Today’s guest is Graham Abell, VP, Software Engineering & Ireland Site Lead at Workday. As continues to transform the landscape of business operations in our rapidly evolving digital world, Graham joins today’s episode to share insights about Workday's AI initiatives, their contribution to the EU AI Act and the broader implications of AI for businesses.

Topics include:

0:00 His journey from test automation engineer to product and engineering leader

2:54 Seeing Workday Dublin grow into a major global R&D hub

5:11 How Workday is building trusted, human-guided AI automation at scale

8:20 How AI is creating smaller, more versatile teams focused on business impact

9:37 Why Responsible AI must be built in from the start, not added later

11:19 Why leadership requires empathy, measurable outcomes and investing in future talent

13:00 His belief that AI should augment jobs, freeing people for higher-value work

15:16 Using AI as a personalised assistant for learning, productivity and decision support