We had some great speakers lined up at BlackBerry® DevCon Americas! Attendees joined experts from Research In Motion® (RIM®) and the developer community to learn from the very best.
Andrew is a PHP and JavaScript developer, web standards advocate and founder of Assanka, a London-based web development firm. His area of expertise is emerging web technologies, particularly on mobile and tablet platforms, where Assanka is known ...
COM27 - Look at What Web Apps Can Do: The Financial Times Pushes the Boundaries of Mobile Web Development
DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications
With more than 11 years in technology, interactive media, design, business and training, Demian is one of the Adobe Community Professionals (ACPs) and also a professor at UC San Diego. He is the CEO of Action Creations, an award-winning agency based ...
COM30 - Success Stories: Adobe AIR Applications and the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet
Sergio Brito study a degree in computer science at the UNAM. He has worked at , Nexsys, Activ, UNAM, TVAzteca, IXE Bank, Praxis among others. He is a big fan of technologies based on the Flash Platform. Currently, he is an Adobe Certified Expert ...
COM36 - Best Practices for User Experiences and User Interfaces Using the Adobe Flash Platform
Orphaned as a child, Michael Brooks was raised by his elderly Uncle Ben and Aunt May. Academically gifted, Michael displayed an uncanny affinity for Computer Science with speciality in signal processing and computer vision. While attending a public ...
COM12 - PhoneGap and BlackBerry WebWorks SDK: Two Allies that Simplified Development of Nursing App
DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications
Dave Burrows leads the Research & Development team for Interchange, a long-standing Elite Alliance Member based in the UK, specialising in custom (OEM) and packaged mobile application development. Dave holds a Masters Degree in Computer Studies for ...
COM06 - An Insider’s Look at How the Sky Sports Football Score Centre App was Developed
DEV15 - Game Makers Dream: The BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS
Mariano is an Adobe Community Champion and Flex 4 & AIR Certified Expert. After more than 10 years developing web applications he jumped to mobile platforms. He is actually manager for Argentina iOS Developers user group and co-manager for Argentina ...
COM34 - How Efficient is Your BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet App?
Eric Chan is a Manager of the enterprise mobile application development team at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Canada. With over 10 years of telecommunications experience, his team is responsible for the integration, architecture, and deployment of ...
COM01 - Enterprise Application Development Made Easy: The PricewaterhouseCoopers Story
Rupen Chanda is a founding engineer and architect of Adobe’s Flash Mobile and Devices team. He is responsible for the delivery of essential mobile technologies such as Flash player and AIR for mobile phones and tablets. In the past he extensively ...
DEV04 - Using the Web for Media Delivery
Ezequiel D'Amico is a visionary game producer that is trying to make BlackBerry and Playbook the new top gaming platforms. He runs Eudaimonia, a game and app studio based in Buenos Aires, that develops some of the most exciting development ...
DEV15 - Game Makers Dream: The BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS
COM37 - BlackBerry PlayBook Apps and Games in Latin America
Tom Emrich is a digital media expert with over 7 years in the industry. His knowledge and experience in consulting and realizing mobile and tablet solutions with core platforms such as SMS, QR, mCommerce, web and applications has brought success to ...
COM14 - Tackling the Challenge of App Discovery
Renaun Erickson is a Developer Evangelist at Adobe Systems. Renaun has a wide range of experience with the Adobe technologies. Renaun has worked on projects using technologies including ActionScript, HTML, Flex, AIR, PHP, ColdFusion, video, audio, ...
COM07 - Lab: Boot Camp for Developers Using Adobe AIR for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Apps
DEV21 - Creating a UI using the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR
Ekkehard Gentz (ekke) lives in the south of Germany (Rosenheim) and is working as an Independent Software Architect and Senior ERP Consultant. ekke survived many technologies since more then 30 years of development in the domain of ERP ...
