Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, April 8 through Sunday, April 14, 2024.
This week’s events
- Monday, April 8
- Tuesday, April 9
- Wednesday, April 10
- Thursday, April 11
- Friday, April 12
- Saturday, April 13
- Sunday, April 14
Monday, April 8
Tuesday, April 9
Tuesday morning at 10:00 a.m., online: Computer Coach presents How to Get the Most out of Networking, where an expert facilitator will guide you through the essential steps for successful networking:
- Identify the right people to network with
- How to make meaningful connections
- How to build lasting relationships that can benefit your career
- The latest networking trends and strategies
- How to leverage social media and other digital tools to expand your network and reach new opportunities
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday evening at 5:30 p.m. @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Computer Coach presents Tech Navigator: Exploring IT Careers, featuring this panel of experts, boasting rich experiences across various tech domains, who’ll share their tech career insights and journeys:
- Joel Morales – Director, ATGS Cloud
- Peter Bagley – Sr Cybersecurity Engineer, CACI International
- Angelica Chadwick – Managing Director of Technology, StevenDouglas
- Jeremy Smearman – Sr Project Manager, Atlantic Digital
- Eddie Martinez – Director of Digital Strategy, Maintain Digital
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m. @ Kforce, Midtown Tampa: Tampa Bay has a product meetup again! This group is for professionals who are passionate about Agile, Product Development, and Product Creation. If you build products of any kind — physical products, software products, service products — you’ll want to catch this meetup.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, April 10
Wednesday evening at 6:00 p.m. @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Tampa Bay QA & Testing Meetup presents How Quality Assurance Principles Elevate Your Life. This will be a session with Jaime Mantila, a Quality Engineering Manager at PwC, as he shares insights from his 15-year journey in Quality Assurance (QA). Having worked with top firms like AgileThought, Raymond James, and Citi, Jaime has encapsulated his experiences in his 2023 book, Software Testing Explained.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m., online: Google Women Techmakers Florida presents Google Career Certificates Overview- What Are They and Are They Worth It? This will be a workshop focused on empowering professional women in the tech industry, where they’ll review Google’s career certifications .
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, April 11
Friday, April 12
Saturday, April 13
Sunday, April 14
About this list
How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
- 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 and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
- Anything I deem geeky