EVENT

Workday Rising EMEA

Workday Rising EMEA is Workday’s annual European customer conference. This year’s focus is on AI innovation and the digital transformation of HR, Finance, and IT. Discover how organisations are empowering people, driving growth and transforming with purpose.

This conference will contain:

Keynotes from Workday leaders and special guests that detail the company’s product strategy, vision, and how they are leading the AI revolution across critical functional areas.
A wide range of sessions, including product demos and deep dives into new features and leading practices within the Workday platform.

We’re excited to share that LACE Partners will be attending Workday Rising EMEA in Barcelona! Come say hi, you can register for the event here.

When is it?

Date: Tuesday 18th November 2025

Time: 12:00 am

Location: Fira Gran Via Nord, Barcelona

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Meet the speakers:

For this event the LACE team are not speaking, but we've listed our team who will be in attendance, if you would like to reach out and connect.

Kayley Gaylor, Director

Kayley joined LACE Partners in 2021 as a senior manager. Kayley’s background is 15 years’ experience in improving the HR function to provide a more value add service to the business, through cost reduction, increased efficiencies, service delivery models, data, technology and process standardisation. Recently Kayley has been focusing on leading HR Tech recovery programs especially after a challenging implementation, including: governance and change frameworks, HR & IT scope split, process design, data management, structure design, people and skills, HRIS support model, tenant management, relationships with the service providers, user adoption, Tech roadmap and the journey to self-sufficiency.

Sian Beacham, Head of Technology Consulting Services

Sian is an HR Transformation specialist and global programme director with over 25 years of experience. Before Sian joined LACE as an Executive Director in May 2022, she worked at Accenture and IBM and has held a number of senior client-side programme director roles at large global organisations. Sian has delivery execution experience across the full HR scope and lifecycle from strategy and design through to delivery, adoption and business case realisation. Sian’s passions are the upfront definition and structuring of the approach to transformation, including all the critical ‘readiness’ work to ensure a Tx journey is successful and how to build an engaged, collaborative and productive team.