It’s hard to believe that’s it’s the middle of February already! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, February 15 through Sunday, February 21, 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, I’m restricting this list to online events. We’re still deep in a pandemic, and the way out is to stop the spread, however we can. In the age of broadband internet, smartphones, and social media, it’s not that hard. Stay home, stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!
Monday, February 15
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Job Seeker Coffee Talk @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Tampa Bay DevOps Meetup — TBDevOps monthly meeting @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Nerdbrew Events — Anime Watch Party @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Orlando Stoics — The 9 Stoic Practices and Their Wisdom (Part 2) @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Curse of Strahd (Tier 2) @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Library Book Clubs – OCLS — Virtual Event: Southeast Book Club @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Thinkers — Dealing with the Climate Crisis – plans of Bill Gates and President Biden @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | UX/UI Design: Creating a Design System @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
Tuesday, February 16
- 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
- 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
- Speaker Training to Help You Speak to any group/organization — Creating Successful Virtual Training @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Computer Coach Training Center — LinkedIn 101 Virtual Workshop @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — Online: Tampa Bay Technology Center (TBTC) Monthly Meeting @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Capital Factory — Black in Tech Summit presented by Deloitte @ 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Pinellas – Monthly Meeting @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Tampa Hackerspace — Online Weekly Open Make Night @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Is It Safe? Technology Panel on Security & Privacy @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Suncoast Developers Guild — WordPress St. Pete at SDG @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Essteem — Ace Your Tech Interview Coding Challenge! @ 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM EST
- Central Florida Philosophy Meetup — Thomas Paine’s COMMON SENSE @ 7:00 PM to 7:50 PM EST
- Brandon Boardgamers — Board Gaming – ONLINE ONLY @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- DOUX — Downtown Orlando UX Meetup — Panel Discussion: UX Job Search Real Talk @ 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 Wealth Factory — THE REAL HIDDEN POWERS OF LLC’S THAT WILL SAVE YOU THOUSANDS! @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- North Florida Stock Investing Education — Beginner Series Stock Selection Guide Stock Study Group @ 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST
- Thinkful Tampa | Careers in Tech — Thinkful Webinar | Intro to Data Science: Python Fundamentals @ 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
Wednesday, February 17
- 1 Million Cups Orlando — BeezyB / Community Healing Project Inc @ 9:00 AM EST
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Anuket Luxury Apothecary @ 9:00 AM EST
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Steminist Squad / Biodome Company @ 9:00 AM EST
- North Tampa Networking Group — Business networking @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- WP Bloggers and Social Media Meetup — DeveloperWeek 2021 @ Wednesday 10:00 AM to Friday 7:00 PM EST
- Turpin Communication — Leadership Communication in the Virtual World @ 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST
- Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton — Virtual Professional Business Networking @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST
- Suncoast NPI – Business Referral Networking Group — Suncoast NPI Trinity – Business Referral Networking Group @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM 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 — Building a Salesforce: How to manage sales people and train them @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Business to Business Networking Group — B2B Online Networking Event @ 12:00 PM to 1:15 PM EST
- Tech4Good Tampa — Salesforce Panel Discussion and Q&A @ 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Heart of Agile Weekly Coffee Corner @ 12:30 PM to 1:45 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
- Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime — Webinar: Romantic Suspense: Turning Up the Heat w/ 3 Masters of the Subgenre @ 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EST
- IE Business School — Careers Opportunities in Tech @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay — Online Networking 3rd. Wednesday @ 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Orlando Local Podcasters — AMA with Alban Brooke from Buzzsprout @ 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay DevOps — Tampa Bay DevOps Group Monthly Event @ 4:30 PM to 6:00 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
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Adventuring 331: Journies to the Beyond (Tier 3, APL 11) Historic Campaign @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay UX Group — Together: The Essential Fusion of Culture and Design with Justin Dauer @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Central Florida Android Developers Group — February Meetup: Return of the Android @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Toastmasters District 48 — Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings now conducted Online using Zoom @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Orlando 3D Printing Meetup — 3rd Wednesdays: 3D Printing Hangout & Factory Tour @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Code for Tampa Bay Monthly Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- MakerFX Makerspace — Orlando 3D Printing Meetup @ 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
