Techtember and Techtober are on us

After hopefully a relaxing and recharging summer break, an exciting time is starting. With last week, we are in Techtember and Techtober which will officially take off soon! No, I am not talking about Apple (Sep 12),  Microsoft (Sep 21) or Google (Oct 4th) which are this year probably more of a routine and less of a surprise. I am talking about our HR Tech events! This autumn is the first one since the Gen AI hype started with Chat GPT and since then invaded the HR Enterprise market. The events to come will be very exciting! And I cannot wait for them to happen and share my views and insights with you.

It all kicks off with Oracle Cloud World (Sep 18-21) where Oracle will bring its latest and greatest to the table. Admittedly, Oracle has not been the biggest name in HR Tech for some time, but continues to be an important player and I am keen to understand which direction they will take in HR and with AI.

The next event in line will be Workday Rising US (Sep 26-29 – and later Workday Rising EMEA in November). I am really looking forward to this one. Workday is still the leader in the HCM market and has a lot to loose if they don’t reignite their mojo and show interesting developments as well as an exciting AI roadmap. But after having the chance to deep dive with them last week in their Pleasanton HQ, including a session with Dave Sohigian, I am confident and excited about what to come. Watch closely for announcments.

Last in the line of the big established vendors is SAP with their SAP SuccessConnect (Oct. 2-4). SuccessFactors has been very busy in the recent weeks and has announced e.g. a new head of AI, a collaboration with Microsoft on Joint AI and more. So I am very curious to see what they will bring to SuccessConnect.

And on top of these main player conferences, we also have the HR Tech conference in Las Vegas (Oct 10-13) with great sponsors and potentially interesting reveals from Josh Bersin and others. And of course the UNLEASH World conference in Paris just a week later (Oct 17-18) and let’s close it with Gartner’s ReimagineHR in Orlando (Oct. 23-25).

You see: Techtember and Techtober are fully packed and I am excited this year more than ever to see what everyone brings to the table as we are at the beginning of a big HR Tech revolution. Hope you are as excited as I am and stay tuned for updates from each of those from me in the coming weeks!