Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 5 through Sunday, July 11, 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.
This week’s events
Don’t forget that the week follows the holiday weekend, with Monday being a holiday, and a lot of people taking at least part of the week off. This the one of the slower times of the year, so make sure you double-check with its organizers to be sure that it’s actually taking place!
Monday, July 5
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Tampa Bay Virtual Networking Lunch Monday & Wednesday All Welcome JOIN us @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay — Live Online Networking- Monday @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Orlando SEO for Local Businesses — Free SEO Class: Getting More Leads with SEO for Businesses @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Networking Lunch Monday & Wednesday @ 11:30 AM 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
- Amtgard of Brandon – Falling Fire — Practice @ 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
- We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group — Virtual Writing Get Downs @ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Toastmasters Division G — Triple Crown Toastmasters Club 4147 (Virtual) @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Nerdbrew Events — Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Davenport Book Club — Davenport Book Club First Meeting @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters Division E — Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Stoics — Comparing Shoshin to Stoicism @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | What is UX/UI Design? @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Tuesday, July 6
- 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
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — How to Beat the Applicant Tracking System @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- Option Trading Strategies (Tampa Bay area) Meetup Group — Option Trading Strategies Meetup (Online) @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Westshore Toastmasters @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — ZOOM at NOON – Virtual Meeting @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Drone Light Show at the St Pete Pier @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Cancelled on account of tropical storm Elsa — watch for rescheduling:
Focused Vision Design Group — Join us for The Front End Technologist’s Handbook! @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT - Orlando PHP Meetup | Odevs — PHP 8: Deep Dive Into Features and More. @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Tampa Alchemist Nation – Building 100 Millionaires — 52 Weeks to Financial Fulfillment @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- MakerFX Makerspace — MakerFX 3D Printing Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Learn to play Mah Jongg, Orlando FL — Learn to Play American Mah Jongg @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — [Online SEASONAL] Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden – DM Canon (Tier 1) @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — Invest Like Warren Buffett @ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
- Shut Up & Write!® Tampa — Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom @ 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EDT
Wednesday, July 7
- North Tampa Networking Group — Business networking @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Tampa Bay Virtual Networking Lunch Monday & Wednesday All Welcome JOIN us @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Networking Lunch Monday & Wednesday @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — [Masters] Dreams of the Red Wizards01: DM Calvin (Tier 2) @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Agile — Scrum Master Guild – Taking Pause: Your Self Care with guest host Christy Erbeck @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- GDG SunCoast — Android Study Jams @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Forex Automation and Trading — Forex Trading and Automation @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Free Crash Course: HTML & CSS @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa | Flatiron School — Thinking About a Tech Career? Start Here. @ 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Thursday, July 8
- Uptown Biz Pros — Uptown Tampa Biz Pros @ 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- Cloud Architects and Engineers Tampa — Working with APIs and semi-structured data made easier @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
- Tampa Bay WaVE — TechWomen Rising Accelerator Program “Ask Me Anything” Session @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Total Wellness Women — Wise Women Networking [Virtual Event] @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Swift in Sarasota — Online Swift in Sarasota Special Meetup: WWDC21 @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Latinas in data — ASK A DATABASE PROFESSIONAL FROM FACEBOOK @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Lady Developers Meetup — Study Group! Server-side Development with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa | Flatiron School — Cybersecurity 101 @ 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM EDT
Friday, July 9
- Agile Orlando — Lean Coffee Orlando (Virtual MCO) @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EDT
- Brandon Biz Pros — Build your Business with Brandon Biz Pros @ 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- Elevated for Success Women’s Networking Group — Connect and Chat – Roundtable Mastermind @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — How to Negotiation Salary with your Current Employer with Chris Rosbaugh @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- Orlando Unity Developers Group — 🎨 The Indie Tales Game Jam 👀 @ Friday, 11:00 AM to Monday, 1:00 PM EDT
- US Azure Virtual Desktop User Group — US Azure Virtual Desktop User Group: July Meetup @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — [Online HISTORIC] Canon’s Custom Campaign Moonsea Tour – DM Canon (Tier 3) @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Stoics — ONLINE: Handbook for New Stoics (Exercise 43) @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) — Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM EDT
Saturday, July 10
- Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime — Chapter Meeting: The Secret Service – Fact and Fiction @ 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- Creative Writing in our Chaotic World — Story Arc and Character Arc @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
- Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) — Golf Group – Numenera (Cypher System): Slaves of the Machine God @ 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Access massive audiences by using other peoples’ lists | “Captain Lou” Edwards @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Socrates Cafe – “The unexamined life is not worth living” — Can Psychology Explain Religion? @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
- Bitcoin Orlando — Monthly Bitcoin: Q and A @ 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
- World Of Darkness RPG Meetup — The Secrets of Orlando: The Undead Rat King of Altamonte @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
- Orlando Spaceperium Citadel & Zonal Ships Crew — Spaceperium Game Orientation – Learn About The Game & How To Join The Crew! @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Sunday, July 11
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — [Online MASTERS] Yellowcrest Manor – DM Aaron (Tier 2) @ 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- The New Normal Book Club – Orlando — VICIOUS by V.E. Schwab @ 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT
- Orlando Lady Developers Meetup — [R/S] Volunteer project: – building internet safety tools & training materials @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
- The Guild of Independent Game Developers — Lecture @ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- The Historical History Book Club — Discussion: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Tampa Bay area news roundup
‘Visitor economy’ and ‘cultural infrastructure’ propel Tampa, St. Pete metro area to ‘best city’ honors — The Tampa Bay area has been named the number one city in Florida and number 22 in the U.S., according to a study conducted by Resonance Consultancy, a Vancouver-based global advisor on tourism, real estate, and economic development.
So many Tampa Bay mobile dev job openings, so few applicants — While checking LinkedIn earlier this week, I noticed that there were a lot of iOS and Android developer jobs in the Tampa Bay area, and many of them didn’t have any applicants (or at least any applicants who applied via LinkedIn).
Tampa Bay tech grows as more workers move to the area — Tampa Bay is ranked one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, and tech is one of its fastest-growing industries, accounting for nearly 8% of the entire workforce, according to CompTIA.
Tampa Bay companies raised another $13M in June — A small but mighty amount of funding deals kept the Tampa Bay technology scene holding strong in June. The group of companies raised just over $13 million for the month, nearly identical to May’s $13 million total.
Tijuana Flats is the latest major brand to partner with Tampa tech company — Tampa-based technology company SiteZeus has announced its latest partnership with Tijuana Flats, adding to a long line of restaurant industry giants it currently helps to better find where companies should open new locations.
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
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