SAS Explore 2023: A developer's perspective

[joeFurbee]

Hi Developers,

Registration is now open for SAS Explore 2023. This is a must-attend for SAS enthusiasts. The three-day event will be held live, in Las Vegas, on September 11-14, 2023. We've scheduled over 100 breakout sessions, dozens of super demos, training, and hands-on workshops.

Attendance is a no-brainer. But what sessions should you attend? Well, it's ultimately up to you, but I've perused the list and come up with a list of must-sees from a developer's perspective.

Some of the sessions overlap, so you make the call. I'll also add a plug here for my session, developer.sas.com 2.0: The Relaunch of the SAS Developer Portal, Wednesday, at 1:30. I'll also be in the Innovation Hub throughout the conference. Please find me and say hello.

See you there!

Title	Description	Speaker	Type & Time
Building SAS Studio Flows in SAS Viya	This course is for users who do not have SAS programming experience but need to access and prepare data and present summarized results. This course focuses on using flows, a point-and-click tool in SAS Studio that visualizes data transformation processes.	SAS Instructor	Training Mon, 1 - 6
Developing Custom Steps with SAS® Studio Analyst	This course teaches you how to develop custom steps to create a user interface on top of your own code that can be shared, reused and executed in SAS Studio flows.	SAS Instructor	Training Mon, 1 - 6
SAS Viya and Python Integration Fundamentals	In this course, you'll learn to use the Python SWAT (SAS Wrapper for Analytics Transfer) package to take advantage of the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine in SAS Viya for massively parallel processing (MPP) using familiar Python syntax.	SAS Instructor	Training Mon, 1 - 6
Optimizing Your SAS Jobs When Working With Snowflake	Learn how to optimize SAS jobs for Snowflake. We'll delve into advanced techniques to enhance performance and efficiency.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 11:30 - 11:55
Discover the Power of App Factory	We'll guide you step-by-step on how to craft a cutting-edge, robust, high-speed progressive web app (PWA), leveraging top-tier standards and practices tailored to any SAS® function or model.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 12 - 12:25
Integrating SAS Studio With Apache Airflow	With SAS Provider for Airflow, it's possible to create Airflow tasks to execute SAS Studio Flows, aka data pipelines, jobs and other assets.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 12 - 12:25
App Factory: A Comprehensive Solution for Efficient SaaS Applications	We will demonstrate how – with App Factory – you can easily turn your ideas into standard API-fronted cloud compute functions that can be consumed by the rest of your organization – whether you're working with SAS code or Python.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 12:30 - 12:55
SAS Viya Workbench: On-Demand Developer Environments	Learn about SAS Viya Workbench and the convenience of spinning up a personal development environment on demand.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 12:30 - 12:55
SAS Viya Tour: What Makes SAS Viya Special	Let SAS be your research analyst extraordinaire! From SAS Visual Analytics to Model Studio to SAS Studio, we'll show you how no-code and low-code tools on the SAS Viya platform speed up your analysis and increase your time to value.	Lincoln Groves	Breakout Tues, 1:30 - 2:15
SAS Viya Unleashed: Scalable and Performant Algorithms Across Coding Languages and Environments	Explore the cutting-edge capabilities of SAS Viya Workbench, a lightweight and fast-deployment environment that empowers users of SAS, Python and R to harness the full potential of SAS algorithms.	Udo Sglavo & Brett Wujek	Breakout Tues, 1:30 - 1:50
Using a Git Repository with SAS Studio	Learn how to effectively use Git with SAS Studio on the SAS Viya platform	Stephen Foerster	Hands-on Workshop Tues, 2:45 - 3:30
Learn SAS Event Stream Processing Open Source Integration With Git and Grafana on Azure Marketplace	Learn how to package and store streaming projects in Git to facilitate distribution and enhance version control.	Steven Allan & Daniele Cazzari	Breakout Tues, 2:45 - 3:35
Unlocking Actionable Intelligence at Scale: Streamlining Delivery of SAS Visual Analytics Insights	Publish insights at scale through your custom-designed web apps using familiar cloud, developer and DevOps technologies. In this session, you’ll see how to use SAS Visual Analytics and the SAS Viya SDK for JavaScript to deploy your insights at scale.	Brad Morris	Breakout Tues, 2:45 - 3:35
Unlock Your Data with Python and SAS Viya	Learn how to use Python and the SAS Viya platform to turn complex questions into understandable, actionable insights using the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine on the platform for massively parallel processing.	Peter Styliadis	Hands-on Workshop Tues, 4 - 4:45
Customize Your Way to Success: Using Custom Steps From the SAS GitHub Repository in SAS Studio	SAS Studio Custom Steps enable you to create a user interface for users at your site to complete a specific custom task. There is a public GitHub repository of these custom steps designed by both SAS employees and other customers that you can import and use at your site.	MK Queen	Breakout Tues, 4 - 4:20
SAS Visual Forecasting Open Source Modeling Node	SAS Visual Forecasting software, which offers an open environment for large-scale automatic modeling and forecasting, now supports running programs written in Python or R in its new open source modeling node.	Mahesh Joshi	Breakout Tues, 4 - 4:20
