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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 19, 2021)

Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 19 through Sunday, July 25, 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”!

I’m moving this list to Fridays so that you’ve got more time to plan for the upcoming week. Let me know if this change works for you (or if it doesn’t)!

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 events

Monday, July 19

Tuesday, July 20

Wednesday, July 21

Thursday, July 22

Friday, July 23

Saturday, July 24

Sunday, July 25

Tampa Bay area news roundup

The boomerang-worker boom

“Boomerang workers” — those who’ve returned to their hometowns to do remote work — rose with the pandemic, but the phenomenon shows signs of sticking around beyond it. For example, a large number of Tampa Bay natives have returned to the area after stints in bigger cities, bringing their contact lists and industry expertise with them.

Tampa emerges as a growing tech hub, but what does that really mean?

Over the last decade, the Tampa Bay Area has transitioned into a place that helps technology startup companies succeed, making it possible for them to show up on the national radar. Capital sources across the country have begun referring to Tampa as a top emerging market. 

Tampa serial entrepreneurs unveil latest startup with focus on real estate tech

iApartments was founded in 2019 and born out of the three co-founders’ experience working in the industry. Fiske is a founding partner of Unikey Technologies, which operated in the smart home industry. He also an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Tampa Bay Wave, a local startup incubator. iApartments CEO Dave Magrisso is the founder of Valet Waste, which is now known as Valet Living. Rounding out the team is Mohammed Syed, the company’s co-founder, CTO and former technology partner at AutoWeb.

Meet Spectrio, a 2021 Fast 50 honoree

Spectrio is an Oldsmar-based provider of customer engagement technology and a 2021 Fast 50 honoree.

St. Pete cybersecurity startup launches, raises $5M Series A

A St. Petersburg-based cybersecurity company has spent the last three years testing its technology and is now ready to unveil its platform — along with a solid funding announcement.

“We have spent the last three years to come out like a lion,” Code-X founder and CEO Darren LaCroix said.

The company offers a software as a service platform, which protects sensitive information across multiple environments concurrently. The platform includes video, email and chat functions that can work simultaneously without the threat of being hacked.

Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 12, 2021)

Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 12 through Sunday, July 18, 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 events

Monday, July 12

Tuesday, July 13

Wednesday, July 14

Thursday, July 15

Friday, July 16

Saturday, July 17

Sunday, July 18

Tampa Bay area news roundup

Tampa Bay’s tech scene had a banner first half of 2021

Here’s Tampa Bay Business Journal’s roundup of their biggest tech stories from the first half of the year.

Startup City: Six steps to a healthier startup ecosystem in St. Petersburg

“Successful communities have certain attributes that put them in the running to attract the talent that a vibrant economy requires. Fortunately, St. Petersburg is rich in the cultural and infrastructure assets that resonate with tech entrepreneurs and startup founders. These include a great quality of life, walkable urban spaces, a thriving arts scene, a research university that ranks in the top ten for U.S. patents, and a nearby airport that travelers named in a national J.D. Power’s 2020 customer satisfaction study. And of course, weather and natural beauty that can’t be beat.”

TampaBay.Ventures Leads Investment Into Y Combinator Graduate Procoto

“TampaBay.Ventures has led an investment into St. Petersburg, Florida-based Procoto, a procurement and spend analysis platform for businesses. Procoto is a graduate of the famed Y Combinator startup accelerator program and the first Y Combinator graduate located in the Tampa Bay area. The investment represents the first investment from TampaBay.Ventures, a new venture capital firm dedicated to backing Tampa Bay’s most promising startups.”

Tampa Bay startup personality launches conference

“Allen Clary, author of Quit to Start, has been supporting entrepreneurs for years with organizations including Tampa Bay Wave, Upsurge Florida, and Tiger 21. Now he’s bringing his own thought leadership conference, Unlock Your Future Now, to Tampa Aug 27 through 29. In addition to Allen, speakers also include Janel Laravie, Johnny Crowder, Marcus Howard, Mariagrazia Indenbosch, Garyn Angel, Kaylan Boss, Kat Stylez, Sasha Jovicic, Holly Callaway, and Adam Anderson.”

Tampa startup, Black Stock Footage, wins Florida pitch competition

“The idea emerged as all the events around Black Lives Matter unfolded and Lee’s clients began requesting more Black representation in their video projects. When Lee searched multiple stock footage platforms, he quickly recognized a problem: A substantial lack of stock footage depicting Blacks in ordinary, real life circumstances. Not only was there no one-stop shop for such content, but piecing it together was a challenge. He started mulling it over with Edgerton-Maloy, his fiance, and they came up with the solution: Create a new platform designed to provide the kind of footage that was lacking.”

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, July 5, 2021)

Here’s your weekly list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events — plus a little area tech news — for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 5 through Sunday, July 11, 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 events

Don’t forget that the week follows the holiday weekend, with Monday being a holiday, and a lot of people taking at least part of the week off. This the one of the slower times of the year, so make sure you double-check with its organizers to be sure that it’s actually taking place!

Monday, July 5

Tuesday, July 6

Wednesday, July 7

Thursday, July 8

Friday, July 9

Saturday, July 10

Sunday, July 11

Tampa Bay area news roundup

‘Visitor economy’ and ‘cultural infrastructure’ propel Tampa, St. Pete metro area to ‘best city’ honors — The Tampa Bay area has been named the number one city in Florida and number 22 in the U.S., according to a study conducted by Resonance Consultancy, a Vancouver-based global advisor on tourism, real estate, and economic development.

