John Wall

President | QNX

As President of QNX, John Wall is responsible for the direction and overall activities for the QNX division. He oversees all go-to-market activity and the planning, design, and development of QNX’s portfolio of products, including design consulting and custom engineering. Previously Chief Operating Officer and Head of Product, Engineering and Services for QNX, John has been an integral member of the BlackBerry QNX team since 1993. He has held a variety of roles within the organization, including vice president of engineering and services.

A frequent speaker and known industry expert in the general embedded software industry, John is a graduate of Carleton University in Ottawa and holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

All Sessions by John Wall

May 27, 2026

Opening Keynote: Building Reliable Robots at Scale
9:05 AM - 9:50 AM
Keynote Room 253 ABC
In this panel, QNX and industry leaders will share how they architect performance across control, perception, and networking, and how certified processes can compress time to market for safety-relevant systems. The panel will cover practical trade-offs when combining ROS 2 with hard real-time workloads. Attendees will leave with concrete patterns for building and validating reliable robotic systems.

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