Next week we’re off to San Jose to cover all the action from BlackBerry® Jam Americas, our headline show of the year for developers. The show starts on Tuesday September 25, so be sure to make the Inside BlackBerry Blog your home for news from the ground. Also, don’t forget to check in with our friends over at the Inside BlackBerry Developer Blog and Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog to follow along with news for devs and the enterprise, respectively.

As usual, we’ll have all the action here from the keynote on Tuesday, some exclusive interviews, and maybe even a little taste of what we’ve been working on for BlackBerry® 10. Are you a developer interested in knowing more about the show? Swing by the Dev Blog for all the details, and check out this special message from Alec Saunders on why you should attend.

If you’re unable to make it to the event, tune in to the Live Webcast of the keynote, 8:30am-10:30am PDT on Tuesday September 25.

Are you going to BlackBerry Jam Americas, or will you be following along at home? Let us know in the comments, and remember that you can catch all the excitement here on the Inside BlackBerry Blog.

Hey Team BlackBerry! Looks like we’re going to be seeing a lot more of you. I’m very excited to be introducing a new blog series: BlackBerry Comes to You. Over the next 12 months we will be hosting approximately 35 events in 25 different cities around the world designed to meet and engage with you, our customers, partners and fans and are pleased to announce the dates for BlackBerry® World™ Conference 2013 will be May 14-16, 2013 in Orlando, Florida.

As we move closer to the launch of BlackBerry® 10 – our next generation platform that you’ve already shown a ton of enthusiasm for – we want to create new opportunities to connect with you. So, we’re focusing our attention on just that: events that get us directly in front of people like you. These may sound familiar, but we’re adding more events in more cities (hopefully in a city near you) to give you better opportunities to test-drive current BlackBerry products, as well as get a sneak peek of BlackBerry 10 and future innovations.

Here’s a preview of what to expect:

BlackBerry World, our largest event for the entire BlackBerry ecosystem

• May 14-16, 2013 in Orlando, FL

BlackBerry Innovation Forum series that will showcase BlackBerry 10 in cities across the world

EMEA

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Paris, France
• London, UK
• Milano, Italy
• Frankfurt, Germany
• Madrid, Spain
• Dubai, UAE

North America

• New Jersey, USA
• New York, USA
• Boston, USA
• Atlanta, USA
• Dallas, USA
• Chicago, USA
• Bridgeport-Stamford, USA
• Philadelphia, USA
• Washington, USA
• Minneapolis, USA
• San Francisco/Los Angeles, USA
• Virginia, USA
• Toronto, Canada
• Ottawa, Canada
• Vancouver, Canada
• Calgary, Canada
• Edmonton, Canada
• Montreal, Canada
• Halifax, Canada

BlackBerry Collaboration Forum series that showcases the best of all things BlackBerry and highlights some of the best presentations from BlackBerry World

• October 4, 2012 – Bogotá, Colombia
• October 16, 2012 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• November 8, 2012 – Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Fall 2012 – in Mexico City, Mexico (full details to be announced)

BlackBerry Jam events that engage with our growing community of developers:

• BlackBerry Jam Americas: September 25-27, 2012 in San Jose, CA
• BlackBerry Jam EMEA: February 5-6, 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• BlackBerry Jam ASIA: To Be Announced

World Tour Dates

North America:

• June 5, 2012 – Austin, TX, USA
• June 7, 2012 – Santa Clara, CA, USA
• June 19, 2012 – New York, NY, USA
• June 21, 2012 – Toronto, ON, Canada
• July 11, 2012 – Montreal, QC, Canada

EMEA

• May 29, 2012 – Milan, Italy
• May 31, 2012 – Barcelona, Spain
• June 12, 2012 – Paris, France
• June 14, 2012 – London, UK
• June 26, 2012– Moscow, Russia
• June 28, 2012 – Berlin, Germany
• July 3, 2012– Warsaw, Poland
• July – Cape Town, South Africa
• July – Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Asia Pacific

• July 2, 2012 – Bangalore, India
• July 4, 2012 – Delhi, India
• July 6, 2012 – Beijing, China
• July 9, 2012 – Singapore
• July 10, 2012 – Jakarta, Indonesia
• July – Sydney, Australia

Latin America

• August – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• August – Mexico City, Mexico
• August – Sao Paulo, Brazil

Don’t forget, we’re also as close as a Tweet, Like, or comment away on our official social channels like @BlackBerry on Twitter®, BlackBerry on Facebook®, BlackBerry.com and of course here on the Inside BlackBerry Blog. (Find the BlackBerry social channel nearest you.)

We can’t wait to meet you in person at our lineup of events, or talk to you on our social channels. The list of events are just the beginning, so be sure to stay tuned and keep an eye out here for the latest events and dates as they are announced.

Wow! BlackBerry® DevCon Americas 2011 was one heck of a busy week for the Developer Relations team, and we’re sure the same thing can be said for attendees. BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 featured: an action-packed general session keynote; oodles of announcements (see below); App Express stations for Android™ developers to quickly get their apps ported to the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet; recognition awards for outstanding BlackBerry developers; Breakout and Ask the Experts sessions for one-on-one time with BlackBerry development experts; special BBM™ Hackathon events just for BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 attendees; and our biggest BlackBerry DevCon TweetUp ever! Oh, and did I forget to mention we gave every attendee a free BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with the option to load the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Developer Beta build?

For those who were unable to attend BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 in person, here’s a brief overview of some of the DevCon-related announcements you’ll want to catch up on.

Announcing BlackBerry BBX – The Next Generation BlackBerry Platform – BlackBerry DevCon Americas 2011 introduced BlackBerry BBX, the next generation mobile platform for BlackBerry smartphones and tablets. Development environments supported by the BBX platform include HTML5 with BlackBerry® WebWorks™, Adobe® AIR®, Native C/C++, and the BlackBerry® Runtime for Android™ Apps. Click the link above to learn more; BlackBerry developers will also want to read this outlining the developer roadmap for BlackBerry BBX and the BlackBerry® Java® SDK.

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