RIM president and CEO Thorsten Heins seemed upbeat and optimistic giving his first ever BlackBerry World keynote this morning. While some–myself included–have questioned whether or not RIM has a future at all, RIM demonstrated throughout the keynote that it believes the future is bright, and it’s called BlackBerry 10.

Heins began the BlackBerry World keynote by highlighting smartphone usage statistics. According to the data shared by RIM, the 77 million BlackBerry users around the globe are more engaged with social networking, and interact more from their BlackBerry devices than the averages for smartphones in general.