Dr. Ronjon Nag
KEYNOTE LUNCHEON
12:00-1:30pm | Wednesday - 04/25/12
Dr. Nag is VP App World & Intelligent Systems at Research in Motion responsible for strategies and deployment of the Blackberry App World app store, Mobile Search, Mobile Advertising, Context, Analytics, Blackberry Travel, Blackberry Maps and Location Based Services, and the BlackBerry Identity Service. Dr. Nag was previously CEO/Co-Founder of Cellmania, a leading wireless applications company, acquired by Research in Motion. He is an acknowledged authority in the mobile industry, having been featured on the cover of Fortune and involved in the development of, and holding patents in, wireless applications, user interfaces and new m-commerce distribution methods of mobile applications and devices. Previously he was a Vice President and General Manager at Motorola responsible for smart mobile technologies developed in the Lexicus Division and Motorola Human Interface Laboratories worldwide. Hundreds of millions of devices have shipped with technology developed under his leadership - apps stores, voice recognition, handwriting recognition and predictive text key systems. Previously he was CEO/founder of Lexicus, a pioneer of speech and handwriting recognition technology, acquired by Motorola. Dr. Nag holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (research in speech recognition), was a Harkness Fellow at Stanford University (neural network research in the Department of Psychology), has a Masters in Management Science from MIT, and a 1st class Honours degree in electrical engineering from Birmingham University, in the UK.