What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, August 16, 2021)

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, August 16 through Sunday, August 22, 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”!

As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:

• Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
• Tech project management / agile processes
• Video, board, and role-playing games
• Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
• Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
• Toastmasters (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
• Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
• Anything I deem geeky

I’m moving this list to Fridays so that you’ve got more time to plan for the upcoming week. Let me know if this change works for you (or if it doesn’t)!

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

Monday, August 16

• SW Florida Business Network — SWFL Business Network – Monday Meetings @ 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM UTC
• Tampa / St Pete Business Connections — South Tampa Professional Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• 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
• Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Networking Lunch Monday & Wednesday @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
• Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — South Tampa Business Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM UTC
• Tampa Tabletop — Monday Feast & Game Night @ 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Sarasota Landlords Meetup Group — Sarasota/Manatee Landlord Zoom Meetings Speakers and Discussions on Rentals @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
• Critical Hit Games — MTG: Commander Open Play @ 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Around The World: International Book Club – Metrowest — Dinner with Farzana!! @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Critical Hit Games — Heavy/Euro Board Game Night @ 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters District 48 — Cape Coral Toastmasters Club #9051 @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
• Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! — MTG: Commander Open Play (At Critical Hit Games) @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters, Division D — ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480 @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
• Toastmasters District 48 — Toast of Lakewood Ranch Toastmasters Club @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Thoughtful Writing — Philosophy in Writing @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! — Hobby Night! at Hammerfall Games and Collectibles @ 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! — Open Painting at Warehouse 51 @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
• My Tampa Real Estate Investment Club — How To Make Money Selling on Walmart.com, Amazon.com & Facebook Marketplace @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• Urban Pastimes – Trivia Game Show — Urban Pastimes – Trivia Game Show @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM UTC
• Toastmasters Division G — Triple Crown Toastmasters Club 4147 (Virtual) @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
• Toastmasters District 48 — Tampa Toastmasters Club 1810!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Toastmasters District 48 — Successful Leadership? There’s an APP for that! APPly Your Speaking Skills More! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
• Nerd Night Out — NB Online Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters Division E — Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Toastmasters District 48 — Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Nerd Night Out — Pints & Pixels @ 7:00 PM to 11:45 PM UTC
• Tampa Bay Women in Tech — Monday Night Pulse Check @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | UX/UI Design: Wireframes and Prototypes @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT

Tuesday, August 17

• Toastmasters District 48 — Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486 @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
• Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — 4 Key Strategies to Landing Your Next Job @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
• SWAT Networking – Successful Women Aligning Together — SWAT Networking Bradenton Luncheon @ 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM UTC
• Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New Tampa @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• TampaBayNetworkers — Join the BAYSIDE GROUP for great networking! @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — New Tampa RGA Chapter ~ Glory Days Meet your next referral partner! @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs Meetup — Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Tampa / St Pete Business Connections — New Tampa Professional Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Manatee River Business Exchange Club — Great group for referrals – Several new members – WE are growing!!! @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — Weekly Accountability & Connect – ZOOM at NOON – Virtual Meeting @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
• America’s TriviAddiction — BAYSCAPE GRILL AT THE GROVES COUNTRY CLUB – LAND O’LAKES – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg — Tuesdays at Serenity Games! @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• St. Petersburg Business Networking Pick-up Basketball — Weekly pickup networking basketball @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! — Card Game Night at Hammerfall Games and Collectibles @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup — Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game Show @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters District 48 — St. Petersburg Toastmasters Club #2284 @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Tampa Investor/Training Meetup — Tampa Bay Investor Training @ 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM UTC
• West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — Weekly Meeting @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Hip Chicks 50+ St. Petersburg, Florida — August Hip Chicks Book Club @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Saint Petersburg Book Club Meetup Group — August Book Club @ 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM UTC
• Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! — Anime Night @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
• Suncoast Gamers — Board Games for fully vaxed @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Airbnb Hosts Of Tampa Meetup Group — Get The Deal! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Let’s Talk: Podcast Discussion Group: Uncovering the Truth @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
• Toastmasters District 48 — Naples Toastmasters Club #2835 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Tampa Bay Business Builders Meetup — YouTube Seminar – How To Start Your Own Successful Channel! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters District 48 — Dunedin Toastmasters Club #2166 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• Toastmasters District 48 — Brandon Toastmasters Club @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults — St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
• Toastmasters District 48 — Naples Toastmasters Club #2835 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Shut Up & Write!® Tampa — Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom @ 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EDT
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa | Flatiron School — Breaking Into Cybersecurity: Security Analyst @ 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
• Code Katas — Code Katas [Virtual] with Seattle JS Hackers @ 8:30 PM to 11:00 PM

