In-person event
Innovate and Accelerate Your Enterprise AI with SAS Viya & Copilot
23 October 2025 | 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Seda Hotel Bonifacio Global City, Taguig
In the race to adopt AI, enterprises are seeking solutions that not only innovate but also accelerate time-to-value. For years, you’ve trusted SAS to deliver reliable, enterprise-grade analytics. Now, the future of AI demands a platform that is agile, scalable, and built for speed—and cost efficiency.
Join us for an exclusive event designed for our long-time SAS users and partners, where we’ll demonstrate how to accelerate your AI initiatives and modernize your analytics environment. This isn’t just about adopting a new platform—it’s about charting a clear, optimized path forward from where you are today.
Discover how SAS Viya’s cloud-native architecture enables cost optimization through efficient use of compute, storage, and elastic scaling, while reducing infrastructure overhead. Learn how its open file and data support, together with seamless integration with open-source technologies, gives you the flexibility to leverage existing investments and expand innovation.
We will also showcase how SAS Viya empowers you to go from idea to implementation at unprecedented speeds—delivering powerful Agentic AI solutions and AI-driven Copilots that automate decisions, enhance productivity, and unlock new business opportunities. And, as always, these innovations come with the trusted governance, transparency, and accountability that SAS is known for.
What You Can Expect:
- Explore the latest capabilities of SAS Viya and how its cloud-native architecture accelerates the time to build, deploy, and scale enterprise AI solutions—while optimizing costs.
- Learn how to leverage your existing SAS 9.4 skills and assets as a powerful accelerator when transitioning to the Viya platform.
- Discover how to design and deploy transparent AI models and copilots with built-in governance, ethical guardrails, and trust you can rely on.
- Understand how Viya’s open-source integration and open file support expand flexibility, interoperability, and innovation.
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Agenda
- The Need for Speed: Why Time-to-Value is the New AI Currency.
- Acknowledge the audience's history with SAS and introduce the central theme of accelerating AI initiatives.
This session will showcase the financial advantages of SAS Viya, emphasizing how its cloud-native architecture, native support for open data formats such as Parquet, and seamless Kubernetes integration drive significant cost efficiencies. By optimizing compute and storage resources, reducing data movement, and enabling elastic scaling, SAS Viya ensures lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and more efficient resource utilization—particularly for large-scale AI and advanced analytics projects
- We will present a side-by-side comparison of common tasks—such as model development and data integration—demonstrating the speed, efficiency, and scalability gains with SAS Viya. A key focus will be showing how existing SAS 9.4 code and expertise are not replaced but seamlessly leveraged, ensuring that current skills remain highly valuable and directly transferable. This provides a clear, low-risk path for users to accelerate their work and realize immediate benefits on the Viya platform.
- To further highlight productivity, we will showcase the integration of SAS Copilot, an AI-driven assistant embedded within the Viya environment. SAS Copilot enhances human productivity by helping data scientists and business users alike—writing code snippets, suggesting next steps, and simplifying complex model outputs into plain language. This seamless assistance empowers users to work faster, smarter, and with greater confidence.
- This session is the heart of our event, where we'll bring our latest innovations to life. We'll show you how to go from raw data to a complete AI solution using SAS Data Maker and SAS Agentic AI.
- First, we'll demonstrate how SAS Data Maker accelerates the most critical step of any AI project: data preparation. You'll see how it simplifies data acquisition, cleansing, and feature engineering, creating a "perfect" dataset at unprecedented speed. Building on that foundation, we'll then showcase a real-world use case with SAS Agentic AI. We'll demonstrate how this technology can automate complex, multi-step decisions, going beyond simple predictions to execute a full sequence of actions on its own
Speakers
Melanie Mae Torres
Country Business Leader, Philippines
A seasoned executive with over 25 years of leadership experience in marketing management, financial technology, and business development. Currently serving as Business Leader for SAS Institute Philippines, she drives strategic partnerships and market expansion while advancing discussions on artificial intelligence in fraud detection, risk, and compliance.
Melanie previously spearheaded Euronet’s entry into the Philippine market and held senior leadership roles at RIA Money Transfer, G4S Cash Solutions, and NCR Corporation. Her career highlights include pioneering ATM outsourcing, advancing real-time payments, and managing multi-country teams across Europe, the US, and Asia.
Beyond her corporate work, Melanie is deeply engaged in advocacy and civic organizations. She is co-founder and treasurer of Spartan Scholarships Inc., Corporate Secretary of the Zonta Club Greater Rizal 2 Chapter, and a Board of Trustee for Mary Johnston Hospital, a tertiary charity hospital.
Nang Ching Teck
ASEAN Principal Solutions, Architect
Domain Specialties in Data Analytics and AI Platform Architecture, Digital Transformation, and Strategic Technology Management
- Dedicated to empowering financial institutions with data-driven insights and advanced analytics capabilities
- Trusted advisor to SAS customers across the ASEAN region, bridging business objectives with technical execution to drive analytics and AI transformative outcomes
- A recognized SAS platform leader with over 30 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry (FSI), Nang combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen to help organizations navigate complex challenges in customer intelligence, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
- Nang ensures that solution architectures are practical, scalable, and aligned with enterprise priorities. Translate strategic business goals into actionable technology roadmaps makes him an invaluable partner for organizations undertaking digital transformation and analytics innovation initiatives.
Cyrus Estanislao
Solutions Architect, ASEAN
- Specializes in aligning SAS solutions with business and regulatory needs, particularly in areas such as financial crime, fraud detection, anti-money laundering, risk and advanced analytics.
- Collaborates strategically with cross-functional teams to develop market-aligned solutions, define integration best practices, and effectively convey the distinctive functional and technical strengths of the SAS platform.
- Seasoned I.T. professional with over 25 years of enterprise-level experience in infrastructure, systems architecture, cloud technologies, and advanced data analytics.
Xin Ru Lee
Senior Solutions Architect, Global Technology Practice
Xin Ru Lee is a Senior Solutions Architect in Global Technology Practice at the SAS Institute for Asia Pacific. Through innovative analytics and AI, SAS empowers and inspires customers around the world to transform data into intelligence.
In her role at SAS, Xin Ru advises customers and partners to solve business problems with advanced analytics and data science across the Asia Pacific region. She is passionate about applying advanced algorithms and enabling the end-to-end model operationalization process. Her data science experience involves applying AI & machine learning in areas like credit risk decisioning, financial crime analytics, transport optimization, and climate prediction. She is also a part of a cohort leading generative AI initiatives at SAS Asia Pacific.
Xin Ru joined SAS as a part of the Global Customer Advisory Academy program and is a National University of Singapore graduate. She enjoys playing pickleball and many other sports and has been appointed as the sports champion of SAS Singapore.
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