BlackBerry Jam Americas Speakers

Tuukka Ahoniemi

Tuukka works as a Technical Product Marketing Manager in Qt by Digia's USA headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. For the past years he has traveled around the world spreading the message of Qt supremacy in the form of having held over 100 Qt training ...

JAM83 - Lab: Hands-on with Qt in the Multi-Screen Age

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Travis Allen

Travis is a software developer at BlackBerry with over 7 years of experience. He works on a team focused on the developer experience inside Momentics providing plugins to enhance productivity.

JAM72 - Introduction to Unit Testing with Momentics

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Tom Anderson

Tom Anderson – Senior BlackBerry Developer Evangelist – Tom started his career in 1986 with Microsoft Corporation where he was a Program Manager on such products as Windows 3.11, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Internet Explorer. He was also ...

JAM01 - Built for BlackBerry: Past, Present, and Future of the Program

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Russell Andrade

Russell is the Product Manager for the Native SDK at BlackBerry. In this role, he is responsible for the vision and direction of the Native API and associated tooling. Prior to this role, Russell worked in the Operating Systems Group where he was ...

JAM22 - Welcome to the new and improved Momentics IDE

JAM47 - Background Services - Event Driven Processing for your Application

JAM91 - Product Feedback Session - Native/Cascades

JAM96 - Product Feedback Session - Invocation

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Richard Balsewich

Richard Balsewich is a Senior Enterprise Developer at BlackBerry. Mr. Balsewich provides Application Development guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies and government agencies in North America.  Prior to ...

JAM13 - BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Connection Service versus VPN... Fight!

JAM59 - Integrating Enterprise Apps with the Open Data Protocol

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Sebastian Barthelmess

Sebastian Barthelmess is a Senior Enterprise Application Developer for BlackBerry based in the Boston area of New England. He has done mobile development for a full range of companies for over 10 years. You'll also find many open-source ...

JAM12 - Enterprise Push, Notifications, Hub and Flow for BlackBerry 10

JAM18 - Strategies and Techniques for Server Side Push Development

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Jeff Bentley

Jeff Bentley is an Sr. Enterprise Developer with BlackBerry, based out of Charlotte NC. Mr. Bentley provides Application Development guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies in North America. Prior to joining ...

JAM15 - Integrate to Existing Web Applications Using BlackBerry 10 Enterprise Channel Push

JAM53 - Secure Work Space Apps Deep Dive for iOS and Android

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Garett Beukeboom

Monetization, analytics and push, if you have questions about any of these services I am the person to contact! I reside in the Cross Platform Technology channel of Developer Relations, getting BlackBerry devs with questions their answers is what I ...

JAM05 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with Payment Services

JAM68 - Flurry Mobile Analytics on BlackBerry 10!!

JAM97 - Product Feedback Session - Push

JAM98 - Product Feedback Session - Payment

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Demian Borba

With more than 13 years of experience with technology, interactive media, design, business and training, Demian has worked as one of the Adobe Community Professionals and also as a professor at UC San Diego, teaching UI Design and Programming ...

JAM02 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for WebWorks Applications

JAM07 - Built for BlackBerry: UI/UX Guidelines

JAM35 - Web101: Getting Started with Web on BlackBerry

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Richard Brett

Richard Brett is the Lead Engineer for SDKs at Flurry, Inc. He is responsible for the implementation of the mobile sdks across different platforms including BlackBerry10, IOS, android, winphone7/8 and others. He helps coordinate and architect all ...

JAM68 - Flurry Mobile Analytics on BlackBerry 10!!

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Alex Caccia

Alex is an entrepreneur and investor in media, technology, manufacturing and has a background in finance. He has founded several businesses in interactive media, games and manufacturing. He joined Marmalade in 2005, and as CEO from 2006 to 2010, was ...

JAM84 - Cross-Platform, Single Codebase: What Enterprise Can Learn from Game App Development

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Mariano Carrizo

Manager for BlackBerry developer group Argentina, Adobe Community Professional and Flex 4 Certified Expert. Creator of BlueBox for BlackBerry Playbook. Multiplatform mobile and web developer, speaker, trainer and author. As entrepreneur he founded ...

JAM29 - Web 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors

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Natalie Carruthers

Natalie Carruthers is a BlackBerry Academic Program Specialist on the University Relations team at BlackBerry. The team is responsible for developing and maintaining BlackBerry's engagement with universities and colleges globally through various ...

