Head of Global Business Management, Beazley
This panel discussion will delve into the future of accounting, planning, and data management, exploring key trends that will shape the roles of finance in the coming years. Topics include the integration of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and the role of data analytics in decision-making. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that looks beyond the traditional roles.
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Enhancing profitability with sourcing excellence
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Adam Cotterill
Procurement Manager, PGA
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Nathalie Lacroix
Procurement & Supplier Relationship Manager, Skipton
Sourcing should be simple, but with multiple touch points across a number of departments, simplicity isn't always the first thing that springs to mind when we think about procurement. Often, manual tasks, inefficient onboarding of suppliers and lack of visibility create unnecessary roadblocks.
Hear from Workday customers about how they've overcome these challenges by shifting procurement into the driving seat, increasing visibility, reducing time consuming manual tasks and providing a bird’s eye view of their RFPs.
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Workday Strategic Sourcing -
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Meeting the challenge of secure, self-service data access for actionable insights
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Rob Bloor
Group Financial Controller, Equiniti
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Paul Boyle
Group Director People Service Operations, Sky
We have data – and lots of it – but how can organisations maximise the impact of the data available to them? Today, analytics leaders are being asked to support their business’s ever-growing need for value-adding and actionable insights. But providing secure, self-service access to data for analytics and reporting remains a significant challenge.
Join this panel to hear how Equiniti and Sky have maximised the impact of data analytics and insights through Workday.
Product focus:
Workday Prism Analytics -
- Lunch Break
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Industry breakout: Banking & Capital Markets
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Kirsty McDaid
HR Data and Systems Manager, Newcastle Building Society
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Jill Newman
Head of HR, Newcastle Building Society
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Sarah Warren
Head of Group Finance, Newcastle Building Society
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Laurence Leyden
Regional Vice President, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Banking & Capital Markets.
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Industry breakout: Insurance
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Viren Patel
Strategic Industry Advisor, Financial Services & Insurance, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Insurance.
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Industry breakout: Technology
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Rajeev Sharma
Strategic Industry Advisor, Tech & Media, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Technology.
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Putting data management in the hands of accounting
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Emma Castledine
Enterprise Architect, Finance Transformation, Checkout.com
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Smruti Simhadri
Workday Integrations Product Analyst, Quilter
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Mark Mahers
Head of Finance, Coventry Building Society
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Marion Carr
Sr Product Marketing Manager Financials, Workday
Today’s finance leaders are being asked to partner with the business on real time performance into cash flow, costs, the balance sheet, and profitability. To do this, you need to blend high volumes of data from multiple systems—including financial, worker, operational and third-party data—and look at it from multiple dimensions, without significant data restructuring or reconciliation.
Explore how Workday Accounting Center can help you support finance with self-service access to the full data lifecycle.
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Workday Accounting Center
Workday Prism Analytics -
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Streamlining plans, budgets and forecasts for strategic focus
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Neil Gribben
Vice-President, Accounting & Control, Belmond
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Richard Hartle
Head of Financial Planning & Analysis, Bristol Airport
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Tom McCaw
Head of Global Planning and Business Partnering, Beazley
What could a 70% reduction in planning cycles and a 50% boost in productivity do for your organisation?
Empowering teams and removing barriers to disconnected data drives data-based decision making, enabling leaders to react faster and more strategically than ever.
Learn how Workday customers are leveraging Workday Adaptive Planning to mitigate risk, boost productivity and make strategic decisions rooted in data.
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Workday Financial Planning -
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Industry breakout: Professional Business Services
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Kyle Wilkinson
Strategic Industry Advisor, Professional Business Services, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Professional Business Services.
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Industry breakout: Retail
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Laurent Homeyer
Strategic Industry Advisor, Retail & Hospitality, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Retail.
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Industry breakout: Public Sector
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Andy Venter
Regional Sales Director, Public Sector, Workday
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Public Sector.
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Industry breakout: Asset & Wealth Management
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Viren Patel
Strategic Industry Advisor, Financial Services & Insurance, Workday
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Tom Rees
Head of Finance & Corporate Technology, Man Group
Powering the industries that power our world. Workday has a range of solutions designed to help each industry overcome its unique challenges, while also boosting productivity and decision-making through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Join this breakout session with our industry expert and fellow industry peers to discuss the unique challenges specific to Asset & Wealth Management.
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Transforming finance from automation to value creation with AI-enabled workflows
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Pramoda Morla
Finance Product Manager, BDO
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Alison Seedat
Finance Systems Manager, Hyde Housing
The age-old responsibilities of finance – like cash flow, investments and P&Ls – are fast becoming automated. And this has led to a growing imperative for CFOs to lean into value creation by improving access to data and providing deeper, more informed analysis.
By harnessing the power of AI-enabled workflows, learn why today’s CFOs are in a unique position to connect the dots and become a key value architect within their organisation. -
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Maximising Internal Mobility for Skills and Talent Optimisation
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Sarah-Jane Rostant
Sr Director, Strategic Engagement, Product Strategy, Workday
For today’s organisations, developing a talent strategy that can help them adapt to change while retaining and engaging their workforce is critical to staying ahead.
In this session, learn how Workday supports a skills-based people strategy throughout the employee lifecycle – including hiring, onboarding, learning, talent mobility and rewards – to enable companies to be ready for what’s next.
Product focus:
Workday Skills Cloud
Workday Talent Management -
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Navigating the Future of the Contingent Workforce with Strategic Integration of External Workers
The workforce composition is changing fast. Organisations are increasingly augmenting their workforce with extended workers to fill critical skills gaps, reduce costs and increase agility in hiring in order to scale quickly.
