Q2: SAS FANS User Event |SAS office, London | 21 May | 16.00 - 19.30 (Postponed due to tube strikes)

PiaRønnevik — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:27:24 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.

Please note that the meeting has been cancelled due to the upcoming tube strikes. We will be back with a new date soon!

Date & Time: Thursday, 21 May, 16.00 - 19.30.
Venue: SAS Office, 10 Chiswell Street, London EC1Y 4xy

16.00 – 16.15

Welcome and Opening Remarks, by Frans Holm

16.15 – 16.45

Using SAS Enterprise Guide to Advance into Statistics for Decision-Making Support

David Shannon, Head of EMEA Channels Customer Advisory

This session shows how SAS Enterprise Guide Tasks are used for modelling and decision making. We will explore ANOVA, Linear and Logistic regression, Time Series and Survival Analysis and how these methods deliver informed decision making. Attendees will see how to build models without heavy coding yet maintaining transparency and repeatability.

16.45 – 17.00

Break

17.00 – 17.30

Smarter Access to Open Data: Duck DB Integration with SAS

Lume Enahoro, Customer Advisory Technology Northern Europe

Modern analytics teams rely heavily on open data formats like Parquet, JSON, and Delta Lake but accessing them efficiently at scale has been a long‑standing challenge. In this session, we introduce SAS/ACCESS Interface to DuckDB, a high‑performance, in‑process query engine now embedded directly in SAS Viya. Participants will learn how SAS uses DuckDB to deliver faster ingestion, lower storage costs, seamless access to open formats, and improved interoperability with Python and other ecosystems. We’ll demonstrate how SAS Viya can query open data where it lives, avoid heavy ETL, and unlock new workflows for multi‑file datasets, JSON processing, and cost‑optimized storage. If you want a future‑proof, open, and lightning‑fast approach to data access, this session is for you.

17.30 – 18.00

Kicking the Tyres on sasviya.ml: Python Programming Backed by SAS Algorithms

Michael Walshe, Principal Consultant, Katalyze Data

Introduction to the sasviya python package, available in SAS Viya and SAS Viya Workbench, and the sasviya.ml module
Demo of features, example use-cases
Comparison with sklearn, feature set, metrics, and performance
Overview of my experience getting firsthand on sasviya.ml, what it is and what it is not

18.00 – 19.30

Pizza, refreshments and networking

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

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.

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Q2: SAS FANS User Event |SAS office, London | 21 May | 16.00 - 19.30 (Postponed due to tube strikes)