Hälsningar till mobila utvecklare i Sverige! The BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour is coming to  Malmö and Stockholm. Join us for a series of full-day events dedicated to providing you, the developer community, with insights on the BlackBerry 10 platform; its strengths, the vision, and how developers can make apps that stand out to app-hungry BlackBerry users.

Come Jam with us so you can:

• Discover the power of BlackBerry 10. Learn about the unique capabilities of BlackBerry 10 to set your application apart.
• Collaborate with your community. Learn, share and network with your fellow developers. Make valuable connections that will make you even more successful with BlackBerry.
• Get one-on-one expert guidance. Jam with BlackBerry platform experts and build a better app.
• A limited number of BlackBerry® 10 Dev Alpha devices will be available to qualified developers* at many of the cities on the World Tour! Developers must apply during the event registration process for applicable events to receive a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device.

What’s it like to attend BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour? Check out this video from the Sydney, Australia stop -

Registration is now open – links below!

• 16 October – Stockholm Sweden (http://www.blackberryjamworldtour.com/stockholm)
• 17 October – Malmö, Sweden (http://www.blackberryjamworldtour.com/malmo)

The BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet is quickly gaining a reputation as a serious gaming platform. During BlackBerry Jam Americas 2012 in San Jose, I had a chance to talk with Stephane Jacoby of Square 1 Games – who has brought the classic title “The Bard’s Tale” to the BlackBerry PlayBook.

After three regions, 20 cities and hundreds of face to face meetings with developers all around the world, it’s Latin America’s time to shine (and it’s time to eat ‘asado’, ‘tacos’ and ‘queijo na brasa’).

Three cities will be hosting the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour in Latin America. We are so excited about coming to this region, since developers here have shown an outstanding dedication to the platform and have been the focus of many of the success stories that we have shared around the world!

We are bringing the excitement of BlackBerry 10 to you. Come learn about what BlackBerry 10 means to you and to your users, and see the amazing tools and news we have. We listen and we care about you. We are committed.

So, ‘estimados’ friends of Latin America, please be ready to receive the tour during these dates:

• Mexico City, Mexico – August 16
• Buenos Aires,  Argentina – August 21
• Sao Paulo, Brazil – August 23

Registration is now open! And if you think this is it… I’m happy to say you are wrong! We have already planned more than a dozen events for the next quarter around Latin America, so stay tuned!

The BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour arrived in Dubai today, attracting just over 100 developers from across the Middle East region and providing them with the opportunity to learn more about the unique capabilities of the new BlackBerry 10 OS.

Sandeep Saihgal, Managing Director, Middle East at RIM®, said: “We are proud of our strong connections with the talented community of developers in the Middle East region and believe this cooperation will be taken to the next level by the powerful programming tools that BlackBerry 10 offers.”

Mohamed Ali, Co-CEO of developer partner ZeroWire Labs, said: “There is growing excitement in our company for BlackBerry 10. We have already experienced great success with the launch of our BlackBerry apps in this region, and with the growth in demand for Arabic apps and the high penetration of BlackBerry smartphones in the Middle East, we expect BlackBerry 10 to create a significant opportunity for developers.”

Some of the tweets from the day:

Wonderful event @BlackBerry Jam dubai #bb10jam—
Jesse J Ode (@TechCircleDxb) July 10, 2012

Queue of devs waiting to get their hands on the dev BB10 device… #BB10Jam http://t.co/74hhDgXF—
M.Saleh Esmaeili (@dot1ne) July 10, 2012

You can build a more beautiful UI with @BlackBerry 10 Cascades UI elements. #bb10jam #Dubai @BlackBerryDev—
Maher Al Jendasi (@maherj) July 10, 2012

And some additional quotes from developers at the event:

Aman Ali from Insomniac Dev: “BlackBerry10 means everything to me right now! The keyboard and the camera will exceed all other platforms. BlackBerry 10 will be absolutely massive! It’s something I’ve never seen before and I’m really looking forward to develop apps on!”

Kessienda D. Majemiif, Coo FastFindIt Solutions: “I think BlackBerry 10 is the future of user experience. BlackBerry 10 will make development faster and easier. I’m really looking forward to exploring and developing with the BB10 device! It is really going to add prestige to BlackBerry.”

Hamza Nasir, LiveAdmins: “I’ve been a BlackBerry hard-core fan since the inception. It’s not about the software, it’s not about the hardware…it’s the experience you get. BlackBerry10 will give developers a lot to work with. The cascade functionality and camera functionality is state of the art, plus more. I am looking forward to getting my hands on a BlackBerry 10 device!”

We are excited to be running the BlackBerry® 10 Jam Montreal tour stop in conjunction with The International Startup Festival; an event beginning the evening of July 11 until July 13, all about the business of Startups. Focused on hot sectors like mobility, social networking, and gaming, the event brings together industry veterans and fresh new faces, creative thinkers, experienced entrepreneurs and technologists from around the globe.

