The SAS Global Forum is a premier event for SAS professionals that offers educational and networking opportunities. Not only does SAS help bring intelligence to everyday businesses, their technology helps sports organizations understand fans and players. We are in attendance covering the sports topics news coming from the event.
Alan Schwarz, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter at The New York Times, gave the keynote speech the morning of the first day of sessions, and he touched on the concussion issue with football in youth sports. He published more than 100 articles that brought the concussion issue to light and transformed in to more serious actions and studies about concussions in all youth sports, especially with the rise of CTE.