Fall 2025 ESUG Meeting - Agenda and Presentations

AliceYuan — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:56:01 GMT

Wow - what a day it was! 🤗 Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Moth Cafe for a morning of learning, conversations, and coffee. ☕ We had a great time connecting with all of you. We hope you found the day valuable.

Here was the agenda for the day for reference:

8:30am - 9:00am	Breakfast Buffet and Registration
9:00am - 9:05am	Welcome Remarks
9:05am - 9:20am	What's New at SAS? Alice Yuan, SAS Canada
9:20am - 9:45am	Assessment $ Change for Designated Industrial Properties (DIP), Definition, Methodology, and Reporting Gavin (Shitang) Ding & Yiming Zhu, Government of Alberta
9:45am - 10:30am	Operational Forecasting in Healthcare Lorne Rothman (@CanLdr), SAS Canada Operational time series forecasting uses historical data to forecast future operational needs. It enables organizations and facilities to anticipate future demand to optimize resource allocation, staffing, and budget for capacity planning. We will explore some examples from healthcare using SAS Viya forecasting, designed for mass, automated forecasting of many times series using statistical and machine learning models.
10:30am - 11:10am	Networking Break & Snacks
11:10am - 11:50am	State of AI & Open Discussion: All Things AI Moderated by SAS Canada experts What are you doing with AI? What do you hope to do with AI? Let's share our ideas in this discussion time.
11:50am - 12:00pm	Closing Remarks

The presentations are attached in this post.

You can find the The Data and AI Impact Report that was mentioned in the discussion time here.

For those looking for more resources on GenAI, here is the SAS information page. You will find helpful industry information and resources to get you started.

SAS also offers a Generative AI Using SAS course via Coursera.

We hope to see you again at our next meeting in Spring 2026! 💃

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