Welcome to the first week of February 2021, and Happy Groundhog Day in advance! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, February 1 through Sunday, February 7, 2020.
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.
For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…
- 1 in 12.6 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (26 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1.1 million more than last week).
- 1 in 747 Americans has died from COVID-19 (439,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 22,000 more than last week).
…and we’re still experiencing a post-holiday spike that has a number of ICUs across the country running at maximum capacity.
We live in the age of broadband and ubiquitous computing — make the best use of it. Stay safe, stay connected, skill up, and #MakeItTampaBay!
This week’s events
Monday, February 1
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Job Seeker Coffee Talk @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — South Tampa Referrals @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Professional Business Networking @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Entrepreneurs’ Empowerment Empire — Office Hour @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Success Strategies for Business Owners — Effective Digital Marketing Channels for Small Businesses @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Central Florida Philosophy Meetup — Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE @ 6:00 PM to 6:50 PM EST
- Toastmasters, Division D — ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480 @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group — Virtual Writing Get Downs @ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Beam Into Our Awe Inspiring Universe Monday’s for Intellectual Stimulation & Fun @ 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM EST
- Orlando Stoics — ONLINE: How to Love Better (a review of a Daily Stoic article) @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Curse of Strahd (Tier 1) @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Nerdbrew Events — Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Intro to HTML & CSS: Build Your Own Website @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
Tuesday, February 2
- Pinellas/Pasco/Hillsborough/Polk/Manatee Business Meetups — Business over Breakfast Largo/Seminole Virtually @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Breakfast @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486 @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Downtown St Pete Networking Virtually JOIN us @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — v-Lean Coffee @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Connections — Business over Breakfast Tampa Bay @ 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Orlando Unity Developers Group — 👨🎓 Create your first Action-RPG Game with C# – Part 1 🎨 👀 @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Lost Mine of Phandelver @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — Weekly Meeting @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing Meetup @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Tampa Hackerspace — THS Member Meeting Online @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Brandon Boardgamers — Board Gaming – ONLINE ONLY @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- MakerFX Makerspace — Intro to 3D Printing at MakerFX @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- St. Pete Writers Guild — St. Pete Writers Guild: Storytelling Round Table @ 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Shut Up & Write!® Tampa — Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom @ 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EST
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — For high first-impression impact, personalize your elevator pitch | Mike Manning @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — BetterInvesting Yankee Model Investment Club Meeting @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM EST
Wednesday, February 3
- Toastmasters District 48 — Oldsmar Top of The Morning Toastmasters @ 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EST
- North Tampa Networking Group — Business networking @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Suncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup — Operation HOPE: Credit and Money Management @ 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EST
- Wesley Chapel Young Entrepreneurs Meetup — Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Lutz, Wesley Chapel, New Tampa Virtual Networking Lunch @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Success Strategies for Business Owners — Client Journey: Sales Tools & Metrics @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Heart of Agile Weekly Coffee Corner @ 12:30 PM to 1:45 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — Digital Video Editing Class (ONLINE CLASS) -FREE for Hillsborough residents only @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Tampa Startup Founder 101 — How to Get Funding from the U.S. Gov’t before the April Deadlines (Webinar) @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Virtual Speed Networking Wednesday 5pm to 7pm ~ BYOB Connect & Collaborate @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
