And the winner is . . . Recognizing award recipients on Day 3 of SAS Explore

As we bid farewell to a different profitable SAS Discover, let’s mirror on the thrilling bulletins made throughout the Day Three common session in Las Vegas.

Jared Peterson, SAS Senior Vice President of Analysis and Improvement, set the stage for a closing session targeted solely on our customers and prospects. We acknowledged and awarded the onerous work our customers have been doing to implement SAS in progressive methods.

Maintain studying to take a look at all of the awards we have been in a position to give out!

Recognizing our prospects

Kimberly Might, Senior Vice President of International Technical Help, joined the stage to acknowledge the recipients of the client recognition awards. These standout customers contribute meaningfully, resembling creating options to reinforce catastrophe response or combating fraud with AI and machine studying. These customers really do all of it.

Award recipients

SAS Help Group Hero: Tom Abernathy from Pfizer.

Regional Person Group MVP: Quentin McMullen from Siemens Healthineers.

Person Suggestions: Lewis Lee from REA Group.

SAS Buyer Influence: Chet Effler and Marty Sumner on behalf of the North Carolina Division of Insurance coverage.

Distinguished Accomplice: Taskin Osman Aksoy on behalf of Linktera.

SAS Analytics Explorers Advocate: Markus Weick from EY.

Visible Storyteller Award: Satya Ly from Blue California.

Revolutionary Downside Solver: Gökhan Dumrul on behalf of QNB Finansbank.

Curious Thinker: Simru Delen Ipeck from Istanbul Airport.

Group Uplift: Sachin Sontakke on behalf of Gilead Sciences.

Rookie of the Yr and ROI Rock Star: Sinem Orpack on behalf of Migros.

“Everybody on this viewers in the present day makes SAS what it’s. We now have a big group of gifted prospects who present the world what could be completed with the facility of analytics.” Kimberly Might, Senior Vice President of International Technical Help.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

So, who gained the SAS Hackathon?

The 2023 SAS Hackathon winner was additionally introduced. Twelve groups have been famous as champions in numerous classes and traveled to Las Vegas to share their options in numerous breakout periods all through the week. However just one crew may take residence the title of grand champion and bragging rights, after all.

Alongside this 12 months’s sponsor and SAS companion, Intel, the SAS Hackathon introduced a whole lot of curious minds collectively to collaborate and discover options to large challenges, resolve real-world issues and save lives.

Offered by Einar Halvorsen, Peter Lundqvist and Marinela Profi, the award winners stood out among the many greater than 100 groups that competed from numerous industries. The info scientists and know-how fanatics taking part had full entry to studying platforms and a SAS mentor for one month to make sure they may have the largest influence and resolve challenges.

Learn extra on how Workforce JaWaRA achieved this utilizing SAS® Analytics for IoT

“During the last 4 years, we’ve seen the SAS Hackathon develop from a regional occasion within the Nordics to a world flagship occasion,” mentioned Einar Halvorsen, International Lead for SAS Hackathon. “We’ve witnessed superb innovation and intense ardour amongst Hackathon groups, and we have now watched applied sciences developed in SAS Hackathons utilized in real-world settings.”

The profitable crew, Jakarta Water Sources Analytics (JaWaRA), impressed the jury and contributors. This crew targeted on Jakarta, a metropolis in Indonesia projected to sink by 2050 with out intervention.

Utilizing IoT sensors to investigate real-time knowledge, this undertaking provided clear insights and actionable info to handle and mitigate flooding effectively and successfully. Workforce JaWaRA additionally produced a video explaining their hack.

Mark your calendars for an additional SAS occasion in Las Vegas!

SAS Innovate, SAS Discover and SAS Amplify have been cultivated to nurture the return to in-person occasions after the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19. By having separate occasions for customers, enterprise professionals and companions, we have been positive to develop at a manageable tempo when returning to in-person occasions.

Based mostly on suggestions we’ve collected from our prospects, it’s time to mix these occasions to create the final word AI and analytics expertise for whole groups. Mark your calendars for April 17-19, 2024. SAS Innovate will likely be again in Vegas for an all-new expertise designed for executives, managers, customers and SAS companions. Let the countdown to April 2024 start!

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