SAS Innovate 2025 Papers - Index

102 papers. Source: SAS Innovate conference proceedings.

#	Title ×	Authors ×	Abstract ×	Extras
1	10 Topics to Consider for SAS Modernization	Ray Outar	Video recording: Join us for an exclusive seminar hosted by Deloitte where we will explore effective strategies for migrating from SAS9 to SAS Viya. This session is ideal for executives, IT leaders and data professionals planning a migration to the advanced SAS Viya platform. Topics will include business objectives, current state assessment, gap analysis and strategy, architecture planning, data management, code assessment, risk management, testing and validation, training and change management, and project governance	source video
2	A Case Story of Successfully Modernizing Two Legacy SAS9 Environments to SAS Viya in the Cloud	Prasanna Gawade, Stewart Jardine	Video recording: Aldermore is a medium-sized challenger bank with offices located across the UK, more than 2,000 employees and over 800,000 customers. In recent years, Aldermore became a parent company to the well-known UK car finance company MotoNovo, and both have experienced significant growth. This growth has led to increased analytical forecasting and risk management needs. Join this session to learn how SAS has become crucial to meeting those needs	source video
3	A Holistic Approach to Modern FinCrime: SAS in Fraud, AML and Sanctions Screening	Allison Swagger	Video recording: The global anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud ecosystem is constantly changing amid this intensifying regulatory environment with fraudsters and criminals changing their methods faster than financial institutions can adapt. The need for a unified fraud, AML and sanctions solution has become a top priority for financial institutions to effectively combat these crafty criminals, mitigate future fraud and maintain compliance with stringent regulatory requirements. To solve these issues, we're deploying our solutions onto a single cloud-native architecture using a common set of tools that will manage the entire analytics life cycle. To avoid intelligence gaps, financial institutions can use a holistic solution leveraging AI and machine learning to break down FinCrime silos and mitigate future fraud and noncompliance	source video
4	Accelerate Real-Time Insights With SAS and SingleStore	Dan Soceanu, Casper Pedersen	Video recording: SAS with SingleStore is a cloud-native analytics and data management solution that merges the advanced analytical capabilities of SAS Viya with SingleStore's distributed, high-performance SQL database in one package. By bringing SAS processing closer to the data, organizations can decrease their total cost of ownership while achieving faster insights and increased productivity. This unified environment supports both transactional and analytical workloads, significantly improving execution speeds and scalability for real-time analytics demands. The result is a powerful, streamlined data platform that delivers immediate, actionable intelligence at scale - offering the next generation of analytics and AI to meet today's complex data challenges	source video
5	Accelerating AI on Cloud and Data Center with Intel	Sheik Mohamed Imran	Video recording: In this session you will see how you can accelerate your AI workloads with Intel and SAS, be it on cloud or be it on prem	source video
6	Accelerating Clinical Trial Innovations With SAS Viya and Generative AI	Sherrine Eid, Sundaresh Sankaran	Video recording: Today, generation of the protocol and related documents, the foundation of clinical trial operations, is costly and inefficient due to redundant workflows, disparate input sources, subjective decisions, inconsistent formats, and cumbersome collaboration. Leveraging SAS Viya's AI features and integrating with Azure OpenAI, we provided a unified protocol search, analysis, simulation, and generation framework by implementing state of the art methods such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to significantly reduce hallucinations and improve accuracy. This work illustrates the importance and advantages of capitalizing on a robust, governed, and integrated analytics platform like SAS Viya	source video
7	Accelerating Data Discovery in SAS Health with Natural Language Queries using SAS Viya Copilot	Michelle Hagar	Video recording: In the evolving health care landscape, the vast volume of data from clinical, claims and other systems poses a major challenge. This demo explores how natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) help health care professionals efficiently navigate and utilize data. Integrating NLP and LLM can streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, save time and improve clinical efficiency while allowing health care professionals to obtain comprehensive insights on patients and enable more accurate, timely clinical decisions. This demo highlights how SAS Viya Copilot can enhance clinical outcomes, support evidence-based practice and improve patient outcomes, ultimately contributing to a more effective health care system	source video
8	Accelerating Productivity: SAS Code Assistant	Lizzie Mabe	Video recording: SAS Viya Copilot helps users work more effectively across the entire analytics life cycle, from data management to deployment. More specifically, this demo is focused on the SAS code assistant within SAS Viya Copilot, which can assist in the development and understanding of SAS code. This demo shows how the code assistant can be used to accelerate the analytics life cycle in code through an end-to-end example using a home equity data set. We show that, using the three features of the code assistant - generating code, explaining code, and adding comments - we can go from no understanding of our data to actionable insights without writing any code. We also see that we can quickly understand existing code through summarization and comment generation	source video
9	Advanced Level Decisioning Capability of SAS Customer Intelligence 360 Unlocks Marketing Potential	Tarun Sethi	Video recording: Unlock the full potential of your marketing campaigns with our next-generation decisioning platform, part of the SAS Customer Intelligence 360 suite. Designed with marketers in mind, this solution combines SAS' industry-leading analytics with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface, allowing you to quickly create, deploy and optimize decisions. Out-of-the-box templates for common business use cases - such as next-best actions, next-best offers, lead scoring and more - empower marketers to move swiftly from strategy to execution. This solution eliminates technical complexity, giving marketers the freedom to focus on what matters most: driving growth and engagement	source video
10	AI Acceleration With Efficient Intel Hardware	Vijay Bandari, David Weik	Video recording: Intel hardware refreshes enhance SAS applications with advanced features like AI acceleration. This session explores how Intel's cutting-edge technology rightsizes the need for power-hungry GPUs by leveraging efficient CPUs. Learn how upgrading to the newest Intel hardware and cloud instance optimizes AI and analytics workloads, delivering top-tier performance and energy efficiency	source video
11	Ask Me Anything About Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models	Mary Osborne	Video recording: Have you ever wondered about the tipping point that has led to models that can generate convincing conversation? What's the difference between NLP and generative AI? Is there more to NLP than LLMs? Is the AI becoming sentient? I'll answer these questions and more in this Hot Seat session. Bring your questions, concerns, arguments and debates! Whether you're a novice or a maven, prepare yourself for a fun and lighthearted foray into the realms of NLP and generative AI as we separate hype from reality	source video
12	Automated Decision Logic Transformation From Real-Time Decision Manager to Intelligent Decisioning	Zsolt Burger, Dániel Bogdán	Video recording: In this session, we present our innovative approach to accelerating the migration of real-time decision logic from SAS Real-time Decision Manager on SAS 9.4 to SAS Intelligent Decisioning on the SAS Viya platform. We developed an enhanced migration tool that automates this complex process, drastically reducing the time required from days to minutes. The tool ensures seamless functionality by integrating custom components like a Groovy engine and an Apache Camel-based processing engine, maintaining business continuity and optimizing decision workflows	source video
13	Automated Scenario Planning With LLMs and Models	Nate Haken	Video recording: In this session, you'll learn how a nongovernment organization is able to better facilitate collaboration for disaster response planning using large language models and analytics. This example shows how subject matter experts can interact with an analytic model in a non-technical way and automatically generate relevant scenarios from an LLM. This case study demonstrates an innovative way to use LLMs to accelerate scenario planning and democratize the use of your organization's models	source video
