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Ready to see what’s next in data, AI, and innovation? 👀 Experience it all at #SASInnovate April 27-30, where big ideas turn into real impact and the future gets a little more exciting. See you there ✨ 2.sas.com/6018B6tmHp

Get comfy and tune in. Can’t-miss moments from #SASInnovate 2026 are now available, on demand. 2.sas.com/6018BBZCpC

CTO Bryan Harris on SAS' 50th anniversary: “The next era of innovation will belong to companies that can combine powerful AI with governance, transparency and accountability. That’s exactly where SAS is focused.” #SASInnovate

Wrapping up an incredible #SASInnovate 2026, filled with new ideas, hands-on demos, unforgettable moments (yes, even bull riding) + connections that will last well beyond the conference. We even broke a world record along the way 🎉 Hard to top a week like this, but we can't wait until next year 📆

At #SASInnovate, SAS debuted "a sweeping set of product updates" focused on governance, enhancements to the SAS Viya platform, and a growing portfolio of industry-specific AI agents and accelerators. Via @SiliconANGLE: 2.sas.com/6018BBOLLq

@SabineVdL Such great insights. Excited to hear your Day 2 findings from #SASInnovate!

You already know this! The Frontier Firm doesn’t run on AI. It runs on human-agent teams. Day 2 of SAS Innovate, the deeper story is the one no one is leading with: A new operating model where every employee becomes an agent boss, commanding a constellation of specialized agents under their supervision. Headcount is no longer the unit of capacity. The Human-Agent Ratio is. Make sure to take advantage of the Digital Pass bit.ly/4eMMPiT Later today, I will be releasing my next article... which will capture my findings from my Day 2 discovery.

@lester67 Looks like you're really mooo-ving the networking needle 😉🐄

The key to a quality conference is the networking opportunities. #sasinnovate

@SabineVdL Sabine, your insights are top tier. Scaling AI with trust at the center is important. Thank you for helping shape these themes and more during your time at #SASInnovate!

46% of AI's potential is sitting idle. Not because the models aren't capable. Because organizations haven't earned the trust to deploy them at scale. I spent my first day at SAS Innovate 2026 listening to some of the sharpest minds in data and AI. The theme running through every session wasn't technology. It was trust — and the gap between where organizations are and where they need to be. Bryan Harris said something that stopped me cold. The problem isn't AI. It's an information gap. Leaders are making high-stakes decisions on incomplete data, misaligned architectures, and misplaced confidence. They're calling it a transformation. It isn't. Reggie Townsend reframed governance in a way that should change how every organization thinks about AI deployment. Governance isn't a compliance exercise. It's the culture you build — the one that makes AI trustworthy not just on paper, but in practice, at scale, under pressure. And Jared Peterson showed what that actually looks like when it works: synthetic data, intelligent decisioning, and real-time fraud detection — without sacrificing speed, oversight, or accountability. That's not a pilot. That's a production system built on trust by design. This is happening in SAS's 50th year. Jim Goodnight built this company on a principle he committed to in a memo in 1985 — that people and rigor are inseparable. The organizations thriving in the AI era aren't discovering that principle. They're returning to it. The Frontier Firms pulling ahead aren't doing so because they have better models. They're doing so because they made a different architectural choice: deterministic systems where precision is non-negotiable, non-deterministic where creativity creates value, and governance woven through both from the start. The Trust Premium is real. It compounds. And most organizations are still spending it down. The full article is linked. It covers what I heard, what it means, and what leaders need to do differently. Read the full article: linkedin.com/pulse/trust-pr… One question worth sitting with: if 46% of AI's potential is unrealized, where exactly is your organization leaving value on the table?

Can #SASInnovate happen every week? 😄 🎥 Some highlights from the first few days onsite here in Grapevine, Texas. More coverage to come!

Chris Jennions, Vice President, Marketing, Liverpool Football Club: "Choosing a partner that doesn't just react to change but drives that change. SAS is really at the forefront of that." #SASInnovate #LiverpoolFC #lfc @lfc 2.sas.com/6012BBPMF6

SAS CTO Bryan Harris to close out #SASInnovate mainstage: "It's always about scaling human ingenuity to deliver extraordinary outcomes. So let me ask you... do you have the courage to build the future you want?"

Dinesh Jayaraman, VP Fraud Strategy & Model Implementation at Discover (center) takes the #SASInnovate stage with SAS' Stu Bradley and Udo Sglavo to share more about how SAS Models are helping improve performance.

SAS’ Tom Roehm: “AI is everywhere. Yes, LLMs are powerful... But here’s what they can’t do -- they can’t scrape decades of lived experience or inherit judgment forged from working in regulated environments. They can’t feel the weight of decisions where being ‘mostly right’ isn’t enough. That’s where SAS is different.” #SASInnovate

Big congratulations to Team DementAI, the 2025 #SASHackathon Grand Champion! 🏆 Their AI solution built on SAS Viya helps identify Alzheimer’s earlier, showing how data and AI can drive real clinical impact. 🗞️ 2.sas.com/6019BBPH5V #SASInnovate

Mel Robbins adds: "That's one of the greatest things you can do as an organization right now -- accelerate people leaning in and really paying attention to how training is rolling out... Stress management is the biggest skill you're going to need." #SASInnovate

In conversation with Mel Robbins on #SASInnovate mainstage, SAS CMO Jenn Chase says, "As leaders, AI is going to call on our empathy more than ever and talk about human skills that AI can never replace."

SAS CMO Jenn Chase chats with bestselling author and podcaster Mel Robbins at #SASInnovate. Robbins shares: "Thinking about what you need to do doesn't change your life -- action does. And it's the kind of action you don't want to do."

@SabineVdL This is the kind of post we’d bookmark twice! 👏 Thanks for capturing the #SASInnovate theme so well!

@InfoPathways Thanks for bringing the fun (and the record!) to #SASInnovate 😄

Having an incredible time at SAS Innovate 2026! And of course… we didn’t just sit in sessions all week. The InfoPathways team joined 600+ of our new SAS friends (with a little help from Dude Perfect) to set a Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous double high -five!

@MatthewALanham Ready for a great session! #SASInnovate

Let’s get it! #INFORMS #SASInnovate

"Through the Scotiabank-SAS Innovation Lab, the bank is exploring quantum computing in the context of consumer bankruptcy prediction, a complex, highly regulated risk modeling problem," writes @ABridgwater. He covers our survey results, the future of quantum AI at #SASInnovate.