18-20 November 2025 | Fira Gran Via Nord, Barcelona, Spain

Workday Rising EMEA 2025

Learn how Accenture and Workday are reinventing the workforce of the future.

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Connect, inspire, and innovate with Accenture and Workday

Accenture is returning as a Titanium sponsor of Workday's premier annual event in Europe that unites a global community of customers, industry leaders, inspiring speakers and Workday executives who are taking business forever forward.

As Workday’s foremost partner, our dynamic agenda features innovations and inspiring stories from Accenture and our clients designed to ignite new ideas across Finance, HR, IT, industry and skills.

Find us at the Fira Gran Via Nord (#201) in Barcelona to hear how we are putting people at the center of reinvention.

Accenture on stage at Workday Rising EMEA

Join Accenture leaders and our clients for inspiring sessions at the Fira Gran Via.

Salesforce completed a finance transformation with Workday, supported by Accenture, to expand their global footprint and accelerate their agentic journey while addressing complex demands and real-time data.

CIOs and IT leaders must build a modern, scalable architecture to manage AI Agents, which can transform enterprise workflows. Learn how Accenture is defining this architecture and about the frameworks for making timely, future-proof decisions.

Stellantis leaders share how they successfully transitioned 240,000 employees from three major legacy systems into Workday HCM. This provided a modern, unified user experience for that streamlined processes and achieved operational efficiencies.

AI has changed the role of finance from transactional processing to strategic insight. Hear how organizations can move beyond basic automation and apply AI to enhance accuracy, efficiency, and decision-making across FinOps with Workday Financials.

Accenture speakers

Tommy Schroeder

Managing Director – Global Financials Lead, Workday Business Group

Pamela Macovaz

Managing Director – HR & Change Management at Accenture

Bharath Srinivas

Managing Director – Global CTO, Workday Business Group

Valentina Assenova

Senior Manager – Workday Financials EMEA Co-Lead, Workday Business Group

Customer Award

2025 North America Customer Award Winner for Global Workplace Transformation

Accenture updated its manual access management process using Workday Extend to build a Security Hub that centralizes and automates access requests, approvals and revocations. This solution achieved real-time automation and improved compliance while enabling self-service control for 791K employees without increasing security risk.

Hear from the team who made this award-winning solution possible.

What’s trending with Workday

Research Report

Making reinvention real with gen AI: From experimentation to impact

Organizations across industries are looking to scale their gen AI use cases. Lessons learned from 2,000+ gen AI projects reveal how to move from experimentation to enterprise-level value.

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Case Study

World Wildlife Fund harnesses the power of Workday

Accenture deploys first-ever global Workday deployment including HR, payroll, finance, grants and adaptive planning to help preserve nature.

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Research Report

Resilience redefined: From readiness to reinvention

Resilience appears to be rebounding to post-pandemic highs, but the gains mask a deeper vulnerability. Increased volatility requires adaptative resilience for competitiveness and growth.

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Perspective

Navigating the new tariff landscape and its economic impact

U.S. tariffs have introduced unprecedented uncertainty for executives to adapt to. In this perspective, we outline four pillars of resilience that enable enterprise resilience and how they can help you navigate the new tariff landscape.

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Research Report

The economics of reinventing work and the workforce

Accenture and Wharton are partnering to study how human strengths can be combined with AI and robotics, exploring the implications for individuals, economies, organizations and society.

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Research Report

Ready to supercharge productivity for growth and competitiveness?

While advances in tech and gen AI promised to boost productivity, our analysis indicates most companies are falling behind. Find out what productivity leaders do differently to drive value and gain a competitive edge.

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Our leaders

Penelope Prett

Lead – Workday Business Group, Global

Niall Wilson

Lead – Workday Business Group, EMEA

Deepak S. Iyer

Lead – Workday Business Group, AAPAC

Pepena Weichert

Lead – Workday Business Group, North America

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Workday Rising EMEA 2025

Connect, inspire, and innovate with Accenture and Workday

Accenture on stage at Workday Rising EMEA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

10:40 – 11:20 | Laying the Foundation to Accelerate AI Adoption: Deploying Workday Financials at Salesforce

14:40 – 15:00 | Build, Orchestrate and Manage: Leveraging AI Agents to Future-Proof your Organization

16:40 – 17:20 | The “One Stellantis” vision: Creating a more integrated & efficient workforce with Workday

Thursday 20 November 2025

14:00 – 14:20 | From Automation to Intelligence: AI Use Cases in Workday Financials

Accenture speakers

Tommy Schroeder

Pamela Macovaz

Bharath Srinivas

Valentina Assenova

Customer Award

Our leaders

Penelope Prett

Niall Wilson

Deepak S. Iyer

Pepena Weichert

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