14	Automated Underwriting and Strategic Asset Allocation with Insurance Enterprise Decisioning	Oana Avramescu	Video recording: The insurance industry is transforming rapidly, driven by the need for efficiency, data-driven decisions and improved risk management. In this session, we'll show how automated underwriting and strategic asset allocation can revolutionize insurance enterprise decisioning. Using advanced analytics, machine learning and SAS' decisioning platforms, insurers can: Improve underwriting speed and accuracy. Optimize investments to maximize returns and manage risk. Leverage real-time data for proactive decisions. Enable seamless workflows through enterprise decisioning. Gain actionable insights to drive excellence, ensure compliance and enhance customer experiences	source video
15	Bias Detection and Reduction: Trust Your Models More With SAS Viya and SAS Viya Workbench	Ralph Abbey	Video recording: Join this session where we will highlight how you can use the new ASSESSBIAS procedure to assess bias in trained machine learning models. You will see will how to use the MITIGATEBIAS statement to tell the procedure to reduce the bias while running model training. The ASSESSBIAS procedure and MITIGATEBIAS statement are available for programmatic usage in SAS Viya and SAS Viya Workbench	source video
16	Bridging the Systems: SAS Viya Workbench and SAS Viya Compute With SAS Enterprise Guide	Casey Smith	Video recording: SAS Viya 4 and SAS Viya Workbench provide very powerful compute environments, which can now be leveraged from SAS Enterprise Guide. SAS Enterprise Guide 8.4, released in March 2024, added the ability to access the SAS Viya 4 compute server. SAS Enterprise Guide 8.6 will release very soon, adding similar support for SAS Viya Workbench. So now you can take advantage of the new features in those environments from the familiar SAS Enterprise Guide environment. And you can create process flows that run code on any of the SAS environments you have: SAS 9.4, SAS Viya 3, SAS Viya 4 and SAS Viya Workbench. Join us to learn how this new support works so that you can start to leverage these new environments	source video
17	Build and Deploy AI agents with SAS Viya	Marinela Profi, David Weik	Video recording: As enterprises face mounting complexity and regulatory pressure, the future of AI lies not in full autonomy - but in trusted autonomy. In this interactive session, witness a high-stakes showdown between three AI agents - deterministic, autonomous and hybrid - each designed with a unique philosophy on governance, decisioning and oversight. Built using SAS Intelligent Decisioning on SAS Viya, these agents tackle the same complex loan exception case with radically different approaches, exposing the real-world trade-offs between control, speed and trust. Discover how agentic AI, powered by SAS Viya, blends rule-based rigor with the reasoning of large language models, and how human oversight remains crucial in high-risk scenarios	source video
18	Building an AI Assistant With SAS Intelligent Decisioning and Azure OpenAI	Nicolas Robert	Video recording: Discover how to enhance AI assistant workflows by integrating SAS Intelligent Decisioning with Azure OpenAI. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to building your own AI assistant capable of redirecting chatbot conversations into trusted internal workflows. We'll demonstrate how Azure Logic Apps connects to a decision designed with SAS Intelligent Decisioning, enabling real-time decision logic execution. Manage conversations with the Azure OpenAI Assistant. Learn how to send the user inputs to a trusted decision and receive actionable insights. Join us to discover how this integration optimizes AI assistants and enhances customer experience through smart, automated processes	source video
19	Continuous Analytics for Predicting and Improving the Performance of Industrial Process Controls	Sean McGlothin, Sam Coyne	Video recording: Managing industrial factory processes comes with many challenges and demands, including keeping production schedules on track and meeting high quality standards. Factories are often unique environments requiring custom or semicustom solutions that join solid engineering domain knowledge with data-driven forecasts and recommendations. This session will describe how data scientists, expert engineers and operations teams collaborated to deliver data-driven, accurate and beneficial results	source video
20	Critical Shift: Real-Time Credit Decisions in the Cloud With SAS Viya and Python	Magnus Settemsli Mogstad, Lars Arne Skår	Video recording: Join us to explore how SAS and DNB, Norway's largest bank, transitioned from on-premises credit scoring to SAS Viya on Microsoft Azure, adopting Python for flexibility and leveraging SAS Container Runtime for enhanced scalability and uptime. As part of DNB's cloud-first strategy, DNB migrated from SAS 9.4 to Viya 4, adopting Python as the main programming language. Learn how they navigated regulatory compliance, aligned with corporate IT policies and successfully migrated to the cloud, retiring their on-premises environment on schedule. Gain practical insights from our journey!	source video
21	Data Ethics and AI Governance	Reggie Townsend, Allie DeLonay	Video recording: Join us for a demonstration in which theory meets practice in AI governance. See how you can address today's most pressing AI risks while enabling responsible innovation. Balance compliance considerations for any model, AI system, AI agent or use case. Be among the first to see a unique governance solution that can be applied to your organization's AI initiatives, regardless of technical background	source video
22	Data Lineage: An Origin Story	Karl from EY	Video recording: Data lineage traces the life cycle of data from its creation through various stages and transformations, ultimately to its final form. Understanding data lineage is vital for ensuring data integrity, compliance and trustworthiness in modern data management practices	source video
23	Deep Learning Training and Inference With SAS Viya Workbench Powered by Amazon SageMaker	Doug Mbaya	Video recording: In this session, we demonstrate how SAS Viya Workbench leverages Amazon SageMaker on-demand GPU resources to train, fine-tune and deploy models for AI/ML	source video
24	Digital Doppelgangers: Industry Applications of Data, AI and Game Development	William Collis, Paul Gavin	Video recording: Join the heads of SAS' games and simulation business as they reveal how advanced digital twin technology is revolutionizing industrial operations. Combining the power of video game simulation, data and advanced analytics, this session bridges the gap between virtual environments and real-world assets. Come see how techniques perfected in gaming - physics engines, real-time visualization and procedural generation - are now driving predictive maintenance, optimizing complex systems and enabling personalized experiences. Through live demos, they'll showcase how the immersive nature of game design creates intuitive interfaces for monitoring critical assets - ultimately saving costs, improving outcomes and transforming decision making	source video
25	Disruption-Proof Your Supply Chain With Strategic Optimization	Fang Liang, Subramanian Pazhani	Video recording: Supply chains have become increasingly fragile in recent years with constant disruptions, including geopolitical events, weather-related catastrophes, labor shortages, strained transportation capacity and volatile demand patterns. Currently, most organizations are typically reactive and siloed in their ability to respond and manage supply chain disruptions, causing increased operating costs and profit/revenue implications. The SAS Strategic Supply Chain Optimization model uniquely provides the best response to disruptions across the end-to-end supply chain using mathematical optimization with the objective of maximizing profit of the supply chain, by balancing supply chain costs and business constraints (sales goals, perishability, inventory)	source video
26	Enhancing ECL Model Performance in Banking: Leveraging the SAS CAS in SAS Viya	Kevin Reilly, Amy Buckley	Video recording: This session will delve into how the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine in SAS Viya significantly enhanced the performance of the expected credit loss (ECL) model in a major Irish bank. Participants will gain insights into how the shift from traditional SAS9 infrastructure to SAS CAS in Viya led to substantial productivity and performance gains, ultimately enabling the bank to innovate more efficiently. The session will cover the technical evolution, key outcomes and best practices for optimizing ECL models using SAS CAS in SAS Viya	source video
