Agenda

CIOs and IT leaders are the enterprise architects of tomorrow, positioned to fuse human ingenuity with machine intelligence for the future of work. Hear IT leaders talk about the IT track and how Workday – the first open, AI-native platform with unparalleled people and money intelligence – empowers you to unlock insights and foster seamless human-machine collaboration for big business impact.

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, optimize workforce planning, and drive financial agility—transforming data into a unified engine for growth.

See, hear and understand the Workday AI vision. We’ll showcase our latest AI product releases, demonstrate our agents in action and give you a look at what’s coming in our roadmap. You’ll also get a sneak peek at our new user experience, as well an overview of how it’s built on a foundation of trust with our market leading Responsible AI programme.

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 Workday’s enterprise-grade security, meeting your changing business demands with speed and confidence.

Move beyond point-and-click. The new Workday UX is a bridge to an intelligent, conversational-first experience. By uniting Sana’s fluid design with Workday power, we’ve created an AI-ready experience that proactively surfaces what matters. Whether you're adopting AI agents or seeking a modern, cohesive look, this UX adapts to you – making work fluid, contextual and smarter. 

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. 

Move from tracking value to creating it, but how? Discover how a single, open platform uniting Accounting, FP&A, and Procurement combines human expertise with AI to drive efficiency, stronger controls, and measurable ROI across the office of the CFO. Explore how AI-powered automation and insights help teams make faster, smarter decisions to sharpen competitive advantage.

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.

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.

In today’s fast-paced financial landscape, agility and real-time insights are paramount. In this session, learn how leading organisations are managing high volumes of data, automate accounting creation through a configurable rules engine, and unlock granular insights that drive faster, more confident decision-making.

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.

Stop the cycle of ‘hire and hope’. Hear from industry leaders as they reveal how they used AI-driven talent insights to identify hidden skills within their massive workforce. Discover how a ‘skills-first’ culture can increase internal mobility, predict turnover in high-demand roles and cut your external recruitment spend by leveraging the talent you already have.

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.

For established organisations, the risk of transformation often feels higher than the cost of doing nothing. Your industry peers will share their roadmap for ‘hollowing out’ legacy tech without a risky ‘big bang’ failure. Learn how they unified fragmented systems into one scalable foundation ready for the AI era while maintaining public trust.

How do you automate high-volume tasks, like claims processing, student enrolment, or financial auditing , while maintaining ironclad security? Join us to discuss the balance between ‘speed’ and ‘duty of care’, and learn how to deploy Workday AI to drive efficiency while keeping ‘humans-in-the-loop’ and data privacy intact.

Midsize organisation HR leaders need to drive company performance by maximising workforce potential, yet many struggle with manual processes and poor visibility. Discover how Workday AI leverages skills intelligence to optimise talent deployment and empower managers for smarter, data-driven decisions. You’ll gain a practical, strategic framework to build a resilient, future-ready workforce. 

The Employment Rights Act 2025 brings a new reality for UK midsize organisations: ‘day one’ rights for sick pay and unfair dismissal. These changes increase admin and compliance risks that can stall growth. Join us to see how to simplify your back-office and continue scaling. You’ll hear about legislation impact and how Workday GO gives you agility and automation, so you can adapt and grow. 

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 to learn how you can simplify your back office, boost operational efficiency and accelerate time-to-value with Workday. 

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.

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.