Jannie Malan

Position: Principal Solution Consultant
Organization: Workday SA
Jannie Malan is an experienced Workday solution consultant and design thinker, that has spent the last 20 years assisting local and global organisations in adopting innovative, cloud-based enterprise technology. Jannie is passionate about helping HCM and L&D practitioners becoming strategic partners to their businesses and to the responsibly usage of AI for a sustainable ROI. Outside of work he feeds his continuous curiosity through travel, writing and hiking… and is an avid board gamer.

Session Overview

Taming the Trickster: Three key imperatives for AI adoption in HCM and L&D
The promise of Artificial Intelligence and Agentic AI in Human Capital Management and corporate learning is undeniable. From automating menial HR tasks and streamlining applicant engagement and screening, to crafting on-demand, hyper-personalised learning experiences, autonomous AI is revolutionising how we support our workforce.
However, there is a fundamental friction in this transformation: AI models are inherently probabilistic, yet HR processes demand deterministic accuracy and compliance. How do we trust a brilliant but unpredictable “trickster” technology with our most critical people operations?
In this 30-minute session, we will explore how to bridge the gap between AI’s vast potential and the rigid reliability required by enterprise systems. To secure successful AI ROI and actively de-risk adoption, organisations must implement three foundational imperatives:
Consolidated Quality Data: Fueling AI with a single, unified, and clean source of truth.
Agentic AI Guardrails: Establishing a definitive agent system of record to govern, audit, and safely constrain autonomous actions.
Human-in-the-Loop Principles: Embedding expert oversight directly into AI-augmented workflows to ensure accountability.
Join us to discover how to harness the immense power of Agentic AI while maintaining the rigorous, deterministic governance your organisation demands.
Three Tangible Learnings
Learning 1: The promise of Generative AI and Agentic AI for the People Business.
Learning 2: Current examples of AI application in HCM and Corporate Learning.
Learning 3: Three key imperatives for responsible (& successful) AI application and risk-negation.

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Jannie Malan is an experienced Workday solution consultant and design thinker, that has spent the last 20 years assisting local and global organisations in adopting innovative, cloud-based enterprise technology. Jannie is passionate about helping HCM and L&D practitioners becoming strategic partners to their businesses and to the responsibly usage of AI for a sustainable ROI. Outside of work he feeds his continuous curiosity through travel, writing and hiking… and is an avid board gamer.