Looking for work in the Tampa Bay area? Check out tomorrow’s virtual event, HireUp Florida Tampa Bay, which happens tomorrow (Thursday, June 24th) from 11:00 a.m. through to 2:00 p.m.!
Here’s their write-up:
This virtual event is powered by HireUP Florida, designed to introduce hiring companies to job seekers as well as provide an opportunity for job seekers to network with each other. In this unique platform, job seekers will have the opportunity to introduce themselves, ask questions, and connect with recruiters for local Tampa Bay staffing firms.
Tickets are first-come-first-served with a wait-list. Register early to secure your spot!
There will be a mix + mingle prior to this event for job seekers to provide event overview details and allow time for networking in a casual environment.
A number of hiring companies will be participating:
Once again, “tickets” to this event are available on a first-come, first-served basis, and there will be a waiting list if the event fills up. Register now and land a job!
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!
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.
Quincy Jordan, Digital Transformation and Enterprise Agile Leader, AgileThought
1:50
2021 Tech Investments Already Paying Dividends
Bryn Norton, Vice President IT Solutions, Lumen
2:20
Digital Experience – From Strategy to Product
Kristen Christensen, Digital Experience Studio Director, Accenture
2:50
Work From Anywhere – Shaping the Future of Digital Workspaces
Chris Feeney, Channel Presales Engineer, Mike Barmonde, Business, IGEL Development Manager & Carl Gersh, Senior Director of Marketing, IGEL
3:20
Data Platform Modernization in Healthcare
Lee Pierce, Healthcare Chief Data Officer, Sirius Computer Solutions
3:50
Five Digital Imperatives and Technology Stitching
Pam Coffey, Field CTO, AHEAD
4:20
Staying Competitive in Today’s War on Talent
Scott Wallin, Senior Director, Kforce
4:50
Closing remarks
Jeremy 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
1:20
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Programmable Data Infrastructure Alex Hesterberg, Chief Customer Officer, Delphix
1:50
AI/ML Laura Squier, AI/ML Specialist, AWS
2:20
Opportunities on Self-Service Analytics Miguel Medina, Director of Data Integration & Analytics, Jabil
2:50
Understanding Social Media and Data Analysis Eddie Morales and Kaitlyn Brooks, CIW – Certification Partners
Cyber Sessions track
1:20
Safer App Development with the OWASP Top 10 Jonathan Singer, SIEM & SOAR Practice Lead, Guidepoint Security
1:50
Lessons Learned From a Year of Remote Security Assessments Jacob Ansari, CISO
2:20
Supercharging Connected Vehicles with Identity Management (From 0 to 60 in Less than a Second) Bill Nelson, President, Identity Fusion
2:50
Ransomware 2021: “The Call Came From Inside the House…” Christopher Bonavita, Technology Solution Specialist, Lumen
Innovation Sessions track
1:20
Borrowing Digital Innovation & Business Transformation Ideas from Non-Conventional Industries Charlie Lawhorn, Chief Digital Advisor, World Wide Technology
1:50
Driving Digital Accessibility Jacque Madison, Senior IT Manager, Jabil
2:20
Powering Collaboration in the Hybrid Workplace Christy Nelson, Global Vice President Strategy & Partnerships, Cyviz
2:50
Easy Road to Hybrid Cloud with Nutanix Clusters Dwayne Lessner, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer, Nutanix
3:20
Creating Sustainable Computer Science Education Luis De Mendoza, Microsoft TEALS
Software / Agile track
1:20
Agile Assessment: Helpful Remedy or Harmful Toxin? Dan Neumann, Principal Consultant, AgileThought
1:50
Scaling Out An Agile- and DevOps-Driven Organization Donald Bickel, Partner, MercuryWorks
2:20
AWS Lambdas Can Be Much More Cory Parrish, SVP of Engineering, Crossborder Solutions
2:50
Building the Modern Mobile Application Prototype (that actually works!) Russell Youngblood, Solution Architect, Outsystems
3:20
Scaling Your Company with GraphQL, Microservices and Kubernetes Josh Rendeck, Director of Platform Engineering, SecureWorks
3:50
Meet MAS Doug Sullinger, CEO, Vendita
4:20
Cloud Architecture for Disaster Recovery Steve Woodard, Solutions Architect, AWS
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.
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:
Coding skills,
Problem-solving, and
Personality.
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!
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!
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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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?
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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?
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.
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.”
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.
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From left to right: Tonya Elmore, Lakshmi Shenoy, Jill St. Thomas, Rachel Feinman, and Linda Olson. Photo by Amy Pezzicara for Tampa Bay Business Journal. Tap to view at full size.
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.
…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.
