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SAS®ProfessionalsConventionMarlow2014

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ACADEMIC STREAM09:00 Welcome – Geoffrey Taylor, SAS Academic Manager, SAS UK&I and Dr Kathy Maitland, Director, SAS Student Academy INNOVATION HUB

Session 1: SAS in the University Curriculum

09:20 SAS for Analytics – Dr Amanda Winn, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Brighton INNOVATION HUB

09:50SAS Programming for Undergraduates – Prof Richard Hill, Computing and Mathematics Department, University of Derby

INNOVATION HUB

10:30SAS for Postgraduates – Dr Anabel Gutierrez then SAS for Post-graduates – Dr Mee Chi So, School of Management, University of Southampton

INNOVATION HUB

10:50 BREAK COURT MARQUEE

Session 2: SAS for Research

11:20 Supervising PhDs – Prof Richard Self, Computing and Mathematics Department, University of Derby INNOVATION HUB

11:40The DAA Method: data analysis for business intelligence – Dr Kathy Maitland, School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks, Birmingham City University

INNOVATION HUB

12:00 Using SAS in my PhD Research – Xiao Yao, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh INNOVATION HUB

12:20 Using SAS in my PhD Research – Dr Iain Brown, SAS, graduate of University of Southampton INNOVATION HUB

12:40 LUNCH COURT MARQUEE

Session 3: SAS for Employability

13:45 Skills Development for the Information Economy: the challenge for universities – Bob Clift, e-Skills UK INNOVATION HUB

14:15 Developing SAS Analytical Talent: case studies – Dr Catherine Truxillo, Head of Analytical Education, SAS USA INNOVATION HUB

14:45 Panel Discussion led by Geoffrey Taylor with Bob Clift and Dr Catherine Truxillo INNOVATION HUB


16:00 SAS Student Academy Meeting: agenda to be determined by matters arising during the course of the day INNOVATION HUB

16:45 CLOSE


Hello,

I’d like to welcome you, our customers, to 2014’s SAS Professionals Convention held at our glorious Marlow headquarters.

It’s great to see such a wide array of SAS users from across various industries, the public sector and academia. As a SAS customer, you are incredibly important to us and I hope that the next three days provides you with the learning, networking and career development opportunities you’ve come to expect from SAS Professionals.

I’d also like to extend the welcome to our sponsors, Amadeus, CSP, Hortonworks, IBM, SAS Grid Computing and Metacoda, and thank them for supporting the convention. I encourage you to drop by their stands in The Court area.

I hope you gain valuable insights from your time at the SAS Professionals Convention and that you find it an enjoyable experience.

Best regards,

Mark WilkinsonManaging Director, SAS UK & Ireland

AGENDA – TUESDAY 24 JUNE

AGENDA – TUESDAY 24 JUNE

CERTIFICATION08:00 REGISTRATION – You will be required to show your photo ID COURT RECEPTION

08:00 BREAKFAST COURT MARQUEE

09:00 Welcome – Myles Hannon, Head of Education, SAS UK MAIN MARQUEE

CERTIFICATION EXAMS13:15 ALL DELEGATES SITTING EXAMS TO ASSEMBLE COURT RECEPTION

13:30 HENLEY, DANESFIELD, MEDMENHAM, HARLEYFORD, KEARLEY & WITTINGTON

TRAINING ROOMS



CERTIFICATION REVISION SESSIONSMAIN MARQUEE HENLEY MEDMENHAM

09:30SAS® Certified Base Programmer for SAS®9

(Parmoor Group)SAS® Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS®9

(Shelley Group)SAS® Certified Predictive Modeler for SAS®9

(Jerome Group)

DANESFIELD HARLEYFORD WITTINGTON

09:30SAS® Certified

Platform Administrator for SAS®9(Borlase Group)

SAS® Certified Business Intelligence Content Developer for SAS®9(Remnantz Group)

SAS® Certified Data Integration Developer for SAS®9(Higginson Group)

16:30 Celebration of Achievement – Myles Hannon, Head of Education, SAS UK COURT MARQUEE

16:45 CURRY BUFFET COURT MARQUEE

17:00 Costa Rica vs England – Live TV MAIN MARQUEE

TECHNOLOGY STREAMSINTEGRATED MARKETING

MANAGEMENT PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS ANALYTICS HADOOP

GARDEN ROOM MAIN MARQUEE DEMO SUITE

14:00 &

16:00

Modelling Caravan ChurnKat Miller and Emma Miller of Haven Holidays

Best Practices for Analytical StrategyTuba Islam, Analytics Centre of Excellence, SAS UK&I

An Overview of HadoopChris Harris, Hortonworks

14:30 &

16:30

Why Marketing is the Centre of the UniverseSimon Hughes, Director, Retail & Customer Intelligence, SAS Americas

