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Los Angeles Basin SAS User Group
and
Kaiser Permanente Southern California SAS User Group
is hosting


Thursday, October 29, 2009
Kaiser Permanente Walnut Center Pasadena Facility


The Meeting Agenda (and eventually links to presentation abstracts and presentations) is directly below this section. The LABSUG sasCommunity.org page also has the Agenda and other related information.

Space is limited. The event is now full. Please e-mail the Registrar using the link on the left side of the page to be put on a waiting list

Be sure to register early for the 2009 SAS LA Forum. Registration began September 29th. Registered attendees should return to the RegOnline website for updated directions and parking information. Click here for Online Registration, directions and parking information

As a reference:

There are no Registration fees for this meeting

Parking is not available at the Kaiser facility but is available close by in a public facility and at the Hilton and Westin Hotels. The meeting is also reachable via MetroLink/MetroRail. The Registration link above provides a map/directions link, parking locations and prices as well as MetroLink/MetroRail information.

Los Angeles Basin SAS User Group holds a once a year all day event to discuss SAS related issues and to learn new ways of exploiting existing systems to get our jobs done. Novice to experienced SAS users enjoyed quality presentations from fellow SAS users and SAS Institute. The map/directions link above details MetroLink and MetroRail specifics.

Volunteers are needed.

A new Jobs link to the Opportunity Registry at sasCommunity.org has been added to the Links page. You can use the Opportunity Registry to look for jobs or to post jobs. Instructions for posting a job can be found at the top of the Opportunity Registry page.

Meeting Agenda
 
    LABS is going green again this year, and won’t be printing out handouts of the
presentations. Links to papers have been provided by most of the authors.
Print out any presentations you may be interested in and want to have at the meeting.
 
9 AM   Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking
       Networking with your local SAS Community
10 AM   ODS Packages: Putting Some Zip in Your ODS Output
       Eric Gebhart, USC, SAS Institute Inc.
11 AM   Coders' Corner
       Brief Presentations by Kaiser and LA Basin Speakers
11:30 AM   Upping Your SAS Game with SAS 9.2 and SAS Enterprise Guide
       Chris Hemedinger, Senior Software Manager in SAS R&D
12:30 PM   Round Table Lunches & Announcements
       Kim LeBouton, Independent Consultant, KJL Computing
1:30 PM   Where Do You Turn In A Downturn? A Guide to Finding and Keeping Work in an Economic Recession
       Molly Meade Hall, Synchrony Solutions
2:30 PM   TBA
       TBA
3:30 PM   SASŪ Visual Data Discovery
       John Guerrero, Systems Engineer SAS Institute Inc.
4:30 PM   Closing & Final Give-a-ways
 
    Meeting Agenda and abstracts PDF link for printing