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SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:20:59 GMT

This will be my first SAS GF. I am a SAS Admin and occasional SAS programmer/developer. I work in the banking industry.

What sessions are you absolutely attending and why?

Just want to see the variety and suggestions from all! Thanks!

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

cj_blake — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:19:46 GMT

A great question! There is some great Admin content this year. On the 23rd January, if you can bear waiting that long, there are going to be a bunch more sample agendas going up on the SAS Global Forum catalog website. I know that there are going to be at least two Administration focused ones going up (I wrote them ).

Some sessions that I am excited about seeing though:*

4669: Exploring DataOps in the Brave New World of Agile and Cloud Delivery by Shane Gibson - I'm always interested in how teams are trying to make themselves more efficient and Shane is an excellent speaker.
4857 Efficient Release Management with SAS® by Lars Tynelius - CI/CD and Release Management in the world of SAS for many organizations is significantly behind other technologies. It's somewhat of an obsession of mine and I love hearing other people speak about it.
4577 SAS® Grid Manager and SAS® Viya®: a Strong Relationship by Edoardo Riva - As I start to explore Viya more I see that it's place, at least for the time being for many, will be alongside their existing implementations. Understanding how to get the most from both from an Administrators perspective will be helpful here.
4214 SAS® Viya® Monitoring Using Open-Source Tools by Bryan Ellington - Knowing what's going on in your environment is crucial and anyone who's used it knows that Environment Manager isn't the whole answer for everything that an Admin would want to know. There are some phenomenal proprietary tools out there like Boemska's ESM** but getting started with open source tooling is a great.
4764 Managing IDLE Grid-Launched SAS® Workspace Servers by Piyush Singh - Anyone who works with Grid will know this is a real pain. Excited to see Piyush's solution to this.

*There are lots of other sessions this just a few I picked out that I am excited to see.

** Full disclosure, I work for this company

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

knoxkooley — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:29:53 GMT

Do a speaker search for Chevell Parker. He's not going to be talking about SAS Admin. That said, if one is going to SGF, then one must see Chevell Parker. Trust me on this. I don't care what job you're in, you simply must attend.

The name again, Chevell Parker.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

plf515 — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:37:41 GMT

Aside from my own HOW on "You are using PROC GLM too much (and what you should be using instead)" I will mostly be in analytics:statistics sessioins, with some data visualization sessions as well.

I also want to plan lots of time to hang out.

My tip to first timers: Plan LOTS of time to hang out and talk to people. You can read the papers at home - and if you have questions, most presenters will answer them via e-mail But you can't hang around with these people at home.

Yeah, yeah, we're a bunch of geeky introverts (well, a LOT of us are) but .... you'll be among your peers.

If someone is giving a talk you are interested in, by all means go the session. But find them before or after. Tell them you're interested.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

MichelleHomes — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:16:49 GMT

Hi @bradlee3d,

Nice to meet you here and hopefully in person in Washington, DC too! Being a SAS admin, I hope you have subscribed to SAS User Group for Administrators (SUGA) too. I am a SUGA committee member and there are plans for a SAS Admin gathering on Sunday 29th March before the conference starts. It is a fabulous way to network with fellow SAS admins and also share schedules and areas of interest.

Keep an eye out in this SASGF community and the SAS admin community as I'm sure @ShelleySessoms, the SAS Admin community manager will provide a post when the details are known.

In the meantime I'd suggest to have a look at past SAS Global Forum papers in the areas of interest to you at http://www.lexjansen.com and get familiar with who the authors are so that you can see if they are presenting or attending this year to add meeting them to your to do list.

See you soon!

Kind Regards,

Michelle

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:12:03 GMT

Thanks, so much. I appreciate the information. There will be 4 of us out there and we are looking to learn as much as we can!

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:12:48 GMT

Chris,
Thanks for all of the information!

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:14:35 GMT

Duly noted! I will fit this speaker into my schedule.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 22:15:22 GMT

Thanks for the response!

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

MichelleHomes — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:22:56 GMT

My pleasure and hopefully we'll get to meet in person at the SASadmin networking event or visit the Metacoda stand in the sponsor area in the Quad.