Simulating your World Anne Smith, Analytics Centre of Excellence, SAS UK&I

Filtering the Data LakeDoug Green, Principal Business Solutions Manager, SAS UK&I

15:00 &

17:00

What Kind of Marketer are You? Dr Charles Randall, Head of Solutions Marketing, SAS UK&I

Location, Location, Location – Using Geodemographic Indicators within Business and Consumer UtilitiesRebecca Coram, British Gas

Using PROC IMSTAT and IMSTAT with HadoopWarren Ireson, Principal Solutions Implementation Consultant and Peter Pugh-Jones, Technology Specialist, SAS UK&I

FRAUD SAS® VISUAL ANALYTICS SAS® ADMINISTRATION

LIBRARY INNOVATION HUB WEST WING

14:00 &

16:00 Detecting Fraud using Social Network Analysis – A Practical MasterclassJohn Elmer, Fraud Centre of Excellence, SAS UK&I

Using SAS Visual Analytics to Create a Dashboard for SAS AdministratorsMichelle Homes, Business Development Manager, Metacoda

Best Practice using the SAS Audit and Performance ToolAlessio Tomasino, Principal Infrastructure Support Consultant, SAS UK&I

14:30 &

16:30

A Visual Revolution at Assurant Solutions with SAS Visual AnalyticsGeorge Graham, Finance Manager, Assurant Solutions and Elena Muriel, Amadeus

Best Practices for SAS Grid and LSF DeploymentsAndy Gadsby, Customer Loyalty Executive, SAS UK&I

15:00 &

17:00

Detecting Fraud at the Belgian Tax Office Jerome Bryssinck, Director of Fraud Solutions, SAS EMEA & AP

SAS Visual Analytics - Roundtable discussionled by Neil Constable, Principal Specialist Education Consultant, SAS UK&I and Rajeeve Narula, Technology Specialist, SAS UK&I

Best Practice for Creation and Maintenance of a SAS InfrastructurePaul Thomas, SAS expert and owner of ASUP Ltd


17:30 BRAZILIAN THEMED PARTY & BBQ MAIN MARQUEE

AGENDA – WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE

SAS books can be ordered or purchased from the SAS Publishing desk in Court Reception


08:30 REGISTRATION COURT RECEPTION


10:00 Welcome – Philip Male, Marketing Programmes Manager, SAS UK MAIN MARQUEE

10:30 What Makes a Great Data Scientist? – Peter Robertshaw, Director of Marketing, SAS UK&I MAIN MARQUEE


11:30 Bridging the Analytical Talent Gap – Dr Catherine Truxillo, Head of Analytical Education, SAS USA MAIN MARQUEE


INDUSTRY STREAMSBANKING INSURANCE COMMERCIAL GETTING MORE FROM

YOUR SAS® TECHNOLOGY

MAIN MARQUEE LIBRARY INNOVATION HUB WEST WING

14:00 Better Exploitation of Mainframe Data Andrew Gadsby, Customer Loyalty Executive, SAS UK&I

The Importance of Data Quality Nigel Light, Business Intelligence Consultant, Ecclesiastical Insurance

Demand Driven Forecasting and Inventory ManagementJames Marshall, SAS and Simon Read, Solution Architect ,Tesco

Developing Web Applications with SAS Stored ProcessesPhil Mason, Consultant

14:30 Macroeconometric Retail Stress Test using PH Cox ModelsJorge Ribeiro, Vice President of Credit Risk Models, Barclays

What’s New in Insurance? Simon Kirby, Risk Solution Specialist, SAS UK&I

Using SAS Visual Analytics to Maximise Results for the Travel IndustrySimon Chapman, Senior Analyst, Thomas Cook

Data Driven SchedulingShane Flynn, Principal Solutions Implementation Consultant, SAS UK&I


MAIN MARQUEE LIBRARY INNOVATION HUB WEST WING

15:30 Risk AggregationVince Kilcoyne, Capital Markets Specialist, SAS UK&I

Economies of Scale in Data DeliveryJason Cabral, Zenith Insurance and Guy Garrett, Achieve Intelligence

Size does matter: Big Data and the British Retail SurveyProf Philip Trealeaven, UCL

Working with Microsoft® Excel®: DDE not requiredPeter Hobart, Principal Architecture Consultant and Mark Mulvaney, Senior Architecture Consultant SAS EMEA & AP Professional Services

16:00 My Top Recommendations when using SegmentationDr Catherine Truxillo, Head of Analytics Education, SAS USA

The Mobile WalletTim Vaughan, SAS UK&I

The Evolving World of Data Panel discussion facilitated by Cindy Etsell, Commercial Sector Industry Marketing Manager, SAS UK&I

