Nerd Nite St. Pete-October 2025

*Nerd Nite St. Pete will be at Voodoo Brewing in October.*

We all know that learning is more fun when you’re drinking with friends. Nerd Nite operates in over a hundred cities around the globe including our city - St. Pete! This lecture event strives for an inebriated, salacious, yet deeply academic vibe. Several presenters totally geek out for 20 minutes each while guests drink and socialize. It’s like Ted Talk– with beer! Drink, learn, connect, and talk about fun, interesting stuff!

Doors open at 5:00pm. Presentations begin promptly at 7pm.

Tickets are $6.91. All tickets will be sold online.
No need to print tickets: Give us your name and we will check you in.

Check out this month's speakers:

Tracey Williams Presents: Claims Have Taken Over Food Packaging: What Do They Mean?

Food packages are starting to resemble sponsorship covered NASCAR race cars with claims plastered across every available inch. But, what do these claims mean? Who defines the guardrails and enforces those requirements? Does Natural mean anything? Let's cut through the claim clutter to better understand food packaging.

Tracey is food industry unicorn. Both a food scientist with a degree in nutrition and marketing executive, she's either formulated or convinced you to buy popular brands in your grocery store. Over her 20 year career she's lived behind the scenes of packaged food giants such as ConAgra, Sara Lee and PepsiCo. A Tampa Bay native, she returned to her beach roots during the pandemic and writes a Substack to decipher food industry fact from fiction.

Sandy Bean Presents: Your Brain Isn’t Broken, The System Is: Neurodivergence, Capitalism, and the Rise of the Neuroinclusive Economy

This talk explores what happens when smart, sensitive, neurodivergent people try to function in systems that reward sameness, speed, and silence. (Spoiler: it’s not great.) We’ll talk about masking, internalized capitalism, and why the people holding it all together are usually the ones falling apart. It’s my blend of research, personal chaos, and imagining what life could look like if we all stopped pretending this is fine.

Sandra Bean is a former educator, gifted strategist, and community architect who built one of Tampa Bay’s largest women’s business ecosystems from scratch, with only a deep knowing that we all need to belong. She’s neurodivergent, slightly witchy, and known for weaving intuition, Human Design, and high-level strategy into systems that work for complex, creative people. Her brilliance lives where visibility becomes healing, and business becomes a tool for collective liberation. She believes in compassion, creativity, and structure. Sandy is proud to foster economies rooted in love, sovereignty, and community care, and she always has snacks.

Angus Rhoton Presents: Why Do We Smell?

Ever wonder why we smell? We do it without thinking, but smell shapes our lives more than most of us realize. This talk will explore the chemistry of smell, how our bodies detect and interpret smells, and why evolution wired us to love some smells and recoil from others.

Angus is a college student and research assistant in an organic chemistry lab at USF. He has a tendency to immerse himself in any topic that catches his interest. When Angus isn't studying, he's likely spending his time reading or taking care of his massive collection of plants.