May 18-19
Melbourne, Australia

May 25-26
Bangalore, India
Sydney, Australia

June 1-2
Bangkok, Thailand
Seoul, Korea
Singapore

June 8-9
Jakarta, Indonesia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Manila, the Philippines

At the events, meet our local evangelists to find out how BlackBerry can help to kick start your app development and get your app on the BlackBerry 10 platform. For start-ups that look into developing on BlackBerry, you can be sure of the support we will provide onsite, not to mention the prizes that we will be bringing to each of the events! AngelHack participants who plan to build on BlackBerry 10 stand a chance to win awesome prizes like BlackBerry Z10 smartphones, cash, passes and trips to Jam Asia 2013 to pitch for the AngelHack Start-up Asia Pacific Challenge!

Just register your interest onsite and you have up to two months to submit your app. One winning team from each city will fly to Jam Asia 2013 for the AngelHack Start-up Asia Pacific Challenge. AngelHack mentors, BlackBerry tech experts and business development folks will prepare the teams for the pitch at Jam Asia. And the best pitch walks away with the grand prize of $10,000 USD!
Didn’t I say cartloads of goodies? Attend the BlackBerry mini talks at the event, and we will also give you a surprise giveaway!

Don’t wait; sign up for AngelHack in your nearest city now at: http://angelhack.com/

Back in November 2012, China’s BlackBerry 10 App Contest kicked off by launching mini sites on cooperating developer community homepages. It caught the attention of hundreds developers right away. The 16 total prizes offered amounted to 350,000 CNY ($56,382 USD), with an additional 28 brand new BlackBerry 10 smartphones for winners, plus the opportunity to be promoted on the BlackBerry World carousal. All 16 winning teams were invited to Beijing for the award ceremony. One attending student developer said, “I need to thank you for the opportunity you gave us, no other company has ever done this before. BlackBerry truly cares about developers like us.” I am sure he will continue to build apps for BlackBerry 10 with his counterparts.

From November 2012 to February 2013, more than 500 developers signed up for the contests and more than 600 apps were successfully submitted to BlackBerry World across mainland China. In February of this year, 16 outstanding apps out of 30 finalists were picked by a team comprised of a BlackBerry app development manager, a marketing expert and selected BlackBerry consumers.

Sarim Aziz, one of the contest judges and head of Developer Relations in APAC attended the ceremony on March 30th to award the Grand Prize check of 100,000 CNY (1,588 USD) to Zhang Dong.

Photo: Sarim Aziz with the grand prize winner Zhang Dong

Mike Zhou, Developer Relations App Development Manager also presented the updated BlackBerry 10 platform technical overview, with a very interactive Q&A.

Photo: Mike Zhou presenting on the BlackBerry 10 technical platform introduction</p>

Cooperating developer communities played an important role in supporting the contest. Community leaders were also invited to be on stage to share their BlackBerry 10 experiences. Terry Zhao from HMTL5 DreamWorks said he was very satisfied with the exemplary performance of HTML5 on the BlackBerry 10 platform and he is expecting a number of high-quality games from his community this year. Xiangning Liao from the Flash Community was also very happy because out of 16 winning apps, four of them came from his group. Liao added, “I am glad to see how well the BlackBerry 10 platform supports Adobe Air and I am sure Flash developers will submit more BlackBerry apps!”

Photo: Dev Community leaders sharing experiences

Thanks again for the great support from Chinese Dev Communities, HTML5 Dreamworks, the Flash Community, and the CNBBDev Group!

Photo: Group photo with developers

Meanwhile, the Taiwan BlackBerry 10 Enterprise App Contest wrapped up on March 20th. Pipedeal and Nlink (free version)/ (paid version) were the winners from Taiwan. Judges are currently reviewing submissions for the Hong Kong BlackBerry 10 App Contest. Six finalists will be selected by the BlackBerry team and public voters by April 9th. We saw great enthusiasm coming from the region and will keep everyone posted on the results.