JAM38 - Panel: Best Practices In Teaching App Development Using BlackBerry

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Jerome Carty

JAM08 - Built for BlackBerry: How to Go from Rejected to Approved

JAM76 - Measuring success with Distimo Analytics

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Sergio Cavalcante

Ph.D. in Electronics from Newcastle University (1997) - England, Sergio Cavalcante is the CEO of CESAR (www.cesar.org.br) since 2005, where he also served as the Chairman for 3 years. He participates as a board member of the Porto Digital Technology ...

JAM73 - Startup Jam Session

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David Clayworth

David Clayworth has been designing and coding user interfaces for twenty five years. After a period of designing user interfaces for the early IBM PC, he moved to designing 3D graphics interfaces and CAD for fluid dynamics code, and then to ...

JAM46 - New User Interface Features in Cascades 10.1

JAM67 - App in Sixty Minutes

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Steven Craft

JAM82 - Gaming 101: Building your gaming strategy on BlackBerry 10

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David Cummings

David is a senior 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, ...

JAM22 - Welcome to the new and improved Momentics IDE

JAM03 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for Cascades Applications

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Ezequiel D'Amico

I run Rock N Roll Games, the premier BlackBerry games publisher. Unlocking the potential of the best game developers of Latin America. Awards for our games and/or company: - "Best Game" in AppCircus - Orlando, United States - Best Game ...

JAM57 - Case Study: ESPN La Conexion

JAM58 - Elite Alliance: Now is Time for Cross Promotion!

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Julian Dolce

Julian Dolce is the platform lead for Adobe AIR at QNX Software Systems, where his roles include developing the BlackBerry 10 AIR SDK. Prior to joining QNX, Julian was the director of creative technology and the lead Flash developer at the marketing ...

JAM55 - Developing Built For BlackBerry applications with Adobe AIR

JAM94 - Product Feedback Session - AIR

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James Dreher

James Dreher is the Android platform specialist at BlackBerry, and his current mandate is to support the BlackBerry Runtime for Android apps, while assisting developers in porting and repackaging their existing Android applications to run on the ...

JAM09 - Android 101: Developing Android Apps for BlackBerry 10

JAM10 - Lab: Android 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors

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Manny Elawar

Manny Elawar is a BlackBerry Developer Evangelist at BlackBerry. His main focus is reaching out to the developer community and getting them excited about generating top quality apps for the BlackBerry 10 Platform. Manny graduated from the Software ...

JAM03 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for Cascades Applications

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Abraham Elias

Abraham oversees Sencha’s strategic direction and has played a critical role in driving its rapid growth as the leader in powering HTML5 development for desktop and mobile applications. As founding CEO, Abraham recruited a world-class team and he ...

JAM44 - Building for the Multi-Device Enterprise using Sencha

JAM78 - Panel: Choosing the Best Web Framework for You

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Scott Erkkila

Scott Erkkila Agile Engineer Xtreme Labs Inc. scott.erkkila@xtremelabs.com @xtremelabs www.xtremelabs.com

JAM72 - Introduction to Unit Testing with Momentics

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Dave Feinleib

David Feinleib is a serial entrepreneur and tech investor. He built his first application at the age of 12 after teaching himself how to program. He joined Microsoft at 16, becoming one of the youngest software engineers ever to work at the company. ...

JAM73 - Startup Jam Session

JAM77 - Finding Product Market Fit: War Stories From Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

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Tony Florio

Tony helps build relationships between BlackBerry and post-secondary academic institutions. One of his group's core programs is the BlackBerry Academic Program (www.blackberry.com/academic), which provides faculty and students with resources to help ...

JAM38 - Panel: Best Practices In Teaching App Development Using BlackBerry

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Robert Foulon

JAM74 - Market Insights

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Kyle Fowler

JAM37 - Building context-aware applications by leveraging the power of Foursquare APIs

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Ekke Gentz

ekke (Ekkehard Gentz) is BlackBerry Elite developer: International development of mobile apps for BlackBerry 10, Cascades workshops, trainings, bootcamps and consulting. ekke works as Independent Softwarearchitect in the domain of business ...

JAM56 - CaseStudy: InvocationFramework - The heart of your business apps

JAM69 - Maps in your Apps

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Martin Goulet

Martin has seven years of professional experience in Ottawa's private IT sector. His skill set is broad, having worked on military/flight-safe software, enterprise content management, fast-paced start-up functions and bleeding edge mobile ...

JAM27 - Cascades 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors.

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Joshua Granick

Joshua Granick is a passionate developer, writer and speaker. As a lead evangelist for BlackBerry, he loves to support developers and encourage tools that are fun and productive, and inspire innovation and creativity. Before joining Research In ...

JAM50 - The Ultimate Hybrid App -- Native Apps Built with Web Technologies

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Paul Hainsworth

JAM41 - The Perfect App Submission with Search Optimization

JAM79 - BlackBerry World 2013 Roadmap: Features for a strong developer ecosystem

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Marcus Hannerstig

Marcus Hannerstig is a creative problem solver at BlackBerry working with UX / Visual / Web design. He’s part of a team that focuses on Blackberry Developer Experience, currently working with the next generation of BlackBerry tooling. Out of office ...

JAM22 - Welcome to the new and improved Momentics IDE

JAM64 - Best Practices with Cascades

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Shadid Haque

Sr. Application Development Consultant at BlackBerry, Shadid is a developer and more importantly a developer developer. He has been working closely with the BlackBerry® dev community for over 5 years to help bring the best mobile experience to their ...

JAM47 - Background Services - Event Driven Processing for your Application

JAM56 - CaseStudy: InvocationFramework - The heart of your business apps

JAM06 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with Invocation Framework

JAM69 - Maps in your Apps

JAM96 - Product Feedback Session - Invocation

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Eric Harty

Publishing BlackBerry apps under the name Ebscer since May 2009, Eric Harty is mostly known for released puzzle games such as Pixelated and Xploding Boxes which have received millions of downloads. Eric has developed apps for the BlackBerry platform ...

JAM42 - Simple Game Development in Cascades

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Jeffrey Heifetz

Jeff is a software developer currently working for BlackBerry on their mobile web platform. This has included working on BlackBerry WebWorks across 4 separate re-writes and the new implementation for Cordova. Jeff loves writing javascript, drinking ...

JAM32 - The road ahead for WebWorks

JAM78 - Panel: Choosing the Best Web Framework for You

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Mark Howden

Mark is a 10 year veteran of the Mobile ecosystem, working with Fortune 100 customers to help them build mobile strategies and evolve their infrastructure. Currently Mark works with RIM's partners to build seamless integration between enterprise ...

JAM71 - Lab: Deploying Enterprise Applications to the Work Space with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10

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Anders Jeppsson

JAM82 - Gaming 101: Building your gaming strategy on BlackBerry 10

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Daniel Jeppsson

Daniel Jeppsson has worked in the video game industry for more than 15 years where he founded two studios, most recently Funkoi (www.funkoi.com) and created his own native game engine technology which is running on most consoles, PC, mobiles and ...

JAM82 - Gaming 101: Building your gaming strategy on BlackBerry 10

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Troy Johnson

JAM82 - Gaming 101: Building your gaming strategy on BlackBerry 10

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Hyunjun Jung

HyunJun Jung provides application development and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies and government agencies in North America.  Prior to joining BlackBerry, Mr. Jung was a public sector systems implementation manager ...

JAM19 - Calling and Consuming Enterprise Web Services

JAM16 - Enterprise Development 101: Overview of Enterprise App Development for BlackBerry 10

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Chris Justus

Chris Justus Software Architect bitHeads Chris Justus is a software architect at bitHeads in Ottawa, Canada who has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry and has co-founded three information technology companies. He has ...

JAM85 - Fact Based Decision Making using Context, Location and Time

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Nick Kalkounis

As the Senior Product Manager for the BBM Social Platform, my job is to make BlackBerry Messenger awesome for our development community.

JAM04 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with BBM

JAM14 - BBM and Social Integration for Enterprise Apps

JAM93 - Product Feedback Session - BBM

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Alex Kinsella

Alex leads the Developer Social Media team at BlackBerry and is responsible for the content that you like on @BlackBerryDev and the Inside BlackBerry Developers blog.

JAM75 - Zero Dollar Marketing - Getting Your App Discovered Doesn't Have To Break The Bank

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Gary Klassen

Gary Klassen is a 12 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 BlackBerry ...

JAM03 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for Cascades Applications

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Jay Klauser

Jay has over 12 years experience working with mobile and messaging technologies. He is currently a Technical Account Manager at BlackBerry, working with enterprise customers to help educate them on the capabilities of the BlackBerry platform and ...

