Workday co-founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri has been a success. He started the human resources technology company in 2005 and has grown it to a stock market valuation over $40 billion. His own net worth is valued by Forbes in the billions. He sees technology playing a big role in the success of all workers in the future. "Blockchain is a technology looking for a problem to solve. We found one to solve, which is credentials," Bhusri told the anchors of CNBC's "Squawk Box" from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

Warning that businesses that ignore machine learning will "be left in the dust," Workday CEO and longtime cloud evangelist Aneel Bhusri said yesterday that machine learning will become even more disruptive than the cloud computing he's helped turn into a global phenomenon. Those would be strong words from any executive. But when they come from Bhusri--one of the leading advocates of and evangelists for cloud computing over the past 14 years--they dramatically underscore the scale and scope of ML's impact on the business world. In his keynote address opening his company's annual Workday Rising customer conference, Bhusri pegged ML as one of the three top-priority areas at fast-growing Workday as it gets closer to topping $1 billion in quarterly revenue. Bhusri's pointed and powerful focus on the ubiquitous role machine learning is playing at Workday comes at a critical time for the rapidly growing high-flier, which is #8 on my Cloud Wars Top 10 ranking.

If you think technology has rapidly changed the workplace you haven't seen anything yet, according to data analytics expert Aneel Bhusri, Workday co-founder and CEO. The advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning is creating a paradigm shift that will affect workers in every sector. Speaking with CNBC's Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Bhusri had a powerful message for employers everywhere: "The genie is out of the bottle. AI technology is in play and companies are going to use it, or else they won't remain competitive. But it's going to create a skills gap. Companies need to be prepared for the massive retraining that lies ahead."

If you think technology has rapidly changed the workplace, you haven't seen anything yet, according to data analytics expert Aneel Bhusri, Workday co-founder and CEO. The advent of artificial intelligence and machine learning is creating a paradigm shift that will affect workers in every sector. Speaking with CNBC's Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday, Bhusri had a powerful message for employers everywhere: "The genie is out of the bottle. AI technology is in play and companies are going to use it, or else they won't remain competitive. But it's going to create a skills gap. Companies need to be prepared for the massive retraining that lies ahead."