Speakers

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.

RIM Employee Speakers

Shaun Amyotte

Shaun Amyotte

Senior manager, Enterprise Solutions, Research In Motion

By day a RIM employee, by night a father of 2 and a returning student. 10+ years working at RIM with 8 of those focused on enterprise technologies, ensuring the BlackBerry solution met our customer needs. The last 2 year's focus has been in ...

GRP05 - Collaboration Roundtable: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet OS

GRP08 - Birds of a Feather: Business Apps - Demographics, Development, Services and Deployment

DEV50 - Lab: New Ways to Monetize Your Apps with BlackBerry Application Platform Services

GRP14 - Focus Group: Developer Experience

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Chris Bender

Chris Bender

Team Lead, Product Management, Research In Motion

Has been a member of various Research In Motion (RIM) security teams for 6 years covering software development and product management roles. He currently leads the team managing the security roadmap for the BlackBerry device from manufacturing to ...

DEV59 - Secure Your App with Secure Coding Practices

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Brad Benninger

Brad Benninger

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Brad Benninger has been a software developer at Research In Motion for over four years. He's had the opportunity of first being involved with BlackBerry Messenger development, and is now working on Java APIs for third party developers.

DEV12 - Apps that Deliver Augmented Reality and Other Compelling Experiences

COM38 - The Anatomy of a Super App

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Nukul Bhasin

Nukul Bhasin

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Nukul is a software developer focused on everything WebWorks. Nukul is excited about the WebWorks Open Source initiatives (blackberry.github.com) and would love to help you become a part of the BlackBerry Open Source community. He believes that the ...

DEV51 - Building Advanced BlackBerry WebWorks JavaScript Extension APIs

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Prosanta Bhattacherjee

Prosanta Bhattacherjee

Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion

Prosanta has worked on numerous web portals for major multinational firms writing both front and backend code. He has a number of years of experience working with both Java and .Net environments implementing portals to suit client and partner needs. ...

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

DEV32 - Profiling your AIR Application for Better Performance

GRP03 - Collaboration Roundtable: Where Can You Take Adobe Flash and Abobe AIR Apps?

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Martin Brehovsky

Martin Brehovsky

Advanced UI Architect, Research In Motion

Martin Brehovsky is Advanced UI Architect at Research in Motion , where he focuses on design and development of modern user interface frameworks. His passion is smoothly animated and fluid user interfaces combined with ease of use and productivity ...

DEV37 - Introduction to the Cascades UI

GRP11 - Focus Group: Cascades User Interface Engine

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Michael Brown

Michael Brown

Senior Software Developer, Research In Motion

Michael Brown is a Senior Software Developer in the Handheld Application Prototype group. Since his first term as a summer student in 1995, Michael has worked on software for many different aspects of the BlackBerry solution. Recently, he has ...

DEV45 - Mastering Java Layouts: Fields, Managers, and Screens

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Ryan Burbidge

Ryan Burbidge

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Ryan grew up in the hamlet of Claremont, in Ontario, Canada with a passion for tech. He completed a BASc in Computer Engineering a University of Toronto, with a 16-month internship at Research In Motion. Shortly after graduating, Ryan returned to ...

DEV03 - Social Apps: How to Integrate BBM to Make Your Apps Even Better

DEV53 - Lab: Make the Connection to BBM and Make Your WebWorks Apps More Social

DEV67 - Lab: Make the Connection to BBM, Make Your Java Apps More Social

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Jon Chan

Jon Chan

Product Manager, Research In Motion

Jon Chan is a Product Manager on the Handheld Software Product Management team. Jon is responsible for the BlackBerry Java Platform as well as the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps. Jon is looking forward to meeting DevCon Americas 2011 attendees ...

DEV11 - NFC: The Future of Apps and How to Build an NFC Enabled App

GRP01 - Collaboration Roundtable: Making Highly Addictive BlackBerry 7 Apps

GRP05 - Collaboration Roundtable: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Eugene Chin

Eugene Chin

Senior Software Developer, Research In Motion

Eugene Chin is a Senior Software Developer in the BlackBerry Security group at Research In Motion. He has been involved in many security related projects at RIM, including the BlackBerry Smart Card Reader, microSD smart card, NFC, and code signing.

DEV16 - Everything You Need to Know About Code Signing and Permissions

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Sulman Choudhry

Sulman Choudhry

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Sulman Choudhry is a Software Developer in the Multimedia team at Research In Motion. He has been involved in creating and supporting applications and API's used to enhance the Multimedia experience on BlackBerry smartphones for both internal and ...

DEV07 - The Science of Audio on BlackBerry

DEV08 - Apps that Get Noticed: Using High-Definition Video Capture and Playback

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Gabriel Chow

Gabriel Chow

Senior Software Developer, BlackBerry Messenger, Research In Motion

Gabriel is a Senior Software Developer in the BlackBerry Messenger team. He considers coding an art and enjoys writing apps on various platforms during his free time. He loves mathematics, especially combinatorics.

DEV53 - Lab: Make the Connection to BBM and Make Your WebWorks Apps More Social

DEV67 - Lab: Make the Connection to BBM, Make Your Java Apps More Social

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Steve Clarey

Steve Clarey

Dir., ISV Alliances Enterprise Solutions, Research In Motion

Steve Clarey joined RIM in 2000 to launch BlackBerry into the Canadian Public Sector. Following several years managing RIM’s Public Sector sales teams in Canada and Europe Steve joined the Global Alliances Group in 2009 with responsibilities for ...

GRP08 - Birds of a Feather: Business Apps - Demographics, Development, Services and Deployment

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Denver Coneybeare

Denver Coneybeare

Team Lead - Java Device APIs, Research In Motion

Denver Coneybeare has worked for RIM since graduating from University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 2005 with an Honors Computer Science degree. His roles at RIM have included automated API test developer, API designer and developer, ...

GRP01 - Collaboration Roundtable: Making Highly Addictive BlackBerry 7 Apps

DEV57 - Android Development for BlackBerry Java Developers

DEV64 - Write Once, Deploy Anywhere

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David Cummings

David Cummings

Tools Software Developer, QNX Software Systems

David is a software developer on the development tools team at QNX Software Systems. As part of this team, David works on both the BlackBerry Tablet OS AIR and Native SDKs. His areas of expertise include system profiling, application signing, ...

COM07 - Lab: Boot Camp for Developers Using Adobe AIR for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Apps

DEV16 - Everything You Need to Know About Code Signing and Permissions

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV40 - Lab: Introduction to the BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Chris Del Col

Chris Del Col

Manager, BlackBerry WebWorks R&D, Research In Motion

Chris DelCol - Research in Motion I am a manager in the R&D group working in the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK team. I'm involved in both the internal production, as well as the open source aspects of the products and teams. I've been with RIM for almost ...

DEV51 - Building Advanced BlackBerry WebWorks JavaScript Extension APIs

DEV56 - Hands-On WebWorks with GitHub, Ripple, AliceJS and Friends

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Terrill Dent

Terrill Dent

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Terrill Dent is a software developer on the Handheld Application Prototyping team at Research In Motion. In his 5 year tenure at RIM he has made significant contributions to Flickr, Facebook, Clock, BBM Groups, and many other RIM products. Most ...

DEV66 - Designing Elegant Java Apps

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Peter Dolanjski

Peter Dolanjski

Product Manager, Research In Motion

As a Product Manager on the BlackBerry Enterprise Product Management team, Peter helps define mobility solutions that align with the needs of RIM's enterprise customers.

GRP12 - Focus Group: Enterprise Mobile Development Strategy

GRP13 - Focus Group: Mobile Computing in the Enterprise

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Julian Dolce

Julian Dolce

Platform Lead, QNX Software Systems

Julian Dolce is a Platform Lead for AIR at QNX Software Systems and the lead developer on the BlackBerry PlayBook AIR SDK. With over 10 years experience, Julian has created Flash and AIR applications and content for Fortune 100 brands. He has also ...

COM07 - Lab: Boot Camp for Developers Using Adobe AIR for BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet Apps

DEV32 - Profiling your AIR Application for Better Performance

GRP03 - Collaboration Roundtable: Where Can You Take Adobe Flash and Abobe AIR Apps?

DEV42 - What’s New in the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR Apps?

DEV43 - Developing Adobe AIR Native Extensions

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Eli Fidler

Eli Fidler

Architect, Research In Motion

Eli Fidler works for Research In Motion on the Web Platform team. He is responsible for the architecture of WebKit on BlackBerry platforms. Formerly with Torch Mobile, Eli has a strong history in the Web and Open Source communities. Eli is ...

DEV05 - High Performing Interfaces: Event Handling and Display Models on the BlackBerry® Browser

DEV46 - Advanced Web Rendering: webGL, Canvas and Gaming

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Laurent Hasson

Laurent Hasson

Technical Director, BlackBerry Web Platform, Research In Motion

Laurent is the Technical Director responsible for driving strategy, architecture, open source and community relationships around RIM's Web Platform. He joined RIM in the Spring 2010 and has been focused on the WebKit browser, WebWorks, Ripple, and ...

DEV31 - Alice.js: A Lightweight Independent CSS Engine

GRP02 - Collaboration Roundtable: Building Better Web Apps

DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications

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Ruth Haworth

Ruth Haworth

Technical Writer, Research In Motion

Ruth Haworth has 10 years experience researching the mobile developer community with the goal of designing optimal documentation. “It’s not just a matter of asking developers their opinions - although that’s a big part of it,” she says. “I need to ...

GRP01 - Collaboration Roundtable: Making Highly Addictive BlackBerry 7 Apps

GRP02 - Collaboration Roundtable: Building Better Web Apps

GRP03 - Collaboration Roundtable: Where Can You Take Adobe Flash and Abobe AIR Apps?

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

GRP05 - Collaboration Roundtable: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet OS

GRP06 - Collaboration Roundtable: Platform Services for BlackBerry Smartphone OS and Tablet OS

GRP14 - Focus Group: Developer Experience

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Jeffrey Heifetz

Jeffrey Heifetz

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Jeff is a developer working on all things WebWorks. Jeff believes BlackBerry offers an amazing mobile web platform and is excited to be a part of it. Jeff would love you to help him do this by joining him on the forums and community repos

DEV51 - Building Advanced BlackBerry WebWorks JavaScript Extension APIs

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Stanley Ho

Stanley Ho

Software Architect, Research In Motion

Stanley Ho is a Software Architect at Research In Motion. He has contributed in many advanced projects, and more recently he has been deeply involved in developing the Android applications support for the next generation BlackBerry Platform. Prior ...

DEV36 - Lab: Getting Started with Developing for BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps

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Anders Jeppsson

Anders Jeppsson

Head of Gaming Category, Research In Motion

Anders Jeppsson, Head of Gaming, RIM Anders was founder and CEO of game development company SouthEnd Interactive between 1998-2010 and is also credited as Lead Game Designer and Senior Producer and have worked on games such as Deathrow (Xbox), ...

DEV15 - Game Makers Dream: The BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Sanjay Kalyanasundaram

Sanjay Kalyanasundaram

Senior Technical Product Manager, Research In Motion

Sanjay Kalyanasundaram is the Senior Manager for Product Management at Research In Motion. He is responsible for managing Core Infrastructure Platform that enables optimization and management of BlackBerry Services. Sanjay is a former software ...

DEV60 - Tiered BlackBerry Services and How it Affects App Development

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Alex Kinsella

Alex Kinsella

Team Lead, BlackBerry App World Product Management, Research In Motion

Promoter of apps. Connoisseur of tacos. I'm the team lead of product management for a BlackBerry App World. http://alexkinsella.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/alexkinsella http://about.me/alexkinsella

DEV55 - Pricing Your App

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Pär Kjellberg

Pär Kjellberg

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Pär Kjellberg is a Software Developer who came over to RIM with the acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe. At RIM he works in a team focused on Developer Experience, bringing the code to the coders, creating a fun place amongst the bits and bytes and ...

DEV38 - Streamlining Designer–Coder Workflow with Cascades

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Gary Klassen

Gary Klassen

Advanced Applications Architect, Research In Motion

Gary Klassen is an 11 year veteran of BlackBerry software development and was the key developer behind projects such as BlackBerry Messenger, the BlackBerry 950 browser, Themes, Instant Messaging, Maps, HTML Email, Clock and the now iconic ...

DEV58 - Responsive Applications and Liquid Graphics

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Kjell Kolstad

Kjell Kolstad

Director, Strategic Business Development, Research In Motion

Kjell is Director, Strategic Business Development responsible for the Lifestyle & Social partner category including Travel, Augmented Reality, E-commerce, Health & Fitness, Family and Entertainment. Kjell joined RIM in 2003 and has had various roles ...

GRP07 - Birds of a Feather: Consumer Apps - Demographics, Commercialization and Related Services

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Nick Landry

Nick Landry

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Nick Landry is a Software Developer on the Native Application Services team at Research In Motion. He has been spending his time creating the APIs that C/C++ developers will be using to write native PlayBook apps.

DEV19 - Introduction to the BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS: Building a Sample Application

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Anders Larsson

Anders Larsson

Product Manager, Research In Motion

Anders Larsson joined RIM as part of the acquisition of TAT. His current mission is to bring great UI to the BlackBerry developer ecosystem as a product manager for the new UI Framework in the Native SDK.

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV37 - Introduction to the Cascades UI

GRP11 - Focus Group: Cascades User Interface Engine

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Elena Laskavaia

Elena Laskavaia

Software Developer - Tech Lead, QNX Software Systems

Elena Laskavaia has over 10 years of experience in the software industry, including software tools development, such as parsers, software static and runtime analysis engines, and user interface analysis and design. She currently works as project ...

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV40 - Lab: Introduction to the BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV41 - BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS: Advanced Tooling

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Staffan Lincoln

Staffan Lincoln

Interaction Designer, Research In Motion

Staffan Lincoln makes visual and interaction design for RIM, and has been working closely with programmers at The Astonishing Tribe since it started.

DEV38 - Streamlining Designer–Coder Workflow with Cascades

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Genevieve Mak

Genevieve Mak

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Genevieve works for Research In Motion on the Web Platform team based out of Toronto. Tasked with all things related to interaction, she has developed RIM's unique approach to enabling web content to work on mobile devices. She has managed to what ...

DEV05 - High Performing Interfaces: Event Handling and Display Models on the BlackBerry® Browser

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Rajeev Massand

Rajeev Massand

Sr Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion

Rajeev Massand joined Research In Motion (RIM) in 2008, bringing six years of development experience in the realm of mobile and web apps. As part of the Developer Relations team, he works with ISVs developing consumer apps, imparts wisdom on rich ...

DEV07 - The Science of Audio on BlackBerry

DEV08 - Apps that Get Noticed: Using High-Definition Video Capture and Playback

DEV49 - Creating Amazing Video Experiences on the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

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Larry McDonough

Larry McDonough

Platform Product Management, Research In Motion

Larry McDonough is manager of the Handheld software Platform Product Management team at RIM with a particular focus on developer APIs and runtimes (WebWorks/HTML5, Native C/C++, and Android Player/Java). Larry has worked for numerous companies in ...

GRP05 - Collaboration Roundtable: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Rajeev Mohindra

Rajeev Mohindra

Director, Handheld App Architecture, Research In Motion

Rajeev Mohindra is the Director of Engineering spearheading the effort to bring Android applications to BlackBerry platform. Prior to joining RIM, Rajeev founded Everypath Inc., a mobile applications company and held senior management positions at ...

GRP05 - Collaboration Roundtable: Porting Android Apps to BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV36 - Lab: Getting Started with Developing for BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps

DEV62 - Getting Started with Android Player

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Patrick Mollins

Patrick Mollins

Product Manager, Research In Motion

GRP03 - Collaboration Roundtable: Where Can You Take Adobe Flash and Abobe AIR Apps?

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Tamara Moona

Tamara Moona

Product Manager, Research In Motion

I'm a Product Manager on the BlackBerry App World team. I live to help users to find more ways to thoroughly enjoy their BlackBerry experience!

GRP08 - Birds of a Feather: Business Apps - Demographics, Development, Services and Deployment

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John Mutter

John Mutter

Enterprise Mobility Architect, Research In Motion

John Mutter is an Enterprise Mobility Architect at Research In Motion based out of Charleston, SC. Mr. Mutter provides Application Development guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies in North America. Prior to ...

