Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, nerds, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. There’s a lot going on this week — check out these events!
Monday, January 22
- Digital Photo Artists — DPA Monthly Dinner at Bogey’s Sports Pub @ Bogey’s Sports Pub, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
Tuesday, January 23
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Group Dynamics: How effective teams are formed, changed & maintained @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa – Network After Work Business Networking Events @ Edge Social Drinkery, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Power BI User Group Meeting – January 2018 @ Microsoft Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- South Shore Toastmasters @ SouthShore Regional Library, 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
- Brandon eMarketing Groups — How to Use LinkedIn for Business with Diane Daniels of Medicare Nation @ O’Brien’s Irish Pub of Brandon, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Portkey to Magic — 80’s Movie Trivia Night @ Jack’s London Grill, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Laravel — Part 2: Refactoring Spaghetti Guided by Tests @ DirectMail2.0, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Spring Hill Bitcoin — Let’s Stack Crypto Together – First Meetup @ Country Kitchen, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Using ggplot2! @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Peter’s Clearwater Bitcoin Meetup — Show up and learn, share and chat about Bitcoin. All are welcome! @ PostcardMania, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Star Wars: Destiny Organized Play @ Armada Games, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- NerdBrew Trivia: Adult Swim! @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Wednesday, January 24
- OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Molly’s Suds, LLC and Gr8 Plan @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — GPS:Growing Personal Skills and Megan Carter Coaching @ Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — How To Build A Solid Referral Network @ Online, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Test Automation — Specflow+Selenium: Supporting Business Driven Testing @ AgileThought, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Data Science Group — Project Night: TBDSG Workshop @ SOFWERX South, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Cyber Security Meetup — Standard Meeting (Cyber Warriors and Peerlyst) @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Peerlyst Tampa Meetup (With Tampa Bay Cyber Warriors) @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps – Experimenting with Git Workflows @ USF Testing Services, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Crypto Investors Club – St Pete @ Panera Bread, 1908 4th Street North, Saint Petersburg, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Inventors Council Weekly Meetup @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Learn to Pick Locks @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, January 25
- Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- 81Bay Brewing SIP Night @ 81Bay Brewing Company, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- TECH on TAP @ Ferg’s Live, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Play a home brew variant of pathfinder RPG @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- Ethereum Tampa Bay — Exploring next generation blockchain, currencies, identity and governance @ CoWork Ybor, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — AWS re:Invent Recap @ Nielsen, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — Robotic Process Automation @ PSCU Financial Services, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — NEW! Expert Series: Cybersecurity and Business: A Legal Perspective @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — NEW! Expert Series: Cybersecurity and Business: A Legal Perspective @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brand Your Business for Profits™ — Why Most Marketing is a Waste of Money @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Sarasota Remote Workers Meetup — Happy hour! @ B&B Burger and Beer Joint, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play — Playing Games at Perkins @ Perkins, 5002 E FOWLER AVE, TAMPA, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Area Software Craftsmanship Meetup — Craftsmanship Group Discussion – TBD @ Lee Roy Selmon’s, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Apollo Beach Maker Group @ SouthShore Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Creative Loafing’s Craft Cocktail Competition! @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Suncoast.js — The Reason for Learning ReasonML @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, January 26
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 112 S Westshore Blvd, Tampa, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Discussion of the new book “We Were Yahoo” by Jeremy Ring @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Remote Employees of Tampa Bay — Connect and form Friendships, Locally, Weekly – Remote Work Lifestyle! @ Recipe Box Family Diner, 8:45 AM to 9:45 AM
- January 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Adjoy, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa @ The Bad Monkey, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds & Geeks — D&D Night! @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Saturday, January 27
- Coffee & Chess: Tampa North @ 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — St. Petersburg Farmers Market @ 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
- Learn to work and fire glass using a kiln (8 week class) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- GDG SunCoast — Cloud Study Jam @ Tampa Bay WaVE, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Women Techmakers Tampa Bay — Cloud Study Jam @ Tampa Bay WaVE, 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Digital Divas — BRUNCH MEET & GREET “OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS” @ 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Advanced Articulators Toastmasters @ The Children’s Board, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Machine Shop Safety and Milling 101 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Sunday, January 28
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Start a new D&D 5e Gaming group @ 12:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Suncoast Audiophile Society — Jan Meeting- Bart, Berning, and more Horns to kick off the New Year! @ 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- The Tampa Bay Strobist and Photoshop Collective — Great Gatsby 1920’s Themed Photo Shoot @ 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Open Python Mentoring @ 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Build Your First iPhone App! (Part 1 of 2) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM