Rupen Chanda

Rupen Chanda is a respected industry innovator widely admired for his technology vision and leadership. Chanda most recently comes from Blackberry, where he drove direction for the company’s IoT platform, and led its security initiatives as vice president of engineering.Prior to Blackberry, Chanda spent a successful career at Adobe, where he received the moniker, “The Godfather of Flash,” a platform he created that transformed cloud software applications. He was also the co-founding engineer at Middlesoft, which was acquired by Macromedia/ Adobe. He is the primary or co-author of 48 technology patents and has been awarded the prestigious Adobe Founders Award.