Great people may be able to do great things – but great developers under one roof can achieve even more!

We’re thrilled to be a part of the Great Indian Developer Summit in Bangalore, India on April 17-20, 2012. We’ve got some exciting BlackBerry® Jam sessions, social media contests, and cool giveaways planned to keep developers happy throughout the event. Look for us on all the .Web, .Java and .Workshop days. Check out our speakers and their sessions at the event to learn more:

• Sarim Aziz
• Alan Wong
• Christopher Saunders

BYOSC (Bring Your Own Source Code), come by our booth to meet our speakers, and learn how you can get a BlackBerry® PlayBook tablet to start building right away!

Register now for GIDS 2012.

Can’t make it to GIDS 2012? Check out our events page for a BlackBerry Developer event near you.

With a successful BlackBerry® DevCon Asia just completed, we are already working on creating the best possible BlackBerryDevCon 2011 on October 18-20 in San Francisco, USA. With little surprise, one of the biggest drivers for both new and past attendees continues to be the speakers and sessions. To ensure that we are providing one of the best programs anywhere in the mobile industry, we are going to open our call for papers earlier than we ever have in the past.

The Call for Speakers submission is now open for developers to submit their ideas for great sessions at the conference. We are now accepting descriptions for sessions that you would love to deliver at the conference. In a simple twist on last year, we are also accepting submissions for sessions you would love to see at the conference but may not be able to deliver yourself. We are actively recruiting great speakers in the field and would like your ideas on key topics for the conference.

The deadline for submissions is April 1st, but we encourage you to submit your BlackBerry DevCon 2011 session ideas ahead of the deadline. We will be providing feedback on submissions and working with potential speakers through the submission process. I am looking forward to seeing your great ideas and session submissions!