@mendezla Considering that half the world is taking drastic measures to avoid too many people getting infected at the same time, i think it was only natural to cancel the event. I've noticed the efforts in the past few days has gone from preventing the virus from spreading to "damage control", i.e. attempting to avoid half a country getting sick at the same time, and while i'm sorry the event has been cancelled, i can also see the potential danger in 5000 people from all over the world meeting in the same location for a week. I'm sure there will be another conference next year and we'll all meet up there. Stay safe. ... View more

Google has cancelled Google I/O, scheduled to take place in California in May, due to the risk of Coronavirus.   https://events.google.com/io/   ... View more

All non essential travel is also being cancelled here, so it doesn't look like we'll make it this year 😞 ... View more

So how does the swag handout work ? Is it done at registration or ? ... View more

We've rented an apartment for the week instead of a hotel room, as this was 1/4 of the price. Does anybody have a recommendation for a place near the conference center that serves breakfast at reasonable prices ?   ... View more

I'm in almost the same job, administering ~30 SAS Servers for our bank clients, with the occasional developing of new backend jobs.   Last year was a bit "weak" when it came to admin stuff, and mostly focused on Viya which we sadly haven't upgraded to yet, as SAS FM is still not available in a usable form on Viya, but this year is looking a lot better.   This is my preliminary interest list   Date:2020-03-29 # Session ID Time Room Session Speaker Industry Topic 1 5315 01:00 PM-04:30 PM Doing More With SAS® Enterprise Guide®: Tips and Advanced Techniques Chris Hemedinger Non-Industry Specific Programming: General Programming 2 4965 05:00 PM-05:30 PM Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 16 Continuous Integration and Automation Testing of SAS® Programs Using Jenkins and Python Tracy Song-Brink Non-Industry Specific Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration 3 5171 05:00 PM-05:30 PM Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 6 A Machine Learning Approach to Combat the Opioid Epidemic Navjot Kaur Other Analytics: Model Deployment and Decision Support Date:2020-03-30 # Session ID Time Room Session Speaker Industry Topic 1 4686 10:30 AM-11:30 AM Street Level - Middle Building 144A-C Leveraging Python from Base SAS® Venu Gopal Lolla Education Non-Industry Specific Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration 2 5093 11:30 AM-12:00 PM Street Level - Middle Building 150B How to Take SAS® to the Cloud Douglas Liming Non-Industry Specific Administration: Cloud 3 4912 02:00 PM-02:30 PM Concourse - Hall B Eposter Station 2 Automating Your Multi-environment Hot Fix Management Pierre Dupuis Other Administration: SAS® Administration 4 4296 02:30 PM-03:00 PM Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B Diagnosing the Most Common SAS® Viya® Performance Problems Jim Kuell Non-Industry Specific Administration: Architecture 5 4632 03:00 PM-04:00 PM Street Level - Middle Building 150B Accelerating SAS® Using High-Performing File Systems on Amazon Web Services Darryl Osborne Non-Industry Specific Administration: Cloud 6 4260 03:00 PM-04:00 PM Street Level - Middle Building 150A Build an HTML5 Web App Using SAS® Allan Bowe Non-Industry Specific Administration: Deployment 7 4457 03:30 PM-04:30 PM Street Level - Middle Building 154A-B Migrating from SAS® 9.4 to SAS® Viya® Mark Schneider Non-Industry Specific Administration: Deployment 8 4070 04:00 PM-04:30 PM Street Level - Middle Building 150B Resources for SAS® Admins and Architects: What You Need to Know to Get the Job Done Hassle-Free Shelley Sessoms Non-Industry Specific Administration: Deployment 9 4415 04:00 PM-05:30 PM Street Level - Middle Building 144A-C A Hands-On Introduction to SAS® DATA Step Hash Programming Techniques Kirk Paul Lafler Non-Industry Specific Programming: General Programming Date:2020-03-31 # Session ID Time Room Session Speaker Industry Topic 1 4312 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Street Level - Middle Building 150B Important Performance Considerations When Moving SAS® to a Public Cloud Margaret Crevar Non-Industry Specific Administration: Cloud 2 4871 11:00 AM-11:30 AM Street Level - Middle Building 146A Lessons Learned from Managing SAS® Viya® at Scale in the Cloud Jelle Daemen Information Technology Non-Industry Specific Administration: Cloud 3 4209 02:30 PM-03:00 PM Street Level - Middle Building 147B A Beginner's Guide to Consuming RESTful Web Service in SAS® Laurent de Walick Non-Industry Specific Programming: Applications Development and Open Integration ... View more

Denmark, in the cold and dark Scandinavia 🙂 ... View more