Graham Abell

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AI Ireland with Mark Kelly · E238 Building Trusted AI at Enterprise Scale with Workday's Graham Abell · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

So we've got about 1,800 kind of development products, UX, et cetera, building core parts for products, leading core parts for product out of Dublin, which is, it's incredible.

It's a

Yeah, well, I guess it started with the acquisition of an Irish scale-up called Cape Clear, about 18, 20 people at the time.

So, you know, two orders of magnitude growth in 15, 16 years.

And I'm sure you've, I think you've talked to some of the kind of regenerators of that, I'm sure.

So it started off as a tech acquisition, essentially, right?

So that's sort of set the seeds of what ultimately became this large oak tree that we have now in Smithfield and moving to College Green.

So we were always really focused on the technology side and workability.

And had like senior folks who became very senior leaders within Workday building that out.

So I think, yeah, we had the technical capability.

We had access to a great talent pool, both locally and through the universities that we have kind of longstanding partnerships with.

Early talent's been massively important to us.

And then obviously access to all our European folks as well.

So we've got over 70 nationalities working in Dublin.

And so, you know, I think that's been massively important to us as we are a global business, understanding global context, being able to build with kind of empathy for global constraints and kind of legislation and, you know, cultural reference and all the rest of it.

And particularly, I think, as we're moving into this AI era, you know, being able to

really understand what the requirements, particularly in EMEA, are as the AI act is coming in.

Kind of have lived experience of all of that and building the product to kind of meet that has been kind of key to our differentiation.

Yeah, so I think like

as we were kind of chatting earlier, like, we run really important parts of very large businesses and, you know, medium-sized businesses as well.

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