SAS® FORUM
United Kingdom 2018

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ANALYTICAL STRATEGY AND GOVERNANCE STREAM

Monday 18th JuneDownload a printable version: Day 1 | Day 2
11:15 - 11:45 amData Management for Artificial Intelligence
Reece Clifford, SAS
Room: Vox 1
11:15 - 11:45 am (Concurrent)From Rocket Science to Data Science
Caroline Alexander, Scottish Power
Room: Vox 3
11:45 - 12:15 pmDynamic Data - The Intelligence behind innovation
Jonathan Hewett & Laure Lacaze, Octo
Room: Vox 1
11:45 - 12:15 pm (Concurrent)Zooming in on the (SAS and) Canon journey: don't run before you can walk
Douglas Hunter, Canon & Kayne Putman, SAS
Room: Vox 3
12:15 - 1:15 pmLunch
1:15 - 1:45 pmGetting ready for Cloud, SAS direction and practical support issues
Paul Jones, Chris West, SAS
Room: Vox 1
1:45 - 2:15 pmMan and Machine – Best of both worlds to efficiently detect Fraud
Roland Theys, SAS
Room: Vox 1
2:15 - 2:45 pmA Data Quality Framework for Third Party Information
Wayne Chicken, Butterfly Data
Room: Vox 1
2:45 - 3:15 pmSupercharging your Digital Intelligence to Power Great Customer Experiences
Tiffany Carpenter, SAS
Room: Vox 1
3:15 - 3:45 pmBreak
3:45 - 4:15 pmTop Tips for using SAS Enterprise Miner after 20 personal years of experience
John Spooner, SAS
Room: Vox 1
4:15 - 4:45 pmAccelerating Analytics with Agile Governance
Simon Trewin, Kinaesis
Room: Vox 1
4:45 - 5:15 pmGet Real: Banking Customers need no less than Real Time
Maria Paradinas, Innova
Room: Vox 1
Tuesday 19th June 
1:30 - 2:00 pmThe truth will set you free: an analytics maturity journey in higher education
Jim Ogilvie, Canterbury Christ Church University
Room: Vox 1 & 2
2:00 - 2:30 pmGrowing our Analytics Maturity - Using SAS RAAS (Results as a Service)
Colin Mason, Irish Life & Joanna Lee, SAS
Room: Vox 1 & 2
2:30 - 3:00 pmDocument perspective on Enterprise Architecture and SAS
Vasilij Nevlev, Analytium
Room: Vox 1 & 2
3:00 - 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 - 4:00 pmDeveloping a Data Drive Training plan to upgrade your teams SAS skills
Chris Dillon & Simon Arnold, SAS
Room: Vox 1 & 2
4:00 - 4:30 pmAI the art of the Practical
Iain Brown, SAS
Room: Vox 1 & 2

