BlackBerry® Jam Enterprise kicks off next week in Toronto and London. This time around, we’ll be focusing on Enterprise app development. These events differ from the BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour in that they are geared towards developers looking to create apps for their organization, or for the general business community. Strategy and capability for deploying apps within organizations is also a key theme that we’ll be addressing.

Join us in North America, EMEA, & LATAM across these dates and locations:

North America

October 23 – Toronto, ON, Canada
October 25 – Ottawa, ON, Canada
November 8 – Washington, DC, USA
November 13 – New York, NY, USA
November 28 – Chicago, IL, USA

EMEA

October 23 – London, UK
November 1 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 6 – Frankfurt, Germany
November 15 – Madrid, Spain

Latin America

November 6 – São Paulo, Brazil
November 16 – Mexico City, Mexico

As with prior BlackBerry 10 Jam World Tour events, registration is free but space is limited. A number of BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha devices will also be distributed to those that are eligible. So what are you waiting for? Come out to a full day of events dedicated to providing the Enterprise developer community with insights on the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform: its strengths, the vision, and how Enterprise developers can build apps that deliver real business value.

Sign up today and we’ll see you there!

More exciting news arrives today from the BlackBerry Partners Fund™ Developer Challenge, announcing the winners of the Best Adobe® Flash® and Adobe® AIR® app competition for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet! It’s been exciting to see such an array of amazing apps highlighted from all around the world. Thanks to everyone that participated in the competition, and congratulations to these winning developers!

North America:

• Grand Prize Winner: Papa’s Burgeria (Vendor: Flipline IDS LLC)
• First Runners-up: News Catcher (Vendor: XIMAD Inc)
• Second Runners-up: iSpeech Translator (Vendor: iSpeech.org)

Latin America:

• Grand Prize Winner: PaginasAmarillas (Vendor: Carvajal)
• First Runners-up: El Financiero para BlackBerry PlayBook (Vendor: Ironbit SA de CV)
• Second Runners-up: Bubbler! (Vendor: Juan Ignacio Albanesi)

Europe, Middle East, Africa:

• Grand Prize Winner: n-tv Nachrichten PlayBook (Vendor: LINEAS Informationstechnik GmbH)
• First Runners-up: Doodle Blast (Vendor: FlexibleAIR)
• Second Runners-up: SVIT – Ebook Reader with EPUB Support (Vendor: Pronic, Meselina Ponikvar Verhovsek s.p.)

Asia Pacific:

• Grand Prize Winner: Love Indonesia for BlackBerry PlayBook (Vendor: Love Indonesia)
• First Runners-up: StockPulse – Stock and Equity Tracker for BlackBerry PlayBook (Vendor: XLabz Technologies Pvt Ltd)
• Second Runners-up: Abcday (Vendor: Vostrix)

The competition winners take home a share of prizes in a total pool worth over $3 million USD, including BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, a BlackBerry App World™ storefront feature, BlackBerry Alliance memberships and more. Be sure to read the full BlackBerry Partners Fund press release to get all the details.

We hope to see you at an upcoming BlackBerry DevCon where these winners will be recognized!

The BlackBerry Partners Fund has announced the winners of the Most Innovative BlackBerry® WebWorks™ app for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet and BlackBerry® smartphone competition. Developers were required to submit an application for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and the same (or companion) application for the BlackBerry smartphone, designed for BlackBerry® 6 or higher. The winning entries selected by region are:

North America:

• Grand Prize Winner – Guitarist’s Reference and Guitarist’s Reference Torch
• First Runner-up – Meeting Cost
• Second Runner-up – Light ’Em Up

Europe, Middle East, Africa:

• Grand Prize Winner – Daily Express UK
• First Runner Up – Twinoo Lite
• Second Runner Up – Interlecta

Asia Pacific:

• Grand Prize Winner – Shogomo
• First Runner-up – Chatmosphere IRC Chat Finder
• Second Runner-up – Rock Paper Scissors

Winners in the above categories took home various prizes including some of the following: BlackBerry DEVCON passes, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, BlackBerry smartphones, gift certificates, BlackBerry App World™ Features, and more! Congratulations to these developers – we look forward to recognizing them at BlackBerry DevCon Americas and showcasing their apps at the event.

Stay tuned for upcoming news on the winners of the remaining competition in the BlackBerry Developer Challenge, and best of luck to those participating. If you’re up to the challenge, submit your BBM™ integrated app to the Most Addicting Social App Using the BBM Social Platform by Friday September 23rd at 11:59 PM EST.

Be sure to check out the official website for more information on the challenge as well as the BlackBerry Partners Fund press release announcing the winners.

As mentioned in my earlier BlackBerry® Developer Groups post, September is an exciting month with numerous BlackBerry Developer Groups around the world holding meetups! Now that Chicago, Zurich and Tel Aviv have had their meetings, there are three more groups meeting in the second half of September.

The Brazilian BlackBerry Developer group meets in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo every second Wednesday of each month, and the next meetings are as follows:

Sao Paulo:

Rio de Janeiro:

Discussions will revolve around the most recent announcements in the industry, including the BlackBerry® Torch™ 9800 smartphone running BlackBerry® 6 and a preview of the activities at BlackBerry® DEVCON 2010 in San Francisco.

The Edmonton BlackBerry Developers Group will be meeting on September 15th at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, with special guest speaker Mike Kirkup, Director of Developer Relations from Research In Motion® (RIM). Mike will be presenting his insights on BlackBerry app development. There will also be a draw for a free BlackBerry Torch 9800 smartphone!

Finally, the New England BlackBerry Developer’s Group is holding its fourth meeting at the Boston Marriott Cambridge on September 21st. The agenda has not yet been finalized, but some potential topics of discussion include: optimizing performance and memory usage, BlackBerry JDE tips & tricks, BlackBerry shared libraries and open source, and advanced UI tricks.

We invite you to start a new group if one doesn’t already exist in your area! Are you planning on attending any of these meetings?

September is shaping up to be an exciting month, with numerous BlackBerry® Developer Groups around the world hosting meetings! As the program continues to grow, we continue to add new groups, including the Chicago group which meets for the first time on September 10th. Check out the group page here for all the details.

September 7th (today!) will be the second meeting for the Zurich group at the picturesque Lake Side restaurant. Details on the upcoming meeting as well as future meetings can be found on the Zurich BlackBerry Developer Group page.

Also, the Tel Aviv Developer Group just held their post-summer meetup, where they covered interesting topics such as Free vs. Paid Business Models: Marketing Applications in BlackBerry App World™ storefront and addressing the ‘APN Challenge’ – great stuff! For information on future meetings and to keep up with all things for developers in Tel Aviv, visit their comprehensive group page.

As always, we invite you to start a new group if one doesn’t already exist in your area! Let us know what you want to see at future meetings.