Happy first week of May! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, May 10 through Sunday, May 16, 2021.
This is a weekly service from Tampa Bay’s tech blog, Global Nerdy! For the past four years, I’ve been compiling a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events happening in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas. There’s a lot going on in our scene here in “The Other Bay Area, on the Other West Coast”!
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
Yes, many of us have had their first (and even second!) vaccines, but we’re not at the point where it’s advisable to return to pre-pandemic-style in-person events. It will happen soon, but in the meantime, I’m restricting this list to online events. In the age of broadband internet, smartphones, and social media, it’s not that hard. Stay home, stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!
Monday, May 10
- Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay — Live Online Networking- Monday @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Entrepreneurs’ Empowerment Empire — Office Hour @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Success Strategies for Business Owners — How to Transform your Unique Selling Proposition into Leads through SEO @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, The Villages FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Nerdbrew Events — Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Join us as we meet both in-person and on Zoom at our new South Tampa home! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Curse of Strahd (Tier 2) @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Writing Your First Fiction Meetup Group — Genre writing necessities @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Stoics — ONLINE: Herman Hesse on Solitude and Destiny + After Party @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Virtual Event: Southeast Book Club @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Forex Trading Meetup Group — Free Online Forex Currency Trading Workshop Elliott Wave Systems. Kirti @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Tuesday, May 11
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Breakfast @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
- Tampa Bay Agile — v-Lean Coffee @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EDT
- Orlando Unity Developers Group — Virtual Event: Unity – Create a First-Person VR Game Level 2 @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Successful Interviewing @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- The Orlando Python User Group — Python Lunch & Learn @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Westshore Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, The Villages FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — Social Video Marketing Tips(ONLINE CLASS)-FREE for Hillsborough County Residents @ 4:15 PM to 5:15 PM EDT
- Orlando Digital Media Design Meetup — Virtual Event: Digital Painting Level 2 @ 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
- Florida Podcasters Association — Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Lakeland Note Investing Group — Lakeland Note Investing Meetup Group @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — Weekly Meeting @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Code Katas Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- New Port Richey WordPress — Hangout: Virtual May Get Together @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Azure DevOps for .Net- Fall into the Pit of Success with Jeffrey Palermo @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden – (Tier 1, APL 2) – DM Canon @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
- Shut Up & Write!® Tampa — Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom @ 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EDT
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — How to Turn Creativity into Money™ | Bill Stainton @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Technical Project Management: Intro to Asana @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, May 12
- Suncoast NPI – Business Referral Networking Group — Suncoast NPI Dunedin, Business Networking Referral Group @ 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM EDT
- Women Who Code Tampa — Coffee + Code / Python @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- North Tampa Networking Group — Business networking @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- Money Talks for Women — Money Talks for Women @ 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM EDT
- 1 Million Cups Orlando — Quoka @ 9:00 AM EDT
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Wize Computing Academy @ 9:00 AM EDT
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Delvmore Studios @ 9:00 AM EDT
- Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- PDM-SWUG, SolidWorks User Group — PDM SWUG’s Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner! (and maybe a midnight snack) @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Heart of Agile St. Pete – Tampa – Orlando — Heart of Agile Weekly Coffee Corner @ 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM EDT
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — Digital Video Editing Class (ONLINE CLASS) -FREE for Hillsborough residents only @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay WaVE — Navigating Company Culture and a Virtual Workplace in a Post COVID World @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, The Villages FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Art Business Network – St Pete — Design, Launch and Grow Your Art Studio Business @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
- Business Go-Getters (Service-Based Business Owners) — LIVE Q&A About How to Build Your Business @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay DevOps — Tampa Bay DevOps – Maximum shift-left DevSecOps @ 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
