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 22
- Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — How to Set Up a Business Without Wasting Your Money @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Career Convos: Felice Flake @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Entrepreneurial Trendsetters — Women in Entrepreneurship: Turning your Passion into a Business | Tammy Charles @ The Attic, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- SpeakEasyToastmasters Meetup — Welcome to SpeakEasy Toastmasters Club Meetup Group! @ Hibachi Buffet (7610 49th Street North, Pinellas Park), 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps Monthly Meetup: Successful DevOps Adoption-best practices @ Salesforce Tampa, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Wesley Chapel Speaks Toastmasters @ Nissan of Wesley Chapel, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, October 23
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Design Sprint 101: Design Better User Experiences & Products … Faster @ Suncoast Developer’s Guild, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tech4Good Tampa — Website Best Practices Roundtable Discussion with Jim True @ Power Design, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Pete Scrabble Night 3: Hallow-Scrabble! @ Pinellas Ale Works, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Power BI Tampa – October 2018 Updates on the Power Platform @ Microsoft Office, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night and Halloween Project Showcase @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 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
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — WWC Leadership Planning Meeting – All Are Welcome @ Green Bench Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — R with Power BI and Tableau @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 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 — The Nickel Ride / Om the Go @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Dropzone Gunner / Thrive Therapy @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Women Who Code Tampa — 5 hábitos importantes para un equipo móvil efectivo @ online, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- TBBJ Elite Headshot Happy Hour @ Vaco, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- October Meeting @ SOFWERX Underground, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Digital Marketing Tampa Bay Meetup — This Ain’t Your Father’s Analytics: Improving Google Analytics & Tag Manager Use @ PowerChord, Inc., 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Defcon813 — Boot-n-rootbeer MrRobot pt2 @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- St. Pete Podcasters | Oct Meeting: Bruce Wawrzyniak @ Station House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to JavaScript: Build a Virtual Pet @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to Git @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UX Group — When Qualitative & Quantitative Research Join Forces w/ Kat, Optimal Workshop @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Getting Your Project from VCarve to CNC (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- IPA’s & API’s — Version 1.0 @ The Woodwright, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- ST PETE SHOPIFY 101 — Intro meeting and basic overview of Shopify @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Android Developers Group — TBD @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, October 25
Worth checking out on Thursday: The Mainframe @ Microsoft office, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM.
The Mainframe continues Tampa’s first interactive event series designed to immerse black tech entrepreneurs, innovators, professionals, technologists and enthusiast in the Bay Area’s local start up ecosystem.
This quarterly after-work event connects you with Tampa’s most notable innovators and business leaders over drinks and appetizers. While getting a sneak peek at new products and an opportunity to share your area of expertise.
Who should attend? Tech innovators, start-up founders, tech employees, app developers, gamers, software engineers, graphic designers, IT professionals, web designers, cryptocurrency/blockchain technologists, cloud and cybersecurity specialists, tech enthusiasts, community supporters, etc.
- Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Design St. Pete — Design Lunch @ Craft Kafe, 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
- October 2018 StartUp Xchange @ St. Pete Brewing Co., 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- WITI – Tampa Bay (Women in Technology International) — 6th Annual Geek Glam @ Bryan Glazer Family JCC, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- The Mainframe @ Microsoft office, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — User Case Study – Accusoft SaaS Product on AWS @ Accusoft, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Everything eCommerce Meetup — Building a High Performing Website @ Stoney Pointe Club House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- NEW BEGINNING TOASTMASTERS @ First Baptist Chr-St Ptrsbrg, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — WordPress @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM TO 9:00 PM
Friday, October 26
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread (112 S Westshore Blvd, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Agile Open Florida @ Polk State College, Lakeland Campus, Building LTB, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Oct 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Digital Hands, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
- Open Source Hack and Chill @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Halloween Party at the Lowry Parcade! Barnyard Bonanza Group Costume Theme! @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Junji Ito Collection @ Perkins @ 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Saturday, October 27
- Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Free Computer Repair and Social Networking Event @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Defcon813 — Boot-n-rootbeer MrRobot pt2 @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Halloween Themed Games both role playing and board games @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Machine Shop Milling 101 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘Hallogeek’ – Halloween House Party and Geekocracy Costume Contest plus Potluck! @ 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Sunday, October 28
- Kids’ Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Spooky Karaoke @ Gaspar’s Patio @ Gaspar’s Patio Bar & Grill & Liquor, 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM