SAS® FORUM
NORDICS 2020
AGENDA
Free, virtual, flexible - Join the sessions you like, whenever you like!
Tuesday 17th November
| Time | Agenda |
| 09:00 - 09:05 CET | Welcome by Keld Zornig and Jens Feilberg: The Nordic Perspective. |
| 09:05 - 09:10 CET | Dr. Jim Goodnight: Welcome and perspectives |
| 09:15 - 09:20 CET | Executive note by Oliver Schabenberger: Overall vision and future direction of SAS |
| 09:20 - 15:00 CET | Industry & User sessions & Discovery Hub - Join the sessions you like, whenever you like and build your own agenda |
| 09:20 - 15:00 CET | Voice of the Customer: How to listen to your customers digital conversations and respond in real-time, Ina Conrado |
| 13:00 - 15:00 CET | What new possibilities will 5G & IoT create for business in the years to come? (Discussion Hub) - read more. |
| 13:00 - 15:00 CET | Responsible AI (Discussion Hub) - read more. |
Industry sessions
Be sure to visit our Industry Connection Auditorium. Here, you’ll find sessions specific to these six industries.
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Healthcare
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| Introduction | Ulf Hertin, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS Sweden |
| Track 1 | Healthcare after corona. What do we need? Catharina Barkman, Project Director at Forum for Health Policy and Peter Graf, CEO at Tiohundra AB |
| Track 2 | Use of artificial intelligence to identify patient harms in patient records Kjersti Mevik, M.D, PhD, Consultant Breast and endocrine surgery Nordland Hospital |
| Track 3 | Artificial Intelligence for faster and better diagnosis of the acute patient Ivan Brandslund, MD DMSc, Professor, University of Southern Denmark and Lillebælt Hospital |
| Track 4 | Early detection of cancer with AI Ivan Brandslund, MD DMSc, Professor, University of Southern Denmark and Lillebælt Hospital |
Government
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| Introduction | Henrik Ernlund Pedersen, Director Sales Public Sector and Country Manager, SAS Denmark |
| Track 1 | The use and impact of AI in public services in the EU Gianluca Misuraca, Research Fellow at the Department of eGovernance and Public Administration, Research on AI Colin van Noordt, PhD Researcher on Artificial Intelligence in Government, Research on AI |
| Track 2 | The power in validated public data & insights Kristian Lønø, Senior advisor, Statistics Norway & Jussi Ritola, Group manager - Digitalisation Services, Statistics Finland |
| Track 3 | Analytics Platform City Burak Kircali, Principal Business Solutions Manager, Business Value, SAS |
| Track 4 | PROCUREMENT FRAUD: A perspective on the challenges in combating fraud Kenneth Ipsen, Head of Forensic Competence Groups, KPMG P/S |
Banking
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| Introduction | Kimmo Havu, Country Manager, SAS Finland |
| Track 1 | Nordic banking in the 2020´s Alex Kwiatkowski, Industry Principal, SAS Followed by Sameli Mäenpää, Chief Data Officer, OP Financial Group and Alex Kwiatkowski in conversation about Data-driven decisioning and OP's digital transformation journey. |
| Track 2 | Why can’t the digital customer communication from Danske Bank be relevant, when they have all the data about me? Martin Wammen, eCapacity & Stefan Rikard Brieghel, Danske Bank |
| Track 3 | Organizing for AI Adoption, Delivering for Agility Nima Ghorbani, Head of Analytics & AI at Swedbank Group |
| Track 4 | How to create a sustainable model for AML/CTF Customer risk profiling Marie Lundberg, CEO, Acronym Consulting AB |
Insurance
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| Introduction | Jørn Seglem, Country Manager, SAS Norway |
| Track 1 | AI in Insurance – Hot? Or just Hype? Norman Black, EMEA Insurance Industry Principal, SAS |
| Track 2 | Supporting automated claim and billing processes with Fraud Management solution Ossi Huovila, Program Director, Data Strategy, LähiTapiola |
| Track 3 | Innovative insurance solutions based on advanced analytics and machine learning. When you want, as you want Gianluca de Cobelli, Co-founder and CEO, Yolo Group |
| Track 4 | Orchestrate and Reimagine the Future of the Financial Industry With a Customer-Oriented Strategy Anja Stolz, CMO and Head of Marketing, R+V Insurance Wilson Raj, Global Head of CI Product Marketing, SAS |
Manufacturing
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| Introduction | Christer Bodell, IT Advisory Manager, SAS Sweden |
| Track 1 | AI Based Wind Turbine Blade Management Mats Frisk, Head of Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, KPMG & Mattias Karlsson Head of Business Development, Proteqnic & Sudharshan Ravi, Head of Analytics & AI, KPMG |
| Track 2 | Digital Transformation of the Steel Industry Carl Orrling , Vice President Technical Development, SSAB |
| Track 3 | Capturing full benefits from advanced analytics requires changes in operating practices Kai Vikman, AFRY |