In this session, we’ll explore how Workday customers have optimised insights into their full worker population, supporting decisions on talent needs and increasing organisational agility at scale.
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Thriving in change: Leveraging Workday Success Plans to bridge the acceleration gap
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Ran Li
Head of Information Systems, Alfa Systems
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Ricky Sickelmore
HR Technology Manager, Arriva
In today’s changing world, it’s easy for organisations to get caught in the acceleration gap – the place where your resources, skills and capabilities can’t keep up with the accelerated pace of change.
Join this session as we explore how Workday Success Plans can help you close the gap with comprehensive expertise, support and education at every stage of your journey with Workday. It’s time to embrace the opportunity that a changing world brings.
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Workday Success Plans -
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Unlocking Strategic Insights: Harnessing the Power of People Analytics for Business Transformation
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Hilary Duffus
HR Data & Systems Manager, Clarion Housing
Discover how customers have leveraged the analytical capabilities in Workday and empowered their organisation to answer critical business questions about workforce and employee data.
We'll demonstrate practical examples of how you can integrate these capabilities to unlock strategic insights and fuel a culture of continuous innovation.
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Workday People Analytics -
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Optimising recruitment strategies with Workday Candidate Engagement
In the wake of the pandemic, the great resignation and the increasing cost of living, future employees want more from their prospective employers. So engaging in the right way and at the right time is key to hiring and securing the right talent. To do this at scale requires empowered recruitment teams with a connected platform.
Hear how customers have created a holistic view of their hiring programmes, enabling leaders to strategically manage their end-to-end talent acquisition strategy and empower recruitment teams.
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Meeting the challenge of secure, self-service data access for actionable insights
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Rob Bloor
Group Financial Controller, Equiniti
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Paul Boyle
Group Director People Service Operations, Sky
We have data – and lots of it – but how can organisations maximise the impact of the data available to them?
Today, analytics leaders are being asked to support their business’s ever-growing need for value-adding and actionable insights. But providing secure, self-service access to data for analytics and reporting remains a significant challenge.
Join this panel to hear how Equiniti and Sky have maximised the impact of data analytics and insights through Workday.
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Elevate employee engagement with Workday Peakon Employee Voice
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Catherine Brooks
Head of Internal Communications & Engagement, Affinity Water
With 62% of resignations driven by poor cultural fit or lack of development prospects, it's vital to understand what employees desire from their employers.
Improving retention and engagement can not only lead to lower recruitment costs and increased morale but a more productive and engaged workforce.
Learn from Affinity Water as they share how sentiment analysis and employee insights have impacted their organisation.
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- Lunch Break
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Equipping payroll professionals for the changing world of work
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Cheryl Biddiscombe
Senior Workday Payroll Specialist, OVO Energy
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Danny Rice
Senior Manager, Product Management, Workday
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Andy Smart
Payroll Manager, Coventry Building Society
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Joy Hatton
Senior Outbound Product Manager, Workday
With changing regulations and worker expectations evolving every day, payroll is changing faster than ever. With complex processes and varying needs, it's critical to get it right.
During this session, we’ll welcome Workday customers from OVO Energy and GSK, who’ll share how they leverage Workday Payroll to create simplicity out of complexity.
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Workday Payroll -
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Empower, evolve, excel: Transform talent development with interactive learning solutions
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Gavin McQuillan
Head of Learning & Development, Natwest
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Leanne McAvoy
Learning Strategy Manager, Natwest
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Lisa Saunders
Learning Strategy & Transformation Manager, Natwest
With the pace of change accelerating, job requirements are constantly evolving too. Organisations face the risk of falling behind if they don't continually adapt to changing compliance needs and skill sets needed for their employees to be successful.
To succeed in this changing world, connecting employees to the right learning opportunities is critical – both for today and the not-so-distant future.
Hear how NatWest have empowered their employees with Workday Learning, and discover how you could do the same.
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Workday Learning -
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Future-forward HR: Tailoring workforce journeys to individual needs and creating personalised experiences for tomorrow's success
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Sophie Porter
Global Head of HR Operations, Abrdn
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Phoebe Barnes
Workday Functional Manager, Centrica
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Finola Elsey
HRIS Project Manager, Abrdn
According to a recent Deloitte report, 68% of executives agree that future workforce strategies will be more customised to individual needs. So how can businesses ensure they meet each employee’s long-term needs?
At Workday, we think employee experiences at work should be as personalised, streamlined and simplified as the ones we have every day outside of work. Today it’s about what people need and when they need it, wherever they are.
Join us for this customer panel on how to optimise the employee experience to learn more.
Product focus:
Workday Help
Workday Journeys -
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Why trust and teamwork are so important for McLaren Racing
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Piers Thynne
COO, McLaren Racing
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Clare Hickie
CTO EMEA, Workday
Join us for our final session of the day, where Piers Thynne, COO at McLaren Racing, will join Clare Hickie, CTO EMEA at Workday, to discuss why trust and teamwork are critical components of the McLaren Formula 1 team's success.
During this exclusive session, Workday Elevate London attendees will learn how trust and teamwork enable effective collaboration, enhance performance and reliability, and foster innovation in the highly competitive world of Formula 1. The conversation will also explore the role of problem-solving, resilience and adaptability, and an appetite for continuous improvement, in building an engaged and reliable team. -
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Thank you for attending Workday Elevate London
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Daniel Pell
Vice President Country Manager UKI, Workday
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- A thank you cheers!
- Summer Party at Madison Rooftop Bar and Restaurant