Global Nerdy

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, July 7 through Sunday, July 13!

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, July 7
• Tuesday, July 8
• Wednesday, July 9
• Thursday, July 10
• Friday, July 11
• Saturday, July 12
• Sunday, July 13

Monday, July 7

Monday morning at 10, online: Computer Coach’s How to Bounce Back from a Layoff Because Luck is NOT a Strategy is a live workshop where they’ll discuss actionable steps you should be taking to help you bounce back from a layoff and reduce your unemployment time to get back to work quickly!

Find out more and register here.

Tuesday, July 8

Tuesday at Kforce at 6 p.m.: At Tampa Bay Product Group’s The Hidden Power of Pricing session, you’ll learn how to price them in this highly interactive and fun (yes, fun!) session where they’ll demystify pricing strategy for product teams. Expect to walk through what it actually looks like to set pricing for a product. You’ll work in groups, tackle real scenarios, and have a lot of fun doing it.

Find out more and register here.

Wednesday, July 9

Thursday, July 10

Thursday at noon, online: Computer Coach presents Jumpstart Your Career in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, where Samantha Ramos, a cybersecurity professional specializing in Governance, Risk, and Compliance, will talk about:

• The fundamentals of GRC and its role in cybersecurity
• Essential skills and knowledge to break into the field
• How to position yourself for success in a highly regulated industry
• Career paths and opportunities in GRC

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 6 p.m. at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center: Tampa Java User Group presents Legacy Code: Your AI-Powered Exit Strategy. In this session, Daniel Killyevo will explore practical refactoring patterns for web applications that let you ship new features every 2-4 weeks while gradually modernizing your platform. You’ll see how AI tools like Cursor and V0 can accelerate routine development tasks, where they genuinely help (hint: boilerplate and analysis), and where they don’t. They’ll look at real code examples showing how to embed modern micro-apps within monoliths and tackle the fun stuff like authentication bridges and state management.

Find out more and register here.

Friday, July 11

Saturday, July 12

Sunday, July 13

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