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The SAS chief technical officer Bryan Harris is on a personal mission. He wants humans at the centre of the innovation process, and he wants ethics in data. AI applied to healthcare and surgery may need to know someone’s gender and ethnicity, but AI applied to home loans should not use that as a factor at all. Harris is making clear irresponsible AI is right in his crosshairs.

SAS has concluded its major annual global forum event for another year, bringing with it a range of announcements including the return on investment acceleration for customers using SAS’ cloud-first portfolio, the SAS 360 Match first-party ad-serving platform for video-on-demand providers, and the batting lab showing kids the value of data and analytics.

COMPANY NEWS: SAS Skill Builder for Students connects SAS learning pathways, certifications and career resources.

GUEST RESEARCH: SAS research also identifies strategies to capitalise on this pivotal moment and empower data scientists and organisations.

Company News: Earning fourth place in Chartis’ analysis of the world’s top 100 risktech vendors, SAS also scored category wins for Risk and Finance Integration, IFRS 9 and Trade-Based AML

Company News: The partnership combines PERSOWN instant diagnostic test data with SAS artificial intelligence and data visualisation software to help affordably prevent pandemics.

Schneider Electric has appointed Patricia Hopkins to the role of director of its distributed software and business development team.

Analytics, artificial intelligence, and data management company SAS collaborates with US-based financial crimes and data consulting firm Zencos to meet the growing demand and ramp anti-money laundering technology in Australia.

Managed Kafka provider Confluent has appointed Jill Macmurchy to the role of vice president of APAC solutions engineering.

A third of financial institutions are accelerating their AI and machine learning (ML) adoption for anti-money laundering (AML) technology in response to COVID-19, according to a new AML technology study by software company SAS, accounting organisation KPMG, and the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (Acams).

The global leader in data analytics, SAS, has remained a private company under the same owners and leaders since its inception in July 1976. SAS has now announced its intention to join the stock market by 2024.

Analytics software and solutions company SAS received was honourably mentioned in the Fast Company World Changing Ideas Awards for its joint project with the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis tracking the human impact in the Amazon rainforest. It is one of many social innovation projects from SAS employees inspired to apply data to solve pressing humanitarian issues.

Data analytics platform provider SAS announced its first-class cloud support has expanded from Microsoft Azure to include AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and soon IBM Red Hat OpenShift. The company has also released an AI-powered conversational chatbot.

Data overload hits us every day - some data true, some false, some useful, some not. It's a data world and there's no going back. SAS has announced free data literacy e-learning and K-12 resources to help everyone navigate a world of data and questionable information, no matter their background.

Bryan Harris is the chief technology officer for data analytics software provider SAS. His vision focuses on three things which, due to SAS’ prominence, will undoubtedly shape how we do data analytics and data science. However, his journey to this point was unconventional and all started from an interest in music.

The Black Dog Institute's mental health platform tailored to frontline healthcare workers - TEN - was built with the analytical power of SAS and has reached 33,000 Australian healthcare professionals. However, its continued funding now rests on the result of the 2021-22 federal budget.

The Malala Fund, a girls' education non-profit, with the aid of analytics vendor SAS has uncovered countries where girls are most at risk of experiencing educational interruption due to the ripple effect of catastrophic weather events.

We asked a number of IT executives what the 'new normal' might look like as the impact of COVID-19 wanes.

SITA, the communications and technology vendor for 90% of the world's airlines, has suffered a breach involving data that was stored on SITA Passenger Service System servers, the company says in a public statement.

Analytics specialist SAS now offers its cloud-native SAS Viya platform on Microsoft Azure.