27	Enhancing Financial Crime Investigations Through Risk-Prioritized Network Generation	Steve Overton	Video recording: Financial crime investigators face many challenges when analyzing disconnected data to build cases to combat transnational crime. The inundation of information makes efficient analysis difficult when working to recognize patterns and prioritize leads to develop investigations. This presentation explores the challenges faced by law enforcement, AML professionals, financial intelligence units, and other investigators combating illicit finance through the use of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and other regulatory reports. We propose a data-driven approach to solving these challenges which leverages entity resolution, Natural Language Processing (NLP), network generation and network analytics. This approach enhances crime fighting capabilities by using risk-prioritization to efficiently triage the totality of information available, leading to a higher level of financial intelligence, more effective disruption of criminal networks, and increased recovery of assets	source video
28	Enhancing Predictive Policing With SAS Viya and AI: A Reliable Approach to Public Safety	Kinjal Chaudhari, Anushree Raol	Video recording: Effective crime management, such as predicting criminal activity and allocating resources, requires accurate, data-driven solutions. This session demonstrates how integrating SAS Viya with advanced AI/ML tools - beyond just Python and R - elevates the accuracy and reliability of predictive policing. By leveraging SAS Viya's robust analytics, this solution not only improves predictive capabilities but also reduces biases and supports fair, transparent decision making. Our project showcases how SAS can significantly enhance crime prediction models, providing a powerful tool for those responsible for managing public safety and community well-being	source video
29	Enterprise Decisioning - Streamline Customer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management	Carl Eastwood	Video recording: Link people, processes and technology across your organization to improve the speed and accuracy of your decisions. This session will provide a live demonstration of how SAS Intelligent Decisioning and SAS Visual Investigator can manage the entire customer onboarding journey. You will see how credit risk, fraud and financial crime business experts can collaborate, share data and improve customer outcomes by using a unified and common set of capabilities to manage risk	source video
30	Evolving With Intelligence: How Banks Transform CX With SAS and AWS	Peter Williams, Jan Zdobinský, Jakub Hytka	Video recording: Looking to turn data and AI into real marketing results? Join us for an engaging fireside chat with Moneta Money Bank as they share how modernizing their marketing with SAS Customer Intelligence 360 and SAS Intelligent Decisioning, powered by AWS, is leading to a measurable boost in digital sales and conversion rates. Hear directly from Moneta and experts from AWS and Trask as they walk through the bank's ongoing transformation journey - from siloed systems to real-time personalized offer management using streaming data. Along the way, learn how financial service organizations like Moneta are transforming with SAS and AWS, using the innovation of generative AI to better serve their customers	source video
31	Experience the Disruption: Marketing Analytics for SAS Customer Intelligence 360	Mac Carlton	Video recording: Marketers face growing challenges in making sense of complex data to drive actionable insights. Now the SAS Customer Intelligence 360 new module, Marketing AI, bridges this gap, offering out-of-the-box recipes to address common analytics use cases for marketing organizations. This session explores how the Marketing AI module allows marketers to be self-sufficient in running analytics at scale through a use case-driven solution that packages the best of SAS' analytical capabilities in a marketer-friendly interface	source video
32	Extreme SAS Viya Performance With the HPE GreenLake Flexible, Proven, Private Cloud Solution	Anshul Nagori	Video recording: Across industries and solutions, the numero uno requirement of all SAS Viya customers is high and reliable performance. This session demonstrates the stellar results of the performance characterization efforts conducted jointly by SAS and HPE on the co-engineered, private cloud HPE GreenLake Flex Solution built for SAS Viya on Red Hat OpenShift. Now you can move to SAS Viya confidently with HPE	source video
33	Flexible Predictive Modeling for Causal Inference Using PROC BART	Michael Lamm	Video recording: Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) are a flexible predictive modeling technique and top-performing method for causal inference. Learn about how you can fit these models and use them for causal effect estimation with the BART procedure	source video
34	From Code to Production: Implementing CI/CD in SAS Viya	Daan Bloem, Laurent de Walick	Video recording: In this presentation, we show how we've implemented a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline in SAS Viya to automate consistently reliable updates of our product across environments. We use Bitbucket for version control and to enable collaborative coding. We created an automated test and deployment pipeline to propagate changes committed to the repository across environments. See how we applied automation to reduce the risks of errors, accelerate development cycles, and improve the quality and speed of deployments to testing and production environments	source video
35	From Idea to Production With LLMs and SAS Viya	David Weik	Video recording: In this super demo, we will take a look at how levaraging the SAS Viya platform can accelerate our time from deciding which large language models (LLMs) we should be using for our use case, running prompt engineering in a no-code and a yes-code fashion, tracking every experiment, deploying our prompt as part of a decision, and monitoring the usage and cost in the production system. We will work through a concrete use case, handling customer complaints, and also take a look at how guardrailing LLMs with classic natural language processing (NLP) techniques can improve the outcomes	source video
36	From Waste to Savings: Modernizing Procurement With Data and AI	Mary Joy	Video recording: According to a 2022 World Bank blog, governments waste as much as US$3.25 trillion each year in "inefficient or shortsighted procurement practices." Corporations also aren't immune to procurement fraud, waste and abuse. Other studies show 52% of companies above $10 billion in global annual revenues as having experienced fraud within the past 24 months. This super demo will illustrate how SAS applies data and AI across the organization's procure-to-pay life cycle. From supplier due diligence to invoicing, payables and spend analysis, the SAS Payment Integrity for Procurement software solution helps organizations surface potential cost savings, process improvements and legal/compliance risks buried within internal systems	source video
37	Generative AI Guide; Demystifying the Microsoft AI Ecosystem	Eduardo J. Joia	Video recording: Explore business outcomes, platform alignment and platform stacks. Learn how to enrich employee experiences, reinvent customer engagement, reshape business processes and bend the curve on innovation. AI agent, autonomous agents, and Agentic AI are among the topics discussed	source video
38	Getting Started With SAS Viya Workbench Including Configuration	Henrique Consolini Danc, Winnie Tran	Video recording: This super demo will showcase how easy it is to get started with SAS Viya Workbench by showing how to configure and start using it. SAS Viya Workbench is a cloud-based environment that empowers developers, data scientists and modelers to easily conduct data management, analysis and model development using SAS or Python code through Visual Studio Code or Jupyter Notebook interfaces. SAS Viya Workbench is a software-as-a-service offering that leverages a split-plane topology - allowing SAS to manage the software while customers still keep ownership and control of their data	source video
39	Health Care Data Intelligence: Employing a Best-of-Breed Approach	John C. Brocklebank, Savera Tanwir	Video recording: This presentation will provide a strategic roadmap for organizations looking to adopt a best-of-breed approach to healthcare analytics, tackling challenges like large data volumes, diverse user needs, and the complexity of advanced analytics. Attendees will learn how to utilize SAS Viya Workbench, SAS Viya, and Snowflake to efficiently manage and analyze healthcare data. Healthcare data is vast and often unstructured, coming from a wide range of sources such as patient records, clinical trials, insurance claims, medical imaging, wearables, and more. The session will showcase how these tools can drive innovation, optimize patient care, enhance operational performance, and uncover actionable insights. By the end, attendees will gain a clear understanding of how to leverage these technologies to create a scalable, future-ready healthcare analytics infrastructure	source video
