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!
This weekly list is posted as a voluntary service to the Tampa tech community. With the notable exception of Tampa iOS Meetup, which I run, most of this information comes from Meetup.com, EventBrite, and other local event announcement sites. I can’t guarantee the accuracy of the dates and times listed here; if you want to be absolutely sure that the event you’re interested in is actually taking place, please contact the organizers!
Monday, June 24
- America’s TriviAddiction — ROOKIES SPORTS BAR – SPRING HILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Florida Center for Creative Photography — FREE Lightroom Class at Ross Norton Community Center — Class 6 of 8 @ Ross Norton Recreation Complex, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — SAUCED – LARGO – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Japanese Language Classes — *New!* Beginner Japanese Classes in St. Pete/Pinellas Park: Lesson 11 @ Kitchen Table Games, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – ST. PETERSBURG – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Photographic Arts Community — How I made a great living as a photographer without being a salesman – Webinar @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Florida Center for Creative Photography — Lightroom After Hours — A Lightroom Q&A Session @ O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant, 8:45 PM to 9:45 PM
Tuesday, June 25
Tampa’s Women Who Code chapter is holding a two-part event this week featuring Tampa Bay tech evangelist Russ Fustino. Part one covers Xamarin Forms, a cross-platform UI toolkit that’s also one of the simplest ways to create native applications for Android, iOS, and the Universal Windows Platform. He’ll demonstrate building an app and deploying it to Android, iOS, and Windows devices. Part two covers the blockchain system made by Algorand, which boasts throughput on par with large financial networks and immediate transaction finality. He’ll explain Algorand’s protocol, demonstrate node management with command-line tools, and show how to build layer 2 applications using Algorand’s SDK.
- Florida Center for Creative Photography — Coffee & Photography Meeting at The Portico in Tampa @ The Portico, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrollwood Networking Lunch McAllisters Deli @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — 4 Key Strategies to Landing your Next Job Offer @ Computer Coach Training Center, 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
- 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
- Gulf Coast GIS User Group — Social @ Corporate Ladder Brewing Co., 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Two-Part Series: Intro to Xamarin Forms and The Algorand Blockchain @ AgileThought, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — LAN Party: Play ‘Overwatch’ at Geek Out! Games @ Geek Out! Games, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Women’s Entrepreneurial Think Tank — Reverse-Engineering Your “Purpose” for Professional Success! @ St. Petersburg Main Library, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Florida Center for Creative Photography — Meet & Greet at O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant @ O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — Weekly Meeting @ West Pasco Board of Realtors, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) [Full] @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- Defcon813 — OSCP Prep Group @ 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Florida Center for Creative Photography — Photo 101 – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and Software @ O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Trading Tuesday! @ Tampa Bay Wave, 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
- Tampa R Users Group — Joshua Barillas presents R Markdown! @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Figma Tampa Bay — Monthly Meetup – Topic Live Workshop @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Human & Doggy Meetup at the Getaway! @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday, June 26
“Secrets of the Undercroft” may sound like the title for a Harry Potter novel, but it’s an open house for a new player in the Tampa Bay tech scene. The Undercroft is a guild whose goal is to grow the area’s individual, organizational, and economic security by advancing innovation, creativity, and security knowledge. Their space, located in one of Ybor City’s charming old buildings, will features training rooms, a media studio, conference rooms, shared workspaces, rack space, and even an ISOC (information security operations center). They’re opening soon, and this is your chance to get an early look at their space and find out more about them.
