SAS Virtual Customer Connect

Statistical Agencies

 

October 6, 2022

SAS Virtual Customer Connect Statistical Agencies 

More than 50 people, active in various statistical agencies in EMEA, attended the virtual event on October 6, 2022. The presentations and panel discussion provided interesting insights on the challenges in the transition to the statistical agency of the future. 

Have you missed the event? Or would you like to watch presentations, and panel discussions again?

You can find the links to the presentation slides in the agenda below. 

For the people who attended please fill out our mini-survey.

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Agenda

  
10:00 –10:05 
Welcome
Yanick Slikboer, Business Solution Manager, SAS
10:05 – 10:15 
A special greeting
Dr. Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS
10:15 – 10:40The role of the statistical office as a data sharing institution 
Findings from an international study for a blueprint to create and manage a ‘data sharing platform’ in a responsible way 
Freddy Maetens, Program Manager Data & Methodology and Samuel De Klerck, Practice Lead, Laco
10:40 – 11:10

Panel discussion: challenges and opportunities in operationalizing new statistics

  • Dr. Andreas Jahn, Head of Unit, Federal Statistical Office, Destatis (Germany)
  • Roeland Beerten, Chief Statistician, VSA (Belgium)
  • Gonzalo Carrasco, Head of Unit IT Governance, Eurostat 
  • Ludmila Ivancikova, PhD., Director Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
11:10 – 11:25Q&A by and for the panel members
11:25 – 11:45SAS as a catalyst for the statistical office of the future 
Michel Philippens, Business Solution Manager, SAS  
11:45 - 12:05The art of the possible with New Data - 3 SAS Data for Good examples 
I-Sah Hsieh, Principal Social Innovation Manager / Data for Good & former principal advisor for the UN Statistics Organization, SAS
12:05 - 12:15Wrap-up
Yanick Slikboer, Business Solution Manager, SAS 

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