Angelique De Vries-Schipperijn
President EMEA
14 May 2026
InterContinental London – The O2
Lead the future of work with superintelligence for work – and charge your organisation forward. Throughout Workday Elevate, you’ll hear cutting-edge insights to take you into the new work day.
First Floor
Main Stage
Angelique De Vries-Schipperijn
President EMEA
Daniel Pell
VP and Country Manager UKI
First Floor
Main Stage
Alastair Goss
HR Systems Lead, Formula 1®
Joel Hellermark
General Manager, Sana
Enda Dowling
SVP, Product Engineering
Louise Gain
Senior Regional Sales Director UKI
First Floor
Breakout 1
HR isn’t just evolving, it’s being redefined. As a leader, you’re the architect of its potential. Join us for a deep dive into how AI in HR is moving from a buzzword to a business-critical tool. We’ll showcase our latest AI innovations and ongoing core investments designed to help you build a future-ready organisation.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Richard Doherty
Sr. Director, Product Marketing
First Floor
Breakout 1
Join Workday & Deloitte to explore 2026 HCM trends with practical guidance on staying ahead. We’ll be joined on stage by McLaren Racing for a real-world look at HR in action. Unlock the strategies you need to lead in this new era.
Mark Crook
Director of Business and Systems Transformation, Darktrace
Kara Latham Saunders
Consumer HR Transformation Leader
Sarah Wilson
People Director – Commercial & People Technology, McLaren Racing
Carolyn Horne
Senior VP, Strategic Customer Engagements EMEA
Mark Crook
Director of Business and Systems Transformation, Darktrace
Expo Hall
The AI opportunity for Workday is here, but realising its' full potential requires the right approach. In this session, CloudRock walks through five essential steps every organisation can take to embrace superintelligence within Workday: from readiness to ROI. Leave equipped with a practical framework to accelerate your AI journey.
First Floor
Breakout 1
The workplace is evolving, leaving you with a career-defining opportunity to step up and reshape it. It's time to take a fresh look at who does what, how they do it and how you can set your organisation up to adapt to change. Workday is your partner to make it happen – join this session to see how.
Mark Crook
Director of Business and Systems Transformation, Darktrace
Yolanda Naranjo
Director of HR Technology Service Management & Global HCM Product Owner, Smith + Nephew
Kirsty Archer
Director HR Strategy, Optimisation & Portfolio Enablement, Smith + Nephew
Michelle Dawkins
Vice President, Solution Consulting
First Floor
Breakout 1
The corporate ladder is now outdated. Resilient organisations are shifting toward ‘squiggly’ careers – agile, non-linear paths fuelled by learning, not titles. Join this exclusive Live POdcast Experience with the Squiggly Careers co-founder and podcast host, Helen Tupper, to explore how to decouple growth from management, boost internal mobility and rethink talent development to retain top talent and close skill gaps.
Mark Crook
Director of Business and Systems Transformation, Darktrace
Helen Tupper
Co-founder, Squiggly Careers
CEO, Amazing If
Vicky McNamara
VP, Marketing UKI
Workday
First Floor
Breakout 1
Workday transforms talent management by infusing AI and automation into every stage of the employee lifecycle. Learn how to find great people, develop skills, create opportunities for growth and uncover the potential of each of your people with Workday. From precision hiring to dynamic development, discover how our skills-based approach replaces rigid processes with an agile framework.
Mark Crook
Director of Business and Systems Transformation, Darktrace
Irena Alsopova
Global HRIS Leader, Belron
Bernie Foley
Vice President, Product Management
First Floor
Breakout 5
CIOs and IT leaders are the enterprise architects of tomorrow, positioned to fuse human ingenuity with machine intelligence for the future of work. Hear from IT leaders and discover how Workday and our open AI-native platform empowers technology leaders to unlock critical insights and foster seamless human-agent collaboration for quantifiable business impact.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Sharon Peters
Global CDIO, Boldyn Networks
Dinesh Krishnan
Executive Director - IT Functions
Clare Hickie
CTO - EMEA, Workday
Tom Girdler
Product Marketing Director, Workday
First Floor
Breakout 5
Sana Enterprise is your unified AI platform for Workday HCM and Workday Financial Management – plus the rest of your stack. Join this session to learn how Sana unifies Workday‑native, third‑party and custom agents behind one conversational front door, using Workday governance and your connected apps to automate end‑to‑end HR and finance journeys.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Giulia Scalzini
GTM Manager
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Expo Hall
The AI opportunity for Workday is here, but realising its' full potential requires the right approach. In this session, CloudRock walks through five essential steps every organisation can take to embrace superintelligence within Workday: from readiness to ROI. Leave equipped with a practical framework to accelerate your AI journey.
First Floor
Breakout 5
With the speed agentic AI is advancing at, it is imperative to understand how to bring the agentic workforce into the enterprise in a safe and secure manner. Discover the Workday agentic AI roadmap and learn how the Agent System of Record enables customers to secure, track, manage and evaluate agents across the enterprise. Take a deeper look into how agents communicate through market standardised interoperability protocols (MCP/A2A), and where those standards fit into Workdays agentic ecosystem.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Auralia Edwards
Sr Enterprise Architect
First Floor
Breakout 5
Take the power of Workday even further. The Workday Build developer platform unifies AI tools, certified partner solutions and a thriving developer community to help you build and take action on our open platform. Discover how to build custom agents, apps and orchestrations that natively inherit our enterprise-grade security, meeting your changing business demands with speed and confidence.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Brad Bush
Director of Workday Extend & Products
Peter Bateson
Enterprise Architect
First Floor
Breakout 5
Unlock people and money data with bi-directional, zero-copy access between Workday and selected partner platforms. Eliminate risky ETLs to power advanced AI, analytics and innovation. Discover the open platform advantage: connect disparate systems to elevate enterprise value, optimise workforce planning and drive financial agility – transforming data into a unified engine for growth.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Neil Fromow
Sr. Principal Solution Consultant
Tom Cannon
Data Ecosystem Innovation Lead, Google Cloud
First Floor
Breakout 3
In an era of volatility, transformation and rising expectations, CFOs are central to enterprise value creation. Join finance leaders to explore the CFO agenda for 2026 – from navigating uncertainty, providing actionable insights and leveraging AI-powered capabilities to enhance enterprise value.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Tim Wakeford
VP, Product Management
Stephanie Diep
Sr Associate Solution Consultant
First Floor
Breakout 3
In the wake of its merger, Sovereign Network Group (SNG) saw an opportunity to do more than consolidate systems – it set out to future‑proof the enterprise. Partnering with PwC and Workday, SNG replaced 19 legacy HR and finance systems with a single, flexible platform. Hear directly from experts at SNG and PwC as they share how an adopt‑over‑adapt strategy and a redesigned Chart of Accounts created a scalable engine for growth, empowering teams to shift from manual processing to higher‑value service delivery. We'll explore how they turned a complex post‑merger integration into a strategic investment in a unified, trusted source of data across HR, payroll, procurement and finance – the foundation for next‑generation AI, automation and analytics.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Mohit Jain
Director of Finance Transformation
Sam Dart
Technology Director
Sophie Contzen
Consulting Partner
Marion Carr
Product Marketing Director
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Expo Hall
The AI opportunity for Workday is here, but realising its' full potential requires the right approach. In this session, CloudRock walks through five essential steps every organisation can take to embrace superintelligence within Workday: from readiness to ROI. Leave equipped with a practical framework to accelerate your AI journey.
First Floor
Breakout 3
In unpredictable times, unified planning builds resilience. Discover how agentic AI drives smarter, faster decision-making across finance, HR and operations. Learn from the success stories of leaders adopting AI into their organisations and get a firsthand look at upcoming innovations in Workday Adaptive Planning.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Melissa Britton
Head of FP&A – Strategy & Group, NFU Mutual
Kelsea Vaughan
Product Marketing Manager
Alex Garach
Product Manager
First Floor
Breakout 3
Are your contracts working for you? Discover how Workday Contract Lifecycle Management, powered by Evisort AI, serves as a competitive advantage for your organisation. See how it transforms slow, manual processes into a high-speed engine that unlocks opportunities, ensures compliance and fuels growth.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Ian Cassidy
Product Marketing Manager
John-Paul Bell
Sr Solution Consultant
First Floor
Breakout 3
AI is only as intelligent as the data that fuels it. To move beyond experimentation and achieve real transformation, organisations need a unified, trusted data foundation. Join us to learn how the Workday Intelligent Data Core provides the backbone for reliable, AI-ready data across finance. In this session, we’ll explore the evolution of Intelligent Data Core and highlight the latest innovations, including Cost and Profitability, Workday Data Cloud and the Financial Analysis Agent, showing how they work together to help you unlock more accurate insights, automate analysis and power the next generation of AI-driven decision-making.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Brian Cohen
Sr Director, Product Management
Daniel Pridham
Principal, Enterprise Architect
First Floor
Breakout 2
Speed is the only currency when external environments shift daily. In this session, hear how one of our customers moved from ‘static’ to ‘continuous’ planning. Learn how a unified data core allows you to model ‘what-if’ scenarios in real-time and automate complex compliance reporting before the competition even starts their month-end.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Sophie Rigali
Senior Engineering Manager
Viren Patel
Sr. Industry Advisor, Financial Services
First Floor
Breakout 2
Learn how Concentrix leverages Workday Skills Cloud and AI-driven agents to forecast future skills, design career paths, and scale a people-centric services model in a rapidly evolving market.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Rupesh Ahluwalia
Head of Global HRIS, Concentrix
Kyle Wilkinson
Industry Advisor, Professional and Business Services
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Expo Hall
The AI opportunity for Workday is here, but realising its' full potential requires the right approach. In this session, CloudRock walks through five essential steps every organisation can take to embrace superintelligence within Workday: from readiness to ROI. Leave equipped with a practical framework to accelerate your AI journey.
