AJ Coetzee
Sr. Manager, Presales Support - SAS Africa
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How can AI-driven innovation be brought to life and put in action to resolve real business problems? What steps are needed to move AI out of the lab and into business operations to realize the desired outcomes? Many challenges reside in complex IT landscapes, departmental siloes, opportunity & challenges with cloud and the ability to deploy analytics where and when it’s needed.
To succeed with AI, organizations must be able to orchestrate and govern their analytics ecosystem, by embracing and unifying Open Source languages like Python and R with proprietary platforms like SAS into a unified and governed Analytics Lifecycle. They also need the flexibility to work in a complete or hybrid Cloud world and operate in real-time to meet the needs of the customer.
SAS has supported and accelerated the entire Analytics Lifecycle from Data to Discovery and Deployment for many years. But in 2019, SAS is undergoing its most radical transformation in its 40+ years of business. Our recent $1bn investment in AI, coupled with a transformation of our business model, have enabled us to meet the needs of the most forward thinking South African enterprises.
Come and learn about how SAS’s flexibility, cloud-readiness and Open Source compatibility make SAS the perfect partner to help you take AI out of the lab and generate the business value which it has always promised.
Successful execution of an analytics, and thereby AI strategy, needs the right balance of choice and control.
Choice
Creativity and innovation flourish in open spaces. You need flexibility and freedom to attract the best analytical talent, use a wide variety of techniques and develop processes that work best. You need the flexibility to use multiple programming languages and analyze any data in any environment and to keep up with accelerating demands.
Control
Analytics chaos can creep up. Once you lose control of your data, you lose trust in the system and its outputs. Transparency, governance and security become essential for maintaining trust in models and analytical results. Becoming even more critical as you scale development, monitoring and refinement of analytics applications and their associated processes.
At the intersection of data, software, and ingenuity, the future is being redefined. After all, when curiosity meets capability, progress is inevitable.
Speakers
Akesh Lalla
Country Manager - SAS South Africa
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Melissa Jantjies
Associate Systems Engineer - SAS Africa
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David Cosgrave
Operations Director - SAS
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Kelly Lu
Advanced Analytics and AI - SAS
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Jon Tullett
Senior Research Manager, Cloud/IT Services - IDC South Africa
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Anders Indset
The Business Philosopher
Desan Naidoo
Vice President - SAS Africa
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Eugene Ehlers
Credit Executive – JD Financial Services
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Agenda
08:00 – 09:00 | Arrival & Registrations |
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome |
09:10 – 09:25 | The Transformation of SAS Desan Naidoo |
09:25 – 10:15 | Keynote address - Business Philosopher The Quantum Economy and Revolution: In the data driven world- what comes after digital? Anders Indset |
10:15 – 10:35 | Evolve your analytics platform and get Choice and Control with SAS Moving analytics to the cloud while embracing and unifying Open Source and proprietary into a unified governed lifecycle. David Cosgrave |
10:35 – 10:55 | Customer Testimonial Eugene Ehlers, Credit Executive – JD Financial Services |
10:55 – 11:25 | Tea Break Demo area activities |
11:25 – 12:00 | Topic: Getting AI out of the lab and into the real world Using a real-life inspired use case, you will be taken on a journey to operationalize analytics:
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12:00 - 12:20 | The state of the South African analytics market Jon Tullett, Senior Research Manager, Cloud/IT Services - IDC South Africa |
12:20 - 12:50 | Round Table: Embracing a Cloud analytics strategy - flexibility and choice Embracing a Cloud analytics strategy – flexibility and choice
Kethan Parbhoo, Chief Marketing & Operations Officer - Microsoft SA Anesu Charamba, Technology Strategist at Altron Bytes Systems Integration Jon Tullett, Senior Research Manager, Cloud/IT Services - IDC South Africa Nanda Padayachee, IT Executive - Standard Bank Group Moderator: David Cosgrave, Operations Director - SAS Africa |
12:50 - 13:00 | Wrap up and close Akesh Lalla |
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch Demo area & networking |
Meet the experts
Machine Learning
Analytics Platform
Data Management
Data Governance
Artificial Intelligence
Data Visualization
Open Source & SAS
Cloud
Why attend?
Learn what is needed to orchestrate the new age of analytics – from data wrangling – through to tangible business results. During the session you will take away how to:
- Orchestrate an innovation-first and expanding analytics ecosystem
- Promote collaboration of your talents across business, IT and technical roles
- Scale and automate repeatable processes to keep pace with changing demands through your Analytics Lifecycle
- Maintain the right balance between choice and control
- Scale AI projects to enterprise wide availability leveraging cloud technology and considering compliance and ethics.
- Interpretability, trust and governance of data regardless the source