As a sponsor of the International Startup Festival, we are pleased to be able to offer all BlackBerry 10 Jam Montreal attendees discounted passes to the festival. Prices are as follows:

• $300 for an All Access Pass (regular price: $550) – click here to register
• $250 for a Startup Pass (regular price: $365) – click here to register

Both passes are valid for each day of the event.

All International Startup Festival attendees sign up to pitch their company or ideas to VC investors. The first and second place winners from the BlackBerry 10 Jam Lightning Pitches will be given free All Access passes to the festival and a dedicated expo time in the mobility tent.

Update: Due to overwhelming demand, we’ve expanded the number of spots available for BlackBerry 10 Jam Montreal. Registration has be re-opened – sign up today!

Martyn Mallick took the stage first and he exceeded the expectations of the crowd. Martyn laid out some of the thinking behind BlackBerry 10 to give the hungry crowd the foundation they needed.  He further fueled their appetite with information about the growth of BlackBerry applications in the BlackBerry™ App World storefront.

Martyn was then joined on stage by Wes Worsfold and Aaron Barnes from Motek Mobile. Wes and Aaron demonstrated their application B’Giftee running on the BlackBerry10 Dev Alpha prototype device. B’Giftee is an application that allows people to share the things they love with their friends. The application allows the user to generate a kind, on-the-fly gift card for any item they want to share, then, they share that with their friends. The application ran beautifully on the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha device allowing Wes to share a bottle of his favorite beer with Aaron.

Martyn then welcomed Mohammad Agha and Ian MacDonald from Magmic. Magmic demoed their incredibly popular Texas Hold ‘Em King Live; an online multiplayer poker experience. The graphics were stunning, the animations smooth, and the game play flawless. If you are a poker fan, this is your game. It makes it so you can play with poker players all over the world: all for FREE!

After Martyn, Gary Klassen took the stage. Gary introduced the developers in attendance to the BlackBerry 10 user experience. His passion and commitment to BlackBerry 10 was obvious in his presentation. Gary also demonstrated the new BlackBerry 10 keyboard with its predictive text capabilities. His demo was greeted with enthusiastic applause and was a topic of conversation the rest of the day. Gary showed that due to the predictive capabilities of the keyboard, he could type an entire sentence in four keystokes and 6 flips of his thumbs. Very groovy stuff.

Tim Neil then took the stage to present an overview of the BlackBerry 10 architecture. This was Tim’s first appearance on the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour and he rocked. Tim’s knowledge and experience provided the perfect combination to deliver the overview of the architecture while providing personal insight and real world advantages of the QNX kernel.

Tim’s expertise demonstrates what I’ve always said is the greatest thing about BlackBerry: that it is more than just a company, it is a community of committed developers, users, and employees. This sentiment was never more obvious to me than in Toronto. During the lunch break, a developer approached Tim, who is a key author on the bbUI.js project on GitHub, about a feature they would like to see in the framework. The developer asked if it would be possible to add scrolling panels to the bbUI project so you could have scrolling information surrounded by static information. Tim pulled out his laptop and by the time lunch was over, scrolling panels were part of the next branch in bbUI.js on GitHub.

Also during lunch, all the attendees were treated to homemade cookies, courtesy of another BlackBerry 10 Jam attendee, Phil Thibault, who made and brought cookies to the Jam to share. Awesome.

Like the other road shows, the Toronto show had 10 “lightning pitches”. The pitches in Toronto varied from people showing applications running on Dev Alpha devices to people with only a glimmer of an idea. The winner at Toronto was an app currently named Rocket App; although the developer admits that it’s a working title. The application calls the Next Bus API to get information about the bus schedules throughout Toronto. It shows a panel of the information and also a map of the nearest stops. However, Rocket App goes one step further by extending the experience beyond the glass. The application has a crowd sourcing feature that allows users to report the conditions of bus travel in real time. This way, not only can the user of the application get the official information from the Next Bus API, but they also get the first-hand experience through crowd sourcing. An excellent example of one of the key BlackBerry 10 tenets: Extend the application beyond the glass. Great job!

After lunch, the attendees moved to the detail tracks. The WebWorks track was led by Tim Windsor with the bbUI.js and Alice.js session presented by Tim Neil. All the WebWorks track talks were standing room only. Clearly, HTML5 is a key platform for BB10. Tim Windsor provided excellent in depth information about the WebWorks platform and some of the surrounding frameworks. The questions were also incredibly detailed which tells me these developers are already heavily invested in HTML5 development.

On the other side of the lobby, Shadid Haque was presenting the NDK detail track. Just like the WebWorks track, the room was standing room only. Shadid presented all afternoon covering the basics of using C++ with the NDK and also how to integrate with QML for interface design. Here too, questions were not the simple surface question, but in-depth and each question seemed to foster a discussion among the BlackBerry community.

Across the sky bridge, Brent Thornton and Jim Ing were delivering the enterprise detail track. This track gave members of the BlackBerry community the opportunity to learn about the enterprise space and get their questions answered by an expert.

