Agenda
Wednesday, February 28th
| 08:30 – 9:00 | Registration & Coffee |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome Nikos Peppas, General Manager Greece & Eastern Europe, SAS Professor Theo Panayiotou, Director of Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) |
| 9:10 – 09:30 | Tomorrow’s World: how AI will transform our lives Alex Kwiatkowski, Sr Industry Consultant, Financial Services & Government , SAS |
| 09:30-09:45 | Paradise Found with Machine Learning: Find Your Best City to live Have you found a paradise for your dreams and ideas? Which city in the world is best for life and work? SAS knows the answer. It results from a huge amount of data. We looked at them, analyzed them thoroughly, involved Machine Learning and SAS tools, and got the result. We will be happy to share with you. Come and see the SAS presentation. |
| 09:45-10:15 | Accelerating Your Path to Value with an Open Analytics Platform Gregor Herrmann, Senior BI Solution Manager, Global Technology Practice, SAS |
| 10:15-10:35 | SAS Analytics Platform at the core of Interamerican's New Business Model Nikos Maroulianakis, Head of Enterprise Data Management & Infrastructure, INTERAMERICAN |
| 10:35-10:55 | How Analytics drive Business Excellence in the new era Manolis Syllignakis, Head of Retail Banking Customer Analytics, National Bank of Greece |
| 10:55-11:05 | Bridging the data science skills gap Theodosis Mourouzis, Executive Manager at CIIM Limassol & Lecturer of Information Security |
| 11:05-11:25 | Break |
| Best Pactices Session | Use cases of Companies Leading the Analytics Economy | |
| 11:25-12:15 | Data is key to success and should be the catalyst to many strategic and tactical decisions. Unlock the insight in your data to make well-informed decisions. Get the bigger picture and release surprising and game changing insights from your data. Experts from companies that are the leaders in the analytics economy share their real life best practices. Data Driven Decision Making. Your Data is Everywhere. Grow its Value Cisco and SAS for Analytics Using Text Analytics to enhance customer experience at Piraeus Bank Predicting Consumer Behavior |
| 12:15-12:30 | The Power of Analytics for the Board Room |
| 12:30-13:15 | Panel Discussion – The Executive View | Innovate with Analytics - Hype & Challenges of the Cypriot Market Moderator: George Tziortzis, Board Member, Head of Management Consulting, KPMG Cyprus Participants:
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| 13:15 | Buffet Lunch |