Workday Rising is set to prove to be, once again, the biggest Enterprise Management event of the year, based on Workday’s standing as the world’s leading Finance, HR, and Planning cloud software company, with their industry-leading solutions and thought leadership, along with the participation of innovation partners such as OLOID, a leading provider of physical identity and access technology committed to enabling converged cyber and physical security for the modern workplace.
About Workday
Founded in 2005, Workday is a leading Enterprise Management cloud platform that helps organizations manage their most important assets – their people and money. The Workday platform is built with AI at the core to help customers elevate people, supercharge work, and move their business forever forward. Workday is used by more than 10,500 organizations around the world and across industries – from medium-sized businesses to more than 60% of the Fortune 500 that trust Workday with their business. Customers winning with Workday include Accenture, Comcast, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Southwest Airlines, Washington State University, and MGM Resorts.
What is Workday Rising?
Workday Rising is an annual conference hosted by Workday, the leading company in Enterprise Management. The event focuses on the latest advancements in Finance, HR, and Planning cloud software. This year’s Workday Rising conference will take place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas from September 16th – 19th, 2024.
This year Workday is also bringing back Workday Rising Online, a digital experience from September 17th–19th, 2024 with exclusive online-only content, deep-dive sessions, live moments from Workday Rising in Las Vegas, and opportunities to connect with experts in real time.
What are the Benefits of Attending in Person?
The main benefit is an opportunity to engage and network with thousands of industry thought-leaders, IT executives, application architects, IT, Finance, and HR directors and managers, admins, developers, product leaders, planning professionals, service providers, leading SaaS application providers, and Workday product experts. Workday Rising is the Enterprise Management conference of the year, bringing together thousands of Workday’s customers, partners, prospects, analysts, investors, employees in Finance, HR, product, developers, and the press.
This year’s Workday Rising will bring together more than 30,000 C-suite executives, thought leaders, and Finance, HR, and Planning professionals, with 500+ speakers, 400+ sessions, and 150+ exhibitors. This year’s event will feature more than 170 partners who will share industry expertise and invaluable best practices—from the world’s leading systems integrators to AI startups building on the Workday platform.
A major highlight of this year’s Workday Rising includes a conversation with former First Lady Michelle Obama on empowerment, leadership, and resilience.
Highlights from Previous Years
2024 will be the 16th Annual Workday Rising, as the conference has been back for three years since September 2022, after a three-year hiatus during the pandemic. Workday has a history of revealing innovative Enterprise Management solutions in style at their fifteen prior Workday Rising conferences since the first one in 2007. The inaugural conference set the stage for future events, focusing on the importance of Enterprise Management and introducing Workday’s vision for the future.
Here are some highlights from the last few previous Workday Rising conferences:
- Workday Rising 2023: Themed “Let’s Shape How the Future Works, Together”, key announcements included Workday AI Marketplace, Workday Solutions Marketplace, Deeper partner relationships with ADP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google, Growth of the Partner Ecosystem, and Industry Accelerator Momentum.
- Workday Rising 2022: After three years of absence, the event was back and focused on “Changemakers”, the theme for the year’s event which highlighted how over 50 million workers use Workday every day. Workday announced its plans to expand its services ecosystem, help speed cloud transformation efforts, and new technology and user experience (UX) innovations aimed at helping its customer community quickly adapt to meet ever-changing business and employee needs.
- Workday Rising 2018: Reporting, Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning continued to be important topics for the sixth event in a row, with the recent (at the time) acquisition of Adaptive Insights. Workforce Planning and Skills Cloud, as well as PaaS for Build were new innovations and areas of focus at this event.
Focus of Workday Rising 2024
The upcoming Workday Rising will be the 16th edition of the conference, and will again focus on:
- Innovation: Hear about new ideas and new solutions, and discover new opportunities for your organization to improve Enterprise Management.
- Inspiration: Learn new approaches that have been successfully implemented by other organizations and become inspired to transition to better solutions for your business or agency.
- Immersion: Be surrounded by everything related to Enterprise Management.
- Connection: Endless opportunity to network with industry leaders, peers, existing and potential clients. Bring a team of diverse talents and personalities to maximize the beneficial outcomes of your interactions.
- Forming New Customer Relationships and Deepening Existing Ones: From conversations at your booth, on the floor of the Expo Hall, after sessions, or at the many social events and spaces throughout the four days of the conference.
What Attendees Will Experience
- Workday Product Innovations: Every prior Workday Rising has included new product announcements and outlined the vision and roadmap for coming solutions in Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Adaptive Planning, and utilizing Artificial Intelligence. This year’s focus will include:
- Adding Workday testing and security to the power of Workday Extend and unlocking innovation with exciting new Built on Workday apps.
- Learn how to use leading-edge AI/ML techniques in new Extend solutions that exponentially increase HR and Finance efficiency and Workday ROI.
- Success Stories: Learn about how other organizations have overcome challenges you thought were unique to yours.
- Expert Wisdom: Workday has almost 20 years of Enterprise Management experience and expertise to draw on, and that’s not counting the combined decades (centuries?) of knowledge and hands-on experience of its many strategic partners in attendance.
- Valuable Networks: Connect and form relationships with the biggest names at Workday, along with industry experts, industry peers, and potential vendors and clients.
- Peer Networking: Meet new people and exchange fresh ideas in the Braindate Lounge reinventing the way attendees meet, mingle, and learn through intentional one-on-one and small-group discussions.
- Interactive Learning Environment: Whether you just want to pick up some tricks and insights, or take Workday certification exams during your four days at the event, Workday Rising is more interesting and hands-on than any classroom.