So many Tampa Bay mobile dev job openings, so few applicants — While checking LinkedIn earlier this week, I noticed that there were a lot of iOS and Android developer jobs in the Tampa Bay area, and many of them didn’t have any applicants (or at least any applicants who applied via LinkedIn).

Tampa Bay tech grows as more workers move to the area — Tampa Bay is ranked one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, and tech is one of its fastest-growing industries, accounting for nearly 8% of the entire workforce, according to CompTIA.

Tampa Bay companies raised another $13M in June — A small but mighty amount of funding deals kept the Tampa Bay technology scene holding strong in June. The group of companies raised just over $13 million for the month, nearly identical to May’s $13 million total.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/inside-tampa-bays-burgeoning-blockchain-startup-hub/

Tijuana Flats is the latest major brand to partner with Tampa tech company — Tampa-based technology company SiteZeus has announced its latest partnership with Tijuana Flats, adding to a long line of restaurant industry giants it currently helps to better find where companies should open new locations.

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So many Tampa Bay mobile dev job openings, so few applicants

Tampa Bay mobile developer jobs on LinkedIn as of this morning. Tap to view at full size.

While checking LinkedIn this morning, I noticed that there were a lot of iOS and Android developer jobs in the Tampa Bay area, and many of them didn’t have any applicants (or at least any applicants who applied via LinkedIn).

I quickly cobbled the image above from screenshots of LinkedIn’s Jobs sections that I took this morning. If you know UIKit from SwiftUI or can tell your RecyclerViews from your ListViews and either live in Tampa Bay or want to move to our sunny shores, there’s a lot of opportunity right here, right now.

It’s nice work if you can get it

Want to know how much you can make as an Android developer? Here’s what ZipRecruiter has to say:

Screenshot as of July 1, 2021. Tap to view the source.

Here’s ZipRecruiter’s graph for iOS developers:

Screenshot as of July 1, 2021. Tap to view the source.

…and trust me on this one: If you can combine mobile development skills with people skills, you can make a little more.

Learn Android development with GDG SunCoast

We’ve got a GDG (Google Developer Group) right here in Tampa Bay — GDG SunCoast — and they host an Android Study Jam every Wednesday evening. It’s an online event that’s free of charge to attend, and they walk you through Google’s official Android/Kotlin tutorials. It’s a great place to get to know other locals with an interest in Android development, ask questions, and even win prizes!

GDG SunCoast’s next Android Study Jam happens on Wednesday, July 7 at 7:00 p.m..

I’m going to try and catch as many of these as I can. I hope to see you there!

Returning soon: The Programmers of Portables meetup!

A few years back, I started the Tampa iOS Meetup with Angela Don, and over time, it mutated into Programmers of Portables.

The pandemic, my job search, and a lot of work at Auth0 have kept me from holding a meetup in some time, but I’m already working on plans to bring it back. Watch this space, and get ready to learn iOS, Android, and IoT development tricks!

Speaking of Auth0…

Keep an eye on the Auth0 developer blog, where I’m one of the editors. I’m working on a lot of articles about mobile and Python development, and you’ll start seeing them there soon!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 28, 2021)

Here’s your weekly 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 28 through Sunday, July 4, 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 events

Don’t forget that this coming weekend is the holiday weekend, with the 4th of July falling on the Sunday. This the one of the slowest weeks of the year, when many people take their holidays, so if your event is scheduled on or near the 4th, make sure you double-check with its organizers to be sure that it’s actually taking place!

Monday, June 28

Tuesday, June 29

Wednesday, June 30

Thursday, July 1

Friday, July 2

Saturday, July 3

Sunday, July 4

Lots of Tampa Bay area news

Upsurge Florida Hosts “Inside the Investor’s Mind” Event to Demystify Early Stage Investing

Who says you can’t come home again? Tech entrepreneur Byron Crowell comes back to Tampa to rebuild company he found two decades ago, and to spur the next generation of local innovators.

Tampa Bay Wave Accepting Applications for 2021 TechWomen Rising Accelerator Program

Cybersecurity firm brings on new marketing chief — Meet KnowBe4’s new CMO, Michael Williams.

New Network Launches To Connect, Support Women Investors in the Southeast

Company says Tampa Bay could be next major technology hub — Tampa Bay could be the next major tech hub, according to Canadian company CodeBoxx, a tech education company relocating its headquarters to St. Petersburg.

Equity firms acquire pair of homegrown Sarasota tech companies — In separate deals, private equity and asset management firms have acquired a pair of Sarasota homegrown tech companies that specialize in online affiliate and pay-for-performance, or clicks, marketing.

Boston-based tech company bets big on Tampa with upcoming hiring spree — Drift, which expanded to Tampa in late 2019 plans to hire more people in the coming months.

Local university among top in the world in developing patents — Tampa’s very own University of South Florida secured nearly 130 patents last year, making it one of the top in the country and world.

Tampa Bay, Orlando partnership hits new evolution to boost investing across the state — The organizations in the partnership will host a “Shark Tank” style event in an effort to increase awareness on investing.

Tech accelerator showcases healthcare disruptors — The Florida-Israel Business Accelerator (FIBA)’s latest Connection to Innovation event welcomed a pair of healthcare startup founders as well as a familiar face in Rachel Feinman, the organization’s former executive director who earlier this year joined Tampa General Hospital (TGH) as vice president of innovation.

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Get a job at HireUp Florida Tampa Bay: Thursday 11 am – 2 pm!

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!

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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