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.
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and meet up to exchange ideas with like-minded professionals, learn from SAS experts, and strengthen your professional network.
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16.00 – 16:15
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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16.15 – 16.45
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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.
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17.00 - 17.30
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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.
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17.30 - 19.00
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Pizza, refreshments and networking
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Changes in the agenda might occur.
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This event is exclusive to SAS customers, SAS associates, and approved partners.
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