All sessions were lively and the audience would move from track to track to absorb as much information as possible. Alas, all great things must come to an end and so must BB10 Jam Toronto. I would be remiss in closing this blog without acknowledging the tireless and awesome work done by all the people running the show. So, to Shelby, Susan, Catrina, Kate and Chris:  a big THANK YOU!

Toronto ROCKS!

New York City is known for many things, including being financial center of the world and home to many media & entertainment firms — and as you’ll see, this stop of the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour had elements of both of these. First, the event was held in one of the original theaters on Broadway – now part of the Millenium Hotel in Times Square. This theater was replete with gold trim and multiple balcony levels. The stage and side balconies of this historic theater were festooned with BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour signage. We had a great developer turnout with attendees from interactive agencies, media companies, banks and financial firms – one developer even flew in from Vancouver to attend!

To match this high-powered group of developers in the audience, we had an equally strong lineup of speakers to tell the BlackBerry 10 story. The event was anchored by Marty Mallick’s keynote, which did a tremendous job in presenting the BlackBerry 10 call to action to this audience. The team had many discussions with the developers about the tremendous growth in BlackBerry App World™ developer registrations and apps in the catalog.

Gary Klassen presented the user experience session, and it made a great impact to have a key product team leader on stage since many audience members knew of Gary’s BBM™ pedigree (evidenced by many tweets about the “inventor of BBM on stage”). Gary did a great job telling the story of the evolution of our BlackBerry products, emphasizing the laser focus we’ve had on improving the user experience for our high performance, multi-tasking customers and how BlackBerry 10 takes this to the next level. Gary brought a unique viewpoint to this stop as he could talk about his own work on both the existing BlackBerry platform and BlackBerry 10.

The developers were very excited to see Patrick Mollins on stage delivering the architecture overview, since he was known by many of the BlackBerry developers in the crowd as the BlackBerry evangelist they’ve seen at our many east coast events. For our technical tracks, we had Tim Windsor covering BlackBerry® WebWorks™ and HTML5, Shadid Haque delivered the Native track, and Brent Thornton, Jim Ing & team covered the enterprise track. This group of developers wanted content from all the technical tracks which was great to see!

The ten lightning pitches were very diverse and somewhat fitting for the event in the nation’s financial capital. Our winner was Alex Garipan, who had created a sophisticated stock analysis tool for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet that featured direct manipulation of the price charts to drill down on the data set and many other cool analysis features!  We also had applications that implemented photo publishing via email or physical postcards, and a sophisticated plant reference tool for the avid gardener.

We left NYC with a group of energized BlackBerry 10-ready developers, and we look forward to seeing the apps they build — thanks New York! The BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour rolls on to Toronto on Thursday, June 21st.

Yesterday’s WebWorks session at #BB10Jam was awesome and even got my 14 year old inspired to create apps. @BlackBerryDev

— DJ Reyes  (@djr3yes) June 15, 2012

N4_BB: NYC #BB10Jam: Gary showing BB10 keyboard. Prediction, slick, and sharp. Wow! dlvr.it/1kxW4r

— Onita Catoe (@Onitael79) June 19, 2012

Wow great day at #BB10Jam NYC. Got my Dev Alpha! Met some great people.@BlackBerryDev expect great things to come from me!

— James Paul Muir (@jamespaulmuir) June 19, 2012

Lighting Pitch of a stocks app. Dev asks what’s our fav stock. Everyone replies “RIM” #BB10Jam

— JT Teran (@AgentBlackBerry) June 19, 2012

We’ve still have a few seats open for the July 12th stop in Sydney, Australia. If you’re a developer down under, head on over to the registration page now!

Good news! We’ve just launched registration for the final stop of the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour in Asia Pacific – Sydney, Australia.

On Thursday July 12, the World Tour crew will be jamming with you at Four Points By Sheraton Sydney, Darling Harbour.

Expect sessions that provide you insights into the BlackBerry® 10 platform; its strengths, the vision, and how developers can make apps that stand out to 77 million app-hungry BlackBerry users globally.

We look forward to connecting with all you developers at Australia!

Check out the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour - Sydney page now to register.

Registration for the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour is now open for Bangalore, Delhi, Beijing, Singapore, Jakarta, and Montreal –

July 2 – Bangalore, India
July 4 – Delhi, India
July 6 – Beijing, China
July 9 – Singapore
July 10 – Jakarta, Indonesia
July 11 – Montreal, QC

We’re really excited about bringing the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour to these cities. For Montreal, we’re lucky to be in town during the International Startup Festival!

BlackBerry has added Montreal to their list of Int’l #bb10jam cities, to coincide with @startupfest.bit.ly/LvbzbA @asaunders

— Startup Festival (@startupfest) June 7, 2012

#BB10Jam. <– Go ahead, search for it on Twitter. Developers ARE excited for #BB10.

— CrackBerry.com (@CrackBerry) June 8, 2012

Head on over to the BlackBerry® 10 Jam World Tour page now to register.