For more information on Chinese BlackBerry 10 App Contests, please check out the videos below:

Video 1:Special prizes winning apps introduction (10)

Video 2:2nd and 3rd prizes winning apps introduction

More information about winning apps:

MoWriter – By Zhang Dong – MoWriter has been the most popular third-party Sina Weibo client on the BlackBerry® platform since 2009. Now a new version for BlackBerry® 10 has been developed, with full functionality and an excellent user experience. The senior software developer works for an automotive company’s Shanghai office. He spends his spare time working on the Weibo client using the Cascades SDK. MMMOOO has been collaborating with him since last year.

Let the ball roll up – By the Air Mobile Team – The game’s idea is based on an old Chinese trick. Audiences must use their skills to keep track of a ball that has been put in one of three fast-switching bowls. This app was selected as the winner of the BlackBerry JamHack in Shanghai in October 2012. The app has been polished further since. The Air Mobile Team has formed a startup company early this year and is planning to submit more online games within the coming months.

PTCInquiry – By Leo Wang – This is a tool that can read the information from metro cards using NFC technology. The app reads the balance of metro cards and records the last 10 transactions. It was developed by Leo Wang of Nanjing Youdian University, who established iiberry.com on the BlackBerry Developer blog. (PTCInquiry currently only supports Beijing, China but will be expanded to more cities in the coming versions).

Photo Club – By Wu Zhou – This app features the ability to: Adjust Photos, Add Clipart, Add Frames, Add Effects, and Add Custom Elements. Users of Photo Club also have the developer’s guarantee of free updates for the app’s lifetime.

Oxygen Bubble – By Team Zero – Two Flash developers developed the Oxygen Bubble game during Shanghai JamHack in October of 2012 and continued polishing the app after the event.

Truth or Dare – By Wteam – This application is a virtual Truth or Dare game. One person must complete a randomly drawn card labeled “Truth” or “Dare”. This all-ages game was developed by Wteam, an innovative startup from Guangdong Ocean University.

Gif Animator –By Zhongfei Ge – This is a cool GIF making app that allows users to create the most attractive animations on mobile devices. Users just have to select photos from their gallery and use the tools provided to create amazing animated GIF pictures. Users also have the ability to share GIFs via SNS or BBM.

Clash of Stars – By Finger2Finger – This game invites users to go on a space adventure, dodging cosmic rays, black holes, and interstellar attacks. The development group, Finger2Finger, has submitted over 600 games via the BlackBerry 10 portathons. A majority of the games were developed based on Cocos-2D.

Infinity lands – By Ifree studio – This is a strategy game developed by a leading company of over 400 developers.

Back to Whale Island – By Air Mobile Team

Star Tracker – By Weibin Pan – This app features the ability to identify what stars, constellations and deep sky objects you are looking at in real-time. The app utilizes a mobile device’s gyroscope, digital compass, and accelerometer to drive the best user experience. This paid app has been featured on the BlackBerry World carousal and has so far generated over 2000 downloads for one month.

Wallpaper Shifter – By Liangcheng Cao – Wallpaper Shifter is a tool that enables the automatic rotation of wallpapers on BlackBerry 10 devices. Users can define a profile and desired interval at the same time!

Dtrip – By JiangDan – Dtrip features the ability to help users plan their trips abroad.

Berry Sonar – By Air Mobile Pioneer s – This app was developed by a participating team of attendees at the Shanghai 2012 BlackBerry JamHack.

Mega Emoji –By Jibiao – Mega Emoji is a useful tool with more than 1000+ smiley, symbols, and BBM emoji that can be used in messages on SMS, BBM, Facebook, and Twitter.

BlackBerry has partnered with e27 for the Echelon 2013 event, which will be held from June 4-5 in Singapore. Echelon 2013 will be a great platform that will allow startups to be seen and heard by attending entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, government organizations, and tech companies. The conference promises to be the best stage for anyone in Asia that is looking to build an innovative business and a more vibrant tech ecosystem.

And, if you didn’t know already this is the second year that BlackBerry is showing our love for the Asian Start-up community. This year, we’re coming with an awesome offer that BlackBerry developers simply cannot refuse. If you are a BlackBerry start-up in Asia who wants an opportunity to exhibit with us at Echelon 2013, BlackBerry will sponsor your booth costs and accommodations* for the event! To pitch your app to us, click here!