If you are looking for SAS admin tips you may also want to check out @PaulHomes' blog http://platformadmin.com

Kind Regards,

Michelle

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

ShelleySessoms — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:03:35 GMT

Hi @bradlee3d,

Congrats on your first SAS Global Forum. It will be a great experience for you and your co-workers. As @MichelleHomes mentioned, I will be promoting admin and architecture sessions in the admin community next week: https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/bd-p/sas_admin.

And we are having the networking event the afternoon of Sunday, March 29. We are still waiting on a room assignment and specific time, so I will send a message out to the community when that is nailed down.

And if you are looking to get a handle on all the resources available to you as an admin, I am presenting a paper on Monday, March 30 at 4:00pm, Resources for SAS Admins and Architects: What You Need to Know to Get the Job Done Hassle-Free: http://sasgfsessioncatalog.com/#/filter/Topic%7C%7CAdministration:%20Deployment%5E@3

Stop by the SAS Communities booth in the Quad and say hello.

See you in D.C.!

Shelley

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:58:51 GMT

Absolutely! Thanks for the info.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

louisehadden — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:23:25 GMT

Hi, all.

Sorry to be a bit late to the game! I'm one of the CATs for SGF 2020, and helped put together the wonderful programming content for the conference. In order to schedule all those great sessions, I needed to analyze titles and abstracts, with, you guessed it, SAS! I came up with a bunch of topic and subtopic areas within programming, and then scheduled accordingly so that if you were interested in combining files, all the merge / update / HASH / SQL sessions were in the same room (and not at the same time). It made it somewhat easy to come up with sample agendas like the one below:

Sample Agenda for Programming: Visual Analytics

Date / Length / Time	Session Title	Session #	Location
Monday Mar 30 / 60 / 10:30 AM	HOW: SAS® Visual Statistics in SAS® Viya®	5330	Street Level - Middle Building 143A-C
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 2:00 PM	Census Tract Maps Using SAS® PROC GMAP and PROC SGMAP and SAS® Visual Analytics Using USALEEP Data	4707	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 10
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 3:00 PM	Designing Dashboards for Multiple Target Audiences with SAS® Visual Analytics	4323	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 3:30 PM	Make Beautiful Vertically Scrolling Dashboards in SAS® Visual Analytics	4171	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 4:00 PM	How To Make Your Reports Fly! The Impact of Visualization Layer Calculations on Performance	4761	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 4:30 PM	Dynamic Parameters and Data Visualization in SAS® Visual Analytics and SAS® Viya®	5131	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 10:00 AM	Modernize your SAS® Visual Analytics Environment	4359	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 10:00 AM	If You Build It Well, They Will Come! Responding to a Growing Analytics Program with SAS® Viya®	5087	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 11:00 AM	Raising the Bar! Developing World-Class Reports with SAS® Visual Analytics®	5027	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 10:00 AM	Using SAS® Visual Analytics Reports for Operational Reporting in Clinical Trials	4270	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 10:00 AM	Hands-On Workshop: Data Discovery and Reporting Using SAS® Visual Analytics in SAS® Viya®	5323	Street Level - Middle Building 143A-C
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 10:00 AM	Vroom Vroom! Fast-Track Your Organization onto SAS® Visual Analytics on SAS® Viya®	4403	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 11:30 AM	Implementation of SAS® Visual Analytics on SAS® Viya: The Success Behind 'Less Is More'	4877	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 12:00 PM	Tips for Building Rich Interaction in Your SAS® Visual Analytics Reports	4219	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 12:30 PM	SAS® Visual Analytics SDK: Embed SAS Visual Analytics Insights in Your Web Pages and Web Apps	4309	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 1:00 PM	Performance Do's and Don'ts for SAS® Visual Analytics	4357	Street Level - Middle Building 149 A-B

You can do the same by creating your own agendas once you've registered (YAY!) as described elsewhere on this thread - but in the meantime, here's some questions for you. This was created searching for the word visual in titles and abstracts. IYO does this fit the bill? What other keywords do you think would get you more content that you are interested in? (I already have done several for Viya including Admin, Analysis, etc.) Let us know what keywords you are searching on to create YOUR personal agendas! Thanks in advance.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

littleleaf2 — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 21:25:51 GMT

Thank you. That's really helpful.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bjg — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:13:15 GMT

I'm in almost the same job, administering ~30 SAS Servers for our bank clients, with the occasional developing of new backend jobs.

