From Copilots to Colleagues: Engineering Governance Into AI-Native Enterprise Platforms

As enterprises rush to add AI to legacy workflows, Workday takes a different view: intelligence must be engineered into the architecture itself, not layered on top. In this conversation, Indira Vidyaprakash, Vice President of Software Development Engineering at Workday, explains what “AI-native” means at a platform level, from redesigning product teams around agents, skills, and tools to embedding governance and auditability as core design disciplines rather than afterthoughts.