Only Asia Pacific developers will be eligible for this offer. Don’t miss the opportunity to be seen and heard in the startup scene in Asia!

Your BlackBerry 10 application must be already on sale in BlackBerry World. The selection of exhibitors is at the discretion of the BlackBerry team. You will be contacted by May 31, 2013 if you are selected for the funding. For the selected developers, BlackBerry will sponsor your local accommodations in Singapore during Echelon 2013 for up to 2 people on your team, for up to 2 nights, as well as the booth space at the event.

We love working with developers from all around the world and especially if they make cool games that we can play on our new BlackBerry 10 devices! Right after BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012, we had an amazing opportunity to work with incredibly talented game developers from the Asia Pacific Region. To give you an idea on the amount of travelling it took: 16 days, 8 cities, 39800 miles per head!  The best part was we found 260 happy game developers at the end of the trip.  The GotGame Port-a-thon event comprised of locations spanning six Asia Pacific countries including Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, India, Hong Kong and China.  During these intense one-day events, we got a chance to work with some amazing talent from the gaming industry.  As a result, almost 800 high quality game titles were submitted over a span of just three weeks!

We would like to give a BIG Thank you to all the game developers who participated in these events and made GotGame Port-a-thon LIVE a huge success!

“Port-A-Thon” is now a popular term among Asia Pacific developers. Developers have heard good stuff about BlackBerry GotGame virtual Port-a-thon in November, participated in the All-Aboard Port-a-thon on December, and then went nuts about the BlackBerry Got Game Port-A-Thon LIVE series that was held in eight cities in Asia Pacific.

When this weekend’s Port-A-Thons were announced, we got a really enthusiastic responses from APAC BlackBerry developer communities. They want to make sure quality apps will be ported, and a lot of them volunteered to host offline events across Asia to support developers to successfully port their apps. RIM Developer Evangelists, experienced BlackBerry developers and our BlackBerry Dev Group leaders will all be onsite all over Asia to support developers.

For the lucky developers who live in the below cities, be sure to pop by and get porting with us in the flesh!

Note: all date and times stated are based on local cities’ timezone.

China

Beijing – Pre Port-a-Thon tech seminar

(Organized by Iberry dev group)

Date/Time: January 11, 6:00PM to 9:00PM

Location: Monica’s café (北京市朝阳区大望路万达广场4号楼806)

Registration and more details: http://bit.ly/13j6bRw

Beijing – Android to BlackBerry Port-a-Thon Tech Seminar

(In collaboration with Iberry dev group)

Date/Time: 12^th 10:00AM to 1:00PM

Location: Monica’s café (北京市朝阳区大望路万达广场4号楼806)

Registration and more details: http://bit.ly/13j6bRw

Shanghai – Android to BlackBerry Port-a-Thon tech seminar

(organized by CNBBDevGroup, China)

Date/Time: January 12, 10:00AM to 1:00PM

Location: 上海市杨浦区淞沪路270号创智天地广场(KIC)3号楼B1层InnoSpace

Registration and more details: http://bit.ly/13j5kjB

India

Kochi, Kerala – Android Port-A-Thon for BlackBerry 10 Tech Support

(organized by Rubus Labs at Start-up Village)

Date/Time: January 12, 09:30AM onwards

Location: Rubus Labs, Startup Village, Kinfra High Tech Park, Kalamassery, Kochi-683503, Kerala

Enathur Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu – Android Port-A-Thon for BlackBerry 10 Tech Support

(organized by SCSVMV BlackBerry Developer Group)

Date/Time: January 12, 09:30AM onwards

Location: SCSVMV University, Dept. of CSE, SCSVMV University, Enathur Kanchipuram-631561,

Indonesia

Jakarta – BlackBerry 10 Android Port-a-Thon live Support

(In collaboration with ID Android and BBDevID)

Date/time: January 12, 10.00AM to 8.00PM

Location: Mercantile Athletic Club, Penthouse Floor (18th floor), World Trade Center 1, Jl. Jenderal Sudirman Kav. 31 Jakarta 12920

Registration and more details: http://bit.ly/13iJblF

Philippines

Manila – PinoyBBDev Port-a-thon Meetup

(organized by PinoyBBDev, in conjunction with Globe, Android and Web Communities)

Date/Time: January 12, 8:00AM to 6:00PM

Location: Globe Valero, Makati City

Registration and more details: http://bit.ly/13iLIvX

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh – BlackBerry 10 Portathon Live Support Session

(organized by BlackBerry Developer Group – Vietnam)

Date/Time: January 11 & 12, 9:00AM to 8:00PM

Location: Cafe Dâu: 1E Nguyễn Văn Thủ, F. Dakao, Quận 1, T/P HCM.