- Nerdbrew Events — Sarah’s Arts Crafts and Bad TV Hangout Night @ 8:00 PM to midnight EST
Thursday, February 18
- Orlando Business Referral Group (BNI-Professional Alliance) — BNI Professional Alliance-A Business Referral Group @ 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM EST
- Employment Tutors — Interviewing in a Competitive Job Market ($20) @ 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Avocado Labs – Online Talks — Let’s build a Web Component using Open-WC @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Blacks In Technology – Tampa Bay — Pushing Through Impostor Syndrome In Your Career @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay RPA — [Live Webinar] How to build a Scalable RPA Development Program @ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events — The MBA Tour Matchmaking Event @ 5:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Agile — Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa) @ 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
- Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Why Your Hosting Company Matters with Steve Scott @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Manifesters Think and Grow Rich Mastermind — Think and Grow Rich Chapter ONE @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Women in Agile — “Help or Hinder Carousel” a game of Agile Leadership @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Five Azure Services Every Developer Should Know – Josh Carlisle (Microsoft MVP) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 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
- Winter Park Feminist Book Club Meetup Group — Zoom Feminist Book Talk @ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST
- Tampa Startup Founder 101 — Online Startup Idea Fest: Build and Share Ideas with Potential Customers @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST
- Virtual Orlando Crypto-Growing for Newbies Club — How To Earn 60X Your Cyrpto Holdings Within The Next 12 Months WITHOUT RISK! @ 8:30 PM to 10:30 PM EST
Friday, February 19
- Agile Orlando — REMOTE – Lean Coffee Orlando (Baldwin Park/Winter Park) @ 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EST
- Dr. Phillips Chamber of Commerce — Friday Weekly Leads Group of Dr. Phillips @ 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM EST
- Elevated for Success Women’s Networking Group — Connect and Chat – Roundtable Mastermind @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
- Computer Coach — Emotional Intelligence in Your Job Search with Dr. Jaimie Chan @ 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EST
- WP Bloggers and Social Media Meetup — Creative Writing Workshop @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Capala Consulting Group, LLC — The Scrum Master as Facilitator @ 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — Canon’s Custom Campaign Moonsea Tour (Tier 3) – DM Canon @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
- Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) — Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night @ 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM EST
Saturday, February 20
- Florida Scrum Master and Product Owner Training — SAFe 5.0 Product Owner Manager Training | Feb. 20-21 | $699 @ Saturday 9:00 AM to Sunday 5:00 PM
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Beginner Drone Pilot Class @ 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
- Toastmasters Division E — CHC: Does your resume need a tune up? @ 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST
- Creative Writing in our Chaotic World — Writing as an Art Form @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Windermere Personal Finance Meetup Group — All About Life Insurance @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group — Online February Book club @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- Orlando Virtual Reality — The Polys – 2020 WebXR Awards Watch Party in VR @ 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Orlando Machine Learning and Data Science — Scaling Machine Learning with Python and Dask @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — xpost: HUMANISTS of MN COMMUNITY GATHERING: Free Speech and Disinformation @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST
- Kitchen Table Book Club: Year of Afrofuturism — “How Long til Black Future Month”- N.K. Jemisin (2019) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
- Tampa Hackerspace — Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night (Online) @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST
- Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Online Meetup: Roll for the Galaxy @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST
Sunday, February 21
- Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg — Shut Up & Write – February 21, 2021 @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST
- Book Vs. Movie Club — Malcolm X @ 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM EST
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Make Money with Your Non-Fiction Book | Susan Friedmann @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
- SRQ Cloud Computing Meetup — Cloud Data Warehouse Solutions – AWS Redshift vs. Snowflake vs. GCP BigQuery @ 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST
- Women’s 20s-30s Book Club — All the Ugly and Wonderful Things Book Discussion @ 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
- Toastmasters, Division D — Weekend Toastmasters @ 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
- Lakeland Black Professionals — The Diaspora on Digital Display – America’s Black Culture Celebration @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EST
- Orlando Adventurer’s Guild — DDAL09-01 Escape from Elturgard Parts 3 and 4 @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST
I’ve running an event on Monday, February 22!
My Programmers of Portables Meetup will have its first session on Monday, February 22nd at 7:00 p.m.. We’ll be using Python and Pygame to write a simple game about the “Super Bowl Streaker”. Want to know more? Check out the Meetup page!
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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