Category: Current Events

What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 25, 2021)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 24, 2021

Welcome to the final week of January 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 25 through Sunday, January 31, 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 13 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (25 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
1 in 787 Americans has died from COVID-19 (417,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 24,000 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, January 25

Tuesday, January 26

Wednesday, January 27

Thursday, January 28

Friday, January 29

Saturday, January 30

Sunday, January 31

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, January 18, 2021)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 16, 2021

Welcome to the third week of 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for the Tampa Bay area for the week of Monday, January 18 through Sunday, January 24, 2020.

“Tampa Bay area” means “Within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa”

By “Tampa Bay”, 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 list is sticking to online events for now

For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…

1 in 14 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (23.6 million cases out of a population of 328 million, which is 1 million more than last week).
1 in 835 Americans has died from COVID-19 (393,000 dead out of a population of 328 million, which is 20,000 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, January 18

Tuesday, January 19

Wednesday, January 20

Thursday, January 21

Friday, January 22

Saturday, January 23

Sunday, January 24

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 Product Owner Meetup tonight: Stakeholder Management — Tips from FBI Hostage Negotiators

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 13, 2021

Poster for the 1998 film “The Negotiator”, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey. — If you haven’t seen this underappreciated 1998 film, check it out.

Looking for an interesting online meetup to attend tonight? I’ll be checking out Tampa bay Product Owner Group’s meetup, which has an intriguing title: Stakeholder Management — Tips from FBI Hostage Negotiators. It happens tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Zoom.

(Here’s the Zoom link for the event.)

Here’s the description of the event, taken straight from their Meetup page:

Product Management IS Stakeholder Management. Influencing and Negotiating is a big part of the role.

In this session, you will learn modern negotiation techniques applied to Stakeholder Management. This is a fun spin on Stakeholder management using the negotiation techniques Chris Voss outlines in “Never Split the Difference.” We explore modern negotiation techniques, then apply them to real-life scenarios.

We examine Mirroring, Labeling, Getting to Yes, and Open-Ended Questions in realistic Product and Stakeholder scenarios. We think we learn by applying, so this will have an interactive element to it!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 11, 2021)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 10, 2021

Take me to this week’s events

Welcome to the second week of 2021! Here’s your list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for the Tampa Bay area for the week of Monday, January 11 through Sunday, January 17, 2020.

For the time being, this list will include only those events that can be attended online because…

1 in 15 Americans has contracted COVID-19 (22.3 million cases out of a population of 328 million)
1 in 880 Americans has died from COVID-19 (373,000 dead out of a population of 328 million)

…and we’re 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, January 11

Tuesday, January 12

Wednesday, January 13

Thursday, January 14

Friday, January 15

Saturday, January 16

Sunday, January 17

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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DELETE FROM twitter WHERE username = “realdonaldtrump”;

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 8, 2021
1 Comment on DELETE FROM twitter WHERE username = “realdonaldtrump”;

It happened: Twitter hit Donald Trump with the perma-banhammer. They’ve posted an explanation in their corporate blog, and in the usually feckless world of social media platforms, this is uncharacteristically bold. It’s a good move, seeing as the outgoing president* has used it as a tool of stochastic terror.

No technology is purely neutral, and as technologists, we have responsibilities for the platforms and tools we create.

Now it’s your turn, Facebook.

In the meantime, I checked up on my secret Parler account, and the system is non-responsive, probably because it’s swamped:

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But Slack is le tired this morning

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 4, 2021
1 Comment on But Slack is le tired this morning

I’m on a very distributed remote team at Auth0. I’m in Tampa, with teammates in Spain, Italy, Argentina, the north and south US west coast, Australia, and more. Slack is our combination hallway, water cooler, and memorandum system, and it’s down at the moment.

I thought I’d commemorate the first work tool outage of 2021 and the official end of Flash support with the meme pictured above, along with the classic animation from which it came. And here’s hoping that Slack comes back online soon!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, January 4, 2021)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date January 3, 2021

Take me to this week’s events

Happy New Year!

If you’re reading this, it means that you’ve survived 2020 and made it to a whole new year! I know that the current situation doesn’t really pay attention to arbitrary calendar divisions, but there’s a reason why we celebrate birthdays and anniversaries. If you haven’t done so yet, take some time to reflect on 2020 and tink about what you’d like to accomplish in 2021. Global Nerdy is here to help the people in the Tampa Bay tech scene meet their goals!

Sad new Meetup! (Or: Why this list even more useful than ever)

Over the holidays, Meetup.com changed their home page format, and it’s now even harder to find out what’s going on this week.

To see what I mean, go to Meetup.com and try to see what’s happening in Tampa this week. You’ll see something like this:

Events for any groups that you belong to will still be listed in chronological order. But everything else? It’ll be a mish-mash, with an event scheduled for next week followed by one taking place tomorrow, and all of them subdivided into sections to maximize your clicking and viewing pages instead of finding events.

This sort of mess is why I made this weekly list in the first place. Between our geographical spread, our limited time, and the pandemic, it was already hard enough to find tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events in Tampa Bay. Meetup’s new home page makes things worse. This list is meant not only to fix that problem, but to help facilitate Tampa Bay tech gatherings and help grow our scene.

Casting a wider net

I’ve tweaked the list a little — you’ll see that it now covers events within 100 miles of Tampa Bay, which includes some Orlando-based events. Howdy, neighbors!

I’m still listing only online events for the time being

I’m tired of the “new normal”, and I’m sure you are as well. But we’re not out of trouble yet:

1 in 16 Americans has been infected with COVID-19 (20.5 million cases as of Sunday, January 3, out of a total population of 328.2 million).
1 in 1000 Americans has died from COVID-19 (350,000 deaths as of Sunday, January 3, out of a total population of 328.2 million).
1 in 16 Floridians has been infected with COVID-19 (1.35 million cases as of Sunday, January 3, out of a total population of 21.48 million).
1 in 980 Floridians has died from COVID-19 (21,889 deaths as of Sunday, January 3, out of a total population of 21.48 million).

These numbers, coupled with the recent holidays — where a lot of people threw precautions to the wind — are why I’m doing my part and not promoting any in-person events just yet.

This list covers events from Monday, January 4 through Sunday, January 10, 2020.

Events — especially virtual, online ones — can pop up at the last minute. I add them to the list as I find out about them. Come back and check this article from time to time, as you might find a new listing that wasn’t there before!

This week’s events

Monday, January 4

Tuesday, January 5

Wednesday, January 6

Thursday, January 7

Friday, January 8

Saturday, January 9

Sunday, January 10

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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