JAM13 - BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Connection Service versus VPN... Fight!

JAM53 - Secure Work Space Apps Deep Dive for iOS and Android

JAM71 - Lab: Deploying Enterprise Applications to the Work Space with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10

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Lars Knoll

Lars Knoll is the Digia, Qt CTO and Qt Project, Chief Maintainer. He has been working on Qt for more than 12 years starting as a software engineer to later leading the global Qt engineering team in Nokia before the Digia acquisition in October 2012. ...

JAM33 - Cross-Platform Development for Multi-Screen Deployment with Qt

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Derek Konigsberg

Derek Konigsberg is a software engineer on the BlackBerry client team at WhatsApp, where his long time passion for mobile software allows him to reach millions of real world users every day. He has been a member of the BlackBerry developer community ...

JAM80 - Lab: Cascades 301: Elite speed! Industry expert advice for better, faster apps

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Patrick Kosiol

Patrick holds a MSc in Computer Science from the University of Applied Studies and Research Harz, Germany. He is Co-Founder and CEO of S4BB Limited, a world wide leading mobile apps company specializing in applications for BlackBerry.

JAM58 - Elite Alliance: Now is Time for Cross Promotion!

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Alexander Lama

JAM57 - Case Study: ESPN La Conexion

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Markus Landin

Markus is the product manager for Cascades, and part of the Application Platform & Tools Product Management team at BlackBerry. He has twelve years of experience in the mobile software industry, and has has been involved in the development of ...

JAM65 - Lab: Cascades 102: Basics of UI development

JAM63 - Cascades 101: Introduction to UI development

JAM91 - Product Feedback Session - Native/Cascades

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Martin Larochelle

JAM27 - Cascades 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors.

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Johan Larsby

Johan Larsby is a software developer with over 10 year branch experience. At BlackBerry he works in a team focused on developer experience, bringing the code to the coders, creating sample applications that are both educational and fun.

JAM22 - Welcome to the new and improved Momentics IDE

JAM27 - Cascades 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors.

JAM64 - Best Practices with Cascades

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Geoff Ledingham

JAM73 - Startup Jam Session

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Ryan Lehmann

JAM99 - Product Feedback Session - Documentation and developer.blackberry.com

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Stephen Leonard

Stephen Leonard is a Sr. Enterprise Developer in BlackBerry's Enterprise Developer Partnerships team. He provides application development guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of the largest companies and government agencies ...

JAM17 - Developing Enterprise Applications for BlackBerry 10 using Appcelerator's Titanium Platform

JAM51 - Enterprise Development 102: Awesome Enterprise APIs

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Matt Lewandowsky

Matt Lewandowsky is the principal of Greenviolet. He has extensive experience developing for integrated heterogenous environments with operating systems ranging from mobile to server class, as well as a long history of developing user-facing ...

JAM80 - Lab: Cascades 301: Elite speed! Industry expert advice for better, faster apps

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Qusay Mahmoud

Qusay H. Mahmoud is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Canada); and Founding Director of the Centre for Mobile Education and Research ...

JAM38 - Panel: Best Practices In Teaching App Development Using BlackBerry

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Joseph Vivian Mathews

Vivian Mathews is a Software Developer for Macadamian and has a lot of experience making several high profile and technical apps for the Blackberry 10 platform.

JAM59 - Integrating Enterprise Apps with the Open Data Protocol

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Larry McDonough

JAM05 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with Payment Services

JAM06 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with Invocation Framework

JAM73 - Startup Jam Session

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Russ McMahon

Russ McMahon is Director, Research & Development at Appcelerator. In this role he is responsible for the company's technology strategy and focus on innovation. Prior to Appcelerator, Russ was VP Engineering at Mytopia, a leading company in the ...

JAM17 - Developing Enterprise Applications for BlackBerry 10 using Appcelerator's Titanium Platform

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Nancy McMillan

Nancy McMillan – Developer Relations: Senior Project Manager – Nancy has been with BlackBerry since the fall of 2008 and has been involved with ISV-facing activities, such as integrating third-party apps into BBOS, defect tracking and helping to ...

JAM01 - Built for BlackBerry: Past, Present, and Future of the Program

JAM08 - Built for BlackBerry: How to Go from Rejected to Approved

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Sean McVeigh

Sean started coding when he was 8 years old. In the intervening years, he received his Bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Sean devoted over 10 years of his career to developing embedded systems for ...

JAM40 - Advanced Native Camera: Seeing is Believing!

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Scott Milliquet

Scott Milliquet is currently advancing the media experience on the BlackBerry platform as an energetic Software Developer for the Handheld Media team. In the days of BlackBerry OS Scott spent much of his time developing the Pictures application. ...

JAM45 - To Serve and Protect: Securing Multimedia Content Distribution

JAM54 - Lab: Adding a new Dimension to your BlackBerry Apps - Stereoscopic 3D ( and other advanced applications for output to the HDMI display)

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Vladimir Minenko

Vladimir is working in the mobile software industry since 1999, and on Qt since 2006 when he started in Trolltech and then worked in Nokia. Today, Vladimir leads the Qt team in BlackBerry. Qt team takes care of Qt on BlackBerry 10 and QNX

JAM83 - Lab: Hands-on with Qt in the Multi-Screen Age

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Jeff Murphy

Jeff Murphy has been at BlackBerry since 2006, joining Developer Relations in August 2012. He is responsible for research programs, value propositions and messaging to support the regional evangelists and go-to-market teams. Jeff holds an MBA from ...

JAM74 - Market Insights

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Tim Neil

Tim leads Application Platform & Tools Product Management at Research In Motion. This includes APIs, Frameworks and Tools for the BlackBerry Platform. He can be found hanging out in the development forums or Twitter (@brcewane) trying to help out ...

JAM78 - Panel: Choosing the Best Web Framework for You

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Swale Nunez

Swale Nunez is a Senior Enterprise Developer at BlackBerry based out of New York City. In his role he provides Application Development guidance and technical architecture expertise to some of Blackberry's largest Enterprise customers both in North ...

JAM85 - Fact Based Decision Making using Context, Location and Time

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Mattias Öhman

Mattias Öhman is a software developer with over 13 years of experience. At BlackBerry he has helped the applications teams create astonishing applications by holding Cascades training and creating samples and tutorials.

JAM27 - Cascades 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors.

JAM65 - Lab: Cascades 102: Basics of UI development

JAM67 - App in Sixty Minutes

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Edgar Parada

BlackBerry Developer Evangelist for the BlackBerry 10 Platform. Adobe Community Professional & founder of the User Group RIActive in Mexico City. In the last year Edgar was recognized as a BlackBerry Elite Developer, his principal strengths are in ...

JAM35 - Web101: Getting Started with Web on BlackBerry

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Rodrigo Peixoto

He is a computer engineer, with strong experience in mobile technology. He already have developed in several mobile platforms as OpenMoko, Symbian, Windows CE, Meego, Maemo, Bada, Android, iOS, BlackBerry PlayBook, and BlackBerry 10. He used to be ...

JAM03 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for Cascades Applications

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Konrad Piascik

Konrad is a WebKit committer and works on the remote Web Inspector for BlackBerry. He has added several cool features to Web Inspector such as Web Socket frame inspection and the ability to emulate the Geolocation and Device Orientation events. He ...

JAM02 - Lab: Built for BlackBerry: Performance Tuning for WebWorks Applications

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Andrew Poliak

As director of business development for QNX Software Systems’ automotive market segment, Andrew Poliak is responsible for building, developing, and maintaining relationships in the automotive value chain. Automakers, tier one automotive suppliers, ...

JAM34 - Automotive 101: The Automotive Market for Developers

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Joseph Rafoul

As Senior Partner Manager for BlackBerry and member of the BlackBerry World Vendor Management Team, Joseph is dedicated to helping developers achieve success. By managing communications related to BlackBerry World, he keeps developers in the know ...

JAM41 - The Perfect App Submission with Search Optimization

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Erin Rahnenfuehrer

Erin has been programming since the age of 10 when her parents bought the family's first computer, a Commodore 64. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Erin worked as a Software Developer in both the consumer and enterprise markets. She now spends her days ...

JAM37 - Building context-aware applications by leveraging the power of Foursquare APIs

JAM52 - Get Social: Connecting your app to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and more!

JAM11 - Android 301: Porting your Android App to Cascades

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Meaghan Reinecke

Meaghan specializes in designing software products that are intuitive and easy to use. She trained at Carleton University’s Human-Oriented Technologies Laboratory and holds a Masters degree in Human-Computer Interaction. BlackBerry, Avaya, Telus ...

JAM27 - Cascades 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors.

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Graham Robertson

A young programmer from Toronto passionate about web technologies be it on a website or for pushing the boundaries for apps both on desktop and mobile. He's a stickler for JavaScript efficiency and loves to code awesome user experiences. He also ...

JAM25 - Taking Your Web App Offline

JAM28 - Native or Web? Only the developer knows!

JAM61 - Solving Your Data Management Woes in JavaScript

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Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross is a Software Developer in the Cascades Field Agency at BlackBerry. He is your source for all questions related to the Cascades UI Framework. From starting development, to nasty bugs, to performance issues, feel free to ask away. Prior ...

JAM65 - Lab: Cascades 102: Basics of UI development

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Leandro Sales

Leandro Melo de Sales qualified his PhD thesis at Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) in 2011, proposing the Global Media Transmission Protocol (GMTP), a crossing-layer optimized network protocol for massive distribution of live multimedia ...

JAM38 - Panel: Best Practices In Teaching App Development Using BlackBerry

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Brian Scheirer

Brian Scheirer is an independent Cascades developer and founder/author of www.BBcascades.com. This is a site dedicated to Native Cascades tutorials and help documentation. He also regularly contributes to the BlackBerry support forums and open ...

JAM42 - Simple Game Development in Cascades

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Jason Scott

Jason has worked at BlackBerry for over 3 years. He is currently a member of the BlackBerry Web Platform team where he contributes to jQuery Mobile Project and leading the BlackBerry 10 theme for jQuery Mobile. In the past he was a member of the ...

JAM30 - Build an experience... Not another framework

JAM31 - Lab: Creating a Built for BlackBerry WebWorks application

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Shikhir Singh

JAM44 - Building for the Multi-Device Enterprise using Sencha

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Mark Sohm

Mark Sohm joined BlackBerry in 2003 and currently works as Team Lead of the Cross Platform Technologies team in Developer Relations. Mark specializes in supporting the BlackBerry Messenger Social Platform and works with developers outside ...

JAM04 - Built for BlackBerry: System Integration with BBM

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Roberto Speranza

Roberto Speranza is a Senior Application Development Consultant in the Developer Relations team at BlackBerry, specializing in supporting partners developing NDK / Cascades applications for the Enterprise sector. Roberto has over twenty years ...

JAM39 - Build and Packaging for native apps

JAM54 - Lab: Adding a new Dimension to your BlackBerry Apps - Stereoscopic 3D ( and other advanced applications for output to the HDMI display)

JAM62 - Lab: Gadgets! Working with Bluetooth Peripherals

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Adam Stanley

As a senior member of the BlackBerry Developer Relations Team at Research In Motion, Adam shares his passion for creating innovative and exciting mobile applications using web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. His focus is on ...

JAM23 - Lab: Getting Deep Device Integration with Third Party Extensions

JAM24 - HTML5 Frameworks: Up-And-Comers that are Building Steam

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Sean Sykes

Sean is the Vice President of Business Development at bitHeads in Ottawa, Canada. With more than 15 years in business development, Sean has plenty of experience in the technology industry, particularly in web analytics, online privacy, strategic ...

JAM85 - Fact Based Decision Making using Context, Location and Time

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Bryan Tafel

Crazy nerd with business and management skills. Everything has a response and mathematical explanation. My strategy: 1/4 thinking, 1/4 making it up, 1/2 googling.

JAM29 - Web 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors

JAM31 - Lab: Creating a Built for BlackBerry WebWorks application

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Mayer Tanuan

Mayer moves to solve people, ideas, and technology problems by co-operation and collaboration. Currently, Mayer oversees a startup project called LigonÜ; it strives to strengthen your goals and gives you choice on how to track them. With this ...

JAM38 - Panel: Best Practices In Teaching App Development Using BlackBerry

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Sean Paul Taylor

Sean Paul Taylor leads Gaming R&D at BlackBerry and previously led the Advanced Graphics division at RIM for 8 years. He is an expert in advanced rendering and game engine technologies including graphics, audio, physics and animation. Sean is also ...

JAM20 - Unity for BlackBerry 10

JAM21 - Porting iOS and Android games to BlackBerry 10

JAM81 - Developing Cross-Platform Mobile Games

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Chad Tetreault

I eat JavaScript for breakfast. Developer Relations at BlackBerry specializing in HTML5, Cordova, and BlackBerry WebWorks.

JAM37 - Building context-aware applications by leveraging the power of Foursquare APIs

JAM52 - Get Social: Connecting your app to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and more!

