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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 11, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 7 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, Friday’s looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

Monday, May 11

Tuesday, May 12

Wednesday, May 13

Thursday, May 14

Friday, May 15

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Saturday, May 16

Sunday, May 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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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, May 4, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 6 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, this coming weekend’s looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

To stay on top of the latest Tampa Bay events as well as all sorts of interesting tech articles, be sure to check out Global Nerdy (globalnerdy.com) regularly!

Monday, May 4

Tuesday, May 5

Wednesday, May 6

Thursday, May 7

Friday, May 8

Saturday, May 9

Sunday, May 10

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

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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Career Current Events Tampa Bay

Career Compass Group’s “Job Beat”, a techie hiring/job-seeking newsletter

It’s a crazy time in the tech job market right now (believe me, I know), and we need all the help we can get! That’s why it’s good to see things like Career Compass Group’s “Job Beat”, a digital hiring magazine created by Steve Rosen to help people hiring managers and techies looking for jobs find each other.

There’s lots of useful information on their site, including their Dear Recruiter, Help! series of short (10 minutes or less) podcasts, which alternate between being aimed at hiring managers and job-seekers:

There’s also a blog, hiring FAQs, and information about their workshops. Check them out!

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Even more online events this week!

In addition to my weekly listing of events in Tampa Bay, here are even more online events aimed at techies taking place this week from all over the world, and most of them are free! Thanks to Diversify Tech for the finds.

Monday, April 27

  • ThoughtWorks — Infrastructure Webconf @ 1:00 PM (FREE!)
    Our Infrastructure WebConf allows technologists interested in DevOps to listen and ask questions to Infrastructure specialists Marion Bruns and Max Griffiths. Our ThoughtWorks’ subject matter experts will explore best practices and thought-provoking learnings on the state of Infrastructure, testing and workflows for Infrastructure teams.
  • General Assembly — Inside the Design Studio @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT (FREE!)
    This inspiring panel event series invites key players in New York City’s design community to offer a rare insider’s look at how they work and create. From branding to user experience to city planning, panelists will discuss how they approach projects from a design point of view, how design thinking methods help with problem-solving, and much more. Plus, they’ll cover opportunities within the field and their vision for the future of the industry.

Tuesday, April 28

Wednesday, April 29

  • Red Hat Summit, Day 2 (FREE!)
    Red Hat Summit is the premier open source technology event for thousands of IT professionals to innovate and focus on high-performing Linux, cloud, automation and management, container, and Kubernetes technologies.
  • Candor — Free resume workshop — honest advice on getting your resume in front of recruiters @ 1:00 PM EDT (FREE!)
    In this session, Candor cofounder Niya Dragova will share insider tips on nailing your resume.
  • IBM Developer — Hands on Introduction to NLP @ 12:30 – 2:00 PM EDT (FREE!)This workshop introduces Natural Language Processing in Python. Attendees learn how to process text with NLTK and Gensim to derive useful insights. Foundational concepts like tokenization and part of speech tagging and complex topics like Word2Vec, sentiment analysis and topic modeling are covered.How can computers interpret something so human like language? Can they actually understand what we are saying or are they hiding behind a façade of rules and algorithms? How do these systems of zeroes and ones make sense of words? This workshop introduces Natural Language Processing in Python and sheds light on how computers interpret our language. Attendees are introduced to NLTK and Gensim that help them tokenise, process and represent textual data. We will see how data is distilled into different linguistic features that power Machine Learning applications like text classifier, sentiment analyzer and topic modeler.

Thursday, April 30

  • Deserted Island DevOps @ 10:00 AM EDT (FREE!)
    Join us April 30th for a free one-day event celebrating DevOps and Animal Crossing, streaming live on twitch.tv!
  • QuarantineCon Virtual Career Fair @ 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT (FREE!)
    Spring has come into full swing, and so has fresh conversation surrounding career and professional development. As a continued response to remain safe through social distancing, shelter in place, quarantine, etc., and still build community, Jopwell and QuarantineCon are partnering to bring together industry experts with a virtual career fair! We are creating space to discuss several career-centred topics, including “Navigating Today’s Job Market” and “Cold Outreach 101.” Featured speakers include Carla Harris, Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, and Nadia Abouzaid, Head of Recruitment at Jopwell.
  • Activate Conference — Accessibility talk: How to be an A11y @ 7:00 PM EDT (FREE!)
    Featuring Aisha Blake, software engineer at Gatsby.js

Friday, May 1

  • Byteconf React 2020 @ Friday through Sunday (FREE!)
    Byteconf React is a 100% free single-day conference with the best React speakers and teachers in the world. Conferences are great, but flights, hotels, and tickets are expensive, so not everyone can go. Byteconf is streamed on YouTube, for free, so anyone and everyone can attend. RSVP to receive your free ticket, and we’ll enter you in our free monthly giveaway, with a chance to receive a free 45+ hour React course from Udemy. See you on May 1st!

 

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 27, 2020)

Greetings, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 5 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. While it appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” with online events, this coming weekend’s looking a little quiet. Keep an eye on this post; I update it when I hear about new events, it’s always changing. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

To stay on top of the latest Tampa Bay events as well as all sorts of interesting tech articles, be sure to check out Global Nerdy (globalnerdy.com) regularly!

Monday, April 27

Tuesday, April 28

Wednesday, April 29

Thursday, April 30

Friday, May 1

Saturday, May 2

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

Sunday, May 3

No Tampa Bay area tech events have been announced for this date…yet!

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, April 20, 2020)

Hey, all you cool cats and — er, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! Welcome to week 4 of the Florida general stay-at-home order! I hope you’re managing and even thriving. It appears that event organizers are adjusting to our new, temporary version of “normal” — there are online events aplenty this week, including one on Sunday. Stay safe, stay connected, and #MakeItTampaBay!

To stay on top of the latest Tampa Bay events as well as all sorts of interested tech articles (you’ve got to see my current series on COBOL), be sure to check out Global Nerdy (globalnerdy.com) regularly!

Monday, April 20

Tuesday, April 21

Wednesday, April 22

Thursday, April 23

Friday, April 24

Saturday, April 25

Sunday, April 26

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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Virtual Ignite Tampa Bay — See the best of Ignite Tampa Bay! Thursday, April 16 @ 7 p.m.

Turn off the TV, Nix the Netflix, give Amazon Prime video a break tonight: Go watch Ignite Tampa Bay tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern, online at 88r.org/ignitelive! That’s when we’ll be showing the best of Ignite Tampa Bay, the event where Tampa’s most interesting people give tapas-sized TED talks!

Ignite Tampa Bay is an evening of talks that follow the philosophy of “Enlighten us, but make it quick!” It turns the standard speaker-and-audience format on its ear by adding some interesting constraints:

  • Each speaker is limited to exactly 5 minutes for his or her presentation.
  • Each presentation is accompanies by 20 slides, no more, no less.
  • The speaker has no control over when the slides advance; they automatically advance every 15 seconds.

The five minute limit forces speakers to whittle their presentations down to the essence of their talk, and the auto-advancing slides make it necessary to practice, practice, practice.

Here’s an example of an Ignite talk from Ignite Toronto 4, which took place over a decade ago. It’s my rather drunken “Go Busk Yourself” talk:

Ignite Toronto 4: Joey DeVilla: Go Busk Yourself from Ignite Toronto on Vimeo.

The 2020 edition of Ignite Tampa Bay may have been undone by the novel coronavirus, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t hold an event. Rather than gather people at the Palladium in St. Pete — hopefully, we’ll be able to do it next year — we decided to hold a “Best of Ignite Tampa Bay” viewing party!

We’ll be showing the past decade’s Ignite Tampa Bay talks that caught people’s attention, made them think or laugh (or both), and put forth interesting ideas.

(And yes, they picked my 2015 Ignite talk on the importance of Florida Man!)

Just like the live event, there’ll also be an afterparty — and just like the real afterparty, you’re going to have to buy your own drinks.

Join the party! It’s happening at 88r.org/ignitelive tonight at 7:00.