40	How Analytics Is Used to Identify Health Risks and Prevent Work Disability	Petra Sohlman, Antti Heino	Video recording: Keva is the largest pension provider in Finland, serving 1.3 million pensioners and employees. Statistics show that early retirement due to work-related disability has been constantly increasing, and the related costs are spiraling upward. Keva and SAS have been working together to solve this issue by extracting new risk indicators using text analytics and creating even more powerful predictive models to understand underlying risk factors. Join us as we show how text analytics and machine learning can be used to identify and prevent work-related disability in the public sector. Keva can help public sector organizations predict and prevent work-related disability so that employees remain healthy during their careers and long after	source video
41	Hyperpersonalization in an Otherwise Impersonal World	Regan Yan	Video recording: With the surge of marketing channels and a never-ending stream of messages, consumers are overwhelmed by impersonal and often irrelevant offers from businesses. Today's consumers want content that is engaging and tailored to their current needs. However, many marketers still rely on outdated spray-and-pray tactics, which can erode brand loyalty. By embracing hyperpersonalization, marketers can deliver targeted, one-to-one communications that align with what customers want in their preferred channels. This session will review how marketers can break free of their old marketing habits and use SAS Customer Intelligence 360 and Digital Alchemy's Automation by Design toolkit to elevate and hyperpersonalize their marketing	source video
42	Improving Operational Efficiency in the Health Care Workplace	Heather Hallett	Video recording: The health care system is facing a significant caregiver shortage, with a projected need for 3.2 million health care workers by 2026. Increased emergency room utilization, driven by a shortage of primary care providers, is exacerbated by intensifying behavioral and mental health needs, limited inpatient beds and staffing imbalances that hinder patient flow. These trends - coupled with increased health care demand, social health issues, fragmented care, future pandemics, aging populations, and rising obesity and chronic diseases - are putting additional strain on health care systems. See how SAS analytics can be applied across a health care delivery organization's value chain to improve operational efficiency	source video
43	Improving Patient Adherence: SAS Medication Adherence Risk	Jennifer Hargrove	Video recording: Medication adherence has long been a measure of patient health outcomes and a key factor in regulatory quality assessments for health care organizations. However, only half of patients adhere to their chronic medication ( Medication Adherence: WHO Cares? , Marie T. Brown and Jennifer K. Bussell). The SAS Medication Adherence Risk model uses machine learning to identify patients' risk of being nonadherent based on past patient behavior, patient demographics and social determinants of health data. In this presentation, we will give an overview of the SAS Medication Adherence Risk product, demonstrate how to implement SAS Medication Adherence Risk using health care data, and examine how the output can be visualized in a report	source video
44	Innovate Your Experiments: DOE Meets Synthetic Data	Nassim Rahimi, Nate Cox	Video recording: In today's rapidly evolving analytics landscape, organizations face the challenge of uniting diverse, multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful business outcomes. This session brings to life the journey of a geographically dispersed team of five data scientists, each with unique expertise and proficiencies in different coding languages, tools and methodologies. Led by a business leader as narrator, the session demonstrates how the team tackles a complex, end-to-end analytics project. Working across independent data and analytic pipelines, the team integrates modern cloud providers, on-premises environments and legacy data stores to deliver a critical business solution	source video
45	Insights Into Data Integration: Using Data Integration Steps in SAS Studio Flows	Grace Barnhill	Video recording: Are you having difficulty with your data integration process? Take advantage of SAS Viya by using point-and-click data integration steps in SAS Studio Flows! In this session, you'll learn about the Load Table, Merge Table, Implement SCD, Lookup and Execute Decisions steps. With these steps, you can handle tasks like loading tables into new locations, updating rows, inserting new data, reloading an existing table, tracking historical changes, enabling database processing options and more with ease. In addition, you'll uncover how the data integration steps can take advantage of your databases, lookup tables or SAS Decisions without leaving the SAS Studio Flows interface	source video
46	Intel & SAS: Instant Performance Boosts On-Prem or Cloud	Sheik Mohamed Imran, Jorge Silva	Video recording: Learn how the latest Intel hardware refreshes can instantly enhance performance for SAS applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. This class explores the seamless integration of Intel's cutting-edge technology with SAS, delivering immediate improvements in processing speed and efficiency. Learn how upgrading to the newest Intel hardware can drive innovation and optimize your AI and analytics workloads, ensuring top-tier performance and energy efficiency	source video
47	Introducing SAS Viya Copilot in Model Studio	Ben Tomlinson	Video recording: Explore the powerful SAS Viya Copilot in Model Studio, an advanced tool designed to streamline the creation of machine learning pipelines. Using the SAS generative AI platform, Viya Copilot intelligently suggests the next node to add, recommends improvements to enhance existing nodes and provides clear explanations of node results. It also serves as an interactive assistant, answering user questions about Model Studio and pipeline development. This demo will showcase how Viya Copilot simplifies and accelerates the machine learning process, driving efficiency and accuracy in complex analytics	source video
48	Investigating Corruption and Money Laundering Crimes With SAS Viya \| Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro	Andre Drumond	Video recording: The state of Rio de Janeiro has the most complex criminal investigations in Brazil - and among the most complex in the world. Mainly these crimes are related to drug trafficking, paramilitary organizations (milícias) and illegal gambling. These investigations require the composition of myriad different sources of structured and unstructured data. Join this session to see how law enforcement authorities use SAS to get a 360-degree view of their investigations and see clear, detailed analyses of crime dynamics	source video
49	Kick-Starting Research With SAS Viya Workbench and Quantum Solvers	Yan Xu, Alex Condello	Video recording: Quantum computing is an emerging technology with significant disruptive potential for many industries. The lift to get started is large, and everyone from data scientists to CEOs wants to understand how to kick-start their research. The experiment showcased in this presentation highlights an example of how developers could use tools like SAS Viya Workbench to kickstart their quantum research with access to third-party quantum vendors	source video
50	Leveraging Generative AI as a Developer for Creating SAS Intelligent Decisioning Rules	Rodrigo D'Ambros, Lucas Paulin	Video recording: This business case proposes the use of generative AI integrated with SAS Intelligent Decisioning APIs to suggest rules and optimize the time between specification and coding. The solution automates the generation of rules based on textual inputs, offering suggestions and validating the consistency of the rules in real time. The expected outcome is a reduction in development time, increased accuracy in rule definition, and more efficient collaboration between business specialists and developers	source video
51	Machine Learning and Network Analytics for Fraud Detection at the Largest Bank in Central Europe	Adam Siok, Marcin Nadolny	Video recording: Successful fraud prevention requires combining multiple disparate business process touchpoints, data, domain monitoring systems and advanced analytics into one solution. PKO Bank Polski implemented a holistic fraud detection approach across the customer life cycle - from customer onboarding to payments. During this presentation, we will focus on application fraud detection both in retail and SME customer segments. We'll also explore mule account detection and customer susceptibility models to phishing. We will describe the variety of machine learning models that were used along with network analytics, and how it led to increased fraud detection and reduction of false positives	source video
