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BUSINESS STREAM
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TECHNOLOGY STREAM
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HANDS-ON WORKSHOPS
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| 8:15am |
Registration
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| 9:00am |
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Plenary
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS
Mr. Jim Davis, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS
Trans-Tasman Business Circle Executive Panel:
Mr. David Liddy, Managing Director & CEO, Bank of Queensland
Mr. John Wadeson, Deputy Secretary, ICT Infrastructure, Human Services Portfolio
Mr. John Simon, Managing Director, Optus Enterprise and Business Group
Mr. Rod McGeoch AM, Chairman, SkyCity Entertainment Group and Director, Telecom New Zealand
Mr. Bill Evans, Managing Director & Global Head of Economics & Research, Westpac Banking Corporation
Dr. Jim Goodnight, Chief Executive Officer, SAS
MC & Panel Moderator - Mr. Tony Jones
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| 10:45am |
Morning Tea
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| 11:25am |
Track A
Australian Marketing Institute Executive Panel |
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What's New in SAS® Web Based Reporting
Mr. Milo Davies, SAS
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SAS Add-in For MS-Office 4.3
Hands-on Workshop |
Enterprise Guide
Hands-on Workshop |
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Track B
Killer Instincts: Collaborating with the Business to Ensure Standardisation and Continuous Improvement
Mr. Craig Ward, Western Australia Police
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Track B
SAS macros for conducting univariable linear and logistic regression analyses and eLearning modules for demonstrating their usage
Dr. Navneet K. Dhand, University of Sydney
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Track C
Measuring Profitability is Improving Profitability
Dr. Marie Balce, SingTel Optus
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Track C
SAS and your Database: Using SAS® In-Database to maximise productivity, performance and business value
Mr. Felix Liao, SAS
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Track D
Real Business Benefit through Information Management
Mr. Kevin Hilder, ComSuper |
Track D
Platform Suite for SAS: Scheduling & Intelligent Workload Automation – Best Practices to Dramatically Improve your SAS Experience
Mr. David Smith & Mr. Wes Strom, Platform Computing
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Track E
Australian Banking & Finance Industry Panel |
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| 12:15pm |
Track A
Australian Marketing Institute Executive Panel |
Track A
Tips from the Techies
Mr. Julien Heijster & Mr. Justin Maguire, SAS
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How to use dfPower Studio to deliver timely, insightful and high quality data
Hands-on Workshops |
Track B
Informing the Nation: Official Statistics and Communication
Dr. Siu-Ming Tam, Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Track B
What’s New in SAS® Enterprise Guide
Mr. Chris Hemedinger, SAS
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Track C
Driving Better Results
Mr. Aubrey Joachim, CIMA and Mr. Greg Clarke, ABM Systems
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Track C
Managing a SAS Environment: Best Practices in Administration
Mr. Paul Northrop, SAS
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Track D
Factors affecting the adoption of BI systems and BI adoption strategies at Curtin University
Mr. Marco Schultheis, Curtin University of Technology
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Track D
Unstructured Data: The Power of Text Analytics
Mr. Evan Stubbs, SAS
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Track E
Australian Banking & Finance Industry Panel
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| 12:55pm |
Lunch
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| 2:05pm |
Track A
How to Influence and Make a Big Impact with Customer Analytics
Ms. Sandra Hogan, Telstra Corporation Limited
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Track A
SAS® 9.2 Migration: Lessons Learnt and Proven Practices
Mr. Sameer Das, SAS
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SAS Add-in For MS-Office 4.3
Hands-on Workshop |
Enterprise Guide
Hands-on Workshop |
Track B
Optimising Risk and Return: A Pragmatic Approach to Integrated Risk and Performance Management
Mr. Jordan Griffiths, Accenture |
Track B
What's New in SAS® Data Management
Mr. Wouter Germishuys, SAS |
Track C
From Costing to Profitability, Driving Transformational Change - The ANZ journey
Mr. Steve Harris, ANZ Banking Corporation |
Track C
Find your Way and Stay in Touch with the SAS Online Community
Mr. Andrew Howell, ANJ Group Pty Ltd |
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Track D
Analytics in Action: providing value to Operations and Strategy
Mr. Daniel Collins, EnergyAustralia
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Track D
The Power of Positivity: Improving Credit Decisioning Using Positive Data
Dr. Paul Bracewell, Dun & Bradstreet Australia
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Track E
The Case for an Agile Banking Organisation
Mr. Ram Kangatharan, Bank of Queensland
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| 2:55pm |
Track A
Case Study: From analysis to advisor – mixing research and analysis, story telling and inciting action
Mr. Joe Robins, Telecom New Zealand
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Track A
SAS Programmer's Paradise: New Goodies in SAS® Enterprise Guide 4.3
Mr. Chris Hemedinger, SAS
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How to use dfPower Studio to deliver timely, insightful and high quality data
Hands-on Workshops |
Track C
Customer Segmentation and Knowledge Management
Mr. Vince Morder, Analytics Manager, Loyalty New Zealand Ltd.
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Track B
Mastering Master Data Management
Mr. Saul Cunningham, Dataflux
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Track C
Delivering Analytics to the Front Line with Speed and Trust
Mr. Alec Gardner, Industry Consultant Direct, South Pacific Area, Teradata Pty Ltd
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Track C
Best Practices with SAS® 9 Metadata Security
Mr. Paul Homes, Metacoda Pty Ltd |
Track D
The Evidence Based Approach
Mr. Harry Banga, University of Sydney
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Track D
Airline Tankering Optimisation Using OPTMODEL
Ms. Diana Gibson and Dr. Norman Jessup, Qantas Airways Limited
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Track E
Creating Business Value with High Performance Risk Management
Mr. Tham Ming Soong, United Overseas Bank
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| 3:35pm |
Afternoon Tea
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| 4:15pm |
Track A
Understanding and leveraging customer perception and action through the largest loyalty customer database in Australia: Fresh insights from a fast moving consumer goods company
Dr. Ian Tho, Coles Group Limited
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Track A
What's New in SAS® Analytics
Ms. Mariangela Casadei, SAS
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SAS Add-in For MS-Office 4.3
Hands-on Workshop |
Enterprise Guide
Hands-on Workshop |
Track B
The Perils of Becoming too Insightful
Mr. Antony Ugoni, Team Leader, Customer Analytics, National Australia Bank
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Track B
Integrating Business Analytics into the Everyday Office: New and enhanced options for SAS integration with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook
Mr. Peter Hughes, SAS
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Track C
Future Ready - An integrated performance management framework at Australia Post
Mr. Scott Cumbrae-Stewart, Australia Post
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Track C
7 Steps To Successfully Redevelop Your SAS Data Warehouse Using "Good Practice"
Mr. Shane Gibson, OptimalBI Limited |
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Track D
Biogrid Australia: Medical research Platform that dynamically links data
Dr. Marienne Hibbert, Melbourne Health
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Track D
Advanced Features of User-Defined Formats and Informats
Mr. Ron Cody, SAS
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Track E
Improving performance through implementation of an enterprise wide financial crimes platform
Mr. Richard Moore, Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
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| 5:05pm |
Track A
Maximizing value from Customer Segments: Persistency and Share of Wallet
Dr. Nagaiyan Karthikeyan, Mahindra Satyam
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Track A
Operationalising SAS for Decision Making: Business Analytics in Action
Mr. Lai Phong Tran, SAS
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How to use dfPower Studio to deliver timely, insightful and high quality data
Hands-on Workshops |
Track B
Maximising Return under Constraints with Marketing Optimisation
Mr. David Fodor, National Australia Bank
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Track B
Delivering SAS in Style: Leveraging the Power of the Output Delivery System
Mr. Mike Evans, SAS |
Track C
IT Business Performance – IT and Business Aligned
Mr. Colin Moore, Hewlett Packard
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Track C
Monitoring SAS with SAS: An Administrator's Dream Comes True
Mr. Suren Selvaratnam, Commonwealth Bank of Australia |
Track D
Unpaid Innovation
Dr. Suzanne Zyngier, La Trobe University |
Track D
SAS to the Power of Z: Enhancements for SAS on Mainframe
Mr. Bill Gibson, SAS |
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Track E
Some Challenges with Decision Management
Dr. Warwick Graco, Australian Taxation Office
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| 5:45pm |
Social Mixer
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