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Downtown St Pete Networking at the Hanger~ Wednesday Mornings @ The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Bernini of Ybor Lunch Networking @ Bernini (innovative italian cuisine), 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Gulf Coast GIS User Group Meeting @ Manatee Community Foundation, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Secrets of the Undercroft @ The Undercroft, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Tampa Bay Wave, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Sarasota Tech Entrepreneurs and Software Engineers — After work drinks @ Craft Growlers to Go, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Intro to WiFi @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Bradenton JPI Photo Group — JPI Olympus User Group @ Johnson PhotoImaging, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IIBA Tampa Bay — IIBA Tampa Bay Q2 2019 Happy Hour! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Looking For Player @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Networking After Hours — Downtown St. Pete Business Social @ Ichicoro Ane, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- GDG Suncoast — Google I/O 2019 Extended @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Vue.js Tampa Bay — Discovering awesome Vue plugins @ KnowBe4, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Microservices Architecture Meetup — Implementation of a Monitoring Strategy for Microservices Environments @ Vigo and Alessi Cucina, 6:15 PM to 8:15 PM
- Free Crash Course – Sketch Basics @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to Data Science: Build a Predictive Model @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group @ Barnes & Noble Carrollwood, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Agile Social — Paper Street Speakers Club @ Paper Street Studios, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup @ Tampa Bay Tech Center, 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 Events — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s!, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Photographic Arts Community — How to use video to market your photography business – WEBINAR @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Bitcoin Cash @ 81Bay Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, June 27
Tech’s hottest topic meets tech’s hottest platform on Thursday at the Tampa Bay AWS User Group meetup! Tristan Li, Solutions Architect at Amazon, will talk about AWS’ latest artificial intelligence and machine learning features. As an added incentive, they’ll raffle off a $250 credit for AWS.
- St. Petersburg Photography Group — FREE BOAT RIDE! @ 8:40 AM to 10:40 AM
- Dunedin YES! (Young Entrepreneurs Society) — FL Biz Spark Tank — Morning @ Dunedin Golf Club, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Connections — MELLOW MUSHROOM THURSDAY’S NETWORKING LUNCH @ Mellow Mushroom, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- June 2019 StartUp Xchange @ Green Bench Brewing Company, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Tech on Tap @ Brickhouse Tavern, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- GraphQL Tampa Bay — Scaling the Schema @ Perch Security, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — AI and Machine Learning on AWS @ Vaco, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Vote which Topic You Want @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Defcon813 — CTF Cyber Range Event – No cost to play but you must register @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tech4Good Tampa — So you need a new/updated website… Now what? Steps for Success! @ Power Design, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon and Seffner area D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Barrowmaze Campaign @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — CAPTAIN’S CORNER – BROOKSVILLE – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — CRESCENT OAKS COUNTRY CLUB – TARPON SPRINGS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Sketch – Tampa Bay — Sketch Accessible Design @ Immertec, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — BAYSCAPE BISTRO AT HERITAGE ISLES – NEW TAMPA – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Dunedin Beers & Board Games — Beers and Board Games at Cueni Brewing in Dunedin (Every Thursday) @ Cueni Brewing Co., 6:30 PM to 10:00 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
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Thinkful Webinar | The Future of Natural Language Processing @ Online, 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Friday, June 28
If you can’t make it to Tuesday’s “Secrets of the Undercroft” event (see above) but want to find more about Tampa Bay’s new security, innovation, and creativity guild, come attend this meet-and-greet with The Undercroft’s founders, members, and partners over light snacks and drinks.
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Trinity Odessa Toastmasters @ Holiday Inn Express Trinity, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- June 2019 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Tampa Bay Wave, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
- West Coast Photo Group — GROUND LEVEL SHOTS ON-LINE ONLY, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Let’s Do Lunch and Network! – Tampa @ The Stone Soup Company, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Grand Opening @ The Undercroft, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Defcon813 — Defcon 813 presents Final Fridays @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — Becoming an Independent Consultant @ Teco Plaza, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — “Pastries N Chaat” Indian Street Food Dinner @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Unofficial MTV video party @thebasement @ THE BASEMENT BEER & WINE BAR, 8:30 PM to 12:30 AM
- Nerd Night Out — Akira (classic anime on the big screen!) @ Tampa Theatre, 10:30 PM to 12:30 AM
Saturday, June 29
- Geekocracy! — Tea Blending class with Asian food brunch afterwards @ TBD @301, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- SRQ – RPV — Fun Fly @ 5201 51st St E, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Defcon813 / cYbor Security Meetup — Pirates vs Ninjas @ The Undercroft, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Sing-Along: The Greatest Showman at the Tampa Theatre @ Tampa Theatre, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Day Trip to Sarasota: Siesta Key Beach followed by NOFILTER!!! @ 3:00 PM to 12:00 AM
- Geekocracy! — Game Night House Party! @ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM
Sunday, June 30
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (LFP), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Mr. and Mrs. Crabs ! @ Mr. and Mrs. Crab, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Axe Throwing! *Must Book in Advance* @ Axe Throwing Tampa, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM