SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS

Share your story at Workday Rising EMEA

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Forward thinkers, ready to rise to the occasion? Let the submissions begin.

12 May 2025

Speaker and Customer Awards submission deadline

June 2025

Notification of acceptance

18-20 November 2025

Workday Rising EMEA in Barcelona, Spain

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Find out how it works

This year, we’re looking for customer presenters to speak in Workday-led sessions.

If you have a success story, creative strategy, implementation tips, actionable steps or hacks for driving value and efficiency with Workday, we want to hear from you.

Just let us know what you’d like to share when completing the submission form and if you’re a successful applicant we’ll match you with an internally curated session either as a speaker or panellist.

Submission categories

Take a look at the different categories below and see where your story fits best. For a compelling pitch, talk about why your perspective would be interesting, or pain points you can help other customers overcome. You can also let us know if you have any previous speaking experience to help us evaluate your suitability.

Global workplace transformation

For customers who leverage Workday to transform processes, empower productivity and drive workforce agility globally.

Powering Innovation

For customers who drive groundbreaking innovation to build and shape new business capabilities.

Finance for the future

For customers who stay one step ahead by automating financial and spend processes and delivering deeper insights to drive business growth.

Rapid time-to-value

For customers who have quickly realised tangible business results using rapid deployment approaches.

Forward thinkers

For customers who are shaping the future with the help of Workday products.

Industries in attendance

Workday Rising EMEA brings people from across EMEA and a variety of industries, together. We find that sessions on specific business challenges and opportunities within the following industries are popular:

  • Financial Services

  • Manufacturing

  • Professional & Business Services

  • Retail & Hospitality

  • Technology & Media

Partners: You’re a key part of our success story

Our partner ecosystem is vital to the success of Workday. The CFP is open to Workday customers as we want to compile the best customer stories for our event.

If your company is a current Workday customer and also a Workday Partner, we welcome your submissions, providing they discuss the use of our products in running your company’s operations and are delivered by a speaker who is directly involved in the day-to-day use of our products.

Submissions from Workday Partners submitting on behalf of a joint customer implementation are welcome however, these will be limited to 10 total submissions per partner company. Please make sure you prioritise your most inspiring stories and gain permission from the proposed customer speaker to submit their information on their behalf.

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SPEAKER BENEFITS

Free event pass for speakers

If selected, you’ll enjoy a Full Conference Pass, on us. Ready to shape the future of business, together?

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