SAS® FORUM
UK & Ireland 2020
SESSIONS
ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS
11:45 - 12:15 | Accelerate Business Outcomes With Analytically Driven Decisions (Powered By SAS® Intelligent Decisioning) Daniel Hatton, Director of Alliances EMEA - Core Compete |
12:30 - 13:00 | Demand Planning as a key lever in revenue growth in the CPG industry. Andrew Jennings, Executive Consultant and former MD Mondelez UK |
14:00 - 14:30 | Purpose Led, Digital First, Virtual Now: Re-Imagining Customer Experiences in a Global Pandemic Peter Neufeld, EY EMEIA Financial Services Digital Customer Experience Leader |
14:45 - 15:15 | Driving the best from your partnership with SAS Arti Patel, Customer Success, Andrew Gadsby, Customer Success and David Smith, Customer Advisory |
15:30 - 16:00 | Sport Ireland Institute: Evolution from Analysis to Analytics Alan Swanton, Sports Performance Analyst, Sport Ireland Institute |
16:15 - 16:45 | How to leverage analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Financial Crime Controls. Patrick Craig, Ernst & Young UK LLP |
APPLYING AI & DATA SCIENCE IN THE REAL WORLD
11:45 - 12:15 | Changing Advanced Industry with Machine Vision and AI Solutions Kieran Edge, Technical Lead for Machine Vision, AMRC Melissa Torgbi, Data Scientist at SAS UKI |
12:30 - 13:00 | How Covea is transforming their claims processing through the use of Machine Learning Tom Clay & Ashley Piper, Data Scientist at Covea Insurance |
14:00 - 14:30 | Deploying Computer Vision by Combining Deep Learning Action Sets with Open-Source Technology Haidar Altaie, Duncan Bain, Jonathan Mcelhinney SAS & Scottish Power |
14:45 - 15:15 | Operationalising Analytics and Decisions, how SAS Intelligent Decisioning completes the last mile Janice Newell, Principal Technology Specialist, SAS |
15:30 - 16:00 | Customer Loyalty in the Digital Age Maria Luisa Paradinas Lopez , Innova |
16:15 - 16:45 | Telecom Data Analytics: Understanding Customer behaviour and driving targeted marketing campaigns using SAS Analytics. Dwiti Pandya & Jonita Fernandes, Students at UCD |
THE HUMAN SIDE OF AI
11:45 - 12:15 | Machine Learning Interpretability for a Stress Scenario Generation in Credit Scoring Raffaella Calabrese, Associate Professor John Roberts, Senior Decision Modelling Manager, Nationwide |
12:30 - 13:00 | Data Science: change is inevitable, growth is optional Iain Brown, Head of Data Science at SAS UK & Ireland |
14:00 - 14:30 | AI in the fight against COVID-19 Paulina B. Szklanna, PhD - Manager of AI Healthcare Hub at University College Dublin |
14:45 - 15:15 | Ethical AI – a practical approach Alexander Denev, Head of AI – Financial Services, Risk Advisory - Deloitte |
15:30 - 16:00 | Women in Analytics, Join the Movement Michelle Proctor Chief of Staff, Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions Chair of the Women’s Initiative Network |
16:15 - 16:45 | IoT and AI helps a smart city predict and manage flood events Brad Klenz, IoT Analytics Architect at SAS |
EVOLVING YOUR SAS PLATFORM
11:45 - 12:15 | Why Viya 2020 – Shaping SAS for the future Paul Jones, Head of Technology UK&I, SAS |
12:30 - 13:00 | All or Nothing: Journey to the Cloud Andrew Williams, SAS Administrator - Vanquis Bank Rajan Mistry, SAS Administrator - Vanquis Bank |
14:00 - 14:30 | Why SAS and Microsoft Azure - Bringing SAS offering to the Microsoft Azure Cloud Nick Welch, Senior Azure Specialist - Microsoft (UK) Limited |
14:45 - 15:15 | Running in Reverse: Economic Recovery, COVID-19 and the Story of How HMRC Reversed the Tax System to Support British Citizens in Need Tim East, CIO, Customer Compliance Group, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs |
15:30 - 16:00 | How to take SAS to the Cloud Doug Liming - Managing Director- Global Sales and Business Development, Stratacent Manish Jain - Managing Director- Global Head of Technology Services, Stratacent |
16:15 - 16:45 | Future of EG/ Studio and Data Management Robin Thomson, Principle Customer Advise, SAS |
THE FUTURE OF DATA SCIENCE
11:45 - 12:15 | Open source integration in SAS Viya with D3.js Niall Larkin, Data scientist | Associate System Engineer at SAS |
12:30 - 13:00 | ModelOps: The Way Forward for Operationalising Analytics Muneeb Mohammad, Lead Data Scientist, SAS Kyriakos Fistos, Data Scientist, SAS |
14:00 - 14:30 | Achieving World Class Forecasting in 2020 Spiros Potamitis, Data Scientist. SAS |
14:45 - 15:15 | Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Predictive models to impact Business outcomes Matthew Stainer, Data Scientist, SAS Melissa Torgbi, Data Scientist, SAS |
15:30 - 16:00 | Computer Vision with SAS Haidar Altaie, Data Scientist, SAS Niall Larkin, Data Scientist, SAS |
16:15 - 16:45 | Developing Credit Scorecards using SAS Viya Kyriakos Fistos, Data Scientist, SAS |
EDUCATION
11:45 - 12:15 | Power to Know your SAS Users Chris Dillon, Senior Principal Education Consultant, SAS Simon Arnold, Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS Nigel Armstead, Customer Education Manager. SAS |
12:30 - 13:00 | The SAS VLE- the place to be Emma Hopkins, Sr Associate Technical Training Consultant, SAS Gemma Robson, Sr Technical Training Consultant, SAS |
14:00 - 14:30 | Hindsight 2020 Chris Dillon, Senior Principal Education Consultant, SAS Simon Arnold, Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS |
14:45 - 15:15 | Data grids in SAS Intelligent Decisioning Megan Burns, Senior Associate Technical Training Consultant, SAS |
15:30 - 16:00 | LC2020 Preview Simon Arnold - Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS |
16:15 - 16:45 | Introduction to the Jisc SAS Viya Service for Universities Neil Griffin, Principal Systems Engineer, SAS |