Last year was a bit "weak" when it came to admin stuff, and mostly focused on Viya which we sadly haven't upgraded to yet, as SAS FM is still not available in a usable form on Viya, but this year is looking a lot better.

This is my preliminary interest list

Date:2020-03-29
#	Session ID	Time	Room	Session	Speaker	Industry	Topic
1	5315	01:00 PM-04:30 PM		Doing More With SAS® Enterprise Guide®: Tips and Advanced Techniques	Chris Hemedinger	Non-Industry Specific	Programming: General Programming
2	4965	05:00 PM-05:30 PM	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 16	Continuous Integration and Automation Testing of SAS® Programs Using Jenkins and Python	Tracy Song-Brink	Non-Industry Specific	Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration
3	5171	05:00 PM-05:30 PM	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 6	A Machine Learning Approach to Combat the Opioid Epidemic	Navjot Kaur	Other	Analytics: Model Deployment and Decision Support
Date:2020-03-30
#	Session ID	Time	Room	Session	Speaker	Industry	Topic
1	4686	10:30 AM-11:30 AM	Street Level - Middle Building 144A-C	Leveraging Python from Base SAS®	Venu Gopal Lolla	Education
Non-Industry Specific	Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration
2	5093	11:30 AM-12:00 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 150B	How to Take SAS® to the Cloud	Douglas Liming	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Cloud
3	4912	02:00 PM-02:30 PM	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 2	Automating Your Multi-environment Hot Fix Management	Pierre Dupuis	Other	Administration: SAS® Administration
4	4296	02:30 PM-03:00 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B	Diagnosing the Most Common SAS® Viya® Performance Problems	Jim Kuell	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Architecture
5	4632	03:00 PM-04:00 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 150B	Accelerating SAS® Using High-Performing File Systems on Amazon Web Services	Darryl Osborne	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Cloud
6	4260	03:00 PM-04:00 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 150A	Build an HTML5 Web App Using SAS®	Allan Bowe	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Deployment
7	4457	03:30 PM-04:30 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B	Migrating from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya®	Mark Schneider	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Deployment
8	4070	04:00 PM-04:30 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 150B	Resources for SAS® Admins and Architects: What You Need to Know to Get the Job Done Hassle-Free	Shelley Sessoms	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Deployment
9	4415	04:00 PM-05:30 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 144A-C	A Hands-On Introduction to SAS® DATA Step Hash Programming Techniques	Kirk Paul Lafler	Non-Industry Specific	Programming: General Programming
Date:2020-03-31
#	Session ID	Time	Room	Session	Speaker	Industry	Topic
1	4312	10:00 AM-11:00 AM	Street Level - Middle Building 150B	Important Performance Considerations When Moving SAS® to a Public Cloud	Margaret Crevar	Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Cloud
2	4871	11:00 AM-11:30 AM	Street Level - Middle Building 146A	Lessons Learned from Managing SAS® Viya® at Scale in the Cloud	Jelle Daemen	Information Technology
Non-Industry Specific	Administration: Cloud
3	4209	02:30 PM-03:00 PM	Street Level - Middle Building 147B	A Beginner's Guide to Consuming RESTful Web Service in SAS®	Laurent de Walick	Non-Industry Specific	Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

louisehadden — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:12:35 GMT

Wow, amazing preparation! I know you are going to get a lot out of the conference!

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

bradlee3d — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:58:51 GMT

Thanks for this post. Very helpful.

Re: SAS GF 2020 Sooo...What sessions do you have in your agenda?

louisehadden — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:00:18 GMT

Here's a sample agenda focusing on admin topics for VA / Viya (Note that there are Sunday evening e-posters - come take a look!):

