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, October 1
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Expert Series: Randall Nagy @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Pythonic DevOps @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetup — Art + Technology Meetup No.4 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Largo Board Games Meetup — Great Western Trail @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, October 2
- 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 — Ideas are Easy – Business Ideation Fun and Games @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Plan Before You Build: Information Architecture & Content Strategy @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Startup Legal 101: Advice from Top Startup Lawyers @ Undercroft, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds & Geeks — My Hero Academia: Two Heroes @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Blazor! All the buzzwords, none of the hassle! @ Bank of the Ozarks Innovation Lab, 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
- Go Tampa — Lexing and Parsing {{for:fun}} @ PowerChord, Inc., 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 3
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Eat Cheap / School of Rock St. Petersburg @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Assisting Hands Gulf Coast / Aviles Translations, LLC @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center. 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open Code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — Entrepreneurs Workshop @ Industrious Tampa, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ Vology Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to JavaScript: Build a Guessing Game @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Design St. Pete — How UX and Agile can be friends @ Cottonwood Bayview, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction @ GIL & RICK’S SPORTS BAR – LARGO – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘Mean Girls’ at the Tampa Theater! *Wear Pink* @ Tampa Theater, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Thursday, October 4
- Drupal Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Modern Web Design & Development Meetup, focusing on Drupal CMS @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- WordPress Tampa — SEO for your WordPress website @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast.js — Lightning Talks ⚡️ and Creating Recursive Components in Vue.js 💻 @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — $1.00 Tacos at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop! @ Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Friday, October 5
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company (13028 Dale Mabry Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — New 5e Campaign – Heroes of Faerun (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Let’s see ‘Venom’ at AMC Veterans! @ AMC Veterans 24 theater, 6:45 PM to 9:45 PM
- Couples Game Night, Indie Music, & More (Mid 20’s-40’s) — Sales @ Crowbar Tampa, 7:30 PM to 11:54 PM
Saturday, October 6
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — DotNetConf – Discover the World of .NET @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
- Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Intro to App Building with Salesforce @ Suncoast Developer’s Guild, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa School of AI — Coffee Meetup @ Blind Tiger Cafe, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Women’s Knowledge & Skills Exchange — 1st Meet & Greet !! @ Jimmie B. Keel Community Room D, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Dr. Petrov’s Lab @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Jailbreak! @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:45 PM to 9:45 PM