Mobile developers: Compete for the Getties Awards at MobileBeat 2010

We’ll be celebrating the best mobile developers at our MobileBeat 2010 conference on July 12-13.

Our friends at GetJar, the world’s second largest app store, have just announced “The Gettie Awards 2010,” a competition for talented mobile application developers. The winners of the awards will be announced at a ceremony to take place on the evening of July 12, immediately following the first day of MobileBeat 2010, VentureBeat’s two-day executive conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

The Getties ceremony, to begin at 7pm, will include dinner, entertainment and the awards announcements themselves.

The awards are designed to showcase the world’s best mobile applications across all leading platforms. Developers will be recognized in front of industry luminaries, investors, technology press and peers.

Awards will be given for each of the following seven categories:

• Best Android application
• Best Blackberry application
• Best iPhone application
• Best Java application
• Best Symbian application
• Best Windows Mobile application
• Best overall mobile application

Over the next few weeks, a panel of five judges including prominent industry heavyweights, press and analysts will select three nominees within each category from all submissions. Winners from each category will be determined by hands-on review of the applications. The Gettie Award winner will be determined by a combination of popular vote and judge’s votes.

The judges are:

• Rich Wong, Accel Partners
• Kevin Thau, Twitter
• Mike Rowehl, Silicon Valley Mobile Monday & Chomp
• Jessica Dolcourt, CNET
• Matt Marshall, VentureBeat & DEMO

The deadline for entries is June 25, 2010. Submissions after this date may not be eligible for consideration.

Submission guidelines and event information can be found here.

To purchase tickets to the Getties, click here.

You can also find all MobileBeat 2010 information here, and early-bird tickets are still available!

Don’t miss MobileBeat 2010, VentureBeat’s conference on the future of mobile. The theme: “The year of the superphone and who will profit.” Now expanded to two days, MobileBeat 2010 will take place on July 12-13 at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Early-bird pricing is available until May 31. For complete conference details, or to apply for the MobileBeat Startup Competition, click here.