Date / Time / Length	Session Title	Session #	Location
Sunday Mar 29 / 30 / 5:00 PM	Approaching SAS® Viya® Backup and Restore in the Cloud	4813	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 1
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 11:30 AM	Effectively Migrating Your SAS® Environment to SAS® Viya®	5151	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 1
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 12:00 PM	SAS® Viya® 3.5 Kerberos Constrained Delegation: Putting the Dog on a Leash	4315	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 12:30 PM	How to Maintain Happy SAS® Viya® Users	4313	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 2:30 PM	Diagnosing the Most Common SAS® Viya® Performance Problems	4296	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Monday Mar 30 / 60 / 3:30 PM	Migrating from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya®	4457	Street Level - Middle Building 151A
Monday Mar 30 / 30 / 5:00 PM	Making Administration Easier by Scripting the SAS® Viya® Command-Line Interfaces	4576	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 10:00 AM	Steer Your Hybrid SAS® Viya®/SAS®9 Ship Toward the 'Governed Data' Port	4223	Street Level - Middle Building 152B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 11:00 AM	Lessons Learned from Managing SAS® Viya® at Scale in the Cloud	4871	Street Level - Middle Building 146A
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 11:30 AM	SAS® Viya®: Autoscaling SAS® Micro Analytic Service (MAS) Nodes Using Compute Virtual Machines on the Google Cloud Platform	4818	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 2
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 1:00 PM	Auto-Scaling in SAS® Viya®: Is It Actually Possible?	4216	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 1:30 PM	SAS® Grid Manager and SAS® Viya®: a Strong Relationship	4577	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 2:00 PM	Securing SAS® Viya® Access with Single Sign-On (SAML 2.0) and Two-Factor Authentication	5006	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 1
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 4:00 PM	Optimize SAS® Viya®: Dividing Load through the Use of Multiple SAS® Cloud Analytic Services Servers	4582	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 4:30 PM	Best Practices for Scheduling in SAS® Viya®	4248	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 10:00 AM	Evolve Your SAS® Administration Skills with SAS® Viya®	4947	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 12:00 PM	Behind the Front Door: Authentication Options with SAS® Viya®	4597	Street Level - Middle Building 150B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 12:30 PM	Enabling Real-Time Stability Monitoring Models Using SAS® Viya® and SAS® Event Stream Processing	4602	Street Level - Middle Building 140A

What's in YOUR SGF 2020 Agenda? Looking for a hot date (presentation)?

louisehadden — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:24:59 GMT

Sample Agenda for Programming: Dates & Times

For the HOW, make sure to get to the location at least 15 minutes in advance!

Date / Time / Length	Session Title	Session #	Location
Monday Mar 30 / 60 / 12:00 PM	History Carried Forward, Future Carried Back: Mixing Time Series of Differing Frequencies	5035	Street Level - Middle Building 147A
Monday Mar 30 / 120 / 2:00 PM	HOW: The Essentials of SAS® Dates and Times	4397	Street Level - Middle Building 144A-C
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 12:00 PM	Getting Started with Time Series Creation, Exploration, and Feature Extraction	5181	Street Level - Middle Building 145B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 2:00 PM	Ways to Clean Up Date Discrepancies in Electronic Health Records	4953	Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 3
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 3:30 PM	Any Time Zone to Any Time Zone: A Macro to Convert Anything	4742	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 10:30 AM	Time Is on Your Side. Yes It Is. Using Base SAS® to Manipulate Time	4801	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 11:00 AM	Getting the Time Right Across Time Zones	4934	Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B
Wednesday Apr 1 / 30 / 1:30 PM	Time After Time: Difference-in-Differences and Interrupted Time Series Models in SAS®	4674	Street Level - Middle Building 140B

What's in YOUR SGF 2020 Agenda? Need a REST (API) after that hot date (presentation)?

louisehadden — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:39:00 GMT

All in one day, all in the same room! A RESTful time indeed.

Sample Agenda for Programming: REST APIs / Stored Processes

Date / Time / Length	Session Title	Session #	Location
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 10:00 AM	How to Make Your First Impressive Web Application with Stored Processes and a Web Browser	4678	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 11:00 AM	Using the SAS® Job Execution Web Server to Build Custom Web Applications In SAS® Viya®	4185	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 60 / 1:00 PM	SAS® Studio Custom Tasks: Tips and Tricks for the Adventurous Task Author	4537	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 2:00 PM	Building an Internal Application Using the SAS® Stored Process Web Application	5081	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 2:30 PM	A Beginner's Guide to Consuming RESTful Web Service in SAS®	4209	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 3:00 PM	Ten Minutes to Your First Hello World: REST APIs	4278	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 3:30 PM	REST Just Got Easy with SAS® and the HTTP Procedure	4426	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 4:00 PM	Application of Google Distance Matrix API to investigate Healthcare Access: Study on Hokkaido, Japan	5026	Street Level - Middle Building 147B
Tuesday Mar 31 / 30 / 4:30 PM	SAS® Stored Process Web Services and Dynamic Data Exchange	4941	Street Level - Middle Building 147B