Dave Sohigian
Dave Sohigian is global chief technology officer (CTO) at Workday. He oversees the global CTO office, where he seeks to understand the needs of customers and prospects, advises them on how, or if, Workday can help, and injects the insights he gains from outside technology and business leaders into the Workday technology strategy.
Dave joined Workday in 2010 and most recently served as CTO for EMEA. Before joining Workday, Dave held a number of development and technical consulting roles at several organizations, including Guidewire Software, PeopleSoft, and Microsoft. Before entering the technology industry, Dave worked as a winemaker and brewer for over a decade.
Dave holds a bachelor's degree in fermentation science from the University of California, Davis.
As organizations and the world at large start to recover from the pandemic’s impact, IT has the opportunity to reevaluate practices established out of necessity and keep the most valuable ones.
Many legacy enterprise application vendors are now asking their customers when they want to schedule their updates—as if this is a good thing. At Workday, we ask, “Why do updates have to cause disruption at all?” Hint: They don’t have to.