Meet... Divya Bokaria
Divya Bokaria | Head of Data @ Zattoo
Divya is heading the Data and Analytics department at Zattoo, a tv streaming platform. She stumbled upon the data world by chance 8 years ago and fell in love with how much advantage data can give to businesses. She has setup data warehouses, reporting and complex data algorithms in multiple companies and helped businesses make better data based decisions to grow their top and bottom line. She is passionate about enhancing the data culture in companies as with the ubiquity of data, it is important that all functions know how to use its power to advance the business.
“Data can also help us in the journey for women empowerment and workplace equality :)”
#7 questions to Divya about her and the DATA festival…
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# With which three words would you describe the DATA festival?
rejuvenating, inspiring, learning
# Why did you want to be a part of the DATA festival committee?
To be able to bring out the topics that I see as challenges discussed with the data community to understand different approaches people took to solve them and to get inspired by the same.
# How did you join the DATA festival committee?
I was part of a panel for 2020 DATA festival and was invited to become a committee member. I see this as an excellent opportunity to know the fellow data leaders better and to learn from each other.
# How would you like to have an impact on the DATA community?
I hope that we are able to discuss topics where people can understand what path to take for their current challenges that they face in data as it is corroborated by fellow data people.
# What is your passion besides DATA?
Understanding human biases and how it impacts us especially in the context of gender equality.
# What is your festival must have?
Music 😉
# If I would not be working with DATA, I…
would probably be a banker as that was the path I was going before data happened!