A Demonstration of the Art of the Possible with SAS AI

AI has moved from "can it generate an answer?" to "can it act on one — safely, and at scale?" This demonstration walks through the newest AI and agentic capabilities in SAS Viya and shows how they come together in a single governed workflow. We'll begin with the copilot experience now embedded directly in the analytics life cycle, using natural language to generate code, build and explain models, and surface insights across both programming and visual interfaces. From there we move from assistance to autonomy — orchestrating agents that connect trusted analytics, models, and decisions into actions that span systems. Throughout, the focus stays on governance: pairing AI with human judgment, trusted data, and enterprise oversight so it drives accountable, production-ready decisions rather than isolated experiments.

Attendees will leave with a clear sense of what's available today, what's coming, and where these tools fit into real analytics work.

About the Presenter

Ben Murphy is a Principal Data Scientist on the Health Care Customer Advisory team with experience in all aspects of the analytics life cycle and a specialization in Operations Research problem solving.  He's been at SAS since 2022 and has been using SAS for working with data for his entire career.  As an operations research technologist operating in emerging technologies Ben takes machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to the next level with Generative AI & Agentic AI to solve big problems for clients, and to make business task completion more efficient and productive.