Innovate on Tour / London / June 12th

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At SAS Innovate, we focus on how to drive business value with Data & AI: Learn from leading organisations and thought leaders and network with your peers.

June 12^th // London

Don’t Miss Out! Join Us in London
Make Data & AI the Driver of Your Success

We’re excited to invite you to SAS Innovate on Tour in London. At this complimentary event, we welcome leaders from across industries and SAS’ industry partners to explore the latest trends in analytics and AI through sessions led by industry experts.

This event offers a unique opportunity to enhance your understanding of the rapidly evolving field of AI and to discuss opportunities and risks with peers and leading experts.

Join us at SAS Innovate in London and discover why AI is the future of success.

Inspiring speakers

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Inspiring speakers

Agenda

08:00 – 09:00

Registration opens

09:00 – 09:30

Partner Sessions

Presenter: Robert Labori, AWS / Anu Pereira, SAS
Leveraging SAS on AWS for innovation and business value
AWS and SAS have a long-standing partnership dedicated to supporting customers’ challenges, ambitions and data/analytics strategy. In this session, learn about the latest developments in the partnership and how our collaboration is underpinning our customers’ ability to innovate and achieve business goals.
Presenter: Oliver Kenward, Microsoft / Stephen Yeo, SAS
How Microsoft Azure empowers SAS customers with innovation
Microsoft has a deep partnership with SAS including engineering integrations and many joint customers. SAS was Microsoft Global ISV of the year 2022. In this session you will learn how SAS integrates with Microsoft commercially and technically and the business value it creates. You will learn about how SAS Viya can assist projects around areas such as data preparation, GenAI orchestration and LLM output monitoring, complementing the Microsoft platform to create high performing, trustworthy GenAI output.

09:30 – 09:40

Roderick Crawford, SAS
Jonathan Steele, SAS
Welcome

09:45 – 11:30

SAS Keynotes

Bryan Harris
Leading in Data and AI Keynote
In this keynote, you'll hear more about SAS' technology vision for the future and our specific areas of focus in the data and AI category, including Generative AI. Learn how you can outpace tomorrow with SAS and why we're the most trusted analytics partner on the planet.
Marinela Profi
The Business Value of More Productive Data and AI
Learn how we're helping customers get more done, realize more value, and drive better outcomes. You'll also hear about new innovations and unique capabilities that we've built into our platform and products to help boost productivity.
Mathias Coopmans
Why Speed and Performance Matters
You can't be more productive if your AI is running slow or can't scale. See how SAS is delivering the most performant data and AI platform to not only support productivity, but drive down computing costs.
Reggie Townsend
Delivering Trustworthy AI
The qualities of productivity and performance delivers incredible power, and to effectively leverage this power it must be trustworthy. Hear how SAS is delivering the most trustworthy AI platform on the planet.
John Carey
Better Together - SAS and our Partner
The SAS ecosystem is exponentially stronger with our partners. This strength translates to tangible value for our customers. See how the power of SAS is amplified with our partners.

11:30 – 12:00

Break

12:00 – 12:45

Panel: Neeraj Goel Mittal, GSK / Iain Beckingham, Intel / Per Österman, Accenture / Iain Brown, SAS
Navigating the Future of Decision-Making: Generative AI's Impact on Strategic Business Challenges
Explore how generative AI is transforming strategic decision-making across industries, with insights from leaders at SAS, Accenture and Intel on leveraging this technology to tackle business challenges and drive innovation.

12:45 – 14:00

Networking Lunch

14:00 – 14:45

Breakout Session / Panel Debate

Panel: Mark Thundercliffe, Former CRO HSBC & Virgin Money / Michelle Seng Ah Lee, Deloitte / Kerry Hilton, Virgin Money / Muzammil Shabudin, SAS
From Data to Decisions Managing Risk with AI
Panel: Deborah Shakespeare, Microsoft / Nikil Mathur, Deloitte / Richard Clarke, HSBC / Stephen Dalton, Cifas / Christen Kirchner, SAS
Fighting AI with AI: Combatting Fraud in the Digital Age
Panel: Robert Labori, AWS / Daniel Hatton, Accenture / Mike Blanchard, SAS / Greg Burr, SAS
The Business Impact of Real-Time Hyper Segmentation

15:00 – 15:30

Presenters: Reggie Townsend, SAS / Anette Jakobsen, SAS / Prathiba Krishna, SAS
Navigating the New Frontier: AI Regulation in Northern Europe and Beyond

15:30 – 16:00

Break

16:00 – 16:20

Presenters: Iain Brown, SAS / Stephen Yeo, SAS
GenAI adoption in Northern Europe

16:20 – 17:00

Panel: Stewart Jardine, Aldermore Bank / Elliot Potter, Shawbrook Bank / Paul Jones, SAS
Productivity, Performance & Trust; Customer Insights on the Value of SAS^® Viya^®
Join us for a panel discussion where you'll hear from two SAS customers that are live with SAS Viya. You'll hear about why they moved to SAS Viya, how they planned and executed the migration process, the importance of strong governance and organisational readiness as well as the business change and value that SAS Viya is delivering. Learn practical lessons that you can apply and understand the business case of moving to Viya.

17:00 – 17:30

Panel: Dec Lynn, British Army / David Ferguson, SAS
Taking on the Atlantic - the heart and the science.
A great adventure awaits the Ministry of Defense (MOD) team as they prepare for the journey of a lifetime. A discussion with Dec Lynn and David Ferguson on this adventure is happening and how science, & data and heart can work together to get a rowing team across the Atlantic Ocean.