Workday DevTalk

As "vibe coding" dominates developer timelines, the engineering landscape is facing a massive paradigm shift.
In this special episode of Workday DevTalk live at DevCon 2026, Obinna Ekwuno sits down with Joe Lee to explore the day-to-day realities, risks, and massive potential of agentic engineering. They will dive into the core challenges of managing and debugging non-deterministic, AI-generated code in production environments, and how Workday's new Developer Agent allows builders to bypass mundane architectural plumbing and focus on hard system logic safely.

On this special episode of Workday DevTalk filmed live at DevCon 2026, host Mark Woollen (GVP, Partner Innovation, Workday) and guest Christopher Cameron (Managing Director, PwC) deliver an operational blueprint for engineering leaders navigating the shift to an agentic AI model.
As enterprise platforms transition to autonomous agents, the playbook for technical leadership is changing. Discover how to successfully restructure development teams, shift engineering KPIs, protect developer retention, and build a resilient technical organization capable of thriving in the agentic era.

On this special episode of Workday DevTalk filmed live at DevCon 2026, host Sameer Kachare (Workday) and guest Andy Palmer (Director of Technology, AWS) dive into how the Workday and AWS partnership removes data pipeline friction.
Discover how Workday Data Cloud turns Workday into a first-class data source you can query in place and plug directly into your AWS stack. Learn how to leverage clean, real-time enterprise data to safely build smarter AI agents and models from day one—without the messy ETL jobs.

Dean Arnold, Vice President of AI Platform at Workday, and Jay Wieczorkowski, GM of Developer Platform at Workday, give a deep dive into how the new Workday Developer Agent eliminates the historic compromise between speed and security, allowing engineers to build and deploy enterprise apps in minutes using natural language right inside Cursor, Cline, and more.

In this crossover episode, Nick Moores (DevTalk) and Mark Woollen (The Innovation Exchange) discuss the transition of Workday from a guarded enterprise tool to a flourishing, open developer platform.

Workday’s Joe Lee joins DevTalk to discuss why this year’s DevCon is a pivotal moment for developers as theoretical AI concepts turn into reality with the new agent platform. From deep dives into the "agentic harness" to the legendary hackathon, discover how Workday is blending deterministic systems with AI to help developers move faster than ever.

In this DevTalk episode, host Nick Moores and Kathy Pham, Harvard Fellow in Responsible AI, dive deep into the world of AI agents and the developer ecosystem. They discuss why the shift to AI agents necessitates a new system of record, why governance, trust, and auditability are the "whole game," and why open source is in its moment now.

In this episode of DevTalk, Workday CTO Gabe Monroy and Head of Developer Relations Nick Moores discuss the shift from "black box" enterprise software to an open, agentic AI ecosystem. They explore how developers can move beyond manual UI tasks to building mission-critical, programmatic solutions that leverage "agent-ready" APIs for people and money data.

Join Nick Moores and the DevRel team as they sit down with Chris Humphrey, a former Workday insider turned partner at The Groove. They dive into the "lore" of the Workday ecosystem, the creation of the Developers and Dragons community, and how to maintain a "newbie" mindset, even as an expert.

Stop waiting for the "perfect" update and start building your own competitive edge. In this episode of the Workday DevTalk series, Nick Moores sits down with Minos Ataliotis, CEO of CloudRock, to reveal why the most successful companies are ditching the "wait-and-see" approach for a build-first mindset. From reducing configuration debt to launching marketplace-ready apps that cut weeks of work down to six minutes, learn how to turn your "secret sauce" into a high-performance reality using Workday Build and Extend.