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Real connections, practical AI, and a front-row seat to the roadmap: leaders from Visa, Unity, the City of L.A., and more explain why they’re excited for Rising 2026. What makes Workday Rising the AI event of the year? Beyond the keynotes, the labs, and the sessions, it's the 30,000+ HR, finance, and IT customers who come together every year to tackle shared challenges and shape the future of agentic AI.

I've spent most of my career close to frontline teams, and one complaint keeps surfacing no matter the industry: the tools meant to make their jobs easier usually don't. That’s why I am proud to announce Workday has been named a Leader in its inaugural Magic Quadrant for Workforce Management Technology. For us, it’s less of a milestone than validation of an argument we've been making for years—that frontline workers deserve the same caliber of technology as everyone else in the enterprise.

Eighty-nine percent of respondents in a Workday-sponsored survey of nearly 7,000 professionals said their organizations routinely absorb financial losses from vendor contracts that auto-renew without anyone’s knowledge. Not occasionally. Routinely. Ten years ago, I co-founded Evisort to pioneer AI-native contract intelligence. We introduced agentic contract intelligence with customizable AI, so our customers can know everything about their existing agreements.

In this blog we discuss: Same Trust, Greater Focus Business is moving faster than any planning cycle can handle. Leaders are expected to model more scenarios and make decisions faster, but the data they need is still scattered across teams, systems, and spreadsheets.

AI has moved from a Washington talking point to a foundational part of federal agency mission achievement. In a new survey of defense and civilian agency leaders by Workday Government and GovExec, 42% reported that AI is having a positive impact on their work—with gains in data analysis and reporting (79%), mission delivery (69%), and procurement and finance (67%). At the same time, only 13% said they are using agentic AI broadly across departments.

For the 11th consecutive year, Workday has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for HCM Suites for 1,000+ Employee Enterprises. It's a recognition we don't take lightly, because we believe that the bar for what a Leader means in HCM has never been higher. HR is no longer simply running people operations—it's redesigning how work gets done.

Today, we're sharing Workday's Vision for AI Governance, a policy framework for AI safeguards in the enterprise that builds trust without slowing innovation. In recent years, policymakers have devoted significant attention to AI safety issues emerging from the rapidly advancing capabilities of frontier AI models. Meanwhile, enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, increasing productivity, improving decisions, and freeing time for more strategic work—something we see with our customers every day.

For years, the world's leading brands have trusted Workday to power the most critical parts of their business: people and money. And now, they're using Workday AI not just to make those processes faster but to reshape them entirely—on the same foundation they already trust. More than 65% of the Fortune 500 run on Workday, and over 5,500 customers now use one or more Workday agents, a 35% increase in a single quarter. Take hiring.

In this article we discuss: From Closed to Open: The New Workday Developer Platform Meeting Developers Where They Are Workday’s First Developer Day in India What’s Next At DevCon, we said we were rewriting the developer playbook—opening our platform so both humans and agents can build on Workday more easily, without compromising the security and trust enterprises depend on. And now, we're fulfilling that promise.

Workday Rising 2026 is just a few months away. With more than 400 sessions, keynotes, product demos, customer showcases, and hands-on labs, the event is designed to help teams put AI to work in practical, meaningful ways. In addition to Workday Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair Aneel Bhusri; President, Product and Technology Gerrit Kazmaier; and Chief AI Officer Joel Hellermark, several leaders, customers, and partners will take the mic.