Voting is now open for the 2025 SAS Customer Recognition Awards!

The entries are in for the SAS Customer Recognition Awards, and now it’s time to vote for your favorite nominations. Read through all the submissions highlighting our customers’ innovative uses of SAS software in each of the three categories: Community Uplift, Innovative Problem Solver, and SAS Analytics Explorers Advocate. As a bonus: reading what these customers are accomplishing with their SAS software might give you some new ideas for your organization!

The stakes are high, so sign in to the SAS Communities and click “Like” on an entry to cast a vote! The first-place winner in each category will receive one trip to SAS Innovate in Orlando, Florida*, along with a trophy and SAS swag.
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While the online voting is happening, we have a panel of six judges that will score each entry on a 1-5 scale on three categories:

Spirit of story

Strength of evidence

Results

When the voting closes on Feb 12, the top three vote-getters will get bonus points added to the scores from the judges to create a total score for each entry. The top three scores in each category will be the winners. The first-place winner will get a trip to SAS Innovate*!

First-place winners will be notified in March and publicly announced in May at SAS Innovate. All winners will be posted online right after the event.

Judging Panel

Nancy Brucken: Nancy Brucken has been a SAS user for over 30 years, mainly for reporting and analysis of data from clinical trials and is currently a Senior Standards Engineer in IQVIA’s Data Standards group.  She has also been a frequent presenter at local and regional SAS Users Group conferences and has helped to organize many SAS-related webinars, meetings and conferences over the years.

Josh Horstman: Josh Horstman is an independent statistical programming consultant and trainer based in Indianapolis with over 25 years of experience using SAS. He works primarily in the life sciences industry and specializes in clinical trial analysis and reporting for pharmaceutical and biotech clients. Josh is a SAS Certified Advanced Programmer who loves coding and presenting at SAS user group conferences and other industry events. He also enjoys travelling and hiking with his family and has been to 47 states and 30 national parks.

Quentin McMullen: Quentin McMullen has more than 25 years of experience programming in SAS, primarily in healthcare, clinical trials, and related fields. He is an active participant in online SAS communities (particularly communities.sas.com, SAS-L, and stackoverflow), and is Vice President of the Boston Area SAS Users Group (BASUG).

Chris Hemedinger: As the Director of SAS User Engagement, Chris’ talented team oversees SAS online communities, SAS user groups, developer experience and GitHub, tech newsletters, expert webinars, and tutorials. He is a recovering software developer who helped build popular SAS products such as SAS® Enterprise Guide®. Inexplicably, Chris is still coasting on the limited fame he earned as an author of SAS For Dummies.

Stacey Syphus: Stacey Syphus is a Director in SAS Education. For over 20 years Stacey has helped learners gain valuable skills to understand and leverage their data. Stacey and her team create learning assets and teach individuals to use SAS software. Her areas of expertise include SAS programming, SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide, and SAS Studio. She loves her job so much that her first born child’s initials are SAS.

Rajiv Ramarajan: Rajiv leads Product Design at SAS. He has over 20 years of experience in design, design management, and designing for analytics. He leads an expert team of user experience designers, visual designers, and user researchers who collaborate with product teams to design compelling, approachable, and easy-to-use analytic products. The Product Design team manages the Filament Design System and user interface standards and guidelines that form the basis of the unified user experience connecting all SAS products.

*Please visit the SAS Customer Recognition Awards site for all the program details, rules and to cast your vote. Please reach out to Beverly Brown with any questions.

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