Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, September 24
- Digital Photo Artists — Monthly DPA Dinner = Popi’s Place in Lakewood Ranch @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Open Sesame! Garage Door Hacks @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Geekocracy! — Play ‘Overwatch’ Deathmatch at Geekout Games and Pizza Party! @ Geek Out! Games, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 25
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Defcon 813 — Boot-n-root-beer @ The Wild Rover, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- The return of Tampa iOS Meetup! @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa JUG — The New Java Release Schedule and What It Means to You @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Startup Founder 101 — Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur in Tampa @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Portkey to Magic — Game of Thrones Trivia @ Jacks London Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Laravel — Laravel Nova & What’s New in Laravel 5.7 @ 3rd Floor, 33 6th Street South, St. Petersburg, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Deep Learning vs Machine Learning in R @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, September 26
- Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — A Gift to Africa / Yummi Foods @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Engineering Marketing Consultants (EMC) / HireMadSkills, Inc. (MadSkills) @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — Blockchain: What it is, How it Works, And What it Means @ Tampa Electric – TECO Plaza Atrium, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – Tampa @ Brickhouse Tavern, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- St. Pete Podcasters — Sept Meeting | Jimmy Murray @ Station House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — Defining your Digital Business Model @ PSCU Financial Services, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IIBA Tampa Happy Hour! @ Coppertail Brewing Co, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Free Crash Course: Basic JavaScript @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Harder Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- ST PETE SHOPIFY 101 — Intro meeting and basic overview of Shopify @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 27
- Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- LaunchCode’s Disrupting the Digital Norm @ CAVU, 8:15 AM to 11:00 AM
- ENGAGE – A Network for Evolving Entrepreneurs — Mastering Your Inner Game for Entrepreneurs with Dr Linda @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Tampa and Orlando Google Cloud Computing Events — Machine Learning Made Easy on Google Cloud Platform & Apigee! @ Tampa Aquarium, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — How to build a WILDLY profitable business off of INSTAGRAM @ The Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Customer Case Study – Verizon and Amazon GuardDuty @ Verizon, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting: Data Engineering at scale with Azure Databricks @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Best Times to Post on Social Media @ In The Loop, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- GDG SunCoast — Flutter Study Jam – Part 3 @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to Node @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — The Transformers (1986) Movie Event @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, September 28
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Funding our public schools w/ Jeff Eakins, Superintendent of Hillsborough Schools @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Sept 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Cardinal Solutions, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
- The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — RChain: Building “The Coin Faucet” dApp @ BlockSpaces, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Saturday, September 29
- Digital Divas — DIVA BRUNCH @ Cheddars Scratch Kitchen, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Pinchaser’s Cyber Bowling Special! @ Pinchasers / VETERANS location, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, September 30
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Come Fly With Us! @ Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Free Python Training: New Student Enrollment @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Learn to Play Role Playing Games @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Dunkin’ Donuts (5610 E Fowler Ave), 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM