The event will take place on the 2nd of April at Living Tomorrow (Vilvoorde).

At this moment a detailed schedule and speaker list is not available yet as the call for papers is still open. So if you would like to suggest a topic or apply as speaker, make sure you contact the Droidcon Beglium organisers as soon as possible.

Here’s a short introduction of what you can expect at the event itself.

“We will bring together the most enthusiastic Android developers, influencers and business people to discuss the latest topics and trends on the mobile platform. Professionals will share with you their most in depth knowledge and developments in new business models for the mobile world. The presentations will be interactive so feel free to share your thougts and ask questions. Major tracks will take 20 minutes, normal tracks 10 minutes. Keynotes get a tailor made time slot.”

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Hope to see you all there!

Here a short introduction video:

Enjoy!

(Thanks to emich for the permission to re-use his picture from his blog)

There will be a place for Android applications and content on the market PlayNow ™. Start date for the Android section is expected early 2010. The theme of the market is “less is more” and tries to promote selected high quality applications and content.

In addition, features of the X10 were presented, especially the Timeline and the Medialine. The attendees had the chance to try out the X10. However, no technical details about how to integrate other applications into these device specific features were presented.

Sony Ericsson presented themselves as a company open to the needs and wishes of developers and invited them to start a dialogue with them.

The event attracked 18 developers and interested people – remember it was 10 am and sundays. After an introduction about GTUG and Android by Friedger as the manager of the Brussels GTUG and Jurgen as the CTO of The Creative Stores it became clear that this day should be used to control a PTZ video camera (Network Dome IP camera) with an Android device.

The group divided into two groups. One started immediately to study the protocol and features of the video camera and to prototype the application. The second group set up their laptops and were introduced to Android with the hello world example to get a feeling about mobile programming.

At lunch, everybody meet again to have a delicious hot dog or two.  The break was not too long, the application details have been specified quickly and new tasks distributed, so that in the end after nearly 8h coding the final  application was tested. Please see the images and video below to judge yourself.

The planned pool contest was nearly cancled as everybody wanted to hack more code than play pool and talk to the opponent.  However, a few programmer decided to socialize. The best player was rewarded with a voucher for a dinner for two in a nearby restaurant.

More prizes were to win, as Sony Ericsson and Archos sponsored an Android device: a Xperia X10 voucher and a Archos 5 tablet voucher! The lucky winner were choosen by random.org.  Before everyone left, The Creative Stores gave away a nice shirt for every participant.

It looks like everyone left in a good mood with a running (but not perfect) application on the device and more knowledge about Android in his head – everyone at his level.