Registration & Welcome Refreshments

Welcome
We'll kick off SAS Innovate on Tour with a welcome from our local host who will highlight the agenda and preview some of the day's key takeaways.

Amir Sohrabi, Regional Vice President and Head of Digital Transformation, Asia and Korea, SAS

Keynote Outpace Tomorrow
In this keynote, we'll address the pain points of data overload and complexity and how SAS Viya is the answer to scaling accurate decision making across the enterprise. Discover how SAS helps organizations innovate faster, elevate everyone, deliver results you can trust, and provide analytics on your terms through the foundational pillars of productivity, performance, and trust.

Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

Driving Better Outcomes With Increased Productivity
Join our session to learn how SAS Viya is the most productive analytics platform in the market. Discover how we're investing to simplify integrations, improve our cloud capabilities, and streamline the product experience to deliver outcomes like better health, lower risk, more profit, and smarter supply chains. We will also showcase a customer example to demonstrate the tangible business value of productivity.

Shadi Shahin, VP of Product Strategy, SAS

Accelerating Time to Value With Speed & Performance
In this session, we will explore how SAS Viya is the fastest analytics platform in the market, optimizing cost for performance to deliver maximum customer value and business results. We'll showcase a customer example to demonstrate the impact of SAS Viya on performance and highlight the benefits of leveraging a high-speed analytics platform for your organization.

Udo Sglavo, Vice President of Advanced Analytics, SAS

Unleashing the Power of Trustworthy AI
In this session, we'll discuss how SAS is innovating responsibly by integrating bias detection and explainability into SAS Viya, ensuring that your decisions are trusted and unbiased. We'll showcase the business value of trusted decisions and share a customer example to illustrate the impact of responsible innovation.

Eric Yu, Principal Solutions Architect, SAS

Empowering Decisions with Industry Specific Solutions
In this session, we'll discuss how SAS Viya is delivering value faster by integrating industry-specific solutions like Fraud, Risk, and Customer Intelligence into the platform. We'll showcase how these solutions are helping organizations across different industries make better decisions and improve business outcomes with a customer example that demonstrates tangible results.

Jennifer Chase, Executive Vice President and CMO, SAS

Adisorn (Add) Hatairatana, Senior Vice President, Model Risk, Bank of Ayudhya

Networking break

SAS Direction
This session features a fireside chat Q&A with SAS executives, covering a range of topics such as the company's roadmap, key announcements, partnerships, and IPO story. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear directly from SAS leadership and gain insights into the company's strategy and future plans.

Amir Sohrabi, Regional Vice President and Head of Digital Transformation, Asia and Korea, SAS

Bryan Harris, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

Shadi Shahin, VP of Product Strategy, SAS

Udo Sglavo, Vice President of Advanced Analytics, SAS

Eric Yu, Principal Solutions Architect, SAS

Wrap-Up
Our local host will wrap up the corporate content and preview the rest of the day's agenda.

Amir Sohrabi, Regional Vice President and Head of Digital Transformation, Asia and Korea, SAS

Moving Analytics Workloads to the Cloud: Agility, Speed and Scale with Managed Costs
As organizations move their analytics workloads to the cloud, there is an undeniable benefit in scale, flexibility and in serving product and service-led innovation. However, alongside its benefits, concerns over cloud costs have garnered increasing attention. This session examines the key concerns surrounding cloud cost, managing analytical workloads on a cloud environment and providing insights around cloud cost optimization.

Deepak Ramanathan, Vice President, Global Technology Practice, SAS

Networking Lunch

Balance Sheet Management - The Return of Classical Risks
During this session, we will discuss the future of integrated balance sheet management and the ways in which technology and analytics can help strengthen your bank's position amid the current market volatility.

2023 started with the return of macroeconomic uncertainty, interest rate and inflation instability, and rising production costs. A few banks have already succumbed. The issues affecting banks are not new and one can say quite vanilla, but the speed that markets and customers have reacted is new. Customers no longer wait on a line to withdraw their deposits - they do so in a split of a second on a smartphone. Banks need to react fast, have the right tools to simulate and project business in real time for different scenarios, and evaluate alternative management actions. In this session, learn about the future of integrated balance sheet management, and how, by having the right solutions, banks can analyze market changes, understand impacts, and simulate approaches on how to react and anticipate the market and customer behavior.

Martim Rocha, Global Head of Risk Banking Solutions, SAS

Best Practices to Manage Volatile Interest Rate Risk and Liquidity Challenges on Balance Sheet
Recent global events have shaken the financial services industry, and the future ahead remains volatile. An uncertain environment coupled with the subsequent fallout of several organizations globally has shown that current models, strategies, and tools require revision.