COM26 - Logging: The Easy, Flexible Way
Shaheen first got involved with the BlackBerry solution in 2005 while interning on the BlackBerry Messenger team. After graduating from McMaster University with a B. Eng. in Software, Shaheen paired on development of the Groupon BlackBerry app (v ...
COM24 - Leveraging Open Source Tools and Libraries for BlackBerry Development
Marcos González has been working with flash during the last 9 years, developing rich internet experiences based on interaction systems and complex database communication. From Flash 4 and Action Script 1 to these days, he has worked with other teams ...
COM31 - Building Cloud-based Flash Applications
Ryan Henry has been involved in the mobile industry since graduating university. Joining Magmic as a Windows Mobile developer, he was responsible for the initial release of Guitar Hero 3 Mobile. He went on to further develop 6 more WM games before ...
COM03 - Monetizing Freemium Products to Work for You
Millennial Entrepreneur and Ethical Hacker, Mike Hostetler is going to change the world by weaving freedom into the fabric of our lives. Passionate about Open Source, Working Virtually, Entrepreneurship, HTML5 and JavaScript, Mike currently works ...
COM20 - Rapidly Develop Mobile Web Applications with jQuery Mobile
DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications
ActionScript developer with more than 10 years building solutions for Windows, MacOS, Linux, Symbian, Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, he currently works as Mobile Architect at Infocket coding the next generation of ...
COM31 - Building Cloud-based Flash Applications
Joe Johnston Over 12 years of experience in Web/RIA applications with extensive knowledge of mobile and cross-platform technologies and frameworks. Joe’s skill set focuses on user experience and the creation of rapid prototypes to help clients ...
COM22 - Lessons Learned: Building a Fantasy Football App for the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet
Steven Kader CEO The Jared Company JaredCompany.com
DEV35 - Optimize Your BlackBerry Apps with BlackBerry Analytics
Mitch is one of the founders of AppDelegates, a mobile software company that provides turnkey development of apps on a variety of platforms. Our apps have included content delivery and playback, augmented reality and pure marketing gadgets. Mitch ...
COM23 - One App, Multiple OSs and Two APIs: Challenges and Successes
Radik K. is a Product Manager at Mocean Mobile, a leading provider of Mobile Ad Serving solutions. He is responsible for the Mast for App Stores product which enables Ad Serving via both Ad Network Mediation and Campaign trafficking, which is ...
DEV27 - Introducing BlackBerry Advertising Service Developers Portal
Derek Konigsberg is a software engineer with extensive experience in the simulation and training software industry as a developer of both desktop and server solutions in Java, C#, and C++. He is also passionate about mobile software and is ...
COM10 - Deliver Quality Code using J2MEUnit and HammockMaker
Wolfram Kriesing has more than fourteen years professional experience in IT. The early involvement in web technologies provides him with deep knowledge and experience for designing and implementing stable and scalable architectures. With two ...
COM15 - HTML5 App Test Suite: Raising the Quality of Apps Built with Open Web Standards
COM16 - Every Byte Matters: Using embedJS in Mobile Development
DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications
Kathryn Lahrs is the founder of Lahrs apps. She is an an independent app developer with 18 month old twins and a full time job. On top of all of that, she develops app using the WebWorks technology.
COM09 - Tips and Tricks for Balancing Life and App Development from a Working Mother
I have been working in the industry developing games for BlackBerry devices for just over four years. Originally, I was porting games from feature phones to the BlackBerry smartphone family. Now I am managing the BlackBerry and Playbook development ...
COM03 - Monetizing Freemium Products to Work for You
Gadi Mazor co-Founded Nobex Technologies in 2007. Nobex Technologies develops and markets Nobex Radio, the award winning Smartphone app which plays over 16,000 stations from more than 100 countries, and allows the user to see playlist and artist ...
COM39 - Free, Paid and Freemium Apps – Understanding Your Business Options
Jane McGonigal is a visionary game designer and futurist, and she is harnessing the power of the Internet games in new ways to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing our world today and tomorrow. Drawing on the latest findings in ...