Converting SAS/GRAPH Plots to ODS GraphicsPhil Holland, Holland Numerics

16:30 CLOSE COURT MARQUEE

08:30 REGISTRATION COURT RECEPTION


10:00 Welcome – Nick Eayrs, Senior Director, Consulting, EMEA & AP Professional Services – Analytical Platform MAIN MARQUEE

10:30 The Power to Row: Building a Winning Team using Analytics – Mark Homer, British Rowing and John Spooner, Analytics Centre of Excellence, SAS UK&I MAIN MARQUEE


11:30 The Importance of People in the Analytics Process – HSBC MAIN MARQUEE

12:00 Technology for Data Science – John Easton, IBM Distinguished Engineer MAIN MARQUEE


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AGENDA – THURSDAY 26 JUNE


OUR SPONSORS

Hortonworks Data Platform

Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform. Our team comprises the largest contingent of builders and architects within the Hadoop ecosystem who represent and lead the broader enterprise requirements within these communities.

The Hortonworks Data Platform provides an open platform that deeply integrates with existing IT investments and upon which enterprises can build and deploy Hadoop-based applications.

Hortonworks has deep relationships with the key strategic data center partners that enable our cus-tomers to unlock the broadest opportunities from Hadoop.

www.hortonworks.com

Metacoda

Metacoda®, a SAS® Silver Alliance partner, specialises in the development of add-ons to SAS software. They offer 3 products to help SAS customers be more productive through the exploitation of SAS metadata across the SAS 9 platform versions:

• MetacodaSecurityPlug-ins:add-onstotheSAS® Management Console which significantly improve the productivity of administrators.

• MetacodaCommutual:awebbasedapplicationtohelporganisationssearchandcollaborateonbusiness and technical metadata.

• MetacodaCustomTasks:MetadatatableandcolumnfindersforSAS® Enterprise Guide® and SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office installations.

www.metacoda.com

Amadeus Software Limited

Amadeus Software founded in 1989 is a SAS Consultancy, Managed Services and Training company. We are dedicated to the delivery of efficient and effective SAS services, helping organisations opti-mise the use of SAS software and maximise the return on investment made in SAS technology.

We make sure we understand our customers’ needs and always look to exceed their expectations with agility and innovation. We have built an enviable reputation in the UK and across the globe for responding quickly and effectively to address customer SAS business requirements, delivering cost effective SAS solutions with measurable business benefits.

Contact:

www.amadeus.co.uk+44 (0) 1993 [email protected]

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BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

CSP

CSP has a rich tradition in the provision of business intelligence solutions across a broad spectrum of sectors including Financial (Banking & Insurance), Energy, Public Sector and Healthcare.

CSP’s preferred partner in Business Intelligence Is SAS and our solutions are based on the extensive use of SAS tools including Visual Analytics. CSP is a SAS certified partner with a pedigree in Business Intelligence innovation, incorporating the use of in-memory and Big Data analysis tools. Our project In Unicredit was one of the first implementations of SAS Visual Analytics in Europe, requiring close collaboration with SAS in the US which helped shape the development of the product.

Allied to our experience in Systems Integration, CSP can offer a compelling full service solution in-cluding legacy and external source data integration.

To find out more visit: www.cspnet.it

IBM UK

IBM is a globally integrated enterprise operating in over 170 countries. Today IBM UK has around 20,000 employees, bringing innovative solutions to a diverse client base to help solve some of their toughest business challenges. In addition to being the world’s largest IT and consulting services company, IBM is a global business and technology leader, innovating in research and development to shape the future of society at large. IBM’s prized research, development and technical talent around the world partner with governments, corporations, thinkers and doers on ground breaking real world problems to help make the world work better and build a smarter planet.

The IT infrastructure you choose for cloud, big data and analytics matters. Whether you are charged with managing the increasing variety and velocity of data, or moving workloads to the cloud, your IT infrastructure needs to be more flexible, scalable and secure. IBM announces infrastructure enhance-ments based on open standards that enable shared access to trustworthy information; build analytics intelligence into transactions; and are tuned for the cloud to help you deliver real-time information and insights.

www.ibm.com/uk

SAS® Grid Computing

SAS® Grid Computing enables organisations to create a managed, shared environment to process large volumes of data and analytic programs more efficiently. It provides critical capabilities that are necessary for today’s business analytics environments, including workload balancing, job prioritisa-tion, high availability and built in failover, parallel processing and resource assignment, and monitor-ing. By combining proven industry-leading computing middleware from Platform Computing (an IBM Company) with the power of SAS Business Analytics, SAS Grid Computing provides the ability to scale business processes and accelerate decisions to create competitive advantage.

www.ibm.com

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SAS Professionals Agenda€¦ · Hortonworks Data Platform Hortonworks develops, distributes and supports the only 100% open source Apache Hadoop data platform. Our team comprises