| Track 4 | From PoC to Cash Erik Josefsson, Head of Advanced Industries, Ericsson & Eva Fyrberg, Head of Connected Enterprise / Director, KPMG Sweden AB |
Retail
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| Introduction | Ola Ringström, Country Manager Sweden & Head of Sales Commercial, Nordic Region, SAS |
| Track 1 | Orchestrating Analytics to create Value Patrick Dittli, Director Business Development & Partner Enablement, SAS |
| Track 2 | Marketing Automation Excellence - Experience selecting and implementing a Marketing Automation tool Mabel Moya, Deputy Chief Commercial Officer, Altibox |
| Track 3 | Demand Planning as a key lever in revenue growth in the CPG industry Andrew Jennings, Associate Consultant at Total Negotiation Group |
| Track 4 | Digital Transformation, Covid-19 and the “New Normal” Raffael Reinhold, CEO, Office Depot Europe |
What´s new
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| Track 1 | What’s New in SAS® Data Management on SAS® Viya® 4 Patric Hamilton, Sr Business Solutions Manager and Cecily Hoffritz, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS |
| Track 2 | Supervision and Control/Inspections, Demo Christopher Broxe, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS |
| Track 3 | What is ModelOps and how can it help and support you with your analytics work? Casper Pedersen, Sr Manager, Pre-Sales Support, SAS |
| Track 4 | Make better decisions across touchpoints with analytically driven marketing, Demo Thomas Thorning, Advisor, Nordic CI Practice, SAS |
| Track 5 | Expand your analytics with SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, demo Philip Sierpinski, Associate Customer Advisor, SAS |
| Track 6 | Analytics Value Training – A Learning Framework for Applied Analytics /AI Patric Hellgren, Customer Training Advisor, SAS |
| Track 7 | The magic of SAS® Learning Portals Jesper Weber Dohn, Customer Training Advisor & Marie Lienzén, Sr Customer Training Advisor, SAS |
AI, Cloud and new Tech
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| Track 1 | Learning by Beeing Silje Nord, Data Scientist and Kjetil Kalager Vice President for AI Lab, Amesto NextBridge |
| Track 2 | Are you ready for true cloud native computing? Meet the next generation of SAS® Viya® Kristoffer Nilsson, Sr Systems Engineer, SAS |
| Track 3 | AI POC concept Pasi Rautio, Project Manager & Liisa Takkunen, Planning Officer & Ville Meloni, Program Manager & Satu Halttunen, Senior Planning Officer at City of Helsinki |
| Track 4 | Improving Mean Time to Resolution and Root Cause Analysis using Boemska ESM, Demo Christopher Blake, Director of Product Strategy, Boemska |
| Track 5 | SAS® Viya® and Microsoft Roadmap Ole-Martin Hafslund, Senior Technical Architect, SAS |
Programming
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| Track 1 | Survival tips for programmers in SAS® Viya® Pia Rønnevik, Sr Customer Success Manager, SAS |
| Track 2 | Identification of blood sample mix-ups using SAS® Viya® machine learning Peter Steffensen, Principal Analytical Consultant, SAS |
| Track 3 | Could raising taxes on cigarettes reduce smoking in Denmark? Anders Milhøj, Statistician, Copenhagen University |
| Track 4 | SAS® Enterprise Guide®, code extraction and automation Joonas Maunu, Data analyst, Ilmarinen |
| Track 5 | PoC – Reducing patient callbacks using AI on the medical helpline 1813 Martin Vang Haugaard, Data Analyst, 1813 |
| Track 6 | Industry 4.0 – Where AI meets 5G Fredrik Pettersson, Ecosystem Manager, Ericsson and Kevin Kalish Industry Consultant Global IoT Division, SAS |
| Track 7 | The Pizza Margherita Index Sara Armandi, Data Scientist, SAS |
| Track 8 | Structuring and Scripting SAS® Code with Proc Lua instead of SAS® Macro Martin Sjöberg, Quantitative Analyst - Financial Crime Prevention, Svenska Handelsbanken |
Visuals
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| Track 1 | SAS® Visual Analytics – at the core of understanding our business Nikolai Perminow, Analytical and creative leader, Telenor Mobile |
| Track 2 | Lönelänken 3.0 – Salary Analytics for the Public Sector in Sweden Carl-Olow Magnusson, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS |
| Track 3 | Visual Text Analytics: How do I make sense of my unstructured data? Ina Conrado, Associate Systems Engineer, SAS |
| Track 4 | Data loading in SAS® Viya® 3.5 Rahul Bhattacharjee, Data Manager, Telenor |
| Track 5 | Location Network Analytics – How to Predict new Outbreaks of COVID-19? Carlos Pinheiro, Principal Data Scientist & Natalia Summerville, Sr Manager, Advanced Analytics R&D, SAS |
Discussion Hubs
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| 5G | Panel discussion: What new possibilities will 5G & IoT create for business in the years to come?
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| AI | We need to make sure that we deploy Responsible AI and avoid unwanted effects such as prejudiced or discriminatory AI. How do we do that, what do we need to think of and what do we need to have in place?
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