GRP08 - Birds of a Feather: Business Apps - Demographics, Development, Services and Deployment

DEV65 - Future Proofing BlackBerry Applications for the Enterprise

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Adam Nanjee

Adam Nanjee

Portfolio Manager, Social Networking Partnerships, Research In Motion

Adam currently manages RIM's social networking partnerships portfolio from a consumer strategy and business development perspective which includes developing new, and maintaining existing partnerships on a global level for all of RIM's platforms. ...

GRP07 - Birds of a Feather: Consumer Apps - Demographics, Commercialization and Related Services

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Tim Neil

Tim Neil

Manager, BlackBerry WebWorks, Research In Motion

Tim is the Development Manager for BlackBerry WebWorks. This includes APIs, Frameworks and Tools for the WebWorks Platform including the Ripple Emulator. He's always hanging out in the development forums trying to help out where he can and also ...

DEV28 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for BlackBerry Smartphones

DEV29 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

GRP02 - Collaboration Roundtable: Building Better Web Apps

DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications

DEV56 - Hands-On WebWorks with GitHub, Ripple, AliceJS and Friends

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Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart

Senior Technical Director, Open Software, Research In Motion

Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart is the Senior Director for Open Source at RIM. Eduardo joined RIM from Oracle where he was Architect for Open Source and Community in the Application Platform Group for Oracle. Before Oracle Eduardo was a Distinguished ...

DEV34 - Open Source Code: Understanding the Options and Implications

GRP02 - Collaboration Roundtable: Building Better Web Apps

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Konrad Piascik

Konrad Piascik

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Konrad Piascik is a member of the browser platform team at Research In Motion (RIM). He currently works in C++ and JAVA to support the QNX and BlackBerry OS platforms for the Browser and Browser API. This involves working on the Browser chrome and ...

DEV09 - Web Apps: Design and Build Great Looking UI and User Experiences

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Rana Puri

Rana Puri

Sr. Application Consultant - CDP, Research In Motion

Rana’s efforts within RIM and BlackBerry have facilitated some of North America’s largest companies drive value out of their current BlackBerry deployments. He has over 10 years of Java application experience focusing on enterprise applications and ...

DEV22 - Mobile Application Architecture: How Do I Start?

DEV23 - So You Think You Understand Mobile Web Services

DEV24 - Tips for Successfully Managing Mobile Development Projects

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Ramgopal Rajagopalan

Ramgopal Rajagopalan

Team Lead, Advanced Rendering, Research In Motion

Ramgopal Rajagopalan heads the Advanced Rendering at Research In Motion. Ram's team engages in delivering innovative rendering solutions on the BlackBerry Platform. Applications such as the BlackBerry Browser, PlayBook Browser and BlackBerry Maps ...

DEV46 - Advanced Web Rendering: webGL, Canvas and Gaming

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Adam Rogers

Adam Rogers

Manager, Customer Partnerships, Research In Motion

GRP12 - Focus Group: Enterprise Mobile Development Strategy

GRP13 - Focus Group: Mobile Computing in the Enterprise

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Pratik Sapra

Pratik Sapra

Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion

Pratik is a member of the Developer Relations Team at RIM. As an Application Development Consultant he manages the technical relationship with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) in the consumer space. Pratik's areas of expertise include Native ...

DEV25 - Powering Immediacy: Putting Push Data to Work for You

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

GRP06 - Collaboration Roundtable: Platform Services for BlackBerry Smartphone OS and Tablet OS

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Alec Saunders

Alec Saunders

VP Developer Relations & Ecosystem Development, QNX Software Systems

Alec Saunders Vice President, Developer Relations and Ecosystem Development, QNX Software Systems Limited As vice president of developer relations at QNX, Alec is responsible for winning the hearts and minds of mobile developers, and for ...

GRP11 - Focus Group: Cascades User Interface Engine

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Aasif Shabbir

Aasif Shabbir

Software Developer, Research In Motion

My name is Aasif Shabbir and I’m a Software Developer in the BlackBerry Advertising Service group. My interests include learning about new mobile technologies and keeping up with tech blogs. I live in Northern California and enjoy all the amazing ...

