Next week isn’t just CES in Las Vegas; it’s also the 2013 AT&T Developer Summit – and the BlackBerry Developer Relations team will be there in full force.

Our own Larry McDonough will be presenting “Building Applications for Launch of the New BlackBerry 10 Platform” on Monday, January 7th, 2013 from 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM. On the same day, our good friend Andrew Poliak from the QNX Auto Team will be a panelist on “Navigating the Connected Vehicle Vision” from 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM.

That’s not all – we’ve also got an exciting BlackBerry 10 live porting challenge during the hackathon portion of the summit:

“Be part of open source history and participate in the AT&T API for BlackBerry 10 “Live Port” challenge! Using the iOS version of the AT&T API as reference, complete the port and build the best BlackBerry 10 app leveraging the AT&T API and be eligible for prizes including a trip to BlackBerry Jam Europe in Amsterdam! There will be plenty of help onsite to help with any question you may have. Are you up to the challenge?”

• What’s involved:
  • All participating teams contribute to porting AT&T API for BlackBerry 10
  • Each team builds their “best app” using the API with the BlackBerry Native SDK
• Prizes:
  • Chance to go home with a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B!
  • All apps are eligible for the BlackBerry 10K challenge (turn your app into $10K)!
  • The “best app” (as judged by our panel of experts) wins trips to BlackBerry Jam Europe 2013 in Amsterdam!

Hope to see you at the AT&T Developer Summit next week!

Date: August 12, 2010
Event Start Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time)
Duration: 1 hour

A few more topics that will be covered:

• Exciting new device functionality – learn about specs and new features of the BlackBerry Torch smartphone that will help you differentiate your application.
• Merchandising enhancements, particularly the addition of AT&T Carrier Billing to BlackBerry App World™.
• BlackBerry 6 overview – learn about improvements to the UI and new APIs that you can take advantage of when creating your applications.

To find out more information and to register for this event, click here.