Pooja Malpani

Head of Media Engineering at Bloomberg

"Innovation alongside running legacy business"

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Session: Innovation alongside running legacy business

How do you ensure there is technical innovation alongside business execution (aka KTLO)? Some common answers are to factor innovation into your regular development process, conduct hackathons, set aside 20% time etc. At Bloomberg Media, we do these, and in addition have a dedicated team to focus on data-driven user-centric innovation for accelerated experimentation and exploration. In this talk, I’ll talk about “BHIVE” - Bloomberg's innovation lab, some of the user-facing features/products that were shipped as a result of their work, and some of the challenges that come with this.

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Bio: Pooja Malpani

Pooja Malpani is the Head of Engineering for Bloomberg Media. She leads the engineering team responsible for consumer media, marketing and data visualization. This includes supporting Bloomberg.com, consumer mobile applications, smart television apps, other connected devices, as well as the systems that deliver market-moving news, data, audio and video to consumers and syndication partners. Her group also manages Bloomberg's marketing web sites, as well as various Bloomberg Philanthropies sites.

Prior to Bloomberg, Pooja was at HBO Digital Products, where she led the Purchase and Identity engineering teams for HBO Go and HBO Now. Her group was responsible for Subscription Management, including Auth, Direct Commerce and Partner Commerce across web, mobile and connected devices. Her group managed HBO’s streaming user services, including scaling for high traffic shows like 'Game of Thrones'.

Prior to joining HBO, Pooja spent 9 years at Microsoft, leading the engineering efforts on a variety of features for Skype for Business and Skype for consumers.
Pooja is an ambassador for women in technology and is actively involved in engineering initiatives related to diversity.

Pooja graduated from Indiana University with a Masters in Computer Science.