Spotlight Sessions
Check out our top sessions and greatest moments.
Finance Spotlight
In these sessions curated just for finance, learn how to deliver value while driving your business forward.
Workday Financial Management: Strategy and Vision
Accounting teams are at the center of protecting and growing the value of the business. Doing that well requires data they trust and increasingly touchless and hyper automated processes to save time and analyze effectiveness. Join this session as we unpack our latest Workday Financial Management enhancements and upcoming investments in business processes, AI, analytics, and more!
Financial Reporting and Analytics: Strategy and Vision
Join this session to learn how Workday is making it easy to integrate and access data across ecosystems, transforming it into deeper insights, and creating one trusted source of truth for finance and accounting. Explore our roadmap for analytics and reporting products, how Workday AI will impact the future of financial reporting, and its importance for improved decision-making and business growth.
Hyper Automation in Payables and Receivables
Eligible for 1 CPE credit (onsite attendees only) Learn how Workday is hyper automating payables and receivables with investments in automation and AI.
Move Your Business Forward with Workday for the Office of the CFO
Today finance must mitigate risk and protect value while operating efficiently. Our vision is to reshape finance functions through advanced technologies that hyper-automate processes and surface insights from a trusted source of truth to grow value. Join us to learn more.
Intelligently Hyper Automate Your Financials Business Processes
Eligible for 1 CPE credit (on-site attendees only). At Workday, we help CFOs protect and grow the business. Learn how organizations are applying AI and machine learning to hyper automate workflows, simplify the interrogation of data, and drive new levels of impact across finance functions.
What's New: Invoice to Pay and Cash Management
Join this session for an overview of Supplier Accounts, cash management, banking, and settlement topics. We discuss recent product enhancements and offer a look at what is next to come.
Shape the Future With Workday Adaptive Planning: Strategy and Vision
Discover the latest innovations and product roadmap for Workday Adaptive Planning. See how finance, HR and operations teams can collaborate to shape their future – and learn how one of our customers unlocked new levels of business agility.
Workday Financial Management and Workday Spend Management: Strategy and Vision
The potential for accounting and procurement teams to make strategic business impact has never been greater. Together, we’re charting a course to unlock this potential and harness the power of data, people and processes. Join this session to learn about the latest enhancements as a result of investments in machine learning, analytics and intuitive design – and see where we’re heading next.
KeyBank Achieves Rich and Multidimensional Profitability Insights with Workday
In this session, KeyBank shares how it has leveraged Workday Financial Management, Workday Prism Analytics, and Workday Accounting Center to create an internal profitability subledger capable of reporting across various dimensions including line of business and product.
Financial Reporting and Analytics: Strategy and Vision
Join us to learn how Workday is making it easy to integrate and access data across ecosystems – transforming it into deeper insights and creating a unified source of truth for finance and accounting. We’ll also discuss our roadmap for analytics and reporting products, how Workday AI will impact the future of financial reporting, and its importance for improved decision-making and business growth.
Transforming Global Financials
In this session, learn how to navigate today's complex global finance requirements for multinational organizations with Workday frameworks, foundations, and integrations (compliance, reporting, and tax).
What's New: Contract to Cash
Join this session to learn about recent enhancements in customer management, customer contracts, invoicing, and revenue management. Get a peek into what's ahead to help optimize your revenue department's day-to-day operations.
HR Spotlight
In these sessions curated just for HR, learn how to elevate your people to do their best work.
Talent and Skills: Strategy and Vision
Join us to discover the transformative capabilities of Workday Talent Management solutions for enhancing talent sourcing and mobility bolstered by Workday AI, our skills intelligence framework, and seamless connected experiences.
What’s New: Onboarding in Workday
Join us for an update on the new onboarding capabilities in Workday designed to immediately harness feelings of excitement and familiarize the new hire with your organization's culture and values even before employment commences.
Workday Human Capital Management, Workday Help, and Total Rewards: Strategy and Vision
Master the dynamic business environment with one secure foundation to power productivity and humanize your organization. Join us as we showcase latest innovations and share our vision for the future of HR.
