Explore the impact of the “mobile first” revolution.
April 15-16, 2013
New York, New York
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Speaker
Mike Lazaridis 
Co-CEO
RIM
Mike Lazaridis is one of the key executives affiliated with the rise of the famed BlackBerry. While BlackBerry has become a staple of corporate communications, the past few years have been hard on Research In Motion, which has been slow to compete with more full-featured smartphone devices, especially Apple's iPhone and Android from Google. We'll ask him what happened and look forward to the future evolution of BlackBerry, as well as RIM's foray into the tablet game with its PlayBook, and how he will stop an eroding market share for the company. Mr. Lazaridis holds honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Waterloo in engineering, McMaster University, University of Windsor and Université Laval. He has been awarded Canada's most prestigious innovation prize: The Ernest C. Manning Principal Award.
Posts With Mike Lazaridis
Lazaridis Won’t Dump His Shares — Unlike a Certain Other Former BlackBerry Co-CEO
No plans to divest as of right now.
Mike Lazaridis Leaves BlackBerry
End of an era.
Voices
BlackBerry Co-Founders Bankroll $100 Million Quantum-Science Fund
The two men who started BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. some 30 years ago are bankrolling a $100 million investment fund targeting commercial applications for advancements in quantum science.RIM Execs Realize They’ve Had Their Reality-Distortion Field Pointed Backward All This Time
RIM CEO Thorsten Heins drops the “happy happy joy joy” talk at the company’s shareholders meeting.
RIM May Not Survive, but Its Founders’ Nonprofit Side Projects Will
Like the BlackBerry? Too bad. Fancy theoretical physics or global governance? RIM’s founders have funded two nonprofits that are on far more solid ground.
RIM to Former Co-CEOs: Here’s $12 Million for a Job Well Done — Until About Four Years Ago
RIM gives former co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis a $12 million going-away gift.
Voices
Game of Tech Thrones (Comic)
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
LTE-Enabled PlayBook’s Latest Launch Date: “Later This Year”
First it was summer 2011. Then it was fall 2011. Is this a launch window RIM can actually stick to?
Was Jim Balsillie Trying to Push a Strategy Shift Before Leaving RIM?
Reuters reports that the former co-CEO of RIM wanted to allow non-BlackBerry devices to run on its data network, a move that encountered stiff opposition within the company.
RIM Director: Our New CEO Isn’t a Moron Like the Rest of You
Roger Martin would have us believe there was no one inside the company or out who was capable of running it properly — until now.