COM28 - Jane McGonigal on How Games Can Change the World
COM29 - Who's Got Game? App Review by Gamer and Futurist Jane McGonigal
Kevin Michaluk is the Founder of CrackBerry.com and Fearless Leader of Mobile Nations, which operates other leading mobile platform dedicated sites including Android Central (Andriod), TiPb (iOS), PreCentral (webOS) and WPCentral (Windows ...
COM32 - Working with Bloggers and the Media to Promote Your App
Brad Murray, SVP Technology - Poynt A geospatial industry veteran who embodies a scientific mind, an artistic heart and a competitive spirit. Driven by the need to build and create.
COM38 - The Anatomy of a Super App
Duane Nickull is a Sr. Technology Evangelist for Adobe Systems focusing on enterprise architecture and mobile application development covering multiple screens and devices. In the past he chaired the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee, ...
COM07 - Lab: Boot Camp for Developers Using Adobe AIR for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Apps
COM40 - Introduction to Adobe Flex
Peter manages BlackBerry development at foursquare (www.foursquare.com), a location based mobile company. Prior to foursquare, Peter co-founded Perk Mobile, a mobile consulting firm. Perk's clients ranged from established web 2.0 companies like Yelp ...
DEV03 - Social Apps: How to Integrate BBM to Make Your Apps Even Better
DEV52 - Developer Showcase: Success on BBM
Adobe Community Professional focused on Flash Platform technologies, his primary skills are web and mobile development, user experience and SEO/SEM. Has been instructor for different training centers and for the TI division at UNAM. He is a core ...
COM36 - Best Practices for User Experiences and User Interfaces Using the Adobe Flash Platform
James is a technologist, writer, developer & practitioner who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile ...
COM33 - Workshop: Create Your Own Mobile Web Appplications with Sencha Touch
Graham Robertson is a young programmer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He LOVES web technologies and their growing relevancy in building rich user experiences and applications on multiple platforms. You can check him out at ...
COM04 - JavaScript On-Demand
As CTO of Polar Mobile, Michael Russo is guiding the company’s platform development initiatives and aligning the team’s strategic research efforts. Michael's prior engineering experience at Microsoft, PARC, Sun Labs, and Bell Mobility spans the ...
COM35 - BlackBerry Amplified: Building Tablet and Smartphone Apps that Work Together
As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard open web development technologies. Dylan is also a committer to the cometD project, ...
COM11 - Make Beautiful Apps Faster Using the Dojo Mobile Toolkit
André Schmidt is one of the lead developers and evangelists at enough Software. He is in the business since 2001. After starting his programmer's career in one of the leading companies of the defense industry, he joined Enough Software in 2007 ...
COM18 - Using Glaze to Develop Apps with a Killer UI
Jason Schroeder is a Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce.com, Inc. He has been developing for the BlackBerry Platform for over five years. Jason enjoys cooking and carries his BlackBerry smartphone and PlayBook everywhere.
COM08 - Continuous Integration and Automated UI Testing on the BlackBerry Platform
Partner and Mobile IT Director at Sensebyte Mobile. Founder and Manager of the BlackBerry Developers Group of Argentina. BlackBerry and Mobile development teacher. BlackBerry Outstanding Contributor 2010.
COM25 - How One Latin American Company Used BlackBerry to Mobilize its Field Service Team
With a background in the mobile and gaming industries, Oren Tversky is VP Business Development for Unity Technologies’ Union business unit. Union is a business unit of Unity Technologies dedicated to distributing high quality 3D games on mobile ...
DEV15 - Game Makers Dream: The BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS
COM37 - BlackBerry PlayBook Apps and Games in Latin America
Robert Virkus, CEO Enough Software www.enough.de www.j2mepolish.org www.glaze-ui.org Robert works in the mobile industry since 1999. He created J2ME Polish, the Open Source framework for mobile application development in 2004. Soon after, ...
