This will be a very busy week!
This will be a very busy week for these reasons:
- Chances are that when you read this, the Big Game (I can’t call it by its official name because the NFL guards its trademarks a little too zealously) will have come and gone, and Tampa Bay will have emerged the victor. Congrats, Tampa Bay!
- Chinese New Year happens on Friday, February 12, and this year is the Year of the Ox — or more specifically, because each year name comprises the name of a zodiac animal and an element, it’s the year of the Metal Ox. 恭喜发财 / Gōngxǐ fācái / Kung hey fat choy!
- Valentine’s Day is Sunday, February 14.
…and it’s also another week in Tampa Bay’s tech scene, where there’s always a lot going on. That’s what this list is for — connect, share, stay safe, and Make It Tampa Bay!
This week’s events
Monday, February 8
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Job Seeker Coffee Talk @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Professional Business Networking @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Wesley Chapel Young Entrepreneurs Meetup — Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Toastmasters Division G — Triple Crown Toastmasters Club 4147 (Virtual) @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Orlando Stoics — The 9 Stoic Practices and Their Wisdom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
Tuesday, February 9
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Breakfast @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Pinellas/Pasco/Hillsborough/Polk/Manatee Business Meetups — Business over Breakfast Largo/Seminole Virtually @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Downtown St Pete Networking Virtually JOIN us @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Tuesday & Thursday Morning Zoom Networking @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Connections — Business over Breakfast Tampa Bay @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Toastmasters, Division D — CEO Toastmasters @ 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Pirates of Tampa Bay SOLIDWORKS User Group (POT-SWUG) — 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021 @ 9:00 AM to Wednesday 6:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — How to Beat the Applicant Tracking System @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
- Orlando Power BI User Group — Orlando Power BI Virtual Meetup @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Westshore Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- DigitalCrafts | Learn to Code in Tampa — DigitalCrafts Open House @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Orlando Unity Developers Group — 🎓🎨Create your first Action-RPG Game with C# – Part 2 👀 @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Tampa eMarketing Groups — Learn About Podcasting and How to Monetize Your Interest! @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Florida Podcasters Association — Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Lost Mine of Phandelver – Session 3 (Tier 1 APL 2/3) @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Tampa Hackerspace — Online Weekly Open Make Night @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — Weekly Meeting @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Toastmasters Division E — Toast of Celebration Toastmasters @ 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM EST
- Brandon Boardgamers — Board Gaming – ONLINE ONLY @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Agile Mindset Book Club — 4 Stages of Psychological Safety Book Club Discussion @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Depending on Functions Instead of Interfaces – Why and How with Scott Hannen @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Code Katas Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters Division G — Spanglish Toastmasters Club 7703731 @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Shut Up & Write!® Tampa — Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom @ 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EST
- Nerdbrew Events — Tampa Board Games Online @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Technical Project Management: Tools of the Trade @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — Beginner Series Stock Selection Guide Valuation: Valuation: Risk and Reward @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
Wednesday, February 10
- 1 Million Cups Orlando — Salvation Army of Orlando & Osceola County @ 9:00 AM EST
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Black On The Scene @ 9:00 AM EST
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Caramel & Cookies / Mark Masters Comedy @ 9:00 AM EST
- Adult Craft Club – OCLS — Virtual Event: South Creek Social Crafters Meetup @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Heart of Agile Weekly Coffee Corner @ 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM EST
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — Digital Video Editing Class (ONLINE CLASS) -FREE for Hillsborough residents only @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Virtual Event: Tertulia Cuatro Gatos/Spanish Book Club @ 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EST
- WITI Tampa — EmpowHer Walk Series, Podcast #5: A Perfect Solution to Any Situation @ 6:00 PM to 6:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup — Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Product Owner Group – FEBRUARY: Retro & 2021 Planning @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Adventuring 331: Journies to the Beyond (Tier 3, APL 11) Historic Campaign @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Tampa Writers Alliance — Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- MakerFX Makerspace — Orlando 3D Printing Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Broward Drupal Users Group — Call for presenters @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- The Orlando Writers Meetup Group — Orlando Writer’s Meetup Group meets via Zoom monthly. @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Florida Writer’s Association / Orlando — Orlando Florida Writer’s Association @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts — Short Attention Span Storytelling monthly open mic @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Orlando 3D Printing Meetup — 2nd Wednesdays: 3D Printing Basics @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild — New Beginnings & Old Rivalries @ 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST
- Nerdbrew Events — Sarah’s Arts Crafts and Bad TV Hangout Night @ 8:00 PM to midnight EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Speaker Series || Student Success Story: Rachel Beiser @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
Thursday, February 11
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events — How To Be An Adviser – Not A Vendor @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Read & understand at 25k words per minute with PhotoReading™ | Marilyn Devonish @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Network In Action – St Petersburg — NIA St Pete – Monthly Meeting @ 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Lean Beer for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Virtual Event: Alafaya Book Club @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- ONETUG – Orlando .NET User Group — Feb 11th 2021 – LaBrina Loving: .Net Microservices == MegaFun @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Friday, February 12
- Agile Orlando — Lean Coffee Orlando (Virtual MCO) @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Panel Discussion: Uncovering the Hidden Job Market @ 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Meeple Movers Gaming Group — Let’s Play Games ONLINE on Fridays! @ 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Canon’s Custom Campaign Moonsea Tour (Tier 3) – DM Canon @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
Saturday, February 13
- Toastmasters Division G — Early Bird Ocala @ 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM EST
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — BetterInvesting Yankee Model Investment Club Meeting @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Windermere Personal Finance Meetup Group — Different Kinds of Investments @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Socrates Cafe – “The unexamined life is not worth living” — Is It Possible To Overcome Our Biases? @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Bitcoin Orlando — Bitcoin Ownership: How to buy, transact, and secure @ 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — The Evolution of STEM Education and Why Diversity Matters @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- World Of Darkness RPG Meetup — Mage 20th: The Magick Throne @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- GeeksDoByte : Learn to Code — Falling in Love with HTML and CSS @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Sunday, February 14
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Dialogue and Human Experience. — Diversity vs. Divisiveness? @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
- Stone Hill — Stone Hill Monthly Virtual Meeting @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Toastmasters, Division D — Weekend Toastmasters @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
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