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.

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.

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

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.