Sept. 28 | Dublin
#SASForumIE

Agenda

Event presentations will be available post event. 

Thursday 28th September 
08:30 - 09:20 amRegistration opens
Plenary Sessions
Ballroom
9:20 - 9:30Welcome
John Lyons, Director, SAS Ireland
9:30 - 9:55The future of SAS user engagement
Chris Hemedinger, Senior Manager for SAS Online Communities, SAS
9:55 - 10:20Intelligent Connections: What's ahead for SAS and for you
Fritz Lehman, EVP and Chief Customer Officer, SAS
10:20 - 11:00Connected Life: A vision for today, tomorrow and beyond
Andrew Caleya Chetty, Head of Market Intelligence & Business Development, Thingful
Mike Turner, Principal Business Adviser, SAS
11:00 - 11:30Break
11:30 - 12:00Success is about making better decisions: Driving the business case for analytics in the new digital reality
Tony Mooney, Managing Director, Woodstock Moon (Formerly Managing Director at Sky and Experian)
12:00 - 12:30Building an analytics community in Ireland
Lorcan Malone, Chief Executive, The Analytics Institute
12:30 - 12:35Morning Close
John Lyons, Director, SAS Ireland
12:35 - 2:00Lunch and Networking
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
 Customer Stories
Ballroom #2
Tech Tips
Ballroom #3 - Sylvan Room
Super Demos
Ballroom #1
GDPR
Cedar Suite
2:00 - 2:45IFRS9 at Permanent TSB with SAS
Jan De Chaumont, Chief Data Officer, Permanent TSB
Machine Learning: All models are wrong, but some are useful
Aoife D'Arcy, Founder, The Analytics Store
The journey to general AI – a view on where SAS analytical products are heading
John Spooner, Head of Advanced Analytics, SAS
GDPR: How to comply and stay competitive with SAS
Mike Wake, Head of GDPR Solutions, SAS
David Smith, Principal Technology Specialist, SAS
2:45 - 3:00Break
3:00 - 3:45Digital transformation through analytics
Nick Carrel, Head of Risk Decision Analytics, Shop Direct
Driving innovation in finance functions through data & analytics
Alex Manek, Director Data Analytics, EY
The new visual pipeline within SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning
John Spooner, Head of Advanced Analytics, SAS
GDPR: How to comply and stay competitive with SAS
Mike Wake, Head of GDPR Solutions, SAS
David Smith, Principal Technology Specialist, SAS
3:45 - 4:00Break
4:00- 4:45Sport Performance Analysis: The evolution to analytics
Alan Swanton, Lead Performance Analyst, Sport Ireland
Quick! Someone find me a data scientist
Myles Hannon, Director of Education, SAS
SAS Viya for SAS 9 Programmers
Steve Ludlow, Technology Advisor, SAS
GDPR: Meet our experts: Open discussion and Q&A
4:45 - 6:00Drinks Reception