Graham Abell

But, like, it's their people, their finance, and their kind of business vision.

And so, you know, it can't be probabilistic.

It has to be correct.

You know, we can't run payroll in a way that's going to be 99% correct.

It has to be correct.

And so...

we are really building towards ai on rails essentially so having ai be able to kind of infer kind of make decisions but apply that in a deterministic way and so you know moving as much of the kind of toil away from from people you know working in the company taking action on their behalf but always having human loop kind of the key decisions being made by humans and making sure that anything that's kind of that needs to be deterministic is managing the back end

Yeah, like I think it's different in so many dimensions.

You know, we have...

So for me, depending on, I suppose, a leadership or the site leadership perspective of Workday, we've got these great partnerships with the universities.

So we've had a number of courses with TU Dublin and now Trinity Business School focused on some of the hard skills like ML, cybersecurity and stuff, which are really never been more important as we're moving into this era.

then with the business school working on kind of entrepreneurial leadership how do we drive innovation and then also kind of how do we use ai in in you know to just make the product kind of build products in a different way so i think we've got all of that kind of workforce development focus focus we've also just got the kind of research partnership with them so we've got the chair position so understanding this kind of intersection of technology and society and informing kind of public policy around that which we we think is key for this moment as well like we're

We were contributors to the EU AI.

We think it's a good thing.

We need legislation to make sure and regulation to make sure we do the right stuff.

And then internally, we're lucky, I suppose, in having customers and partnerships with all of the kind of hyperscalers, all of these companies.

And so we have access to all of the LLMs, the kind of tooling.

And so bringing that to bear internally, having our teams use all of these tools, I think probably more than any time that I've experienced in my career, this is as much about hands-on experience using the tools in the day-to-day

to really understand how you kind of have to approach things differently i think we're probably starting to see us orientation to kind of smaller teams with you know focus on specific small pieces yeah i think that dynamics is shifting you know away from kind of large like many scrum teams working on something to kind of smaller pockets of folks going after pieces kind of at a higher pace because it's kind of incredible what you can do now with the the size of the teams and the impact you can have and how people are wearing different types of roles where maybe

Yeah, you're right.