Workday DevCon 2026, Workday Developer Agent, Built on Workday Developer Days | DPUC June 2026

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DevCon 2026 is a wrap — and we're back with the full post-show breakdown. Nick Moores and the entire DevRel team recap what happened at the biggest DevCon ever: 1,200+ in-person, nearly 10,000 digital registrants, 360+ hackers, and enough agent-ready goodness to keep us busy for months. We cover the keynote highlights, the hackathon numbers (they're wild), the DevCon Development Kit, Built on Workday Developer Days in Bengaluru, and Tony's new favorite thing in Claude Code. #TonyTime 🎬 Watch the Opening Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/PfA-s08AOpk?si=QmSLFKP8dtz1TaIc 🤖 Developer Agent Deep Dive (with Nick + Joe Lee): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEk_dOGgskI&t=467s 🏆 Hackathon Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRO-XkxZ9do&list=PLH6Be9QWl1EzkL3NFBlXMPM7JUl2qYz_u 🔗 Read the press release: https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-06-02-Workday-Launches-New-Tools-for-Developers-to-Build,-Connect,-and-Verify-AI-Agents-For-HR,-Finance,-and-IT 🌐 Register for Built on Workday Developer Days — Bengaluru, July 8–9: https://luma.com/workdaydeveloperdays 📝 Submit a pitch for the Workday Developer Blog: https://forms.gle/RtfjUBB2df8eLAED8 📍 Find a developer meetup near you or sign up to host: https://luma.com/workdaydevelopermeetups 🛒 Get your Workday Developer swag: https://workdaystore.com/WD29/Workday-Developers In this episode: 🎉 DevCon by the numbers — 1,200+ in person, ~10K digital, 14 developer meetups, 100+ new Workday Pro certifications earned on site 🤖 Keynote recap — Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools (MCP), Agent Passport (with Cisco), A2UI, ATUI, and the open ecosystem moment everyone felt 🏆 Hackathon recap — 362 hackers, 52 competitive teams, 98 learner track participants, 211 apps built with Developer Agent, 28K+ MCP tool calls, 249 unique agents, and one team that used Pokémon cards as business cards to win the whole thing 🔧 DevCon Development Kit demo — Jhon & Geoff from the Data Cloud team show how they ran Live Data Query on the

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DevCon 2026 is a wrap — and we're back with the full post-show breakdown. Nick Moores and the entire DevRel team recap what happened at the biggest DevCon ever: 1,200+ in-person, nearly 10,000 digital registrants, 360+ hackers, and enough agent-ready goodness to keep us busy for months. We cover the keynote highlights, the hackathon numbers (they're wild), the DevCon Development Kit, Built on Workday Developer Days in Bengaluru, and Tony's new favorite thing in Claude Code. #TonyTime 🎬 Watch the Opening Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/PfA-s08AOpk?si=QmSLFKP8dtz1TaIc 🤖 Developer Agent Deep Dive (with Nick + Joe Lee): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEk_dOGgskI&t=467s 🏆 Hackathon Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRO-XkxZ9do&list=PLH6Be9QWl1EzkL3NFBlXMPM7JUl2qYz_u 🔗 Read the press release: https://newsroom.workday.com/2026-06-02-Workday-Launches-New-Tools-for-Developers-to-Build,-Connect,-and-Verify-AI-Agents-For-HR,-Finance,-and-IT 🌐 Register for Built on Workday Developer Days — Bengaluru, July 8–9: https://luma.com/workdaydeveloperdays 📝 Submit a pitch for the Workday Developer Blog: https://forms.gle/RtfjUBB2df8eLAED8 📍 Find a developer meetup near you or sign up to host: https://luma.com/workdaydevelopermeetups 🛒 Get your Workday Developer swag: https://workdaystore.com/WD29/Workday-Developers In this episode: 🎉 DevCon by the numbers — 1,200+ in person, ~10K digital, 14 developer meetups, 100+ new Workday Pro certifications earned on site 🤖 Keynote recap — Developer Agent, Agent-Ready Tools (MCP), Agent Passport (with Cisco), A2UI, ATUI, and the open ecosystem moment everyone felt 🏆 Hackathon recap — 362 hackers, 52 competitive teams, 98 learner track participants, 211 apps built with Developer Agent, 28K+ MCP tool calls, 249 unique agents, and one team that used Pokémon cards as business cards to win the whole thing 🔧 DevCon Development Kit demo — Jhon & Geoff from the Data Cloud team show how they ran Live Data Query on the
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