52	Machine Learning and Optimization Creates Golden Batch for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing	Samiul Haque	Video recording: Ensuring the desired quality and yield in pharmaceutical manufacturing hinges on establishing optimal control variables. Suboptimal controls can result in batch failures, product recalls, equipment underutilization and delays in market availability. However, existing process design methods in the pharmaceutical industry rely heavily on empirical knowledge, which often fails to find the optimal controls. In this project, we developed a multiphased, data-driven optimization method that can capture the complex effect of control patterns of key process parameters on the key performance indicators (KPIs) and can provide recommendations to achieve the optimal "golden batch" for penicillin production in a bioreactor	source video
53	Make a Difference With SAS Data Maker	Brett Wujek, Sundaresh Sankaran	Video recording: The ability to generate realistic synthetic data holds great promise for supporting analytics and AI development efforts where data is scarce, inaccessible or insufficient. In this demonstration, you will see how SAS Data Maker can be used to enrich and enhance data to improve model accuracy, creating the potential to affect business decisions that lead to cost savings and improved customer experience	source video
54	Mapping Made Magical: Modernizing Model Implementation	Jim Georges, Luis Flynn	Video recording: Data Mapper automates the complex task of mapping customer data to the formats required by SAS analytic products. Traditionally a labor-intensive process, data preparation often delays implementation and inflates service costs. Data Mapper solves this by using generative AI to intelligently align disparate data sources with target models, producing executable code, mapping schemas, and documentation. Through an intuitive web interface and natural language collaboration, Data Mapper accelerates time-to-value, reduces implementation costs and transforms services into scalable software - helping organizations unlock analytics faster and more efficiently	source video
55	Model Governance - A Deep Dive: Using Python Models, Model Cards and SAS Viya	Vrushali Sawant, Briana Ullman	Video recording: This deep-dive session focuses on the development, deployment and documentation of Python machine learning models using SAS Viya Workbench and SAS Model Manager. Learn to build a simple Python model in SAS Viya Workbench, seamlessly register it in SAS Model Manager for governance and create a model card. We'll explore key components of a robust model card, including purpose, intended use, limitations and ethical considerations. By the end, you'll understand the entire model life cycle within the Viya ecosystem - development, deployment and responsible documentation	source video
56	Modernizing to SAS Viya - Tips, Tricks and Lessons Learned	Gary Mehler	Video recording: SAS Viya 4 provides a lot of improvements for SAS users, as well as opportunities to modernize your content in terms of improving security, transitioning to a long-term data storage strategy and determining where the key business value is. In addition to discussing how SAS applications can assist with this process, we will also cover how some organizations have already completed their modernization and what has worked well for them. We will also cover the importance of developing a planning roadmap to achieve the most successful modernization outcome	source video
57	More Muggles, More Macros: Adding Advanced Data-Driven Wizardry to Your SAS Programs	Richann J. Watson, Joshua M. Horstman	Video recording: In their popular 2024 presentation, From Muggles to Macros , Horstman and Watson delivered a spell book full of macro magic to enhance SAS programs with data-driven wizardry. This exciting sequel to that enchanting performance adds to the list of incantations for creating dynamic, flexible, reusable programs that automatically adapt to change. New charms include using control tables, the CALL EXECUTE routine and more macro language techniques. Don't hard-code data values into your programs. Cast a vanishing spell on data dependencies and let the macro facility write your SAS code for you!	source video
58	Multiple Parents and Other Interactive Modeling Node Enhancements in SAS Visual Forecasting	William Benfield	Video recording: SAS Visual Forecasting provides end-to-end capabilities to automate your forecasting process using time series, machine learning and deep learning techniques. In this session, we'll showcase our latest enhancements to the Interactive Modeling node functionality. As part of the automation, the parent model with the best statistical measure for each time series will be chosen as the champion. The interactive modeling node allows you to analyze and view series, perform model diagnostics, create custom models, compare models, and manually set model champions on a series-by-series basis to improve the quality of the forecasts	source video
59	New Features and Performance Improvements in SAS Econometrics	Xilong Chen	Video recording: SAS Econometrics software keeps improving its capabilities to meet increasingly complex analytical requirements. Among these improvements, the simulation smoother method is added to the CSSM procedure so that you can obtain the joint sampling distribution of latent states and then generate any time series data by following the same pattern in the observed data or calculate forecasts and confidence bands for arbitrary functions of response variables. A new algorithm in the CAUSALDISCOVERY procedure leads to a speedup of several orders of magnitude and enables the discovery of causal relationships among thousands of variables. The global optimization algorithm is now parallelized in the `HMM` procedure to make use of all available CPUs	source video
60	Optimizing Risk-Based Pricing for Customer Onboarding Using Synthetic Scenarios	Luiz Kauffmann	Video recording: In this demonstration, we will utilize synthetic data algorithms in SAS Data Maker to simulate feasible economic scenarios based on historical data. These scenarios will calibrate loan pricing according to credit and fraud risk. We will deploy a risk-based pricing calculator by optimizing loan pricing policies implemented in SAS Intelligent Decisioning software and leveraging SAS Risk Engine solution capabilities. This approach is crucial for the financial industry as it enhances decision-making processes, improves risk management, and ensures more accurate and fair pricing strategies for enterprise customer onboarding. Additionally, it enables financial institutions to incorporate loan provision and economic capital planning	source video
61	Optimizing Value-Based Programs with Cost of Care Analytics in SAS Health	Lina Clover	Video recording: Value-based health care is a challenging paradigm for organizations aiming to optimize patient outcomes while reducing the overall cost of care. SAS addresses this challenge with an intuitive, multistep process that calculates the episode of care cost for various health care conditions and procedures. It identifies complications and adverse outcomes, attributes costs to specific providers based on clinical business rules, and adjusts costs based on patient risks and regional variations. Care Analytical Accelerator powered by SAS Health provides a transparent, robust and user-friendly episodic engine, enabling organizations to conduct in-depth evaluations of health care costs and outcomes, presented through intuitive visual reports and dashboards	source video
62	Overcoming Challenges in RWE Generation: The AI-SAS for RWE Approach	Yoshitake Kitanishi, Yuki Yoshida, Takuji Komeda	Video recording: Shionogi developed AI-SAS, a product that semiautomates programming tasks for clinical trials, achieving a 33% reduction in work time. Our achievement, including AI-SAS, won first place in the Innovative Problem Solver category at the 2024 SAS Customer Recognition Awards and is also provided externally as part of our social contribution efforts. In July 2024, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a guideline enabling the use of real-world evidence (RWE) in drug approval applications. Shionogi expanded AI-SAS to develop RWE incorporating generative AI technology. The semiautomation process covers protocol, SAP, and spec creation, considering FDA guideline compliance, and can achieve a 50% reduction in work time. This product is also planned for external provision	source video