More details: http://bit.ly/13iMMA9

Singapore

BlackBerry 10 Porting Clinic in Singapore

(In collaboration with PlugFest organizers)

Date/Time: January 12, 10:00AM to 6:00PM

Location: “Green Room” in Plug-in@BLK71

More details: http://bit.ly/VTUbzw

Here are some highlights for the 48-hour event that you won’t want to miss:

Tuesday, November 27th and Wednesday, November 28th | 9am to 6pm ICT

Training, workshops, labs, whateveryou want to call it – learn the BlackBerry 10 fundamentals before hitting the BlackBerry Jam Asia sessions! Check it out here.

Thursday, November 29th | 9:30am to 10:45am ICT

Hear from Alec Saunders, Chris Smith, Marty Mallick and Urpo Karjalainen as they bring us through the exciting BlackBerry 10 platform. No one should miss this!

Thursday, November 29th | 6:00pm ICT

Are you ready for the next app sensation? Coming hot from winning last month’s BlackBerry JamHack – a series of 10 simultaneous Asia-Pacific hackathons across ten cities – the ten winning teams go head-to-head to pitch for the fame, the glory and the grand prize of $10,000. Attendees get to vote for their favorite to win the Dev’s Choice Award! Details here.

Thursday, November 29th and Friday, November 30th | All Day

Jam Space has something for everyone! Head over to Jam Space for some activities you shouldn’t miss – Ask the Experts area, BlackBerry Booth, 10K Reasons to Believe booth, App Generator corner, Social Lounge, Coding Lounge, BlackBerry Store, Gaming stations, and more.

Also, our very own BlackBerry App World™ team is running an onsite contest – come by the BlackBerry App World booth and tell us why your app deserves a feature on BlackBerry App World. If we are convinced, you will be featured on BlackBerry App World for two weeks! Check out the BlackBerry App World booth at Jam Space for more details.

On Day Two, you can have some fun with your BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha testing device by competing in the Code Hunt. Visit the Social Lounge or the Porting Lounge in the Jam Space to download the Code Hunt app, and then start collecting pieces of code using the NFC functionality on your device.

Friday, November 30th | 4:45pm ICT

It may be the last slot of the entire conference, but the session to look out for at this conference is JAM867 – Market Insights – Perception vs Reality. The session will be invaluable for developers who want to target the right audience with the right app! Let us bring you through what are perceptions of app usage are versus the actual usage patterns, and how you can use that knowledge to shoot for the best app.

As you can see, there’ll be loads to do at BlackBerry Jam Asia – pack your bags and be prepared for the action!

Haven’t registered yet?

There’s only one week left to register online for BlackBerry Jam Asia, 29-30 November in Bangkok, Thailand. Register by November 28th to secure your spot among the game-changers of the mobile developer community.

Pre-event training courses, exclusive Market Insights session, and so much more – are you ready for BlackBerry® Jam Asia?

We’re counting down – exactly 30 days to BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand! Have you registered, or do you need more reasons to? Here are some updates that might nudge you to register now:

Pre-event Development Training

Don’t worry if you are new to BlackBerry® 10 development and think you may not be able to follow the sessions at the conference. Other than having sessions of different technical levels, we are offering complimentary one-day training courses where you will be able to learn the fundamentals of BlackBerry® WebWorks™ or the Native SDK/Cascades on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform before you head to the BlackBerry Jam Asia breakout sessions! Workshops – which will be held on November 27 and 28 – will be available in either Thai or English, and seats are limited. Sign up during the registration process to secure your seats, or check out more details about the training sessions here:
http://www.blackberryjamconference.com/asia/content/training

Market Insights Session to be announced

If you haven’t noticed, in the session catalog we have already announced 38 breakout sessions for the conference, with more to come. One upcoming announcement is the Market Insights session (you heard it here first!), where the RIM® Asia-Pacific Market Insights team will share consumer insights about smartphone users and their relationships with the mobile applications. Join us as we share what we found about consumer behaviors when it comes to applications, and how you can make sure your app speaks to them! Check back after your registration to see when this session is scheduled for.

