Spring 2025 eSUG Meeting - Agenda and Presentations

AliceYuan — Tue, 20 May 2025 20:38:33 GMT

Another eSUG Meeting in the books! 🕺

It was a gloomy day, but it was brightened up by lots of presentations and discussions about AI and LLMs. It's always a great day to learn. 😉

Thank you to all of our presenters for sharing their knowledge. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us and make the meeting another fruitful one. Made better by the Oilers winning the series and moving on to Round 3! 💪

If you have something to share with the group - a 2 min tip/trick, a cool project you recently worked on, review on a SAS book you got from the meeting - please let us know. 😁

Here is the agenda for your reference. You will also find the presentations attached to this post.

8:30am - 9:00am	Registration and Refreshments
9:00am - 9:05am	Welcome Remarks Doug Dover, eSUG President
9:05am - 9:20am	What's New at SAS? Alice Yuan, SAS Canada
9:20am - 9:50am	SAS Innovate 2025 Highlights Walie Aktary (@speaker), SAS Canada Won't be able to attend SAS Innovate this year? Hear about the major announcements and hot topics from this year's conference.
9:50am - 10:20am	How Computers Understand & Generate Language: From Basics to Breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim, Government of Alberta
10:20am - 10:40am	Networking Break
10:40am - 11:20am	How to Make Your LLM Work For You @Sundaresh1, SAS US (Virtual Presentation) Join SAS expert, Sundaresh Sankaran, as he explores the core techniques for effectively building with large language models (LLMs).
11:20am - 11:50am	SAS Observability Tools @nicosigal, SAS Canada
11:50am - 12:00pm	Closing Remarks

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