SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr Jim Goodnight
Chief Executive Officer, SAS

As the CEO of SAS, the world’s leading business analytics software vendor, Jim Goodnight has led the company since its inception in 1976, overseeing an unbroken chain of revenue growth and profitability that is unprecedented in the industry. He is recognized globally for being a trailblazer among companies that top great workplace rankings.

Oliver Schabenberger
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, SAS

As COO and CTO, Oliver Schabenberger sets the technology direction for SAS and executes the company’s strategic direction and business priorities. He oversees multiple divisions within SAS, including R&D, Sales, Marketing, Information Technology and Customer Support, as well as divisions focused on solutions for IoT, financial risk management and cloud.

Charles Senabulya
Vice President and Country Manager for SAS UKI.

In 2017 Charles became the Vice President and Country Manager for SAS UKI, where he is responsible for the region’s revenue delivery and operations. Charles’ focus is to continue to find new ways to engage and delight customers while growing SAS’ voice in, and share of, the UKI Analytics market.

Charles has been with SAS since 2010, joining as a Sales Manager for Banking and Insurance and was promoted to Sales Director, Financial Services in March 2012 and then to overall Sales Director for SAS UKI in 2016. Prior to SAS, Charles spent 10 years at IBM in various roles across Europe and Africa where his last role was as Director IBM Software Group, Sub-Saharan Africa, where he led the transformation of the business to become a growth market region.

Before joining IBM, Charles worked in various roles at Compuware and Parametric Technology. He has over 15 years of Executive Management within the Financial Services Industry, where he has worked with some of the leading Financial Institutes to deliver critical business transformation and innovation through technology.

Mark Smith
General Manager, Microsoft Solutions, Microsoft UK

Mark is a member of the Microsoft UK Leadership Team and runs Microsoft Solutions comprising of 325 diversely skilled people covering the three Microsoft Clouds. The teams comprise of Solution Specialist Sales and Technical Specialists in a shared service model serving over 800 business customers. (Global, Enterprise and Partner and Public Sector).

Mark has previously held a variety of leadership roles at Microsoft most recently running the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud Business including Azure and AI. Mark is also the executive sponsor for the Microsoft UK AI Country Plan. Other leadership roles include Western Europe Dynamics Partner Channel, Healthcare and Corporate Accounts.

Kate Russell
Technology and Digital TV Presenter

Kate Russell is a journalist and author who writes about technology and the Internet. Currently, Russell appears regularly on the BBC technology programme Click and writes a monthly column for National Geographic. Through her work, she aims to inspire the next generation of technologists.

Her website has won multiple awards for the best technology blog and she has been featured as one of the top 50 most influential women in UK IT by Computer Weekly for the past two years. Russell also writes about sci-fi and the internet. Her first book Working the Cloud delivered a collection of online tips, tricks and resources for small businesses, start-ups and entrepreneurs. Her second book, Elite: Mostly Harmless, is a crowd-funded science fiction novel based on a remake of the computer game that first inspired her love of technology.

CUSTOMER & PARTNER SPEAKERS

Peter Neufeld

Peter Neufeld
EY EMEIA Financial Services Digital Customer Experience Leader
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Craig-Patrick

Patrick Craig
Ernst & Young UK LLP
Session

Doug Liming

Doug Liming
Managing Director- Global Sales and Business Development
Stratacent
Session

Manish Jain of Stratacent

Manish Jain
Managing Director- Global Head of Technology Services,
Stratacent
Session

Andrew Jennings

Andrew Jennings
Executive Consultant- ( Former MD Mondelez UK)
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Alan Swanton

Alan Swanton
Sports Performance Analyst, 
Sport Ireland Institute 
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Andrew Williams
SAS Administrator, Vanquis Bank
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Rajan Mistry

Rajan Mistry
SAS Administrator, Vanquis Bank
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Raffaella Calabrese
Associate Professor
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María Luisa Paradinas

Maria Luisa Paradinas Lopez 
Innova
Session

Tim East

Tim East
CIO, Customer Compliance Group, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
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Alexander Denev

Alexander Denev
Head of AI – Financial Services, Risk Advisory - Deloitte
Session

Daniel Hatton

Daniel Hatton
Director of Alliances EMEA - Core Compete
Session

Kieran Edge

Kieran Edge
Technical Lead for Machine Vision, AMRC
Session

Paulina B. Szklanna, PhD

Paulina B. Szklanna, PhD
Manager of AI Healthcare Hub at University College Dublin.
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Tom Clay

Tom Clay
Data Scientist at Covéa Insurance
Session

Melissa Torgbi

Ashley Piper
Data Scientist at Covéa Insurance
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Nick Welch

Nick Welch
Senior Azure Specialist, Microsoft
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Dwiti Pandya
Student at UCD
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Jonita Fernandes
Student at UCD
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John Roberts

John Roberts
Senior Decision Modelling Manager, Nationwide
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SAS SPEAKERS

Chris Dillon

Chris Dillon
Senior Principal Education Consultant
Session 1 | Session 2

Megan Burns

Megan Burns
Senior Associate Technical Training Consultant
Session

Emma Hopkins

Emma Hopkins
Sr Associate Technical Training Consultant
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Michelle Proctor

Michelle Proctor
Chief of Staff, Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions
Chair of the Women’s Initiative Network
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Naill Larkin

Niall Larkin
Data Scientist at SAS
Session 1 | Session 2

Georgios Kapetanvasileiou

Kyriakos Fistos
Data Scientist at SAS
Session 1 | Session 2 

Muneeb Mohammad

Muneeb Mohammad
Lead Data Scientist, SAS Solutions & Advisory
Session

Paul Jones

Paul Jones
Head of Technology UK&I at SAS
Session

Paul Jones

Simon Arnold
Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS
Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3

Janice Newell

Janice Newell
Customer Advisory
Session

Neil Griffin

Neil Griffin
Principal Systems Engineer
Session

Matthew Stainer

Matthew Stainer
Principal Data Scientist
Session

Melissa Torgbi

Melissa Torgbi
Data Scientist
Session 1 | Session 2

Spiros Potamitis

Spiros Potamitis
Data Scientist
Session

Robin Thomson

Robin Thomson
Principle Customer Advisor
Session

Haidar Altaie

Haidar Altaie
Data Scientist at SAS UKI
Session 1 | Session 2

Brad Klenz

Brad Klenz
IoT Analytics Architect
Session

Iain Brown

Dr Iain Brown
Head of Data Science
Session

Arti Patel

Arti Patel
Customer Success
Session

Andrew Gadsby

Andrew Gadsby
Customer Success
Session

David Smith

David Smith
Customer Advisory
Session

Nigel Armstead

Nigel Armstead
Customer Education Manager
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Gemma Robson

Gemma Robson
Sr Technical Training Consultant
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