DEV26 - Monetizing Your Apps with the Advertising Service

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Dan Silivestru

Dan Silivestru

Team Lead, Development, Research In Motion

Dan has been a technologist ever since he can remember. He started at a young age, by taking apart his toys and his grandfathers pocket watch just so that he could see how they worked. This passion for learning was funneled into a career as a ...

DEV18 - Testing for Mobile Web Doesn’t Have to be so Challenging

DEV28 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for BlackBerry Smartphones

DEV29 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

DEV56 - Hands-On WebWorks with GitHub, Ripple, AliceJS and Friends

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Christopher Smith

Christopher Smith

Sr. Director, BlackBerry Development Platform, Research In Motion

Christopher Smith is Senior Director of Research and Development for the BlackBerry Development Platform at Research in Motion. Running the team of developers, Christopher has R&D and engineering responsibility for the BlackBerry Development ...

DEV39 - Which Programming Environment is Right for You?

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Matthew Staikos

Matthew Staikos

Manager, Browser & Web Platform, Research In Motion

Formerly Vice President of Torch Mobile, Matthew Staikos has over 10 years of development experience in the software industry with strong focus on WebKit development for mobile and embedded systems. He is currently the Manager of the Browser & Web ...

DEV04 - Using the Web for Media Delivery

DEV09 - Web Apps: Design and Build Great Looking UI and User Experiences

DEV48 - Panel: The Future of Mobile Web Applications

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Adam Stanley

Adam Stanley

Sr. Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion

As a member of the BlackBerry Developer Relations Team at Research in Motion, Adam manages the technical relationship with developers who specialize in producing mobile applications, based on web technologies, for BlackBerry Smartphones and Tablet. ...

DEV02 - Think Super Web Apps! How to Build Highly Functional, User-friendly BlackBerry Apps

DEV28 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for BlackBerry Smartphones

DEV29 - Lab: BlackBerry WebWorks Bootcamp for the BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

GRP02 - Collaboration Roundtable: Building Better Web Apps

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Aaron Stuart

Aaron Stuart

Senior Product Manager, Research In Motion

Aaron Stuart is a Senior Product Manager at Research In Motion (RIM), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions in the mobile communications industry. Aaron joined RIM in 2004 and is currently responsible for ...

DEV03 - Social Apps: How to Integrate BBM to Make Your Apps Even Better

GRP06 - Collaboration Roundtable: Platform Services for BlackBerry Smartphone OS and Tablet OS

DEV52 - Developer Showcase: Success on BBM

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Cameron Sutherland

Cameron Sutherland

Technical Partnerships Manager, Research In Motion

GRP12 - Focus Group: Enterprise Mobile Development Strategy

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Gord Tanner

Gord Tanner

Code Poet, Research In Motion

Gord Tanner is one of the members of the tinyHippos team who came over to RIM after the acquisition. He brings a fresh outlook on the mobile web and has been working at the forefront of the javascript community in developing Ripple.

DEV02 - Think Super Web Apps! How to Build Highly Functional, User-friendly BlackBerry Apps

DEV13 - JavaScript for Unit Tests?

DEV14 - Managing the Chaos of a Large Javascript Project

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Sean Paul Taylor

Sean Paul Taylor

Team Lead - Graphics and Gaming R&D, Research In Motion

Sean Paul Taylor has been working at Research In Motion for 7 years and is currently the Team Lead of Graphics and Gaming R&D with over 14 years of industry experience. Sean is responsible for Accelerated Graphics API’s like OpenGL ES, enabling ...

DEV15 - Game Makers Dream: The BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Trevor Timbeck

Trevor Timbeck

Sr. Product Manager, Research In Motion

Trevor Timbeck Senior Product Manager BlackBerry App World & Payment Services Research In Motion

GRP07 - Birds of a Feather: Consumer Apps - Demographics, Commercialization and Related Services

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Dimitry Tomilovskiy

Dimitry Tomilovskiy

Software Developer, Research In Motion

Dimitry Tomilovskiy is a Software Developer on the Native Application Services team at Research In Motion. He is working on graphics samples, games and tutorials for Native Development Kit

DEV19 - Introduction to the BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS: Building a Sample Application

GRP04 - Collaboration Roundtable: Native App Development for BlackBerry Tablet OS

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Peter Valin

Peter Valin

Sr. Marketing Manager - BlackBerry App World, Research In Motion

Peter manages the BlackBerry App World Marketing team who are responsible for global storefront marketing and merchandising.

