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What’s happening at Tampa Bay Tech’s “poweredUP Tech Tracks” tomorrow

Tampa Bay Tech, our local technology council, is hosting poweredUP Tech Tracks, a virtual afternoon conference featuring the Tampa Bay area’s top tech people, tomorrow (Thursday, June 24th) from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m. EDT!

Registration for this event is $25 (plus $1.06 processing fee) — you can register here.

Here’s their writeup of the event:

Join us for Tampa Bay Tech’s Q2 signature event! This is a *new* program built specifically for our members and even more specifically, for our tech teams, in partnership with our Emerging Tech Leaders Peer Council. Sessions will be “tech talks” provided by our area technologists, FOR our technologists! 

There will be over 20 subject matter experts from companies such as Tech Data, AgileThought, Accenture, AHEAD, AWS, CrossBorder Solutions, Jabil, Microsoft, Nutanix, Salesforce, Schellman, and many more!. Jamie Grant, CIO, State of Florida. will be our Keynote Speaker. You don’t want to miss it!

Agenda

Here’s the agenda for poweredUp Tech Tracks, which has main stage sessions, along with four parallel tracks of breakout sessions, all of which are hosted by local and regional people in the tech sector.

Main stage sessions

12:00Opening RemarksJill St. Thomas, CEO, Tampa Bay Tech
12:05Welcome and OverviewJide Sofowora, Product Manager, Jabil
Brandon Redding, Senior
Account Executive, Salesforce
12:15Cutting the Cord— Wires Not IncludedScott Webber, Solutions Consultant, Tech Data
12:50Keynote: State of the StateJamie Grant, CIO, State of Florida
1:20Breakout sessions begin on other stagesSee Breakout sessions below
1:20Managing and Paying off Cultural DebtQuincy Jordan, Digital Transformation and Enterprise Agile Leader, AgileThought
1:502021 Tech Investments Already Paying DividendsBryn Norton, Vice President IT Solutions, Lumen
2:20Digital Experience – From Strategy to ProductKristen Christensen, Digital Experience Studio Director, Accenture
2:50Work From Anywhere – Shaping the Future of Digital WorkspacesChris Feeney, Channel Presales Engineer, Mike Barmonde, Business, IGEL
Development Manager & Carl Gersh, Senior Director of Marketing, IGEL
3:20Data Platform Modernization in HealthcareLee Pierce, Healthcare Chief Data Officer, Sirius Computer Solutions
3:50Five Digital Imperatives and Technology Stitching Pam Coffey, Field CTO, AHEAD
4:20Staying Competitive in Today’s War on TalentScott Wallin, Senior Director, Kforce
4:50Closing remarksJeremy Wilson, CTO, Amscot Financial & Chair of Tampa Bay Tech

Breakout sessions

There are four tracks of breakout sessions, which start at 1:20, immediately after the “State of the State” keynote:

  • Data sessions
  • Cyber sessions
  • Innovation sessions
  • Software/agile

Data Sessions track

1:20Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Programmable Data Infrastructure
Alex Hesterberg, Chief Customer Officer, Delphix
1:50AI/ML
Laura Squier, AI/ML Specialist, AWS
2:20Opportunities on Self-Service Analytics
Miguel Medina, Director of Data Integration & Analytics, Jabil
2:50Understanding Social Media and Data Analysis
Eddie Morales and Kaitlyn Brooks, CIW – Certification Partners

Cyber Sessions track

1:20Safer App Development with the OWASP Top 10
Jonathan Singer, SIEM & SOAR Practice Lead, Guidepoint Security
1:50Lessons Learned From a Year of Remote Security Assessments
Jacob Ansari, CISO
2:20Supercharging Connected Vehicles with Identity Management (From 0 to 60 in Less than a Second)
Bill Nelson, President, Identity Fusion
2:50Ransomware 2021: “The Call Came From Inside the House…”
Christopher Bonavita, Technology Solution Specialist, Lumen

Innovation Sessions track

1:20Borrowing Digital Innovation & Business Transformation Ideas
from Non-Conventional Industries
Charlie Lawhorn, Chief Digital Advisor, World Wide Technology
1:50Driving Digital Accessibility
Jacque Madison, Senior IT Manager, Jabil
2:20Powering Collaboration in the Hybrid Workplace
Christy Nelson, Global Vice President Strategy & Partnerships, Cyviz
2:50Easy Road to Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix Clusters
Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix
3:20Creating Sustainable Computer Science Education
Luis De Mendoza, Microsoft TEALS

Software / Agile track

1:20Agile Assessment: Helpful Remedy or Harmful Toxin?
Dan Neumann, Principal Consultant, AgileThought
1:50Scaling Out An Agile- and DevOps-Driven Organization
Donald Bickel, Partner, MercuryWorks
2:20AWS Lambdas Can Be Much More
Cory Parrish, SVP of Engineering, Crossborder Solutions
2:50Building the Modern Mobile Application Prototype (that actually works!)
Russell Youngblood, Solution Architect, Outsystems
3:20Scaling Your Company with GraphQL, Microservices and Kubernetes
Josh Rendeck, Director of Platform Engineering, SecureWorks
3:50Meet MAS
Doug Sullinger, CEO, Vendita
4:20Cloud Architecture for Disaster Recovery
Steve Woodard, Solutions Architect, AWS
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Current Events Tampa Bay

“How to rock a technical interview”: Tonight at 6 p.m.!

With the post-pandemic “Great Resignation” (which is expected to happen soon if it isn’t happening already) comes a great number of job opportunities, especially in the tech sector. For many techies, it’s a chance to move to the next step in their career, and for people just getting into tech, it’s their moment to land their first job in the field. That means a tech job search, which in turn means tech job interviews.

Would you like to be ready to rock your next technical interview? If so, you’ll want to catch tonight’s online event, How to Rock a Technical Interview, hosted by Women Who Code Tampa. You can sign up for the event on its Meetup page, which will make the event link available to you.

Kasandra Perez

The event will be hosted by Kasandra Perez of Computer Coach, who’s worth getting to know if you want to get into tech and need to pick up some skills. She’ll walk you through the three core areas of the technical interview. namely:

  1. Coding skills,
  2. Problem-solving, and
  3. Personality.
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Flow Davis

Providing extra insight into rocking the tech interview will be guest speaker Flow Davis, who’s a Tampa Bay techie with over 13 years of experience developing Digital Marketing Websites and applications for Agencies, Startups & Fortune 500 companies.

At the time of writing, almost 70 people have signed up for this session, which means there are almost 70 Tampa Bay techies who are going to learn tech interview tips, tricks, and techniques that you might not know. Sign up, catch the session, and don’t get left behind!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 21, 2021)

Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 21 through Sunday, June 27, 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 ONLINE and OUTDOOR events

I’m holding off on listing indoor in-person events for a little longer. In the meantime, enjoy this list of events that are either online or in-person and outdoors!

Monday, June 21

Tuesday, June 22

Wednesday, June 23

Thursday, June 24

Friday, June 25

Saturday, June 26

Sunday, June 27

Tampa Bay area news

Tampa Bay Tech’s “Tech Tracks 2021” virtual event this Thursday

Tampa Bay Tech is holding Tech Tracks 2021, its big Q2 virtual event on Thursday afternoon. It will feature tech talks provided by Tampa Bay area technologists, for Tampa Bay area technologists. Tickets are $25.00, and are cheaper for Tampa Bay Tech members. Here’s the agenda:

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Video: Tampa Bay’s biggest strengths, weakness and opportunities, according to Silicon Valley executives

In this video, Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Lauren Coffey chats with three tech execs on why they moved to Tampa:

Tampa Bay Wave welcomes 15 startups to latest accelerator cohort

From “several hundred” applications, Tampa Bay Wave selected fifteen tech startups from the U.S. and beyond to be admitted to their 2021 TechDiversity Accelerator. Find out more about them here.

7 questions to ask before relocating your startup to Florida

If you’ve got a TechCrunch “Extra Crunch” subscription, you can read the entirely of this article by Embarc Collective’s Lakshmi Shenoy. I don’t have one, so could somebody please tell me what the final 4 questions are?

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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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 14, 2021)

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It’s mid-June!

Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 14 through Sunday, June 20, 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.

How long will this list contain only ONLINE and OUTDOOR events?

A month ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that anyone who is fully vaccinated — meaning that they had their final vaccine two weeks or longer ago — can now stop masking and social distancing, including indoors in many cases. That means this list will start including in-person events, right?

Not just yet. This list will stick to online and outdoor events for the time being.