63	Redefining Risk Analytics Through Generative AI: The SAS ALM Advantage	Rocco Cannizzaro	Video recording: Financial institutions are under increasing pressure to effectively manage market risk while adapting to rapidly changing economic conditions. In particular, the prospect of multiple interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve over a short horizon can significantly alter a bank's portfolio risk and liquidity profile, heightening concerns of adverse outcomes such as a bank run. Traditional stress testing and scenario analyses to quantify these risks often require days - or even weeks - to configure, run and interpret. This demo shows how generative AI capabilities within the SAS Asset and Liability Management solution can dramatically simplify and expedite this process, enabling decision makers to act with greater speed and confidence	source video
64	Reducing Payment Errors: SAS Payment Integrity for Food Assistance	Shawn Romero	Video recording: The US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) has seen a rise in payment errors from 2019 through 2024, from $4 billion to $10 billion per year. A portion of the errors are due to deliberate fraud, which usually accounts for 1%-2% of the lost dollars. As a result, building systems that focus solely on fraud presents an asymmetric value proposition that's unstainable when 98% of improper payments are due to inadvertent agency and household mistakes. However, the traditional process of identifying payment errors is divided into fraud and non-fraud detection strategies, which are cumbersome and inefficient. The SAS Payment Integrity for Food Assistance model aids the quality control teams in risk assessment to identify cases most likely to have payment errors	source video
65	Responsible AI: Building ModelOps Processes With SAS Model Manager	Sophia Rowland	Video recording: AI is being used throughout our world in the systems and tools we use every day, which also means that AI is being used irresponsibly throughout our world. Irresponsible usage of AI incurs a cost, but it is not always a financial cost. SAS Model Manager is a leading solution for model management and includes several new and existing features for using models more responsibly. In this session, we'll walk through what features SAS Model Manager has to support responsible and trustworthy AI, including our model card, Trustworthy AI Life Cycle Workflow, model locking and more	source video
66	Revenue Agency Modernization Doesn't Have to be a Taxing Experience!	Teya Dyan	Video recording: SAS empowers tax authorities all over the globe with the best of advanced analytics, responsible AI and machine learning to collect revenue and prevent fraud. SAS Tax Compliance is an enterprise-level analytics solution that gives agencies THE POWER TO KNOW. Advanced analytics helps increase voluntary compliance, detect fraud, optimize collections, enhance audit selection, forecast revenue, report results and continually use machine learning to make improvements. Using SAS allows tax agencies to modernize processes; increase transparency, efficiency and effectiveness; make sense of the abundant amount of data from internal and external sources; and gain comprehensive insights that avoid information overload or decision paralysis	source video
67	SAS Driven Consumer Reporting Compliance Analysis Solution	Titas Sarker, Nikolai Ugrinsky	Video recording: This session demonstrates how SAS software helps financial institutions analyze and simulate data to ensure regulatory compliance, preventing incomplete or inaccurate credit reporting. SAS integrates data from various legacy systems and leverages stored procedures and direct data operations within SAS Enterprise Guide. This allows for complex time series calculations and aggregations that meet regulatory standards and reporting requirements	source video
68	SAS Flood Prediction and Preparedness Solution	Katy Salamati	Video recording: Municipalities around the globe are at risk of flooding from natural (rain, snow, hurricanes, tidal surge, etc.) and unnatural (water main breaks, system failures, etc.) events. Population growth and urbanization compound these risks each year. Having little to no visibility into factors such as rising river levels or water speed makes it impossible to respond promptly to flooding incidents. Powered by SAS Analytics for IoT and Azure IoT, our solution combines easy-to-deploy solar-powered sensors and cloud-based predictive analytics to improve your real-time situational awareness. With the SAS flood solution, public sector gains real-time situational awareness that enables enhanced emergency preparedness and swift response	source video
69	SAS Intelligent Planning Just Got Smarter With Generative AI	Cody Shive	Video recording: Generative AI is getting a lot of attention, but what can it do for the planner who needs to understand the impacts of their decisions? What if your planner could look at their current insights, demand plan, forecast units and ask a question? Now SAS Copilot for Intelligent Planning gives planners that extra level of confidence by allowing them to ask questions and quickly get answers that would normally require time-consuming analysis. In this session, you will experience firsthand how SAS Copilot for Intelligent Planning puts your planners back in the driver's seat	source video
70	SAS Payment Integrity Models for Health Care	Jay King	Video recording: SAS' Payment Integrity models for health care allow customers to alert on and prioritize potential fraud, waste and abuse by providers or for specific claims. By providing prebuilt data management processes, prebuilt data models, visualizations and analytics, consumers of the models will have the most up-to-date information, allowing them to spend less time looking for information and focus more time on making data-informed decisions	source video
71	SAS Studio: A Next-Level Transformation Coming Soon!	Samantha DuPont	Video recording: A major transformation of SAS Studio is coming soon! As the needs of our customers have evolved and grown more complex, we've focused on developing a platform that can keep pace. This reinvestment is designed to support a more modern, extensible architecture, delivering significant improvements across the board. Expect faster data retrieval, a more responsive user interface and more powerful features on the horizon - all part of our commitment to providing an even better experience on top of the familiar SAS Studio interface	source video
72	SAS Viya and LLMs to Enhance Public Sector Efficiency	Joep Baum	Video recording: Public sector organizations face increasing demands to process large volumes of documents and respond quickly to data inquiries. In SAS Viya, using SAS Visual Text Analytics with large language models (LLMs) offers innovative solutions for streamlining and automating these tasks. By extracting key information from documents and enabling advanced data search, SAS Viya and LLMs empower teams to improve efficiency, accuracy and consistency in data handling. With this approach, we'll demonstrate the transformative potential of AI-powered tools in managing complex workflows and enhancing public sector operations in two use cases	source video
73	SAS Viya Innovation Lab - Accelerated Results Through Partnership	David Cruickshank	Video recording: The SAS Viya Innovation Lab is a zero-cost initiative that focuses on SAS Viya skill development through focused training in a dedicated, collaborative environment. The purpose of the lab is to accelerate select Viya use cases through their journeys to realize early benefits from our investment while the rest of the organization ramps up	source video
74	SAS Viya: A Private Cloud Deployment	Adolfo Lopez	Video recording: Deploying SAS Viya on a cluster with restricted administration privileges presents various challenges. This session provides an overview of how JPMorganChase partnered with SAS to solve the problem when privileges need to be restricted. Join this session to learn how to address the limitations inherent to deploying on a multitenant cluster	source video
75	SAS9 to SAS Viya: How to Streamline Your Migration	Eric Lacombe	Video recording: Migrating from SAS9 to SAS Viya can seem highly complex and quite stressful. But it doesn't have to be. Based on a pragmatic approach, this presentation intends to demystify the process and show how to improve migration scope sizing and reduce risks. Eric Lacombe will explain an approach to get the most out of your environment assessment, including tips to improve your current SAS asset management and different ways to handle shadow IT. Since data is critical in a migration project, the speaker will also share a method to facilitate the data usage mapping across the SAS environment. He will also provide insight into data blind spots, such as encoding and data representation	source video
76	Seamless Insights: Embedding SAS Visual Analytics Insights Into Your Operational Apps	Quinten van Dissel	Video recording: In partnership with leading manufacturers, we revolutionized their data experience by embedding SAS Visual Analytics dashboards into their existing applications. This integration allows users to access advanced analytical insights alongside real-time data they already monitor. With SAS Visual Analytics SDK and the flexibility of SAS Viya, we seamlessly embedded dashboards into operational apps, enhancing data accessibility and decision making without disrupting existing workflows	source video code
