Global Nerdy

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, June 9 through Sunday, June 15, 2025!

This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:

✅ When the event will take place

✅ What the event is

✅ Where the event will take place

✅ Who is holding the event

This week’s events

• Monday, June 9
• Tuesday, June 10
• Wednesday, June 11
• Thursday, June 12
• Friday, June 13
• Saturday, June 14
• Sunday, June 15

Monday, June 9

Tuesday, June 10

Tuesday, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Hays (Tampa): Tampa Bay Product Group is hosting Hardcore Soft Skills for Product Managers!

In this session, you will learn about tools and techniques to master critical “soft skills” (I prefer to call them people skills) as Product Manager to keep the product team motivated and your customers satisfied.

Find out more and register here.

Wednesday, June 11

Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at New World Music Hall: Pints of Science features three esteemed area scientists who’ll share their current projects and passions while you enjoy New World’s excellent beer and pizza!

The speakers:

• Ana Maria Quintero (USF St. Petersburg Geography degree focused on Conservation, minor in Environmental Policy):
  Worms at Work: Composting Magic from the Ground Up
  Discover how red wiggler worms can transform your food scraps into nutrient-rich compost. Learn the basics of worm farming and how to use castings and worm tea to naturally boost your garden.
• Elise Pickett (Former Marine Biologist, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Degree in Wildlife Biology and Conservation, Minor in Zoology):
  Set It and Forget It: The No-Maintenance Summer Garden That Works for You
  Keep your garden healthy and weed-free all summer long—without lifting a finger. In this talk, you’ll learn how to use low-effort summer cover crops to protect and nourish your Florida garden during the hottest months.
• Meryl Stout (Urban Agriculture Coordinator & Executive Director – Coalition of Community Gardens) and Nathan Farley (Urban Agriculture Specialist Coalition of Community Gardens):
  Community Gardens
  Community gardens are powerful tools for improving physical and mental health. Research shows they reduce stress, boost mood, support nutrition, and encourage physical activity. These benefits can also help prevent chronic diseases. This talk explains how to get involved locally and start growing your own health.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday, June 12

Thursday from 1 – 4 p.m., both online and at Guidepoint Security: Tampa Bay ISSA presents Warren Shane, Sales Director at Cyberint, with a talk about AI security, prompt injection, and insider threat, followed by a happy hour.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday from 6 – 8 p.m. at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Tampa Java user Group presents Building Reliable Applications with Temporal!

What if you could guarantee that any series of services would never fail? What if there is a better way to create, test and debug reliable applications?

Temporal is an open source programming model that simplifies your code, makes your applications more reliable and helps you deliver more features faster. It abstracts away the complexities around retries, rollbacks, queues, state machines, and timers so that developers spend their time focused on writing business logic, instead of all of the failure conditions. It introduces a new paradigm that helps you manage simple tasks or a series of complex procedures so that they are executed reliably until completion, or they will elegantly fail. Testing becomes as easy as writing and running unit tests.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 6:30 p.m., online: Tampa Bay Women in Agile will feature Unlocking Enterprise Agility: From Chaos to Clarity, featuring presenter Apinder Bedi.

Explore why up to 70% of enterprise Agile transformations silently fail and how organizations can overcome these pitfalls by embracing true enterprise agility. It challenges the notion that adopting Agile frameworks equals business agility and outlines actionable shifts leaders must make to unlock real, sustainable value.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 7 p.m. at Neon Temple (Tampa): The Temple’s BlondeTechie will present Grow Strong: Gardening for Mind and Survival, where she’ll share how she started her Florida garden with two goals — building food security and finding peace. From humble beginnings to the vision of a full food forest, she’ll also highlight resilient crops perfect for our local climate.

Find out more here.

Friday, June 13

Saturday, June 14

Sunday, June 15

About this list

How do I put this list together?

It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list?

I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

• • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms

• Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
• Anything I deem geeky