What's New: Workday Absence Management and Workday Time Tracking
Eligible for 1 PDC credit (on-site attendees only). Optimizing the full value of your workforce starts with a strong foundation in time management. Join this session to see how Workday Absence Management and Workday Time Tracking help organizations streamline operations.
What's New: Talent Acquisition and Candidate Engagement
As companies navigate an evolving hiring market, recruiters must adapt their workflows to secure and retain top talent. Learn about exciting new and upcoming features in our talent acquisition suite that helps teams prepare for what comes next.
Workday Payroll: Strategy and Vision
Join this session to hear the latest on our mission to deliver a global payroll solution that simplifies payroll complexity through seamless experiences, tighter partner integrations, trustworthy AI, and more—and get a sneak peek into what's next.
Talent and Skills: Strategy and Vision
Workday is transforming the very foundations of talent management – in this session, we’ll show you how we’re doing it. Join us to learn how we’re enhancing talent sourcing and mobility, bolstered by Illuminate and our skills intelligence framework.
What’s New: Workday Human Capital Management
Harness the power of Workday with the foundational capabilities of Workday Human Capital Management. Discover how Workday ignites HR transformation that powers long-term people and business success with our latest innovations and upcoming roadmap.
Core Workday Human Capital Management, Help and Total Rewards: Strategy and Vision
Master the dynamic business environment with a unified, secure foundation to power productivity and humanise your organisation. Join us as we showcase the latest innovations and share our vision for the future of HR.
Lead the Future of Work With an Intelligent Job Architecture
Embracing the future of work requires a dynamic approach to job architecture. Learn how Workday Human Capital Management enables you to drive innovation and lead in times of change with AI and machine learning capabilities and insights on trends.
IT Spotlight
In these sessions curated just for IT, learn how to prepare your organization for whatever comes next.
Building on Workday: Extend and Integrate Strategy & Vision
Lead your teams into the future of people and money with Workday Extend. Collaborate across business and IT to rapidly build AI-powered apps on a shared canvas. Orchestrate Workday technology, third-party data, and business processes across your enterprise. Discover how Workday customers and partners respond to business needs, consolidate systems, and innovate with Workday.
User Experience: Strategy and Vision
Step into the future of Workday UX, where AI effortlessly guides users through tasks and reveals invaluable insights. Join us as we redefine work, one intuitive interaction at a time.
Workday AI: Strategy and Vision
AI has created an unprecedented wave of technological innovation not seen in generations. Join this session to get an understanding of our vision for a future with AI. We provide details about the impactful value our approach to embedding AI provides, how you can use it today, and what to expect in the near future.
What's New: Workday Business Processes
Join this session to learn about the latest updates to the Workday business process framework--the flexible core that provides building blocks for every Workday application.
Getting Started with AI: Five Quick Tips to Create and Deploy Your Own AI Strategy
With the advent of generative AI, every organization is racing to figure out its AI strategy. Join this session to learn five important actions and decisions to make to get the value from AI now.
Building on Workday – Extend & Integrate: Strategy & Vision
Lead your teams into the future of people and money with Workday Extend. In this session, we’ll show you how to collaborate across business and IT to rapidly build AI-powered apps on a shared canvas. You’ll learn how to orchestrate Workday technology, third-party data and business processes across the enterprise – as well as how our customers and partners leverage Workday.
Workday AI: Strategy and Vision
AI has created an unprecedented wave of technological innovation not seen in generations. Join this session to get an understanding of our vision for an AI-powered future. We’ll provide details into the impactful value our approach to embedding AI provides, how you can use it today and what to expect in the near future.
User Experience: Strategy and Vision
Step into the future of Workday UX, where AI effortlessly guides users through tasks and reveals invaluable insights. Join us as we redefine work, one intuitive interaction at a time.
Harmonising and Standardising Business Processes for a Greater Workday ROI
Join this panel with the London Stock Exchange Group and Philips to explore how harmonising and improving business processes meets the spectrum of human capital management needs – all while balancing local requirements and global standards.