COM18 - Using Glaze to Develop Apps with a Killer UI
Charles is Founder of Penrillian, an agile software development company specialising in contract software development for mobile and wireless devices. With a track record of over 10 years, Penrillian (http://www.penrillian.com ) is one of the most ...
COM02 - Structuring Your Code for Easier Testing
David Wolpe is President and CEO of ContextIT, a software company dedicated to the emerging field of Technology Assisted Content Development (TACD). ContextIT developed BrightText, used by national organizations such as the National Wildlife ...
COM17 - How to Squeeze More from an Accelerometer and Make Your App Stand Out
Gary Yentin is a senior mobile executive, with over fifteen years of experience managing strategy sales, marketing, operations, and technology for established entertainment, new media and technology companies. For the last fifteen years Gary has ...
COM14 - Tackling the Challenge of App Discovery
Kenneth Yip is an Agile Software Engineer from Xtreme Labs - a leading mobile strategy and product development company based in Toronto, Canada and Palo Alto, California. Holds specialized knowledge in developing applications for BlackBerry Smart ...
COM19 - Continuous Integration with BlackBerry PlayBook Development
@chrisjblack I installed the SDK today (Win7-64, FB 4.6) and the devices appeared in the list. Could it be a Win7 permission issue? ^TW.
about 46 minutes ago from BlackBerryDev
@BensmithB Keep your eyes on the http://t.co/R7cwKM3K webpage. ^TW.
about 53 minutes ago from BlackBerryDev
@barti87 Unfortunately not today, but we are looking at some ways you can use to hide the unwanted applications ^RH.
about 1 hour ago from BlackBerryDev
@kimwinther Can you send us your App Name and Vendor Name? We'll take a look ^RH.
about 1 hour ago from BlackBerryDev
@lewellyn Ah, neat. I don't know of any plans for something like that, but it'd make a good feature request: http://t.co/E8CqL9n6 ^PB.
about 2 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
Apps built in the BlackBerry App Generator can be integrated automatically with #BBM and other social networks. http://t.co/wnUmSlH2 ^EO.
about 2 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
PROBLEM: Signature tool stops responding while signing. SOLUTION: http://t.co/S4TltDEM ^JD.
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@raquibulbari I believe we've got some planned, and I hope to have more information shortly. ^TW.
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@chrisjblack Are you referring to the device list for running on the desktop? Which OS and FB version are you on? ^TW.
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
Enhance your BlackBerry Jam Zone experience by collecting points for achievements and milestones. Sharing, joining groups, and posting in our forums are all ...
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerry Developer Community
@lewellyn Not sure what you mean. Are you talking about a view that shows you all the slots/signals or something? Got a screenshot?^PB.
about 3 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
What kind of updates on the #BBdev blog do you find most helpful? #JustCurious ^JD.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@kokosinskie3 BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour site is now live. Access it here for final dates and registration:http://t.co/UmkpjPrK^MS.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@jansensan Thanks for this, I understand what you're referring to now. I've passed this to our web team to resolve. ^EO.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
5 things that are cool about #BlackBerry 10, according to @Mashable: http://t.co/ouWbYS6t ^EO.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@kokosinskie3 Yes, these dates should be final. http://t.co/gx7ajVoZ ^MS.
about 4 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@brandondely BB 10 is coming to the PlayBook, but we have not stated timing for the release yet. You cannot test Cascades there yet. ^MS.
about 5 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@neothefrenchie Registration hasn't opened yet. Keep your eyes on http://t.co/ptkoZYqy for updates! ^JD.
about 5 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
@RPimpsner As soon as you log in and click 'Post for Sale'. There is a cache; not more than a few hours from when you click that button ^RH.
about 5 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
One of the best parts of Cascades: animated UI elements! They all have signature animations (and they look great). http://t.co/1S6Vx116 ^EO.
about 5 hours ago from BlackBerryDev
