Workday Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair Aneel Bhusri; President, Product and Technology Gerrit Kazmaier; President, EMEA Angelique de Vries-Schipperijn; and More Take Keynote Stage
More Than 250 Sessions Including Demos, Customer Showcases, and Hands-on Labs, Will Show How Organisations Put AI to Work
Award-Winning Author Nilofer Merchant to Deliver Keynote on Human Judgment and Innovation in the Age of AI
LONDON, UK, November 12, 2026 – Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the trusted agentic platform for HR, finance, and IT, today previewed its flagship European event, taking place November 17-19 in Barcelona, Spain.
Register for Workday Rising EMEA: https://rising.workday.com/emea.html.
Workday Rising EMEA 2026 will bring Workday customers, partners, and innovators together to show how trusted AI is reshaping the future of HR, finance, and IT. As Workday continues to build momentum in EMEA, the event will spotlight new products, partnerships and investments supporting customers in the region.
Workday Co-founder, CEO, and Chair Aneel Bhusri; President, Product and Technology Gerrit Kazmaier; and Chief AI Officer Joel Hellermark will share Workday's AI strategy and vision, with Sana, the new Workday Home, connecting employees to lawful-by-design agents across HR, finance, and IT.
The Community Keynote will put customers centre stage, as leaders from Sanofi and Adyen join to share their AI success stories. Attendees will also have access to more than 250 sessions, keynotes, and live demos showing how agents operate within trusted, auditable business processes to deliver measurable results.
Bestselling author and Thinkers50 thought leader Nilofer Merchant will close the event, exploring the human foundations of innovation in the age of AI.
“EMEA organisations need AI that gets work done without compromising trust or compliance,” said Angelique De Vries-Schipperijn, President, EMEA, Workday. “Workday Rising EMEA will show what that means in practice: AI that moves beyond answers to action, grounded in the business processes that run their organisations.”
For More Information:
- Register on the Workday Rising EMEA website.
About Workday
Workday operates at the heart of the enterprise – HR, finance, and IT – where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, and trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists with work to agents that are capable of driving measurable outcomes. More than 11,500 organisations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, trust Workday to deliver. For more information about Workday, visit workday.com.
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