As I write this:

  • 41.0% of the Florida population has been fully vaccinated (I’m one of them), and 50.8% has had their first dose.
  • 43.1% of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated, and 52.5% has had their first dose.

Those numbers are a good sign, but they could be better. I’m holding off on listing indoor in-person events until after the 4th of July for the following reasons:

  • Most of the events aimed at a tech, entrepreneur, or nerd audience are still being held online.
  • The CDC’s announcement depends on people exercising good judgement. We live in Florida. Do the math.
  • If the CDC’s call was right, we’ll know by July 4th. If the CDC’s call was wrong, we’ll also know by July 4th.

I’m looking forward to life getting back to normal, but I’m also happy to exercise a few weeks’ worth of caution because I think it’s worth it.

Stay home, stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

This week’s events

Monday, June 14

Tuesday, June 15

Wednesday, June 16

Thursday, June 17

Friday, June 18

Saturday, June 19

Sunday, June 20

Other area news

Tampa Bay’s tech startup future is female-led
Be sure to check out the recent piece by Tampa Bay Business Journal on the women behind Tampa Bay’s major startup organizations. It’s one of the things that sets Tampa Bay’s tech scene apart from the others.

Celsius Network’s CTO moved to Tampa
Celsius Network’s CTO Nuke Goldstein (an action hero name, for sure!) visited Tampa Bay for a month and ended up moving himself and his family here in May. He’s already had meetings with Mayor Jane Castor and Embarc Collective CEO Lakshmi Shenoy. He says: “I met more friends and connections in one month in Tampa than I did in three years in New York. The people are so friendly and open and energized.”

Company that expanded to Tampa is on a hiring spree
Drift, the Boston-based company that expanded into Tampa, and whose platform assists with B2B buying, has already hired 50 people locally, and is looking to add 40 more.

Tampa fintech startup accepted to prestigious 1871 accelerator program
Trustate, a company that aims to help streamline and automate the estate administration process, has been accepted to the “WMN-FINtech program,” a joint project of BMO Harris Bank and 1871, the Chicago-based incubator that gave us Embarc Collective’s Lakshmi Shenoy.

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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Tampa Bay’s tech startup future is female-led

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From left to right: Tonya Elmore, Lakshmi Shenoy, Jill St. Thomas, Rachel Feinman, and Linda Olson.
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While the U.S. technology landscape is by and large defined by young, straight white men, almost every Tampa Bay hub that supports technology startups is run by a woman:

These women recently participated in a “virtual sit-down” interview panel with Tampa Bay Business Journal, and the result is their article, The Future is Female-Led.

As its tagline says, “Almost every major startup organization in the region is led by a woman. They’re setting a tone that will have a ripple effect across the entire tech ecosystem.”

If you’re wondering what the Tampa startup scene is like, you’ll definitely want to read this article.

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Programming

What to do when the Xcode 13 beta Canvas view doesn’t work and has no Simulators

Still photo from “The IT Crowd” — Rory at his desk on the phone, with the caption “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”

I downloaded the Xcode 13 beta and waited through its lengthy installation process…

…and when I launched it once it had been installed, something was wrong. The SwiftUI Canvas preview screen didn’t work, and there were no Simulators available.

And then I remembered that this happened to me with the beta edition of the previous Xcode version. The Canvas makes use of the Simulators, and both work properly when you reboot the Mac after installing Xcode, which appears to reload some necessary files.

Simply put, the way to fix it is to use the classic IT solution: Turn the computer off and on again.

I did just that, and Xcode 13 beta now has a properly-functioning Canvas and a full set of Simulators running iOS 15 beta.

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Putting iOS 15 beta on the “sacrificial iPhone 6S”

My iPhone 6S during the iOS 15 installation process.

One of the two phones that I’ve held onto for sentimental reasons is my rose gold iPhone 6S, which I’ve had since late 2016. I got it during my all-too-brief stint in the fashion industry (I’ll save the details for another time), I used it in writing an app at a hackathon that was so funny that they made up a new prize just for it, it survived being driven over (thanks to its Otterbox case), and it was my test platform for my first app in the App Store.

It turns out that iOS 15 supports the 6S, which makes my old “sacrificial phone” a suitable candidate for the new OS and trying out iPhone development with the Xcode beta, Swift 5.5, and the new SwiftUI.

I’ll keep you posted.

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