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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.

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, April 13, 2020)

Hello, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds — here’s this week’s list of area events with your expertise and interests in mind! I hope things for you are going as well as possible given our current situation. As I write this, we’re a dozen days into the Florida general stay-at-home order, and five weeks since I’ve been doing the social distancing thing (following the recommendations of the best damn public health official I personally know). For the foreseeable future, I’m listing only online events. I’m looking forward to the day when we’ll all be able to meet up in person, but in the meantime, go online and #MakeItTampaBay!

The power of community is what will see us through this crisis. It’s the spirit of cooperation, camaraderie, and community that helped build the tech scene in my old home town of Toronto, and it can do the same here in Tampa Bay. Let’s take what we can from the current situation and use it to rebuild and move forward. I’m happy to do my part and help out with my reach and resources, or even to lend an ear. Feel free to contact me at joey@joeydevilla.com!

This week’s events

Monday, April 13

Tuesday, April 14

Wednesday, April 15

Thursday, April 16

Friday, April 17

Saturday, April 18

Sunday, April 19

No events are listed for Sunday.

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, April 6, 2020)

Hello, Tampa Bay techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds — welcome to another week’s list of area events with your expertise and interests in mind! I hope things for you are going as well as possible given our current situation. As recommended by public health experts and mandated by the mayor and governor, I’m listing only online events for the time being. I’m looking forward to the day when we’ll all be able to meet up in person, but in the meantime, go online and #MakeItTampaBay!

Monday, April 6

Tuesday, April 7

Wednesday, April 8

Thursday, April 9

Friday, April 10

Saturday, April 11

Sunday, April 12

No local online events are listed. This might be a good time to check out Pluralsight’s courses, which are free for the month of April.

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, March 30, 2020)

Photo: A very still river on a sunny day, with the water reflecting the oak and willow trees on its banks. Text: Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events / Monday, March 30 — Sunday April 5, 2020.

Hello, fellow Suncoast techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds! I hope you’re staying safe and sane while spending most of your time at home. Here’s this week’s list of online-only events for techies, entrepreneurs, and nerds based in an around the Tampa Bay area. I’m restricting this list to online-only events until public health officials have stated that it’s safe for public gatherings again.

(In case you were wondering about the photo above, that’s the Hillsborough River as seen from the park on Patterson Street in Seminole Heights.)

Some words of wisdom from the Tenth Doctor

David Tennant giving his “It’s going to be okay” speech on the BBC TV show “The Last Leg”, January 2017.

It’s always a good time for some words of reassurance, so are some from a trusted geek icon: David Tennant, a.k.a. The Tenth Doctor, giving his “It’s going to be okay” speech from January 2017 on the BBC TV show The Last Leg. It was for a different issue from a different time, but it’s still applicable right now:

It’s all gonna be okay. Trust me, I’m a Doctor. But it’s up to us to make it okay. It’s time to be positively rebellious, and rebelliously positive. As long as we stand up for what we believe in. Don’t give in to anger or violence. Look out for the little guy. Keep an eye on the big guys. Refuse to keep our mouths shut. And just generally, try not to be dicks. Every little thing is gonna be alright.

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This week’s events

Monday, March 30

Tuesday, March 31

Wednesday, April 1

Thursday, April 2

Friday, April 3

Saturday, April 4

Sunday, April 5

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

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Next Tuesday is Tential Tuesday!

Banner: “Digital Transformation — The Driving Need” / Speaker Siddarth Rao, CIO of Axogen / 5:15 p.m.

Tential have been good to the Tampa tech community and me personally (during my own personal job crisis last year, which I’ll write about later), and they continue to be good, even when we’re all staying at home, and hopefully working remotely. Their goodness continues with the upcoming Tential Tuesday, which takes place online next Tuesday, March 31st, at 5:15 p.m.!

The topic will be Digital Transformation — The Driving Need, and the speaker will be Siddarth Rao, CIO, Head of IT and Digital Transformation of Axogen, a company focused specifically on the science, development and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair. I assume that “Axogen” gets its name from axon (a nerve fiber) and regeneration.

Sign up for the online event; they’ll post the Zoom link soon.

I’ll see you there! In the meantime, here’s the Tential Tuesday jingle, which I performed at BarCamp Tampa Bay: