SESSIONS

ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS FOR BUSINESS PROBLEMS


11:45 - 12:15	Accelerate Business Outcomes With Analytically Driven Decisions (Powered By SAS® Intelligent Decisioning) Daniel Hatton, Director of Alliances EMEA - Core Compete
12:30 - 13:00	Demand Planning as a key lever in revenue growth in the CPG industry. Andrew Jennings, Executive Consultant and former MD Mondelez UK
14:00 - 14:30	Purpose Led, Digital First, Virtual Now: Re-Imagining Customer Experiences in a Global Pandemic Peter Neufeld, EY EMEIA Financial Services Digital Customer Experience Leader
14:45 - 15:15	Driving the best from your partnership with SAS Arti Patel, Customer Success, Andrew Gadsby, Customer Success and David Smith, Customer Advisory
15:30 - 16:00	Sport Ireland Institute: Evolution from Analysis to Analytics Alan Swanton, Sports Performance Analyst, Sport Ireland Institute
16:15 - 16:45	How to leverage analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Financial Crime Controls. Patrick Craig, Ernst & Young UK LLP

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APPLYING AI & DATA SCIENCE IN THE REAL WORLD


11:45 - 12:15	Changing Advanced Industry with Machine Vision and AI Solutions Kieran Edge, Technical Lead for Machine Vision, AMRC Melissa Torgbi, Data Scientist at SAS UKI
12:30 - 13:00	How Covea is transforming their claims processing through the use of Machine Learning Tom Clay & Ashley Piper, Data Scientist at Covea Insurance
14:00 - 14:30	Deploying Computer Vision by Combining Deep Learning Action Sets with Open-Source Technology Haidar Altaie, Duncan Bain, Jonathan Mcelhinney SAS & Scottish Power
14:45 - 15:15	Operationalising Analytics and Decisions, how SAS Intelligent Decisioning completes the last mile Janice Newell, Principal Technology Specialist, SAS
15:30 - 16:00	Customer Loyalty in the Digital Age Maria Luisa Paradinas Lopez , Innova
16:15 - 16:45	Telecom Data Analytics: Understanding Customer behaviour and driving targeted marketing campaigns using SAS Analytics. Dwiti Pandya & Jonita Fernandes, Students at UCD

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THE HUMAN SIDE OF AI


11:45 - 12:15	Machine Learning Interpretability for a Stress Scenario Generation in Credit Scoring Raffaella Calabrese, Associate Professor John Roberts, Senior Decision Modelling Manager, Nationwide
12:30 - 13:00	Data Science: change is inevitable, growth is optional Iain Brown, Head of Data Science at SAS UK & Ireland
14:00 - 14:30	AI in the fight against COVID-19 Paulina B. Szklanna, PhD - Manager of AI Healthcare Hub at University College Dublin
14:45 - 15:15	Ethical AI – a practical approach Alexander Denev, Head of AI – Financial Services, Risk Advisory - Deloitte
15:30 - 16:00	Women in Analytics, Join the Movement Michelle Proctor Chief of Staff, Risk Research and Quantitative Solutions Chair of the Women’s Initiative Network
16:15 - 16:45	IoT and AI helps a smart city predict and manage flood events Brad Klenz, IoT Analytics Architect at SAS

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EVOLVING YOUR SAS PLATFORM


11:45 - 12:15	Why Viya 2020 – Shaping SAS for the future Paul Jones, Head of Technology UK&I, SAS
12:30 - 13:00	All or Nothing: Journey to the Cloud Andrew Williams, SAS Administrator - Vanquis Bank Rajan Mistry, SAS Administrator - Vanquis Bank
14:00 - 14:30	Why SAS and Microsoft Azure - Bringing SAS offering to the Microsoft Azure Cloud Nick Welch, Senior Azure Specialist - Microsoft (UK) Limited
14:45 - 15:15	Running in Reverse: Economic Recovery, COVID-19 and the Story of How HMRC Reversed the Tax System to Support British Citizens in Need Tim East, CIO, Customer Compliance Group, Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs
15:30 - 16:00	How to take SAS to the Cloud Doug Liming - Managing Director- Global Sales and Business Development, Stratacent Manish Jain - Managing Director- Global Head of Technology Services, Stratacent
16:15 - 16:45	Future of EG/ Studio and Data Management Robin Thomson, Principle Customer Advise, SAS

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THE FUTURE OF DATA SCIENCE


11:45 - 12:15	Open source integration in SAS Viya with D3.js Niall Larkin, Data scientist \| Associate System Engineer at SAS
12:30 - 13:00	ModelOps: The Way Forward for Operationalising Analytics Muneeb Mohammad, Lead Data Scientist, SAS Kyriakos Fistos, Data Scientist, SAS
14:00 - 14:30	Achieving World Class Forecasting in 2020 Spiros Potamitis, Data Scientist. SAS
14:45 - 15:15	Using Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Predictive models to impact Business outcomes Matthew Stainer, Data Scientist, SAS Melissa Torgbi, Data Scientist, SAS
15:30 - 16:00	Computer Vision with SAS Haidar Altaie, Data Scientist, SAS Niall Larkin, Data Scientist, SAS
16:15 - 16:45	Developing Credit Scorecards using SAS Viya Kyriakos Fistos, Data Scientist, SAS

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EDUCATION


11:45 - 12:15	Power to Know your SAS Users Chris Dillon, Senior Principal Education Consultant, SAS Simon Arnold, Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS Nigel Armstead, Customer Education Manager. SAS
12:30 - 13:00	The SAS VLE- the place to be Emma Hopkins, Sr Associate Technical Training Consultant, SAS Gemma Robson, Sr Technical Training Consultant, SAS
14:00 - 14:30	Hindsight 2020 Chris Dillon, Senior Principal Education Consultant, SAS Simon Arnold, Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS
14:45 - 15:15	Data grids in SAS Intelligent Decisioning Megan Burns, Senior Associate Technical Training Consultant, SAS
15:30 - 16:00	LC2020 Preview Simon Arnold - Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS
16:15 - 16:45	Introduction to the Jisc SAS Viya Service for Universities Neil Griffin, Principal Systems Engineer, SAS

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