Quarterly MSUG Meeting Linda Vance

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1 Quarterly MSUG Meeting Linda Vance

2 When & where September 18 20, 2017 Washington DC Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center National Harbor, MD Cool App to use on your phone to have the conference info at your fingertips!

3 Keynote Speakers Day One Navigating Change in the Analytics Economy Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS Oliver Schabenberger, EVP & Chief Tech Officer, SAS Shawn Hushman, VP of Decision Sciences, Cox Automotive Chris Donovan, Enterprise Information Mgmt. & Analytics How Technology & Innovative Approaches Can Transform Your Organization Megan Smith, Innovative Tech Leader & Former US Chief Technology Officer

4 Keynote Speakers Day Two Closing the Gender Gap in Technology Reshma Saujani, Founder & CEO of Girls Who Code & Author Taking Advantage of Technology Disruption D.J. Patil, Former Chief Data Scientist of the United States Tom Davenport, President s Distinguished Prof. of Information Technology & Management, Babson College Oliver Schabenberger, EVP & Chief Technology Officer, SAS Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

5 Keynote Speakers Day Three Analytics at the Edge: Bringing Intelligence to the IoT Garret T. Fitzgerald, GM, Transport Intelligence, GE Transportation Digital Solutions Randy Guard, EVP & Chief Marketing Officer, SAS A Conversation With Earvin Magic Johnson Chairman & CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises One of the leading investors in a number of minority-owned tech companies Unchartered Play ShotTracker Jopwell Walker & Co Brands MiTú

6 SAS News Release 9.4 M5 is now available Enables customers to use the functionality in SAS Viya Many functions have been enhanced to take advantage of the fast, distributed processing provided by Cloud Analytic Services, which is part of SAS Viya Includes enhancements in creating accessible output, programming and accessing data, and using TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols for more secure deployment options. Several SAS analytical products, including SAS/ETS, SAS/STAT, and SAS Enterprise Miner, shipped a new release.

7 Hot Topics

8 Session Opportunities Innovation Hub Theater Sessions Super Demos Table Talks Posters There were approximately 78 different Innovation Hub sessions to choose from!

9 Breakout Sessions There were approximately 62 different Breakout sessions to choose from! Here are just a few Making Analytics Pervasive Saurabh Gupta & Udo Sglavo, SAS New release- Unified BI & Analytics capabilities I ll Take Science Wrapped in a Narrative with a Side of Data, Please Bree Baich, SAS Best Practices How to communicate complex concepts through data storytelling Demystifying the intersection Between Financial Crime Risk & Machine Learning Nikhil Aggarwal, Fintech Entrepreneur Event Optimization How to Win Friends & Influence Executives: A Guide to Getting your Point Across David Harcourt, Yum! Brands Inc.

10 Breakout Sessions There were approximately 62 different Breakout sessions to choose from! Here are just a few Surveillance Bot: an Automated Classification Pipeline for Fraud Detection Wayne Thompson & Yue Qi, SAS Bot specially designed for fraud detection addresses the common case of unbalanced data, feature engineering & champion challenger model selection. Bayesian Network Classifier Model Using SAS Enterprise Miner, Anurag Mhaiskar, SAS Overview of the Bayesian Network Model in SAS Presented a use case that covered supervised machine learning using the Bayesian Network Classifier Node Effectively Fighting Fraud Constantine Boyadjiev, Accenture Surveillance analytics, social network analysis, & deep emotion/sentiment analysis in misconduct & behavioral risk.

11 Hands-On Workshops Python Integration With SAS Viya, Marc Huber, SAS CAS Cloud Analytic Services Jupyter Notebook SWAT interface to the CAS engine R Integration With SAS Viya, Robert Blanchard, SAS Connect to CAS Server rpy2 package Analyze large in-memory data sets Work with the results data wrangling techniques with R SAS Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning, Andy Ravenna, SAS SAS Viya Build supervised models & evaluate the results of analysis through an interactive, web-based & visual interface

12 And of course Food & Fun Airplanes to Astronauts: A Night at the Museum National Air and Space Museum Dinner, drinks and dessert Entertainment Live Band And let s not forget there was some SWAG too!

13 And of course Food & Fun Monuments by Moonlight Tour Bus tour of the monuments Stop off at the Lincoln Memorial to get photos

14 Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego September 17 19, 2018