To bring you all of the action from BlackBerry Live this year, we’re very excited to provide rapid video coverage from our on-site social media studio. To top it off, we’ll be broadcasting a true live video stream from the studio right here on the BlackBerry blogs, where senior leaders from BlackBerry (and other special guests) will address questions submitted from readers like you and chat with our blog and social leads.

Tune in from 10:00am to 11:30am on Wednesday, May 15th to catch the live feed!

We’ll be embedding the live stream here on the Inside BlackBerry for Business blog, as well as on the BlackBerry Developer blog and the Inside BlackBerry blog. If you’ve got a scheduling conflict, don’t worry – we’ll be posting recorded video of the live sessions that you can watch at a later date.

Special Guests: Jeff Holleran and Gregg Ostrowski

For the Business portion of the live stream, I’ll be taking your questions to Jeff Holleran, Sr. Director of Enterprise Product Management, and Gregg Ostrowski, Sr. Director of Enterprise Developer & Technology Partnerships. They’re both familiar faces here on the Inside BlackBerry for Business Blog, and we’re thrilled to have them on the show.

Potential topics for conversation include the future of BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM), Enterprise Developer questions, and more. We’ll hand select the top responses from the community and respond live from the BlackBerry Live show floor on Wednesday.

Submit Your Questions!

Share your burning questions on these topics in the comments below, or tweet them to @BlackBerry4Biz on Twitter and include the #BBLive hashtag.

Jeff Holleran, BlackBerry Senior Director of Enterprise Product Management, has just set up a BlackBerry device with a BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 deployment, including adding the user to a group. Take a look at what’s next for pushing public apps from BlackBerry World to the device:

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Deploying and managing mobile applications can help increase productivity and provide behind-the-firewall access to corporate data, and it’s a critical aspect of a wider mobile strategy. Does your organization manage and deploy mobile apps to its employees? Share in the comments below.

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Learn more at www.blackberry.com/bes10

Features of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10

A cost-efficient, secure, reliable, and scalable solution, BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 offers a robust feature set to help you get your employees up and running on their, or your, devices. Here are some of the new features, and there’s much more.

• Manage all BlackBerry, iOS, and Android devices, including the new BlackBerry 10 smartphones
• Application management for internal corporate apps or public apps from BlackBerry World (formerly BlackBerry App World) through BlackBerry World for Work
• Easy over-the-air activation for end users
• Enhanced IT policies

Get the full feature list at the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 web site.

Upgrading from BlackBerry Enterprise Server or BlackBerry Mobile Fusion

We’ve worked to provide you with a simple and straightforward upgrade path from your existing portfolio of enterprise mobility management solutions. To facilitate this upgrade path, we’ve already launched the BlackBerry 10 Ready Program, which includes four components:

• BlackBerry Enterprise Service License Trade Up
• BlackBerry 10 webcast series to inform your business
• BlackBerry 10 Ready free BlackBerry 10 smartphone offer (currently offered in North America only)
• BlackBerry 10 Readiness Services

Already using BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10?

If you’re already up and running with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, we’d love to get your thoughts. Head over to our LinkedIn recommendation page and leave a note!

Learn more about BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, as well as the limited 60-day free trial.

What new feature of BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 do you see as most beneficial to your business? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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Featured keynote speakers included John T Chambers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from Cisco, Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer from Hewlett-Packard, and General Colin Powell, Retired U.S. General.

RIM held a number of information sessions to highlight the upcoming launch of BlackBerry 10. Featured speakers included Jeff Holleran, Senior Director of Enterprise Product Management and Vivek Bhardwaj, Head of Software Portfolio. Throughout his session, Jeff talked to over 100 Gartner session attendees about the future of the mobile enterprise, which requires a unified solution that gives employees access to the information they need, without compromise. Jeff’s session shed light on what’s in store for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, RIM’s enterprise mobility management solution. Representing the Enterprise Business Unit, Jeff explained how “BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 supports a heterogeneous mobile environment with greater security, flexibility, cost-savings, and manageability.”

Following Jeff’s engaging presentation, Vivek Bhardwaj, Head of Software Portfolio, shared an overview of the BlackBerry 10 experience with over 200 session attendees. By demonstrating the BlackBerry 10 features and functionality in action, Vivek captivated the audience with a series of live demos. Vivek also expertly balanced the end user perspective from both a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) consumerization mindset, and a management perspective targeted to the CIO’s and IT decision makers in attendance.

In addition to two BlackBerry 10 focused information sessions from RIM leadership, a BlackBerry booth was set up on the 2012 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo show floor to demonstrate the various BlackBerry product and service offerings available in the North American market today. Visitors to the BlackBerry show floor booth were able to learn more about BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, RIM’s mobile device management solution for BlackBerry, iOS and Android devices, BlackBerry PlayBook and the BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone. A “cell spa” was also set up as a service to attendees. BlackBerry staff were on hand to charge BlackBerry, iOS and Android device batteries and freshen up smartphone display screens at the cell spa for conference attendees.

Were you in attendance at the 2012 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo? If you were able to listen to our BlackBerry information sessions or visit us on the show floor, let us know what you thought by commenting below!