77	Secure Your SAS9 Applications Using Multi-Factor Authentication	Zhiyong Li	Video recording: Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is essential for secure enterprise applications, and SAS9 customers increasingly request it for their web-based SAS applications. This session introduces MFA features in the next SAS 9.4 maintenance release , including a unified MFA solution via SAS Logon Manager and Central Authentication Service (CAS). CAS-simple enables quick, configuration-free setup, while Google Authenticator offers industry-standard support. The solution supports diverse SAS9 products, applications and client types - browser, command-line, standalone and batch - with flexible MFA bypass policies. Comprehensive configuration guidance ensures seamless adoption across single-server, multiserver, and mid-tier cluster deployments	source video
78	Security Changes Affecting SAS9 Systems	Tony Brown	Video recording: Beginning with SAS 9.4M8, SAS Foundation servers use the SSL libraries provided by the OS on which SAS is deployed. In the case of FIPS (and as a SAS recommendation), recent SSL library enhancements necessitate SAS Foundation servers be configured to use the NETENCRYPTALGORITHM or its alias, NETENCRALG = SSL, to specify the use of the TLS protocol for encrypted communications. SAS is improving automation for configuring the SAS system to use TLS. In addition, beginning with PostgreSQL version 14 or later, if FIPS is enabled the hashing functions required for authentication are routed to OpenSSL and must be SCRAM-SHA-256. SAS9 is planning multi-factor authentication for the middle tier and support for IBM Z Multi-Factor Authentication	source video
79	Simplify the Customer Journey: SAS Customer Intelligence 360	Steve Hill	Video recording: A typical enterprise marketing organization has 89 applications in their MarTech stack. That's not simple. Data analysts and marketers waste precious time moving data and coordinating marketing campaigns across this array of apps. See how the new SAS Customer Intelligence 360 journeys feature allows you to orchestrate, personalize and execute multichannel campaigns in an easy-to-use canvas. See how out-of-the-box insights help marketers analyze engagement. Join this demo to see how you can leverage SAS Customer Intelligence 360 journeys to engage with customers in any channel and maximize your marketing	source video
80	Spotlight on Real-Time Insights: SAS and SingleStore	Dan Soceanu, Casper Pedersen	Video recording: You heard about it on mainstage, now join us at the Spotlight Stage for a deeper dive. We'll share how SAS SpeedyStore combines the advanced analytics of SAS Viya with SingleStore's high-performance SQL database in a cloud-native solution. SAS processing is brought closer to the data, reducing costs and boosting productivity. Learn how this unified environment delivers powerful, actionable intelligence at scale, meeting today's complex data challenges with next-generation analytics and AI	source video
81	Streamline Your Migration to SAS Viya 4 With Time-Saving Automation	Gary Mehler	Video recording: Streamline your migration to SAS Viya 4 with automation to save time and reduce manual migration effort. Today you may have code included in SAS9 products such as SAS Data Integration Studio or SAS Enterprise Guide. When using SAS9 Content Assessment applications such as SAS9 Code Check to identify code compatibility issues and SAS9 Modify SAS Code to update identified hardcoded paths in your code before migration, you probably also want a way to migrate the hard-coded path changes and simplify your migration automatically. Don't miss this opportunity to see how SAS transforms this migration into a simplified, automated experience designed to set you up for success in SAS Viya!	source video
82	Strengthening Fraud Prevention Strategies With Generative AI: Innovations and Practical Approaches	Mauro A. Souza Filho, Lucas Palin	Video recording: This presentation will explore how generative AI transforms the development of detection and prevention strategies for banking fraud. We will demonstrate what we developed using SAS tools and generative AI, and how it is applied in a proof of concept (POC) with Santander Bank Brazil	source video
83	Super Demo: See the Updated SAS Data Maker	Shawn Pecze	Video recording: This super demo will show the updated version of SAS Data Maker , which now integrates many new and exciting features resulting from the SAS acquisition of the Hazy synthetic data software. We will showcase the ability to generate data from multiple tables, as well as show off some of the new generation methods that will soon be available in SAS Data Maker	source video
84	Supercharge Predictive Maintenance With Generative AI	Saurabh Mishra	Video recording: Generative AI has emerged as a transformative force, not only enabling new innovations but also enhancing existing solutions such as predictive maintenance. This session will explore its applications within industrial sectors such as manufacturing, focusing on how capabilities like large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) can complement machine learning-based predictive maintenance approaches by generating detailed, contextual and actionable insights. By combining the strengths of generative AI and traditional ML, organizations can achieve significant improvements in productivity and operational performance	source video
85	Surfing the Cloud Frontier: Setting Up and Using SAS Viya Workbench for the First Time	Joe Matise	Video recording: SAS Viya Workbench is a new offering from SAS, a cloud-native SAS experience that allows users to create workspaces on demand. Coders and developers can use the same SAS they know and love in the cloud, alongside a Python installation that provides the option to use the right tool for the job - all in a self-service platform in the cloud. We will share our journey as one of the earlier SAS Viya Workbench adopters, from accepting the offer on the AWS Marketplace to filling out the CloudFormation template and customizing the installation to fit our needs. We'll also share the first experiences we had as users of Viya Workbench, as both SAS and Python users, and some tips for getting the most out of SAS Viya Workbench	source video
86	Text Analytics and Generative AI for Public Sector	Tom Sabo	Video recording: In this presentation, we showcase SAS Viya as the solution platform of choice for a variety of public sector use cases depending on audience interest and areas of focus. Each use case involves the analysis of unstructured data to determine how to take a course of action. We will show how to leverage SAS Visual Text Analytics, SAS Studio and generative AI to address these challenges, and how end users would leverage the results in interactive dashboards. In particular, we will highlight how text analytics and generative AI in a multimodal approach provide a system that is more accurate, where answers are directly verifiable. We will also relate the use cases to challenges in the commercial and public health sector	source video
87	The 2025 SAS Generative AI Product Strategy	Brett Wujek	Video recording: Join us for a comprehensive overview of SAS' 2025 GenAI product strategy. The demo covers SAS' large language model (LLM) and "more than LLMs" strategy. This includes updates about the SAS Viya Copilot offering to help you conversationally query SAS Viya 4 tools to increase productivity, and to enable you to accelerate industry-focused workflows. We will answer frequently asked questions about the SAS Viya Copilot offering's SaaS-based, flexible infrastructure "powered by" SAS IP and backed by Microsoft services. We will discuss third-party LLM tool integration with Viya to BYO "LLM Application Stack." We will share SAS' approach to rolling out our LLM-centric "Trustworthy and Secure by Design" roadmap, addressing topics like emergent regulation and high-demand guardrail functionality. As part of our "more than LLMs" strategy, we will spotlight SAS Data Maker for synthetic data generation, with updates showcasing how SAS' Hazy acquisition augments and accelerates the SAS Data Maker roadmap	source video
88	The SAS + Microsoft Partnership Driving the Future of Generative AI in SAS Viya Copilot	Leigh Cullen, Kirk Hofer	Video recording: In this session, we will explore the collaboration between SAS and Microsoft aimed at delivering cutting-edge generative AI capabilities within SAS Viya Copilot. Built on the robust, secure foundation of Microsoft's AI services, the partnership highlights how introducing generative AI helps enhance the productivity and creativity of SAS Viya users. Join us as we discuss the integration of Azure AI services with SAS Viya to help deliver on the promise of enabling customers to build secure, scalable AI-powered solutions	source video
