The Brass:

Christian Beauclair
Senior Developer Advisor,
Microsoft Canada
As a senior developer advisor, Christian shares his passion for software development and its different facet with the Canadian ICT community. He has coded in Modula-2, xBase, Visual Basic, VB.NET and now C#. His passion extends to games and various collectibles. He was also one of the major contributors to the creation of Ottawa’s .NET user community and still sits on its steering committee.
Joey DeVilla
Developer Evangelist,
Microsoft Canada
Joey contributes to Microsoft’s Canadian Developer Connection blog and maintains two personal blogs: his technical blog Global Nerdy and his “life, the universe and everything” blog, The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century. He’s very active in the Toronto tech community, often either hosting or helping out at some event. He started Coffee and Code, a weekly gathering where developers gather at café to work and share ideas over coffee, and he hosts the Toronto chapter. You’ll rarely see him without his accordion, and he likes to open his presentations with a rock or pop tune on his trademark instrument.
Bradley Smith
Senior Interaction Designer,
Habañero Consulting Group
User-Experience Designer Bradley Smith works with the rest of the user-experience team to develop and analyze requirements, create wireframes and interaction design flows, gather design inspiration, and produce mockups. He also assists with prototyping and usability tests. Bradley has over seven years of experience designing user-interfaces, analyzing requirements, developing technologies, and managing projects for websites, web applications, kiosks, digital signage, and other public-facing systems. Outside of work, Bradley enjoys cycling, music, visiting great restaurants with friends, and reading up on all the latest design trends.
Rahul Agarwal
Co-Founder/ Director of New Product Development,
Polar Mobile
Rahul's work experience has taken him through multiple faces of the mobile ecosystem—from developing apps for a startup in Singapore to hardware engineering on CDMAchipsets at Qualcomm to RF network design at Bell Mobility. He has also researched next generation mobile architectures at Sun Microsystems. Rahul co-founded Polar Mobile, a global mobile solutions provider specializing in content delivery smart phone apps for news, sports, entertainment and lifestyle media verticals.
Matthieu Houle
Mobile and Platform Director,
Yellow Pages Group
Matthieu Houle is responsible for Yellow Pages' mobile properties; Canada's most successful mobile local search portfolio with close to 2 million downloads to date. Under his leadership, the mobile team most recently produced and created Urbanizer, an innovative, mood-based discovery iPhone application. In addition to mobile, he oversees the strategy, execution and marketing of YPG’s public API developer platform.