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Accenture + Workday

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

Workday Rising 2025

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

#WDAYRising

Connect, inspire, and innovate with Accenture and Workday

Accenture is returning as a Titanium sponsor of Workday's premier annual event 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) to hear how we are putting people at the center of reinvention.

Accenture on stage at Workday Rising

Below is a list of our sessions from Workday Rising NA in San Francisco. We will update this soon with our sessions that will take place at Fira Gran Via Nord in Barcelona.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

This session, led by Workday’s CIO, explores the practical application of AI in shaping the future of work and provides a framework for accelerating innovation and gaining a decisive competitive advantage with Workday AI agents, tools, and products.

HR and IT leaders from Accenture will take you through their ongoing enterprise reinvention as they reposition their Workday platform to support an agentic future while reskilling 800K employees to support new processes and technologies.

AI is transforming talent acquisition. Hear how leading companies use HiredScore, third-party AI products, and custom solutions to streamline sourcing, accelerate screening and enhance candidate matching to keep people at the core.

Discover the advantages and potential of the Workday Agent Marketplace. Explore how partners can develop agents for Workday customers and how the Workday Agent System of Record enables the management of a wide range of agents.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Join this session to learn how should CFOs think about AI in finance and get key considerations by examining use cases, building a skilled workforce, ensuring data governance and security, navigating ethical implications, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and adaptation.

Learn how Accenture transformed talent acquisition with AI—saving 15,000 hours annually, reducing time-to-fill by 25%, and boosting interview conversions by nearly 3x—while navigating data privacy and consent at global scale.

Salesforce completed a significant finance transformation with Workday, supported by Accenture, to meet diverse global requirements while addressing complex compliance, reporting and tax demands with Workday Financials' frameworks and real-time data.

In this panel session, executives from the University of Richmond and New York Institute of Technology share insights on investing in their back office for HCM, finance, and student needs in these challenging market conditions.

Accenture speakers

Penelope Prett

Lead – Workday Business Group, Global

Bharath Srinivas

Managing Director – Global CTO, 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.

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