Ask Workday: Workday Orchestrate for Integrations and Workday Enterprise Interface Builder
Workday Integration Cloud now includes Workday Orchestrate for Integrations, bringing the ease of low-code to your integration needs. Ask our product experts about our integration solutions and learn about the innovation potential you can unlock.
Fewer Clicks, More Custom: Workday Extend App for Talent Assessment and 360-Degree Reviews
Join this session to hear about DoorDash's experience building and deploying a Workday Extend app for a highly customized talent assessment process with 360-degree reviews and an interactive web UX for minimal clicks.
Effective Approaches to Navigating Divestitures with Workday Integrations, Global Payroll, and Workday Prism Analytics
Learn about 3M's innovative approach to managing unstable requirements and the challenges faced during its divestiture including integrating a new global payroll provider, designing a 10-year look back with Workday Prism Analytics, and overcoming security challenges.
Developer Spotlight
In these sessions curated just for Workday Developers, learn how to elevate your skills and explore the platform ecosystem.
Opening Keynote: Developers Fueling the Workday Economy
Workday's open AI platform enables a thriving economy around people and money, making it the top choice for developers to build and unlock new value. Hear firsthand from developers, partners and Workday experts just like you who are pushing the limits of what’s possible, solving real-world problems, and driving innovation forward.
Closing Keynote and Hackathon Kickoff: Empowering Developers to Build the Future of Work
In our Closing Keynote, we’ll explore the enduring role of developers and how you can take advantage of enterprise AI as a developer. Leading AI visionaries share best practices and insights on how to put this transformative technology to work. Following this session, we’ll officially kick off our highly anticipated hackathon.
Workday Illuminate™: Harness the Power to Build with AI
As developers, you’re constantly elevating your skills and building high-value apps. Building on Workday opens a path to AI innovation that’s uniquely your own. Join this session to learn about current Workday Illuminate developer capabilities and explore the future of AI development, including apps, agents, and more.
Hack Supercut
Take a peek and the Highlights from the Workday DevCon Hackathon.
Workday Orchestrate & Integrations: Vision, Roadmap, and Innovations
Explore the future of Workday integrations! This session unveils our vision, highlighting Workday Orchestrate innovations and developer-focused tools for enhanced interoperability. See the roadmap and get ready for the next generation of connectivity.
Workday Extend: Empowering Developer Innovations
Learn about the newest advancements poised to revolutionize Workday Extend app development. Discover features designed to elevate your app's user experience, tools to unlock enterprise app development, and dynamic AI enhancements.
Maximizing App Configurability for Workday Marketplace Apps
Workday Marketplace apps require high levels of configurability to enable flexible implementation across customers. Join us for this session where we highlight opportunities and patterns for this configurability.
Build For Impact: Combining Workday Platform Technologies and Learning Patterns from the Pros
Unlock more powerful solutions by combining Workday builder technologies. Learn from live use cases how to bring together Workday Extend, Workday Orchestrate, and Workday Prism Analytics to solve complex business challenges, and understand best practices for leveraging all of these in tandem.
Thinking Real Time: Building Event-Based Integrations with Workday Orchestrate
In this presentation, learn the core themes of event-based integrations, discover how to optimize performance through thoughtful design, and explore how the Workday Orchestrate for Integration unique features help you build real-time solutions for your stakeholders.
Building Accessible Workday Extend Apps
Learn about the importance of building apps with an accessibility mindset and how it can improve the user experience for all users. This session highlights common accessibility barriers and practical steps to improve accessibility support.
Automate Everything: The Power of Workday Extend and Workday Orchestrate Together
Hear what Lowe's has learned through automating Workday Extend applications paired with Workday Orchestrate. In each business case Lowe's receives, Workday Extend applications function better with orchestrations included for all technical requirements.
Forever Forward with Workday Orchestrate
Discover how Workday Orchestrate provides the tools to transform how you build and manage integration development, making it better and easier. Use it to improve existing patterns (EIB+XSLT, Studio+Message Queue, Polling) and unlock innovative new ones.