First Floor
Breakout 2
Join our frontline workforce community to hear stories around transforming the ‘day-in-the-life’ of their deskless workers. We explore how to digitise everything from mobile-first scheduling to instant safety comms, removing the administrative friction that leads to burnout. See how a better employee experience directly translates to a better customer/passenger experience.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Kevin Green
Chief People Officer
Laurent Homeyer
Senior Industry Advisor
First Floor
Breakout 2
Charlotte Pickles, the Director of the respected think tank, Re:State, will talk about their latest report on what the public and public service leaders think about the UK’s public services. She'll explore what the public want prioritised, how their expectations are changing and what public service leaders see as the key priorities for delivering reform and strengthening the state in the years ahead.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Charlotte Pickles
Chief Executive, Re:State
First Floor
Breakout 2
Organisations invest in Workday to drive continuous improvement and respond quickly to changing business needs. But for many, manual testing becomes a bottleneck that slows progress, limits innovation and increases risk. Join Kainos and Bupa to explore how a global organisation transformed its approach to testing to unlock faster, safer change in Workday. By embedding automated testing into release cycles and project delivery, Bupa has reduced risk, increased confidence and enabled teams to focus on strategic initiatives – accelerating continuous improvement and maximising the value of their Workday investment.
Nico Du Preez
Finance Modernisation Product Owner, Beazley
Tim Woodall
Major Accounts Sales Executive
Lorraine Sasikumar
Global Product Owner Workday, Bupa
Dave Jackson
Digital Innovation Specialist, Bupa
First Floor
Breakout 4
Midsize organisations implementing skills-based strategies struggle with manual processes and limited visibility, making it harder to execute those strategies, unlock workforce potential and drive business performance. Discover how Workday's AI platform leverages skills intelligence to increase business agility and scale your operations while supporting compliance. We’ll showcase Evolito’s journey, a powerful example of how Workday-powered innovation supports skills-based strategies that deliver a real competitive advantage.
Rachael Wallwork
CHRO
Adrian Campomanes
Principal Product Marketing Manager
First Floor
Breakout 4
Midsize organisations are finding they need to do more with less. To do so, they must remove administrative burdens, automate day-to-day tasks and focus on high-value work. Workday delivers a single source of truth for HR, payroll and finance for this outcome. Join us for a live product demonstration to see Workday in action, and learn how you can simplify your back office, boost operational efficiency and accelerate time-to-value.
Adrian Campomanes
Principal Product Marketing Manager
Chris Hall
Senior Solutions Consultant, Remote
Expo Hall
The AI opportunity for Workday is here, but realising its' full potential requires the right approach. In this session, CloudRock walks through five essential steps every organisation can take to embrace superintelligence within Workday: from readiness to ROI. Leave equipped with a practical framework to accelerate your AI journey.
First Floor
Breakout 4
Modern organisations are under constant pressure to do more with less. To stay competitive, you must eliminate administrative friction and pivot your focus toward high-value work. Workday provides the unified foundation for HR, payroll and finance to make this possible. Join us to see a live demonstration of a soon-to-be-released Workday Agent and hear directly from a Workday customer on how they are leveraging our AI platform today, and how they plan to use our new agents to further optimize their back office and dramatically accelerate time-to-value.
Victoria Klein
Sr Solution Consultant
John Champion
Sr Product Marketing Manager
Andrew Sandiford
Managing Partner, Bishop Fleming
First Floor
Breakout 4
Discover what makes Workday Financial Management unique – a system of action that anticipates needs, simplifies work and unifies HR and finance on one platform. By driving collaboration, stronger insights and faster, data-driven decisions, Workday transforms accounting into a strategic driver of growth, resilience and measurable enterprise value.
Callum McMahon
Finance Transformation Director
Fred Portal
Product Marketing Sr. Director
First Floor
Breakout 4
For UKI midsize organisations, the future won’t wait. Discover how Workday GO preconfigured packages, accelerated by the Workday Deployment Agent and supported by our partner ecosystem, provide predictable activation. Achieve rapid time to value, stay on budget and scale your operations with complete confidence, without the complexity typically associated with enterprise software.
Dean Newman
CIO, Minova
Victoria Klein
Sr Solution Consultant
Ben Carter
Regional Vice President Sales, UKI & Ireland
First Floor
Main Stage
First Floor
Main Stage
Join Jimmy Carr for “The Business of Happiness”, a high‑energy finale that puts work, technology and human nature under the microscope. One of the world’s best‑known comedians, he’ll send you home laughing, thinking and ready to take on the new work day.
Jimmy Carr
Daniel Pell
VP and Country Manager UKI