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BlackBerry Jam Sessions is bringing a BlackBerry 10 Super Hackathon day for developers interested. The event will be hosted by Luca Filigheddu. If the name sounds familiar, it should. He was the co-developer of the social media web application Twimbow, who became a BlackBerry Developer Evangelist back in July.
Super Hackathon day is a 10-hour event where developers can meet new people, gain knowledge from BlackBerry experts and ultimately design an app in the hopes of becoming the winner of the day. There will food, fun and coding and prizes.
Events details are:
Date: October 27th 2012
Time: 7:00am -8:00pm CET
Where: Talent Garden - Brescia, Via Cipro 66, 25124 Brescia, Italy
At this moment in time there are 94 tickets left available. So, if you're interested register now before tickets sell out.
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