Last chance for early bird registrations

With three days left for early bird registration, don’t miss the chance to gather with some of the greatest minds for BlackBerry 10 development at BlackBerry Jam Asia at low rate of $99 USD – register now, and we’ll see you there!

Last weekend was a smashing weekend for developers in Asia Pacific – almost 500 developers in India, Singapore, Malaysia, and Philippines got together and hacked their way through Friday evening to Sunday morning!

Yes, I am talking about BlackBerry® JamHack 2012, the first simultaneous Asia-Pacific-wide 40-hour BlackBerry hackathon. This weekend’s five simultaneous JamHack events were organized by Rubus Labs DevGroup (Bangalore), BlackBerry Developer Group India (Delhi), BBMYCoders (Kuala Lumpur), and PinoyBBDev and BBDevSG (Singapore)! While the 500 JamHackers were hacking in five different cities, their spirit and goal was admirably unanimous – hacking their way to the best app on BlackBerry® 10.

On Friday evening, participants started their 40-hour with registrations, networking and a series of RIM® -designed sessions, including local market insights session called “Country Vibes”, a “JamBytes” session on BlackBerry 10 design and user experience, and an introduction to the Built for BlackBerry program and the 10K Developer Commitment.

Each developer group helped participants to help form teams to ensure the best-rounded pitch on Sunday.

The hackathon started around midnight, and the dev groups had planned various icebreaker activities to wake up their contestants. If I had to pick my favorite icebreaker, it’d be the BBMYCoders Gangnam Style kickoff! Check out the video:

[ YouTube link for mobile viewing ]

A great start is always important, but what’s better than that? Solid support and non-stop energizing activities to keep awake! Throughout the 40 hours, developer group leaders, co-managers, partners, business development teams and RIM Developer Relations were present to motivate and help our hackers. But it didn’t end at that: Our experts in RIM Canada didn’t want to feel left out, so they offered virtual help-desk hours for our hackers through Twitter® (#BBJamHelp) which saw over a hundred questions and tweets! Special thanks to @Naveenan5, @PratikSapra, @RSSessantotto, and @WaterlooErik for staying up through the weekend to support our APAC developers.

Other than providing support, the developer group managers were also busy keeping the teams entertained (and awake)! If the participants were bored of coding, needed a breather, or just wanted an excuse to have fun, there were exciting activities that kept them up. Let’s take a look at what tactics were used by our group leaders to keep their participants awake:

Massage Corner by PinoyBBDev
Tired from hacking? Teams in Philippines were rewarded by one of the best break activities they can get – a spa treatment onsite!

Quiztions by PinoyBBDev
Quizzes are fun, and even more so when they are done over Twitter. PinoyBBDev planned a social media quiz with small giveaways for the quiztion winners.

Pen in Bottle by BBMYCoders
While the Pinoy Devs were busy getting massages, the KL JamHackers were tasked by BBMYCoders team to complete a task — but what are they doing?

Photo courtesy of BBMyCoders

The deal is that they had to untie a pen from their back and drop the pen into a bottle behind them, with a paper bag over their head. Sounds fun and simple, but they were definitely trying hard to get the special prizes given out!