Wednesday, August 18

• Toastmasters District 48 — Sarasota WCR Toastmasters Club #7327 @ 7:15 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
• Networking 4 Profit — Referral Networking Meeting Orlando Area @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM UTC
• Manasota East Exchange Club — Weekly Meeting @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM UTC
• 1 Million Cups Orlando — Trailmerge @ 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete @ 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Capital Yield / My Lumps LLC @ 9:00 AM
• 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
• Read, Chat, Craft! — AUGUST BOOK CLUB: The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by L. Goldberg @ 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM UTC
• TampaBayNetworkers — Pinellas Sales Force @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM UTC
• Success Strategies for Business Owners — Summer Technology Tune-up – POWERPOINT August Series @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
• Cannabis Entrepreneurs & Investors — Forbes-A Toast To Equity. Free Virtual Event @ 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
• Lakewood Ranch Happy Hour Networking — Happy Hour Networking is just that – Networking during Happy Hour! @ 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Happy Hour Networking – Cigars, Fine Wines and Brews @ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Virtual Speed Networking Happy Hour! @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
• Sarasota Business Social Hour — Social Hour @ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM UTC
• WITI Tampa Bay — Tech Trends Presented by PwC @ 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• Tampa Gaming Guild — Wednesday Night Gaming @ 5:30 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Central Florida Queer Book Club — Queer Book Club – One Last Stop @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM UTC
• Read Between The Wines Book Club — August Book – The Silent Sister by Shalini Boland @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• Hip Chicks 50+ St. Petersburg, Florida — August Hip Chicks Book Club # 2 @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• Downtown St Petersburg Euchre Tournament — Castaways Euchre Club @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Getting Started in Tech @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT

Thursday, August 19

• Orlando Business Referral Group (BNI-Professional Alliance) — BNI Professional Alliance-A Business Referral Group @ 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM UTC
• TampaBayNetworkers — Sun Coast Networking Meeting @ 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM UTC
• Power Business Networking — Power Business Networking Thursday 11:45 am 2021 08 19 @ 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM EDT
• Tampa Holistic Wealth & Success Business Networking Grp — August 19th – Nationwide Networking: ONLINE Biz Mixer @ 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
• Entrepreneur Social Club — ESC * IN-PERSON * at NOVA 535 @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM UTC
• We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group — Virtual Writing Get Downs @ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
• Wishful Thinking Women of Leesburg Area — Summer Book Club & August Zoom Author Talk @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
• Real Estate Investing, Business & Cocktails — Formation of an Alliance and Mastermind @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers — THURSDAY Game Night @ de Bine Brewing Co. @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM UTC
• Riverview Board & Card Games — Game Night!! Bring a Dish to Share and your choice of Drink! @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup | Flatiron School — Cybersecurity for Beginners: Intro to Python @ 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT

Friday, August 20

• Dr. Phillips Chamber of Commerce — Friday Weekly Leads Group of Dr. Phillips FACE-To-FACE Networking @ 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM UTC
• Project Codex: Orlando Junior Developers — Virtual Coffee @ 9:00 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 — Panel Discussion: Working Well with Recruiters @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
• TampaBayNetworkers — Networkers of Integrity and Excellence @ 11:15 AM to 1:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Gaming Guild — Friday Night Gaming @ 5:30 PM to 11:00 PM UTC

Saturday, August 21

• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Investor’s Checklist with Morningstar (Beginner) @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Historical Growth and Company Management – Beginner @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
• Titans of Amazon FBA | Clearwater, Florida — Clearwater Titans of Amazon FBA Meetup @ 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM UTC
• Utopias and Dystopias: A Science Fiction Book Club — Book Discussion: Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson @ 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM UTC
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Five Money Questions for Women (Pre-Retiree Women) @ 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM EDT
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Improving Your Investment Outcomes (Intermediate) @ 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM EDT
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Forecasting Sales and Earnings (Beginner) @ 11:15 AM to 12:15 PM EDT
• PDM-SWUG, SolidWorks User Group — SOLIDWORKS Largest User Group Meeting Ever! (SLUGME 6) @ Saturday 12:00 PM to Sunday 12:00 PM
• Creative Writing in our Chaotic World — Write Something Descriptive with a Sense of Urgency @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
• Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Transform lives & make big money with online events | Ken Krell @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
• Tampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group — Live August Book club @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM UTC
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Small and Mid Cap Stocks for Growth in your Portfolio @ 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM EDT
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Refocus on the Growth in Your Portfolio W/Small & MidSized Stocks (Intermediate) @ 1:45 PM to 3:45 PM EDT
• North Florida Stock Investing Education — Health Care and Your Retirement (Investors 5 to 15 Years From Retirement) @ 1:45 PM to 2:45 PM EDT
• Tampa Book Club – Award-Winning Books — Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham @ 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Games Developer Guild — Game Project Therapy (Virtual) @ 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT
• Kitchen Table Book Club: Year of Afrofuturism — ” The Between”- Tananarive Due (1995) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
• Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Online Meetup: Ticket to Ride @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
• Nerd Night Out — GAME NIGHT @ 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM UTC

Sunday, August 22

• Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg — Shut Up & Write! – August 22 at the Station House in St. Pete @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM UTC
• Book Vs. Movie Club — Casino Royale @ 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
• Young Women Book Club — The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner Book Discussion @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM UTC
• Intersectional Feminist Book Club Of Orlando — Book Discussion: Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM UTC
• Tampa Hackerspace — Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM UTC
• Lithia Dungeons & Dragons And Gaming Guild — 5E (ish) AD&D – Humble Beginnings Campaign (Trouble in Elm). @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
• Lakeland Black Professionals — Off the Porch: Stock Market for Beginners @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 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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