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APPLICATIONS OF ANALYTICAL INTELLIGENCE STREAM

Monday 18th JuneDownload a printable version: Day 1 | Day 2
11:15 - 11:45 amUnderstanding In-Store App Use Motivators
Patricia Barzotti, Decibel Insight & Joanne Wang, Concise Group
Room: Vox 4 & 5
11:45 - 12:15 pmMaximising Metadata Management
Amit Patel & Lewis Mitchell, Barclays
Room: Vox 4 & 5
12:15 - 1:15 pmLunch
1:15 - 1:45 pmBuilding a Purple Team
Tom Bevan & Alona Klopot, Deloitte
Room: Vox 4 & 5
1:45 - 2:15 pmHow to get the business to use a black box
Mike Yates, Co-op
Room: Vox 4 & 5
2:15 - 2:45 pmInternet of Things - What's it all about?
Jennifer Major, SAS
Room: Vox 4 & 5
2:45 - 3:15 pmAccenture's Enterprise Fraud Detection Approach: a Deep Dive to Insider Threat Detection Leveraging SAS
Jacqueline Morley & Dr Thanos Alifantis, Accenture
Room: Vox 4 & 5
3:15 - 3:45 pmBreak
3:45 - 4:15 pmFrom Paper to Automation - A Police Journey
Matthew Spencer, Bob Keeble, & Rob Gleed, Gloucestershire Police
Room: Vox 4 & 5
4:15 - 4:45 pmHow Lloyds Simplified its Forecasting Processes Using Impressive SAS Based Web Applications
Greg Wiltshire, Lloyds Banking Group & Phil Mason, Independent SAS consultant
Room: Vox 4 & 5
4:45 - 5:15 pmSimplifying the Deployment of Analytics for Streaming Applications
Steven Allan, SAS
Room: Vox 4 & 5
Tuesday 19th June 
1:30 - 2:00 pmUnderstanding Members at Nationwide using Text Analytics
Graeme Reed, Nationwide & Matthew Stainer, SAS
Vox 4 & 5
2:00 - 2:30 pmTackling Non-Compliance With Analytics
Derek Tollervey, HMRC
Room: Vox 4 & 5
2:30 - 3:00 pmFluid and Dynamic - Using Measurement-Based Workload Prediction to Dynamically Provision Your Cloud
Nik Markovic, Boemska
Room: Vox 4 & 5
3:00 - 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 - 4:00 pmDeep Learning with SAS Viya to Reimagine Retail at Very and Littlewoods
George Cushen, Shop Direct
Room: Vox 4 & 5
4:00 - 4:30 pmImprove Customer Experience with AI
Oliver Sheerin, SAS
Room: Vox 4 & 5
4:30 - 5:00 pmSAS and Python the perfect partners in crime
Carrie Foreman, Amadeus Software Ltd
Room: Vox 4 & 5

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TECHNICAL TIPS STREAM

Monday 18th JuneDownload a printable version: Day 1 | Day 2
12:15 - 1:15 pmLunch
1:15 - 1:45 pmIf AI Is the Solution, What Is the Problem?
Shiva Kommareddi, CoreCompete
Room: Vox 3
1:45 - 2:15 pmIn-Memory, With a Twist - Moving from LASR to CAS
Warren Ireson, SAS
Room: Vox 3
2:15 - 2:45 pmNavigating a Successful SAS Grid Migration
Sarah Fountain & Mike Parker, Business Data Partners
Room: Vox 3
2:45 - 3:15 pmThe Art of Defensive Programming: Coping with Unseen Data
Philip Holland, Holland Numerics
Room: Vox 3
3:15 - 3:45 pmBreak
3:45 - 4:15 pmLeveraging SAS Viya with 9.4 
Steve Ludlow, SAS
Room: Vox 3
3:45 - 4:15 pm (Concurrent)Advanced ETL scheduling with SAS Data Integration Studio and LSF
Angus Looney, SAS
Room: Boardroom 1
4:15 - 4:45 pmWhat's new with SAS 9.4m5 and Looking Forward to SAS 9.5
Paul Jones, SAS
Room: Vox 3
4:15 - 4:45 pm (Concurrent)Got SAS Grid? Let me help configure it
Prasanna Gawade, SAS
Room: Boardroom 1
4:45 - 5:15 pmGDPR has landed... (What happens now?)
Dave Smith, SAS
Room: Vox 3
4:45 - 5:15 pm (Concurrent)Shapley-Value Regressin: What is it and Why is it Useful for Businesses?
Kayne Putman, SAS
Room: Boardroom 1
Tuesday 19th June 
1:30 - 2:00 pmSAS Code New/Hidden Features
Peter Hobart, SAS
Room: Vox 1
2:00 - 2:30 pmSAS Viya on AWS - Tips and Tricks
Sergey Iglov, RBS
Room: Vox 3
2:30 - 3:00 pmConsiderations for Deploying SAS Event Stream Processing
Louis Katsouris, SAS
Room: Vox 3
3:00 - 3:30 pmBreak
3:30 - 4:00 pmData Integration Studio WORST practice
Angus Looney, SAS
Room: Vox 3
4:00 - 4:30 pmWhat's new in the SAS Platform (architecture)
Doug Green & Ekaitz Goienola, SAS
Room: Vox 3
4:30 - 5:00 pmHow SAS eats the Elephant - Exploring SAS In-Database technologies for Hadoop
Nick Dunkerton, SAS
Room: Vox 3

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