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SAS FANS User Event on 27th March at SAS London

Welcome to the SAS FANS User Event at SAS London on Thursday, 27th March.

We start our SAS FANS Event series this year with two customer presentations. Learn about Nationwide Building Society’s Encoding changes between WLATIN1 and UTF8 on SAS Viya migration and Aldermore on SAS® Information Catalog API for Governed Data Pipelines.

We finish the day by networking over pizza and drinks! Connect with like-minded professionals, share experiences, and strengthen your connections.

Date and Time: Thursday, 27th March, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Venue: SAS Office, 10 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4XY

This event is for SAS customers, SAS associates, students and approved partners only.

Agenda

4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.: Welcome

4:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.: Encoding changes between WLATIN1 and UTF8 on SAS Viya migration
(Clark Lawson, Senior Manager Data Engineering | Data Platforms, Nationwide Building Society)

This presentation covers:

How to analyse existing data in SAS9
Why changing is essential during the migration:
- Dealing with possible truncations once
- Performance benefits
- Exploiting index
- Dealing with format changes

4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.: Break

5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: SAS® Information Catalog API for Governed Data Pipelines
(Stewart Jardine, Risk Infrastructure Manager, Aldermore & Rajeeve Narula, Technology Advisor, SAS)

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's standard No. 239 (BCBS 239) is crucial for a stable banking environment and financial industry. We began our SAS® Viya® journey in 2023 with SAS Studio Flows deployed to execute the ETL workload for the Credit Risk department. We are now evaluating the SAS Information Catalog REST API to implement data validity checks at different stages of the ETL pipeline. We aim to detect and fix issues early in the data life cycle before any adverse impact is felt by the downstream analysis and reporting activities. In this presentation, we will describe our approach, which uses Data Discovery Agents of the SAS Information Catalog to capture data quality metrics as part of the ETL pipeline.

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.: Pizza, refreshments and networking

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Our Experts

Clark Lawson
Senior Manager Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Nationwide Building Society

As a Senior Manager within Nationwide Building Society's Data & Functions Technology Delivery function, Clark currently leads the migration strategy and delivery from Nationwide's SAS® 9 environment to SAS® Viya®.

Over the 15 years as a Nationwide employee, Clark has previously worked within the Data Governance Function, the SAS® Administration team and the SAS® Data Engineering capability. This has helped Clark build a broad understanding of Nationwide data and its uses within SAS® by the c.2,500 users, which will support the migration to SAS® Viya®.

At Nationwide, Clark established the internal SAS®User Group, which has successfully supported the user community's knowledge sharing, collaboration and training for the last three years. Most recently, the SAS® User Group completed a hackathon with a UK-based wildlife charity using SAS® Viya®.

Clark is also proud to see the continuation of the study groups to support colleagues wishing to attain SAS® certifications. This aligns with his passion for being a volunteer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) Ambassador who visits local schools and colleges to deliver activities to young people, including career talks.

Outside of work, Clark has a beautiful wife and an energetic young son. He enjoys running for his running club and completed the London Marathon in 2023 in 3:17 minutes.

Stewart Jardine
Risk Infrastructure Manager, Aldermore

Stewart Jardine is a Credit Risk Manager at Aldermore Bank with over 15 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has worked in both front-line customer-facing roles and back-office credit risk positions. Stewart has consistently leveraged technology throughout his career to streamline processes and improve performance.

He began his journey with self-taught VBA-enhanced spreadsheets to reduce repetitive manual tasks and was introduced to SAS in 2015. In his ninth year of using SAS, Stewart is considered a subject matter expert at Aldermore Bank and is leading a migration project from on-premises servers to SAS® Viya®.

Rajeeve Narula
Technology Advisor, SAS

Rajeeve Narula is passionate about how data and technology can make the world better and safer for everyone. As a technology adviser at SAS, he focuses on Data Engineering, Data Governance, Risk and Fraud platforms, and Cloud deployments. Rajeeve’s dedication to leveraging technology for positive impact drives his work and contributions at SAS.