- Tampa Hackerspace — Girls Who Code Club @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Innovation — “CEO TALKS” with Jeff Hoffman & Nick Santonastasso @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Scrum Master Guild- Growing Your Scrum Skills in 2021 @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Central Florida eCommerce Group — We are ONLINE SELLERS.Amazon,eBay. Let’s talk Different eCommerce Businesses @ 6:45 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Ethereum Tampa Bay — [Virtual] ETH Tampa Bay Meetup: News, Markets & Community @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Saint Petersburg Bitcoin Meetup — [Virtual] Tampa Bay Blockchain Meetup: News, Markets, & Community @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- MakerFX Makerspace — Orlando 3D Printing Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Cryptocurrency Tampa Meetup — [Virtual] Tampa Crypto Meetup: News, Markets, & Community @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Orlando 3D Printing Meetup — 1st Wednesdays: 3D Printing Latest Developments + Show & Tell ! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild — New Beginnings & Old Rivalries @ 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — [Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & Community @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Data Science vs. Data Analytics @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Nerdbrew Events — Sarah’s Arts Crafts and Bad TV Hangout Night @ 8:00 PM to midnight EST
Thursday, February 4
- WP Bloggers and Social Media Meetup — The Secret Steps to Get More Done in 2021 @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — The Job Seekers Lunch Hour @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- ProductTank Central Florida — Product Tank #18 – A WORKSHOP for remote product management @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet — YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents @ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
- Swift in Sarasota — Online Swift in Sarasota First Meetup! @ 6:30 PM to 7:10 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — QAnon: Blood Libel for the Digital Age @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Brandon Boardgamers — Board Gaming – ONLINE ONLY @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Drupal User Group of Tampa Bay — Drupal Live Forum / Q&A @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Science Fiction/Fantasy Virtual Orlando Meetup for Writers — Science Fiction/Fantasy Virtual Orlando Meetup for Writers @ 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Virtual Orlando Crypto-Growing for Newbies Club — Start Growing Crypto Today Safely Without Risk! @ 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM EST
- Business to Business Networking Group — B2B Online Informational Meeting – NEW CHAPTER @ 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST
- Orlando Startup: Idea to IPO — FRE! How to Become Fundable / Angel Investor Gary Jinks @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Positively Speaking Toastmasters @ 6:15 PM to 7:45 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Friday, February 5
- Elevated for Success Women’s Networking Group — Connect and Chat – Roundtable Mastermind @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
- West Orlando WordPress Meetup — WordPress Collaboration Meetup ONLINE ONLY @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Careers in Cyber Security with Courtney Jackson @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
- USWVDUG — USWVDUG: February Meetup @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Business to Business Networking Group — B2B Online Informational Meeting – NEW CHAPTER @ 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST
- IIBA Tampa Bay — Lunch & Learn Series: BA Framework 02: Details of Project Phases @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- MakerFX Makerspace — Virtual Open Make – Friday Nights @ 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Riverview / Brandon Roleplaying Gamers — D&D 5e in Riverview / Brandon area @ 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Positively Speaking Toastmasters @ 6:15 PM to 7:45 PM EST
- Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) — Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM EST
- Tampa Stoics — IN-PERSON MEETING: Seneca’s “Letters from a Stoic” (Part 3) @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Saturday, February 6
- Florida Scrum Master and Product Owner Training — SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master Training | February 06-07 | $699.00 @ Saturday 9:00 AM to Sunday 5:00 PM EST
- Tampa Python Meetup — Python Bootcamp @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime — Chpt Mtg – Narrators: Who Tells the Story & Why is It Important w/ P. Diederich @ 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST
- Orlando Lady Developers Meetup — New member meet & greet! (monthly) @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Creative Writing in our Chaotic World — What circumstances make you most creative? @ 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — Stocktwits Meetups — Winning Wall Street’s Money with Stocks, Options, Futures, Forex, Crypto, etc @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- World Of Darkness RPG Meetup — The Secrets of Orlando (a The Secrets of Cats adventure) @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- GeeksDoByte : Learn to Code — Learn how to scrape data using Python @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Sunday, February 7
Don’t forget that The Big Game (I can’t use its official name, because the NFL are rather litigious with people who use it without paying licensing fees) happens this Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Eastern.
- The New Normal Book Club – Orlando — SPACE OPERA by Catherynne M. Valente @ 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST
- Toastmasters, Division D — Weekend Toastmasters @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
- Brandon and Seffner area AD&D, Palladium Group — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
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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