GRP07 - Birds of a Feather: Consumer Apps - Demographics, Commercialization and Related Services

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Greg Venne

Greg Venne

Sr. Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Research In Motion

Greg Venne is a Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Research In Motion, and is responsible for the commercial relationships that comprise the BlackBerry Advertising Service. Greg joined RIM in early 2009 and is a veteran of the local search ...

DEV27 - Introducing BlackBerry Advertising Service Developers Portal

GRP06 - Collaboration Roundtable: Platform Services for BlackBerry Smartphone OS and Tablet OS

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Kamen Vitanov

Kamen Vitanov

Senior Architect, Strategic Initiatives, Research In Motion

Kamen is a Senior Software Architect in the platform architecture group at Research In Motion. Currently he is immersed into providing support for Android applications on the BlackBerry Platform. Since joining RIM in 2001, Kamen has been pushing ...

DEV36 - Lab: Getting Started with Developing for BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps

DEV57 - Android Development for BlackBerry Java Developers

DEV62 - Getting Started with Android Player

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Christian Vogt

Christian Vogt

Software Developer, QNX Software Systems

Christian Vogt joined QNX Software Systems (Research in Motion) in late 2010 and was quickly put to work on the BlackBerry PlayBook system settings before settling in his current role as a developer for the BlackBerry PlayBook AIR and Native SDKs. ...

DEV40 - Lab: Introduction to the BlackBerry Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS

DEV43 - Developing Adobe AIR Native Extensions

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Ken Wallis

Ken Wallis

Manager - WebWorks, Research In Motion

Ken Wallis has been employed at Research In Motion for over nine years. Currently, he is a Development Manager in the WebWorks Platform group, predominantly focused on the Ripple Emulator and the WebWorks Open Source Software initiatives ...

DEV01 - Introduction to BlackBerry WebWorks: Applications Made Easy

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Rob Watt

Rob Watt

Manager, BlackBerry Maps, Research In Motion

Rob Watt, Development Manager BlackBerry Maps & Mapping Platform

DEV20 - Creating a Highly Engaging, Interactive Mapping Experience

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Ollie Whitehouse

Ollie Whitehouse

Manager, Research & Assessment EMEA, Research In Motion

Ollie Whitehouse, Manager, Security Research & Assessment EMEA. Ollie heads RIM's software security research and assessment activities in Europe. The focus of the team is to understand the threat landscape and its impact of RIM's products while ...

DEV59 - Secure Your App with Secure Coding Practices

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Matthew Whiteman

Matthew Whiteman

Product Manager, Research In Motion

GRP12 - Focus Group: Enterprise Mobile Development Strategy

GRP13 - Focus Group: Mobile Computing in the Enterprise

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Tim Windsor

Tim Windsor

Application Development Consultant, Research In Motion

My name is Tim Windsor and I am an Application Development Consultant at Research in Motion. I have been on the Developer Relations team for nearly 5 years and have supported partners in the Healthcare, Public Safety, Sales Force Automation and Real ...

DEV10 - Is Your App BlackBerry 7 Ready?

GRP01 - Collaboration Roundtable: Making Highly Addictive BlackBerry 7 Apps

GRP06 - Collaboration Roundtable: Platform Services for BlackBerry Smartphone OS and Tablet OS

DEV35 - Optimize Your BlackBerry Apps with BlackBerry Analytics

DEV50 - Lab: New Ways to Monetize Your Apps with BlackBerry Application Platform Services

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Adrian Wong

Adrian Wong

Team Lead, Research In Motion

Adrian joined Research In Motion over 5 years ago as a Software Developer. During that time, he has worked on the Visual Studio Plug-in, as well as BlackBerry WebWorks. He is currently the Team Lead of the Device Application Platform group which ...

DEV11 - NFC: The Future of Apps and How to Build an NFC Enabled App

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