Some other fun activities:

Game on at the Gamezones

Best DJ

Singing Competition on the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet

Of course, it wasn’t all fun and games — the teams had to work hard on getting the apps done within the 40 hours, and their hard work and efforts were all worth it! It absolutely showed during the pitching sessions – more than 100 apps were showcased across the five cities. Here were the teams from the pitches and their winning apps:

Bangalore, India

Winner: Team QEDGE
App: Story Board, a presentation and slides creation HTML application on BlackBerry 10

Delhi, India

Winner: Team Fukraaas
App: UnTANGLED, a complex puzzle game built with HTML on BlackBerry 10

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Winner: Team Websmith ATP
App: 1BB, an augmented reality application on BlackBerry 10
For more event highlights, check out BBMYCoders’ post: http://bit.ly/BBMYCodersJamHack

Manila, the Philippines

Winner: Team Rain Creative
App: Realm of Elysium, a strategy game inspired by Battleship

Singapore

Winner: Tiam Yang, Tyler Projects Ptd Ltd
App: Drop Zone, a HTML game on BlackBerry 10

All in all, the participants had loads of fun, were rewarded with giveaways, and walked away with awesome prizes even if they didn’t win. Teams walked away with a bag of great goodies such as water bottles, t-shirts, stickers, and more. Also, all participants who attended BlackBerry JamHack received a BlackBerry JamHack rewards badge on BlackBerry JamZone as well as a free pass to BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 in Thailand! Spirits were definitely sky high when the events ended and everyone walked away a winner.

This series of JamHacks would not have been possible without the BlackBerry developer groups. To find out more about the developer groups behind the scenes of the awesome JamHacks, check out:

• Bangalore: Rubus Labs DevGroup
• Delhi: BlackBerry Developer Group India
• Kuala Lumpur: BBMYCoders
• Manila: PinoyBBDev
• Singapore: BBDevSG

Registration for the next five cities is still open – so don’t miss your chance to be jammin’ with us on October 19-21 (5-city simultaneous hacks):

• Indonesia – Jakarta by BBDevID
• Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City by BlackBerry Viet Nam Dev Group
• Thailand – Bangkok by @BBDevThailand
• China – Shanghai by CNBBDev
• Australia – Melbourne

All ten winners from BlackBerry JamHack city events will be walking away with an all-expenses paid trip to the BlackBerry Jam Asia in Bangkok, where they will be vying with nine other teams to be crowned Asia Pacific champions and receive the grand prize of an all-expenses paid trip to BlackBerry 10 global launch, amongst other great prizes!

Follow the hashtag #BBJamHack to find out more about the JamHack events – here are some tweets we were pretty proud to see:

Interested to learn more about some program or events mentioned above? Click to learn more about:

• BlackBerry JamHack 2012
• BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012
• How to form a Developer Group in your region
• BlackBerry Jam Rewards program

You heard it first from Alec during BlackBerry® Jam Americas, and today, we’re super psyched to be announcing the start of registration for BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 (previously known as DevCon Asia)! And this time, we’re bringing the show to Bangkok, Thailand!

Two weeks ago at BlackBerry Jam Americas in San Jose, CA, our CEO, Thorsten Heins shared the vision and promise of BlackBerry 10 with developers. Now you can join us as you find out how to create apps and compelling content for BlackBerry 10 and have your apps ready to launch with BlackBerry 10 in the first calendar quarter of 2013.

Taking place on 29-30 November 2012 at Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre, BlackBerry Jam Asia will give developers access to RIM experts, hands-on tutorials, labs and in-depth sessions to help them build on the new BlackBerry® 10 platform.

Why Jam with us?

Carrying on with our commitment to the developer community, we are excited to provide a BlackBerry® 10 Dev Alpha testing device to qualified developers who attend BlackBerry Jam Asia! Introduced in Orlando in May, the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha testing device was created exclusively for developers for the purpose of testing and debugging BlackBerry 10 apps during development.

Not that you need more reasons, but we want to convince you 110%! Developers, designers, enterprise partners and industry leaders attending the conference will gain hands-on experience with the latest application development tools for the BlackBerry 10 platform. Did I mention we are delivering a wide range of sessions? We’re pleased to launch our session catalog today too – check it out here.