Developing Purpose-Built Applications With SAS	Caesars Entertainment is using SAS® Viya® for charter flight scheduling analytics to more strategically schedule flights to maximize profitability.	Malorie Robinson & Pavan Kapur	Breakout Tues, 4:30 - 4:50
SAS Viya Workbench: The Programming Experience	Learn about SAS Viya Workbench through the lens of the programmer, whether SAS or Python. We'll focus on the programming experience and how we make driving SAS analytics easier and more intuitive.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Tues, 5 - 5:25
Increase Your Productivity With the SAS Extension for Visual Studio Code	The official SAS Extension for Visual Studio Code combines the power of the SAS analytics platform with the convenient and incredibly popular Visual Studio Code development environment.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Wed, 11:30 - 11:55
Performant Python Model Batch Execution	Deploy Python models using SAS® Model Manager into our container optimized for scoring batch data. Using this container, we can see up to a 10x improvement in execution time.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Wed, 12:30 - 12:55
MLOps for Pirates: R SASCTL	A demonstration of R SASCTL. It will introduce R SASCTL and show how to leverage the package to bridge the gap between data scientists and MLOps engineers for R models.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Wed, 1 - 1:25
Developer.sas.com 2.0: The Relaunch of the SAS Developer Portal	This session provides an overview of the new SAS® developer portal, developer.sas.com. SAS recognizes the importance of integration with open source technologies and is investing in a world-class developer portal that will help developers work with SAS in new and exciting ways.	Joe Furbee	Breakout Wed, 1:30 - 2:20
Embracing and Enhancing Open Source Algorithms in SAS Viya 4	We will discuss some high-performance methods that Viya 4 has incorporated and will showcase the improvements we've made in these methods from their open source beginnings.	Aishwarya Sharma & Xin Hunt	Breakout Wed, 1:30 - 2:20
SAS, SQL, R, and Python: We're All Friends	In this workshop, you learn how easy it is to use SAS, SQL, R, and Python within Jupyter. It's (almost always) better together - so learn how to leverage the cloud architecture to better integrate your projects and speed up your time to value!	Lincoln Groves	Hands-on Workshop Wed, 2:45 - 3:30
Using JSON Data With SAS	You will learn what JSON is and how it is used, how to use the JSON libname engine to read JSON into SAS data sets, how to use JSON maps to control how SAS reads and interprets the raw JSON data, and how to use PROC JSON to create JSON output in SAS.	Chris Hemedinger	Breakout Wed, 2:45 - 3:05
More Goodies in the SAS Extension for Visual Studio Code	This presentation will highlight features and enhancements recently added to the extension. These include greatly simplified authentication, support for SAS 9.4 servers, working with SAS content, navigating SAS libraries, viewing data sets, a notebook experience and more.	Casey Smith	Breakout Wed, 3:15 - 3:35
Leveraging SAS Information Catalog REST APIs: Programmatically Discovering Data	We will showcase how utilizing these REST APIs, accessible from SAS, Python or shell scripts, can unlock the potential of programmatically discovering data.	Bogdan Teleuca	Breakout Wed, 4 - 4:20
Discover the Power of App Factory	we'll guide you step-by-step on how to craft a cutting-edge, robust, high-speed progressive web app (PWA), leveraging top-tier standards and practices tailored to any SAS® function or model.	SAS Instructor	Super Demo Wed, 5:30 - 5:55
Using SAS to Extract Data From the Census Data API	This session will demonstrate the reusable collection of SAS programs and macros that can run from SAS® 9.4 M4 on both Linux and Windows platforms. Extract data from the Census Data API to create SAS datasets in as little as three steps.	Ahmed Al-Attar	Breakout Thurs, 10:15 - 11:05
Unleashing Potential: Join the SAS Hackathon 2024	We'll delve into the thrilling world of the SAS Hackathon. Gain invaluable insights from past use cases, learn from successful teams and discover the compelling reasons to participate – like gaining access to the state-of-the-art SAS® Viya® in the cloud and the guidance of a seasoned SAS mentor.	Einar Holvorsen & Peter Lundqvist	Breakout Thurs, 10:45 - 11:05
Developing Lightweight, Cloud-Native Applications Powered by SAS AI	This session will introduce the concept of developing lightweight, cloud-native apps underpinned by SAS' industry-leading AI, using SAS® Viya® App Factory.	Saurabh Mishra	Breakout Thurs, 11:15 - 11:35
MLOps Uncoiled: Python’s Path on SAS Viya® With SAS Model Manager	Using our open source package, python-sasctl, SAS Model Manager, containers and more, we will demonstrate how to create an end-to-end MLOps process for Python models on SAS Viya.	Anthony Kan &  Sophia Rowland	Breakout Thurs, 11:15 - 11:35
Unlock Your Data with Python and SAS Viya	Learn how to use Python and the SAS Viya platform to turn complex questions into understandable, actionable insights using the SAS Cloud Analytic Services (CAS) engine on the platform for massively parallel processing.	Peter Styliadis	Hands-on Workshop Thurs, 11:15 - 12

[Quentin]

Thanks for this list.  The conference app was just released, so I'm building my schedule now.  Excited to see what this SAS Viya Workbench is all about...

[joeFurbee]

Hi @Quentin,

Can't wait to see you in Vegas! I was part of the usability testing for Workbench. It's pretty slick. I don't think you'll be disappointed.