In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges financial services face and how they manage global volatility effectively and evolve balance sheet management practices to stay ahead, including how financial Institutions have changed some of their tools and report practices to optimize financial performance and stay ahead of macroeconomic changes.

Martim Rocha, Global Head of Risk Banking Solutions, SAS

Heng Li Koon, Managing Director, Head of Group Balance Sheet Risk Management, UOB

The Fraud Arms Race: How Governments and Fraudsters are Battling for Advantage
For decades, ASEAN governments have battled fraudsters to protect government agencies, citizens, and businesses from scams and financial crimes. Every time a new defense is invented, fraudsters react by creating new methods to steal. Learn about the innovative countermeasures that governments around the world are enacting to stop scams and frauds – as well as the “innovations” that fraudsters are deploying in an attempt to stay ahead in an escalating arms race. Specific topics include real-time risk scoring, edge analytics, text analytics, and generative AI (think “ChatGPT”).

Shaun Barry, Global Director - Fraud & Security Intelligence Division, SAS

Networking Break

Analytics Solutions for Smart Cities and Communities
This is an interactive panel discussion between DKI Jakarta Government, Intel and SAS on how analytics is used in real-time situational awareness for alerting emergency services and improving citizen safety.

Moderator:
Queenie Wong, Director of Customer Advisory, ASEAN, SAS

Panelists:
Rahan Yama Gusta, Head of Product and Service Development, Jakarta Smart City, DKI Jakarta

Tuck F. Chaang, Business Development Manager, Cities & Critical Infrastructure Division, APJ & EMEA, Intel

DB Insurance: Improving Insurance Fraud Investigation through Analytics Innovation and Big Data Analysis
With the increasing sophistication of insurance fraud, it becomes critical for insurance companies to deploy advanced analytics to identify the likelihood for fraud through network analysis, and to prevent fraud losses before settlement.

DB Insurance will share how on their insurance fraud investigation and analysis system, and how they have deployed advanced analytics to detect and prevent insurance fraud. They will share their success in the investigation and detection of conspiracy fraud through network analysis that has helped improve their fraud detection efforts by close to 15% over the past 6 years.

Shin Bae-Shik, Division Director (Claim Service Planning), DB Insurance

Empowering Next Generation Analytics Governance
With technologies like AI catalyzing the global economy, the post-pandemic world has seen new business opportunities and a permanent shift in the nature of work. Organizations are keen to leverage these immense AI opportunities but also manage their potential impact on society and jobs. This panel will uncover strategies, tools, and approaches institutions can leverage to harness these opportunities while promoting responsible innovation and preparing for future disruption. The discussion will cover the following key areas:

• AI experts from around the world are tackling pertinent issues on AI governance and generative AI. AI governance approaches around the world and their relevance in light of generative AI.
• How AI will change the future of jobs and what professionals can do evolve skillsets and to leverage emerging trends and opportunities
• How can the collective power and contributions of the public and private sector be harnessed to develop AI testing tools for the responsible use of AI.
• How can we encourage Women in STEM and Women in Leadership to advance their careers and help shape the future of analytics industry.
• What banks, regulators and technology firms like SAS are doing to ensure firms use AI responsibly
  

Moderator:
Manisha Khanna, Head, AI & Analytics - Asia Pacific, Global Technology Practice & Chairperson, Women Initiatives Network – Asia Pacific, SAS

Panelist:
Dr Ong Chen Hui, Assistant Chief Executive, Business and Technology Group, Infocomm and Media Development Authority

Mohammed Rahim, Head of Data Management & Non-Financial Risks, Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (CCIB) & Europe / Americas, Standard Chartered Bank

Hemanshu Perekh, Executive Director - Financial Crimes Surveillance Operation, Thematics and BTL, Standard Chartered Bank

Lim Hsin Yin, Managing Director (Singapore), SAS

Unlocking Business Agility: Empowering Your Organization with Viya on OpenShift
SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift offers a powerful platform for AI applications, customer intelligence, fraud detection, and risk management - offering optimal response even as demands grow, and robustness, ensuring steady performance under varying conditions. SAS Viya on Openshift integrates advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence on secure and scalable cloud architecture to swiftly adapt to changing market conditions and evolving customer behaviour, maintaining a competitive edge in the fast-paced financial landscape.

Jason Loh, Head of Technology Futures, Global Technology Practice AP, SAS

Sivaram Shunmugam, Director, Technical Sales, Ecosystems, Red Hat Asia Pacific

Wrap-Up

Lim Hsin Yin, Managing Director (Singapore), SAS

Cocktail Reception

Grand Lucky Draw // End of Event