- Hands-on labs for hands-on learning.
- Immerse yourself in an educational journey, surrounded by fellow industry innovators.
- There are many sessions at the event that qualify for earned Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits offered by NASBA and SHRM. The Session Catalog can be filtered by the types of credits offered.
Is Workday Rising Worth the Time and Money?
Whether you are looking to enhance your company’s Finance, HR, or Planning posture or immerse yourself in the future of Enterprise Management, Workday Rising is a must-attend event. Just some of the benefits of attending include:
- Interact with Workday Product Leaders: Gain invaluable insight right from the horse’s mouth.
- Learn Latest Industry Trends: Get a leg up on competitors about how to operate more efficiently and profitably.
- Engage with Subject Matter Experts: About a host of EM topics with both Workday and its partners, such as seamless integration of OLOID and Workday solutions.
- Numerous Networking Opportunities: More networking in four days than in a year outside of the event, for a fraction of the cost in time and effort.
- Hear Customer Success Stories: Use cases that you never imagined, or that are based on challenges that you thought were unique to your organization, or that were previously thought unsolvable.
- Have Fun and Celebrate: There will be parties galore, great food and drink available, and lots of fun in store! There will be an opening reception to kick everything off, various happy hours, a blowout party at the end, games, immersive experiences, and more.
- Enjoy a Sunrise 5K Fun Run & Walk, Sunrise Yoga, and Sunset Sound Baths!
- Close the event with the annual Customer Appreciation Party at Allegiant Stadium with a performance by Gwen Stefani!
Attendance is not merely an expense, it’s an invaluable investment. Explore the range of options for attendance and accommodation and select the one that aligns with your objectives and budget.
Topics Covered in the Conference
Enterprise Management: The best and brightest delve deep into every essential and topical aspect of EM technology.
Differentiating EM from ERP: Features of EM surpass every limitation of ERP systems:
- Frictionless foundation: From intelligent automation to machine learning, Workday’s innovations take the friction out of work, and those innovations can be adopted without disrupting business.
- Complete picture: Workday’s finance, HR, and operational data live in a unified data core that gives total insight into business so clients can see what’s working, what’s not, and how to fix it.
- Business-first approach: When needs evolve, Workday allows a business to quickly reconfigure processes to match how the business operates, without coding, while keeping security intact.
- Continuous recalibration: Business needs can change in a minute, and plans need to be able to also. Workday empowers clients to anticipate scenarios, plan dynamically, execute fast, and pivot mid-course when things change.
Customer Success Stories: What challenges clients faced and how Workday solutions overcame them while meeting and exceeding requirements and expectations.
Groundbreaking Innovations: Enterprise Management technologies from Workday, like cloud-native architecture, embedded security, and a unified data core, with seamless integration with partner solutions like OLOID’s Time Clock, Workflows, and Cloud Key.
Keynotes and Product Announcements: A treasure trove of insights, foresight, and vision, delivered by the superstars of Enterprise Management. The biggest names at Workday, along with fellow industry experts, will take center stage to discuss the future of Enterprise Management and why Workday is not some legacy ERP solution ported to the cloud, but a revolutionary modern solution that should be the backbone of your holistic Finance, HR, and Planning strategy.
Collaboration: IT leaders, Enterprise Management gurus, developers, and passionate advocates among Workday’s customers and partners come together to exchange ideas, forge networks, and influence the direction the industry goes in the future.
Access to Valuable Content
Once Workday Rising opens its doors, it allows attendees from all over the world to partake in this content-rich experience firsthand, promoting professional growth and empowering long-overdue fixes to what had seemed previously like intractable problems. This invaluable content comes from a diverse variety of sources at Workday Rising.
- Knowledge, Industry Insight, Transformative Ideas, and Success Stories in a combination of storytelling intertwined with expertise.
- Networking opportunities with Workday’s product leaders, peers, and sponsoring partners.
- The EXPO floor is an innovation playground where attendees can preview the Workday product roadmap, get insight into AI and machine learning, and discover resources to help revolutionize their business.
Positive Experiences of Previous Attendees
Not just a conference, Workday Rising can be an eye-opening experience that has frequently led to epiphanies for previous attendees over the years.
- Customer Success Stories: Engrossing tales of successful workplace transformations have been a source of inspiration, driving change and spurring innovation in countless businesses.
- Interactive Sessions with Industry Experts and Peers: Every handshake, every shared story, every collaborative eureka moment moves your organization closer to becoming more efficient, profitable, and dominant in your market.
Meet the OLOID team at Workday Rising 2024
Are you attending Workday Rising? We’d love to connect and discuss how OLOID can enhance your Workday strategy. Our team will be available to showcase our solutions and answer any questions you might have.
Why Meet with Us?
Discover Our Solutions: Learn how OLOID solutions integrate with Workday’s and enhance your Workday deployment. Schedule a meeting with us at Workday Rising by clicking here.
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Workday Time and Attendance with OLOID Time Clock
- OLOID’s easy-to-use time tracking solution, OLOID Time Clock, synchronizes user time clock event data to Workday using OLOID Workflows.
- Workday Time Tracking generates accurate pay advice by utilizing these time clock event data.
- Key Benefits include:
- Utilizes Master Data from Workday to manage enterprise-wide access control.
- Deployed easily using smartphone/tablet app.
- Integrates time clock events with Workday.
Tailored Strategies: Get personalized advice on bolstering your Workday investment.
Network with Experts: Engage with our subject matter experts in identity, authentication, and access.
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