89	Transforming Clinical Programming With SAS Clinical Acceleration	Kim Peplinski	Video recording: In today's clinical landscape, organizations are under increasing pressure to accelerate time to submission while maintaining the highest data standards and integrity. Maintaining a robust audit log, ensuring high levels of compliance and achieving end-to-end traceability are critical challenges that must be addressed efficiently. This demonstration will showcase how SAS Clinical Acceleration provides a powerful solution to address these challenges while driving business value. Through a live demo, we showcase how clinical programmers can streamline workflows and reduce manual overhead, helping organizations optimize productivity	source video
90	Turbocharge Your SAS Viya Modernization With AI	Axel Siliadin	Video recording: Is your SAS Viya modernization journey hitting roadblocks? Struggling to justify the business case or realize value? Join us as we unveil how AI and generative AI can supercharge your SAS modernization efforts. Imagine leveraging AI to understand and generate programs and data, slash risks, cut costs, bridge talent gaps and speed up timeliness. Discover how GenAI can be the game changer your SAS modernization program needs to leap ahead and deliver unparalleled value. We will showcase real-world examples of organizations that have successfully leveraged AI to transform their SAS environments. Learn about the best practices and strategies that can help you overcome common challenges and maximize the benefits of your modernization efforts	source video
91	Unleashing SAS Viya Power Anywhere With Red Hat OpenShift	Patrick Farley, Firas Yasin	Video recording: In today's data-driven business with a special focus on AI, the demand for flexible and scalable analytics solutions is taking center stage. SAS Viya, a cutting-edge analytics platform, offers unparalleled capabilities for data analysis, machine learning and AI-driven insights. However, the challenge lies in ensuring seamless deployment and management across diverse environments. In this session we will demonstrate the transformative synergy between SAS Viya and Red Hat OpenShift. By leveraging the agility and portability of Red Hat OpenShift, organizations can take SAS Viya anywhere - from on-premises data centers to multicloud environments	source video
92	Unlock SAS Viya Workbench Multi-Language Architecture Capabilities	David Zanter	Video recording: We are introducing cutting-edge functionality to redefine analytics execution. Built on SAS Viya Workbench's multi-language architecture (MLA), we are expanding SPRE's capabilities by supporting Python, R and SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS)-enabled PROCs within the SAS Programming environment. This innovation simplifies workload execution and enhances user flexibility without requiring a CAS server. This demo showcases how SAS Viya allows seamless integration of new analytics capabilities, transforming SAS Viya into a comprehensive, multi-language, compute-driven platform	source video
93	Unlocking Enterprise Knowledge With GenAI: A Collaborative Innovation Between Weaviate and SAS	Daniele Cazzari, Erika Cardenas	Video recording: Discover how SAS and Weaviate are transforming enterprise knowledge management with generative AI. This session highlights an innovative solution that simplifies the data preparation of documents and images for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) through a no-code approach. Learn how to build applications on top of your internal data with any foundational large language model (LLM) and evaluate and refine data preparation with greater accuracy and relevance. Discover how Weaviate's database and SAS advanced analytics enable you to unlock insights faster, streamline decision making and build personalized experiences using generative feedback loops	source video
94	Unlocking the Power of Multimodal Agentic Applications With a Real-Time Database	Kyle Basile	Video recording: Modern enterprises require AI-driven applications that can process and act on diverse data streams - including structured, unstructured and real-time event data - without latency. By leveraging a real-time database, we enable multimodal agentic applications that dynamically integrate text, voice, video and financial data to drive intelligent decision making	source video
95	Using AI to Unlock New Levels of Productivity	Manisha Khanna, Briana Ullman	Video recording: In the fast-paced world of AI, a lack of strategic alignment can lead to inefficiencies, misalignment and missed opportunities, putting enterprises at risk of falling behind. This presentation, titled "AI for the Enterprise," proposes an integrated AI blueprint to enable every element of an enterprise's AI strategy, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and innovation. With SAS, our customers can confidently navigate the AI landscape, leveraging our expertise to transform their AI initiatives into a powerful engine for growth and success	source video
96	Using SAS DATA Steps to Examine Effectiveness of State-Level Defensive Driving Program	Humberto Cisneros, Richard Rivera	Video recording: This session demonstrates how SAS `DATA STEP` was used in a recidivism study to assess the effectiveness of a state-level defensive driving program. Using existing data from court case management systems, we will show how SAS `DATA STEP`	source video
97	Using SAS Model Manager to Deploy Models Trained in SAS Viya Workbench	Sophia Rowland	Video recording: SAS Model Manager, a leading ModelOps solution, brings together models from multiple sources into one common model repository. From SAS Model Manager , models can be managed, compared, tested, deployed, and monitored. SAS Viya Workbench provides a lightweight programming interface to advanced analytical capabilities from SAS. In this session, we will discuss the integration points of these two solutions and how users can move their best models from SAS Viya Workbench to SAS Model Manager for model management, deployment, and more	source video
98	Using SAS With Microsoft 365: A Programming Approach	Chris Hemedinger	Video recording: In today's cloud-connected world, traditional methods of accessing `EXCEL` data from SAS are becoming obsolete. With more content stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive (hosted in Microsoft 365), it can be challenging to get SAS to read these files and publish new ones to these locations. This presentation guides you through the steps of connecting your SAS programs to Microsoft 365 using the Microsoft Graph APIs , enabling you to read and write files to SharePoint folders, OneDrive folders and Microsoft Teams	source video code
99	Validating Your SAS Choice: The Next Generation of Analytics Starring SAS Viya	Jen Dunham	Video recording: In today's rapidly evolving analytics landscape, organizations face the challenge of uniting diverse, multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful business outcomes. This session brings to life the journey of a geographically dispersed team of five data scientists, each with unique expertise and proficiencies in different coding languages, tools and methodologies. Led by a business leader as narrator, the session demonstrates how the team tackles a complex, end-to-end analytics project. Working across independent data and analytic pipelines, the team integrates modern cloud providers, on-premises environments and legacy data stores to deliver a critical business solution	source video
100	What's New With SAS 9.4M9?	Joe Hatcher	Video recording: Join us for a Super Demo highlighting what is new with SAS 9.4 M9. You will learn about: Comprehensive security enhancements in SAS 9.4M9. New operating system baselines for M9. Beneficial new features in M9. Upgrading in place for major versions of an operating system. Using the System Evaluation Tool to ensure a smooth upgrade. There will also be time for questions about future plans for SAS 9.4	source video
101	What's New With SAS Viya Workbench	Alice McClure, Joseph Henry	Video recording: Looking to hear about the latest updates to SAS Viya Workbench? Stop by the Spotlight Area for an exciting chat between Alice McClure, our head of Product Marketing, and Joseph Henry, the lead developer for SAS Viya Workbench. In this session, you'll hear about new features, along with a discussion about where we're headed next in our continued support of developers' needs	source video
102	When AI Behaves Badly: Challenges of Scaling and Governing AI Systems	Terisa Roberts	Video recording: In this demonstration, we bring AI governance to life, showcasing how organizations can confidently navigate the complexities of deploying and managing AI systems. Through a real-time example, we'll illustrate the essential principles of AI accountability, transparency and compliance, ensuring that innovation aligns with ethical and regulatory standards	source video

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