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, October 4 through Sunday, October 10, 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
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
This list contains only events that are outdoors or online for the time being
The COVID-19 case rates are dropping from their all-time highs, but we’re still a hotspot and they still need to continue trending downward. With that in mind, I’ve chosen to limit the events listed to outdoor or online events. Be safe, be responsible, get your shots, and we can get back to those better numbers that we had in the spring and early summer!
Monday, October 4
- Option Trading Strategies (Tampa Bay area) Meetup Group — Option Trading Strategies Meetup (Online) @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay — Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday @ 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Learn Data Science with Thinkful @ 12:00 PM EDT
- The Health Nut Club — Women And Wealth Masterclass @ 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
- Black Orlando Tech (BOT) — Cybersecurity Cohort @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — 3rd Annual National Techies Day Celebration @ 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Toast of Lakewood Ranch Toastmasters Club @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM UTC
- We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group — Virtual Writing Get Downs @ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Beginning Web Development — Weekly Learning Session @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Intro to JavaScript: Build a Virtual Pet @ 6:00 PM
- Toastmasters District 48 — Tampa Toastmasters Club 1810!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Failure Isn’t the Opposite of Success…It’s a Part of It at South Tampa TM! @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
- Toastmasters District 48 — Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614 @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
- Nerd Night Out — NB Online Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
- Think Like a Coder! — Let’s write an app that tells you if Publix subs are on sale! @ 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 UTC
Tuesday, October 5
- Toastmasters District 48 — Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486 @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
- BNI Legends — BNI Legends – Business Networking @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
- Cloud Architects and Engineers Tampa — Strategy for Data Migration to Cloud @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Tableau Basics @ 12:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Data Science Fundamentals: The Pandas Library @ 6:00 PM EDT
- Tech4Good Tampa — Comparing Online Donation Form Providers (Virtual Event) @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Toastmasters Division E — Toast of Celebration Toastmasters @ 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
- Orlando Young Sharks — Rooftop Young Professionals Mastermind @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
- Thinkful Webinar | Intro to Data Science: The Art of Visualizations @ 8:00 PM EDT
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — How to increase your non-fiction book sales | Susan Friedmann @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, October 6
- North Tampa Networking Group — Business networking @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
- Tampa Cybersecurity Training — LinkedIn for Techies: Do’s and Don’ts for Tech Professionals @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
- Success Strategies for Business Owners — Fine Tuning Your Business – Effective Networking Skills To Grow Your Business @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Intro To Data Analytics: Excel Basics @ 12:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar || Tools Of The Trade: Digital Marketing @ 6:00 PM EDT
- GDG Suncoast — Android Study Jams @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinar | Getting Started in Tech @ 8:00 PM EDT
- Port Charlotte Writers Group — October 6th Zoom Meeting @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Getting Started in Tech @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM UTC
Thursday, October 7
- Power Business Networking — Power Business Networking Thursday 11:45 am 2021 10 07 @ 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM EDT
- Thinkful Orlando — Thinkful Webinar || What Tech Career Is Right For You? @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
- Bay Area Manufacturing Association — Made in Tampa Bay Expo & Virtual Job Fair @ 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
- Thinkful Orlando — Thinkful Webinar || Intro to Data Analytics: SQL Fundamentals @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Friday, October 8
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar || Free Crash Course: JavaScript Fundamentals @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Orlando — Thinkful Webinar || Free Crash Course: JavaScript Fundamentals @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar || Learn Data Science with Thinkful @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Orlando — Thinkful Webinar || Learn Data Science with Thinkful @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — MARS October Meeting: Journey to a Comet by Dr. Gregory Shanos @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Saturday, October 9
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — Beginner Investor Series @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM UTC
- Toastmasters Division E — Keynotes and More Advanced Toastmasters Meeting @ 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM EDT
- Writers 4 All Seasons Tampa Bay — Writers 4 All Seasons Tampa Bay Zoom meeting @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Sunday, October 10
- Suncoast Photo & Video Drone Club — Safety Harbor Waterfront Park @ 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM UTC
- Thinkful Webinars — Thinkful Webinar || Intro to JavaScript: Build a Virtual Pet @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinars — Thinkful Webinar || Boost Your Online Learning @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
- Thinkful Webinars — Thinkful Webinar || UX/UI Design: Designing A UX Case Study @ 9:00 PM to 10:30 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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