Q1: SAS FANS User Event |SAS office, London |19 March | 16.00 - 19.00

PiaRønnevik — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:57:58 GMT

Join us for an inspiring afternoon at the SAS London office, where SAS users and experts come together to dive into practical techniques, share real-world experiences, and connect with peers—followed by pizza, refreshments, and networking.

Date & Time: Thursday, 19 March, 16.00 - 19.00.
Venue: SAS Office, 10 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4xy

Register and meet up to exchange ideas with like-minded professionals, learn from SAS experts, and strengthen your professional network.

16.00 – 16:15

Welcome and Opening Remarks

16.15 – 16.45

Power Techniques in SAS: Functions, Regex, and Arrays

Pia Rønnevik, Customer Success Manager, SAS

Power Techniques in SAS: Functions, Regex, and Arrays explores some of the most efficient and versatile tools available to SAS programmers. This session demonstrates how advanced SAS functions streamline data manipulation, how Perl Regular Expressions (PRX) unlock powerful pattern‑matching capabilities and how arrays enable fast and elegant processing of repetitive tasks. Through practical examples, attendees will learn how combining these techniques can significantly improve code efficiency, readability, and performance - making everyday programming tasks smarter, faster, and more flexible.

16.45 - 17.00

Break

17.00 - 17.30

The Open Shop: How I Learned to Stop Exporting CSVs and Love the Viya Ecosystem

Alina Budnyuk, Data Scientist, SAS

In this session, we’ll shatter the myth that SAS is a closed system and demonstrate how SAS Viya acts as the ultimate multilingual engine. You’ll see a live "day-in-the-life" workflow: from coding in SAS Studio to building hybrid pipelines in Model Studio using custom nodes. We’ll also show how to stay in your favourite IDE while leveraging the massive scale of the Viya CAS engine. Finally, we’ll look at Viya Workbench, the future of developer flexibility.

17.30 - 19.00

Pizza, refreshments and networking

Changes in the agenda might occur.

If you would like to give a presentation at the Network Meeting, please contact Pia Skare Rønnevik.

This event is exclusive to SAS customers, SAS associates, and approved partners.

Registration

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