Workday Rising 25

Welcome to the Workday Rising 2025 event hub on diginomica, where you'll find all our coverage of the event and follow-up interviews. The event will be live in San Francisco from September 15-18 2025, and digitally on Workday Events. Registration for the event is open.

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Workday Rising 25 - show floor highlight reel: contract intelligence (Evisort) and employee financial wellness (Chime) This article is sponsored by:

Workday Rising 2025 marked a new phase in my event coverage: the reboot of my next-gen tech video series. Here's the top two demos I filmed on the show floor this year - and why I picked them.

Lauren Guidas of Workday Evisort at Workday Rising 2025

Workday Rising 2025 - does its acquisition of Sana mean Workday agrees SaaS is dead? This article is sponsored by:

Four AI acquisitions in the past year, three of them in the past month, tell the story of Workday's aspiration to become an agentic AI leader, building on - and moving beyond - its SaaS roots.

Peter Bailis at Rising 2025 in front of Workday + Sana slide

Workday Rising 25 - Workday rejects the AI jobs apocalypse, and makes its agentic SaaS case This article is sponsored by:

At Workday Rising 2025, the AI jobs controversy was a hot topic. Workday's stance on this issue goes back to what they've learned building AI agents. This piece takes you through my talks with Workday leadership, and into the heart of their AI (and SaaS) strategy.

President and Chief Commercial Officer. Workday

Workday Rising 25 - Workday’s "bold, bodacious” AI vision, viewed from the ‘cheap seats’ This article is sponsored by:

Viewing the Workday Rising experience from the 'cheap seats' as CEO Carl Eschenbach makes the corporate pitch.

Workday RIsing 25 - PwC boldly steps out in the AI partner ecosystem with agent OS This article is sponsored by:

Partner developments also made up an important part of Rising, as PWC proves.

Workday Rising 25 - will Workday's $1.1 billion acquisition of Sana Labs really be L&D's "iOS for enterprise" moment? This article is sponsored by:

A planned purchase of Sana Labs will have major implications for Workday's Learning and Development offerings.

Workday Rising 25 - Chief Learning Officer Chris Ernst on how Workday is putting its own L&D advice into practice This article is sponsored by:

Workday's own strategic AI transformation has led to some valuable learnings, according to Ernst.

Workday Rising 25 - how Thomson Reuters is putting the right AI/human intelligence skills culture in place This article is sponsored by:

Dalia Kendik, Head of Digital, Human Resources at Thomson Reuters, talks through the organization's approach to strategic AI transformation.

Workday Rising 25 - how Wells Fargo gave developers their evenings back This article is sponsored by:

Wells Fargo shows how Workday's configuration tools tackle enterprise IT's biggest headache.

Time Management Gears © Gemini studio - Canva

Workday Rising 25 - when planning is everything. Tackling the flood of features complexity in Workday at the State of Oklahoma This article is sponsored by:

Overwhelmed by new features and functionality? Unclear what to prioritize when it comes to adoption? The State of Oklahoma has been using Workday's Adoption Planning capabiltites to tackle complexity.

Workday Rising 25 - how Wellesley College applies critical thinking to AI adoption, and makes Workday personal with Extend This article is sponsored by:

The deterioration of critical thinking skills amidst AI is a hot debate at Workday Rising. That topic resonates with Wellesley College CIO Ravi Ravishanker. His views on adopting AI - and what he's pulled off with Workday Extend - are an event highlight.

Ravi Ravishanker, CIO and associate provost at Wellesley College

Workday Rising 25 - the CIO view on balancing innovation with AI control This article is sponsored by:

A panel of executives and CIOs focused on the realities of artificial intelligence and its impact on the enterprise technology stack.

Screenshot of speakers at Workday Rising 25 © Workday

Workday Rising 25 - Workday launches more agents, but the new Build platform and Data Cloud will steal the show This article is sponsored by:

Workday Rising 2025 opens with announcements of new AI agents for HCM and finance, but the big news is the new Workday Build developer platform and Data Cloud, along with consumption-based pricing.

Event: Workday Rising 25