Episode 18: DEI & Sports

Sports is a major contributor to economic growth and therefore mainstream. It is a major feed into the Media and Entertainment Industry. Even in the good old days when newspapers were published and most people read it, they started from the back pages where sports was featured and made it to the front pages where politics and economics is featured. Today one has feature stories of sports on the front pages. The work here is not seasonal but an annuity-oriented one with very well-paying careers for not only the ones that play the sport but also for the ones that participate in its ecosystem.

 

Giggr Technologies is bringing into focus the four main dimensions of the sports industry:

Athletic Development: Data Science taking a major leap in shaping the Capabilities of an athlete from Grassroots to Professional / Elite and or Amateur Sports.

Sports Science Development: Sports uses analytical data at all levels to varying degrees of success but has still not managed to provide a higher level of assurance for all shareholders and stakeholders with Cognitive Intelligence

Sport Development: Many sports find advancement and encouragement at the professional level and many are neglected because of a lack of popular appeal. This brings great inequity among its practitioners and this needs attention as well.

Sports Operations and Fan Management: Even though nearly an estimated $75 Billion Dollars are spent in fan management, unless the above three aspects of Athletics, Sports Science and Sports Development is paid attention to, there is a great chance of losing the real demographic that helps this industry thrive. This means the above three discrete events have to be tied into the process of Sports Operations with Innovation.

 

In this episode, we are proud to feature Danish Manzoor, a Taekwondo athlete from Jammu & Kashmir. He has a great aspiration to serve the sport as an ambassador grooming more athletes and popularizing the sport. But first, he must find expression for the abilities he has honed from a very early age, focusing on a sport rather than the tragedies around him that have crippled the society of Jammu & Kashmir.