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, 21 May, 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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Download/send files from SAS 9 and Viya to Microsoft 365
Daniel Ringqvist, Nordic User Group Manager
Users will learn how to easily move files between SAS and Microsoft 365 - downloading reports, sending outputs to SharePoint or Teams, and automating routine deliveries - so they can work faster, collaborate better, and eliminate manual steps.
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17.00 – 17.30
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More Signal, Less Noise: Synthetic Data for Model Accuracy
Alina Dudnyuk, Data Scientist, SAS
Imbalanced data remains a persistent hurdle in predictive modeling, particularly in credit risk where default events are rare but critical. This session demonstrates how synthetic data techniques, specifically SMOTE within SAS Studio, can bridge the gap in rare-event scenarios. We will walk through practical, end-to-end workflows to generate and validate synthetic samples while measuring their direct impact on model accuracy. Crucially, we’ll move beyond the math to address the ModelOps perspective -integrating synthetic data as a governed, operationalized component of the analytics lifecycle. Attendees will learn to improve model robustness while avoiding common pitfalls like overfitting, leaving with a blueprint for building production-ready models in data-scarce environments.
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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.
If you would like to give a presentation at the Network Meeting, please contact .
This event is exclusive to SAS customers, SAS associates, and approved partners.
Want to secure invitations to future FANS events in the UK and Ireland?
Look at the SAS users program for Nordics, the UK and Ireland FANS! Network meetings and Events, Ask the Expert webinars, Nordic Newsletter, and SAS Analytics Explorers.
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