JAM76 - Measuring success with Distimo Analytics

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Peter Valin

Peter is one of the lead marketers on the global BlackBerry World & Content Marketing team. Peter and his team focus on marketing all content types across all BlackBerry device platforms to BlackBerry customers in 171 markets around the world. They ...

JAM76 - Measuring success with Distimo Analytics

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Marco van Hylckama Vlieg

Marco is a seasoned User Experience Prototyper, designer and developer. He creates cutting edge new products for a large internet corporation by day and works on BlackBerry applications by night. He specializes in HTML5, Cascades and the combination ...

JAM50 - The Ultimate Hybrid App -- Native Apps Built with Web Technologies

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Federico Vidueiro

He has been working on the videogame and entertainment industry for over 8 years. Founder and CTO at Eudaimonia. At this moment he is CTO at Rock and Roll Games, a videogames mobile publisher.

JAM57 - Case Study: ESPN La Conexion

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Kamen Vitanov

JAM92 - Product Feedback Session - Android

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Ken Wallis

Ken has been employed at BlackBerry for over ten years. Currently, he is the Product Manager for the WebWorks Platform group, predominantly focused on direction for the WebWorks platform, the WebWorks Open Source Software initiatives ...

JAM32 - The road ahead for WebWorks

JAM31 - Lab: Creating a Built for BlackBerry WebWorks application

JAM90 - Product Feedback Session - WebWorks

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Anthony Watkins

Anthony leads the Developer Relations organization at Flurry, where he oversees outbound engineering initiatives aimed at increasing awareness and adoption of Flurry services within the mobile development community. Prior to this role, Anthony ...

JAM68 - Flurry Mobile Analytics on BlackBerry 10!!

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Ralph Whitbeck

Ralph Whitbeck is a front-end web developer with over 15 years experience in web development including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with a focus in jQuery. Ralph also has experience in developing web strategies, usability testing, working with ...

JAM30 - Build an experience... Not another framework

JAM78 - Panel: Choosing the Best Web Framework for You

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Maurice White

Maurice White is a Sr. Enterprise Developer at BlackBerry, providing assistance to their largest customers with the design & development of solutions for the BlackBerry platform. Prior to joining BlackBerry, Maurice was a Technical Lead for a ...

JAM14 - BBM and Social Integration for Enterprise Apps

JAM51 - Enterprise Development 102: Awesome Enterprise APIs

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Matthew Whiteman

Matt is a product manager for the Applications Platform & Tools Product Management team at BlackBerry. He is responsible for the BlackBerry Runtime for Android Apps, BlackBerry 10 Simulator and Eclipse Plug-ins for Android Runtime and BlackBerry ...

JAM09 - Android 101: Developing Android Apps for BlackBerry 10

JAM10 - Lab: Android 201: Three Devices, One App! Developing for Tablet, All Touch and Physical Keyboard form factors

JAM11 - Android 301: Porting your Android App to Cascades

JAM92 - Product Feedback Session - Android

JAM89 - Product Feedback Session - Simulators

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Kate Wilhelm

JAM99 - Product Feedback Session - Documentation and developer.blackberry.com

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Rob Williams

Rob's always been into coding and computers. He first started when he was 8 on a "Dick Smith Wizzard" Glorious programs drawing poor animations of his Dad's car were stored on cassette tapes all over the house. Rob is now an Application ...

JAM26 - Demystifying NFC Payment

JAM36 - NFC development for BlackBerry 10: A whirlwind tour

JAM54 - Lab: Adding a new Dimension to your BlackBerry Apps - Stereoscopic 3D ( and other advanced applications for output to the HDMI display)

JAM62 - Lab: Gadgets! Working with Bluetooth Peripherals

JAM61 - Solving Your Data Management Woes in JavaScript

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Rob Woods

As a Technical Consultant with Macadamian Technologies, a leading software design and development studio, Rob has headed up development of Android and BB10 mobile apps for some of the biggest companies in the world, including Avaya, Alcatel, ...

JAM11 - Android 301: Porting your Android App to Cascades

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Suavek Zajac

Suavek is a Team Lead of Developer Relations NDK/Cascades team. He and his team works with key vendors and partners on designing and developing awesome BlackBerry 10 applications.

JAM43 - Bringing Native iOS Apps to BlackBerry 10

JAM49 - Bringing your BlackBerry Java Apps to BlackBerry 10

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