Even more reasons to Jam with us:

• Learn how to take advantage of the BlackBerry platform’s key differentiators – integration at deep levels of the OS, sharing through social APIs, and integration with other third party applications for smooth and seamless interaction between apps
• Collaborate with experts on code and finding a path to port or convert without learning new languages, a key benefit of the BlackBerry 10 platform’s open ecosystem
• The unique opportunity to explore the new BlackBerry 10 tools and application capabilities. The BlackBerry 10 platform leads in open source standards and offers features that can be built into apps that drive user engagement and loyalty, enthusiasm, and the ability to share apps and app experiences
• Dive into the new APIs and features through Sessions, Hands-on labs, and Expert meet and greets

Great conference at great rates

Discounted rates are available for attendees who register early:

• Early Bird Rate $99 USD Expires 02 November 2012
• Regular Rate $199 USD Expires 30 November 2012
• Student / Faculty Rate* $99 USD Expires 30 November 2012
• Faculty Member Rate $99 USD Expires 30 November 2012

* Student status and faculty member credentials must be verified in order to register at the Student or Faculty Member Rates. Find out more about the verification requirements.

Each package allows participants with the following benefits:

• Access to the BlackBerry Jam Asia Keynote
• Access to breakout sessions, Lab sessions and Ask The Experts
• Admission to the BlackBerry Jam Appreciation Event
• Admission to the BlackBerry Jam Space during open hours
• Lunch and breaks on conference days
• Complimentary access to Conference Wi-Fi® internet in the conference center
• Access to the online portal for conference content
• Registration gift

What’s your #BB10Believe?

What are you waiting for? Register now on the BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 website!

* Qualified developers will be determined by RIM using applicant information from the registration system. If you have already received a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device at a previous event or from RIM, you are not eligible for this offer. Quantities are limited.

Be a part of the first simultaneous Asia-Pacific-wide BlackBerry® hackathon! Hack your way through 40 hours of non-stop coding. From ideation to creation, together with our experts, make it all app-en to win cash, devices, trips and more. Indulge on an endless supply of food, drinks, activities and giveaways. Go head-to-head in ten major cities and advance to BlackBerry Jam Asia 2012 to represent your team and country. Whether you are an experienced or aspiring developer, designer or an entrepreneur, you can bring your skills and ideas to turn your ideas into reality. It’s going to be a blast!

Organised by ten Developer Groups & Communities in Asia Pacific, each 40-hour JamHack event will provide an opportunity for four-member teams of developers, designers, marketeers, entrepreneurs to work on an awesome app for BlackBerry 10.  To ensure that each team is properly equipped for the challenge, RIM is providing round-the-clock Global Technical Helpdesk support, by the tech experts from Developer Relations Asia Pacific team onsite, as well as platform experts streaming live from North America.

Don’t miss the great opportunity to hack with the subject-matter experts and fellow brilliant minds, across continents! On each weekend, there will be five simultaneous JamHack events happening:

Jammin’ on Oct 12-14 (5-city simultaneous Hacks):

• India – Delhi (by @skjsaurabh)
• India – Bangalore (by Rubus Labs DevGroup)
• Singapore (by @BBDevSG)
• Malaysia – Kuala Lumpur (by @BBMYCoders)
• Philippines – Manila (by @PinoyBBDev)

Jammin’ on Oct 19-21 (5-city simultaneous Hacks):

• Indonesia – Jakarta (by @BBDevID)
• Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City (by @Louis_Keeper)
• Thailand – Bangkok (by @BBDevThailand)
• China – Shanghai (@immmooo)
• Australia – Melbourne (@csaunders_ca)

Over each of the weekend events, RIM will also be sharing market insights tailored to the respective cities so developers can develop market-relevant applications. Beyond that, the two days will also include sharing sessions aptly named as JamBytes. During these sessions, participants will have the chance to understand in-depth developmental tips and tricks on BlackBerry 10 platform, how to enhance their BlackBerry 10 applications, as well as go to market strategies for their new apps.

The ten winning teams from the JamHack events will receive an all-expense paid trip to BlackBerry Jam Asia, where you will represent your city and compete at the Asia-Pacific Finals.

Final winning team of the “Asia-Pacific Finals” will win the grand prize of:

• Cash Prize of US$10,000
• BlackBerry App World™ marketing for 2 months for BlackBerry 10 launch in Asia, Middle East and Africa (where applicable) & one  week marketing in North America, Latin America and Europe (where applicable)
• App marketing with launch campaign of BlackBerry 10 in market
• Dedicated technical & Business Consultancy for up to third month after launch of BlackBerry 10 in team’s market

Don’t hesitate! Sign up or find out more at: www.blackberryjamhack.com!