- AWS User Groups of Florida – Orlando — AWS IoT for Developers: Amazon Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC @ 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup — Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Adventuring 331: Journies to the Beyond (Tier 3, APL 11) Historic Campaign @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Agile — PO Meetup Group May: Transforming From a Good to Great Product Owner @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.TampaBayInventors.org — Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Writers Alliance — Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — [Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & Community @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime — Indie focus – Optimizing Your Amazon Product Page to Sell More Books @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts — Short Attention Span Storytelling monthly open mic @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild — New Beginnings & Old Rivalries @ 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Florida Writer’s Association / Orlando — Florida Writer’s Association / Orlando @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Orlando 3D Printing Meetup — 2nd Wednesdays: 3D Printing Basics @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- The Orlando Writers Meetup Group — Orlando Writer’s Meetup Group meets via Zoom monthly. @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings now conducted Online using Zoom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Nerdbrew Events — Sarah’s Arts Crafts and Bad TV Hangout Night @ 8:00 PM EDT to midnight EDT
Thursday, May 13
- Orlando Digital Media Design Meetup — Virtual Event: Adobe Illustrator Level 2 @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- The Reliable Speakers Toastmasters Club — The Reliable Speakers Toastmasters – Weekly Meeting @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- “Learn and Earn” Millionaire Mind Secrets & Networking — Online Zoom! Millionaire Mind Lunch; Book Club and Networking! @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — The Job Seekers Lunch Hour @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, The Villages FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Agile — Lean Beer for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Clearwater Community Toastmasters @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Entrepreneur Social Club — Entrepreneur Social Club at ZOOM Meeting @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
- Tampa Hackerspace — ONLINE Arduino 202 Three Weeks (Week 1) @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Virtual Event: Alafaya Book Club @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- CSNP – Orlando CyberSecurity — A Day in The Life of a CISO: Randall Frietzche @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Greater Tampa Business and Real Estate Strategy Group — Bitcoin Mining 101 @ 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
- Virtual Orlando Crypto-Growing for Newbies Club — How To Earn 60X Your Crypto Holdings Within The Next 12 Months WITHOUT RISK! @ 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM EDT
Friday, May 14
- Agile Orlando — Lean Coffee Orlando (Virtual MCO) @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EDT
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Panel Discussion: How to Effectively Work with Staffing Firms @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- Orlando Alchemist Nation – Building 100 Millionaires — Brand U – How To Brand Yourself Like A Boss! @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Digital Media Design Meetup — Virtual Event: Adobe Illustrator Level 4 @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) — Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM EDT
- Orlando Stoics — ONLINE: Handbook for New Stoics (Exercise 35) @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Canon’s Custom Campaign Moonsea Tour (Tier 3) – DM Canon @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
- MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — MARS Virtual: SOS-Save Our Stars! presented by Leeann Muszynski @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Saturday, May 15
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Beginners Guide to Flying Your Done in Florida @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
- Creative Writing in our Chaotic World — Passive Voice versus Active Voice @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers — —-REGISTRATION ONLY—- Escape Winter Convention @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | A Day In the Life: Data Scientist @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Game of Thrones/ASOIAF book club — A Game of Thrones: Book One @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- WordSmitten Writing Workshop — WordSmitten Writing Workshop :: Saturday 1 PM – Online Session @ 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group — Online May Book club @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Hackerspace — Online Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
- Socrates Cafe – “The unexamined life is not worth living” — Utopia, Dystopia, or Something Else – What Does The Future Hold? @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Microcontrollers and Robotics — Online Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Games Developer Guild — Game Project Therapy (Virtual) @ 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Kitchen Table Book Club: Year of Afrofuturism — ” The Galaxy Game”- Karen Lord (2014) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- World Of Darkness RPG Meetup — The Secrets of Orlando: THE TRIAL OF DMITRI @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- 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 EDT
Sunday, May 16
- Book Vs. Movie Club — Blade Runner / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep @ 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- SRQ Cloud Computing Meetup — Microservices Framework in Openshift Container Platform 4 @ 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters, Division D — Weekend Toastmasters @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Stoics — ONLINE: Presentation at Stoic Salon: CORNUTUS THE COMMON @ 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
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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