Every week, dedicated individuals and organizations in around the Tampa Bay do more than just their “day jobs”. They get involved in events where they share their knowledge, make connections and friends, and gather together to build strong tech, entrepreneur, and nerd communities. That’s why I do this every week: I put together a list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events to make sure that they can be found and you can attend them!
Here’s what’s happening in Tampa Bay this week!
This weekly list is posted as a voluntary service to the Tampa tech community. With the notable exceptions of Tampa iOS Meetup and Coders, Creatives and Craft Beer — both of 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, December 2
- Professional Community Network (PCN) — Bi-Weekly Meeting / Goal Setting 2020 @ OnPoint CoWork Solutions, 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
- Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — 5-Day SEO Mastery Class @ Tampa SEO Training Academy, Monday 8:30 AM to Friday 5:00 PM
- FREE Coworking Day for Veterans @ Tampa Bay Wave, 9:00 AM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Daily Campus Tours – SecureSet Tampa @ SecureSet, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- America’s TriviAddiction — ROOKIES SPORTS BAR – SPRING HILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer — Let’s celebrate Festivus! @ 7venth Sun Brewery, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Brandon – Sarasota – Bradenton Trivia & Quiz Meetup — Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – ST. PETERSBURG – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 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
Tuesday, December 3
- Business Game Changers Group — Leads and Coffee Holiday End of the Year Amazingness! @ Belleair Coffee Company, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Pinellas Business Development Meetup — Successful Capital Raise: What You Should Know Before Speaking to Investors @ 630 Chestnut St, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Saint Petersburg Coffee and Conversation Meetup Group — Coffee & Conversation @ Panera Bread, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Elevated for Success Women’s Networking Group — Connect and Chat – Roundtable Mastermind @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Keystone Mastermind Alliance – KMA Network — KMA Business Networking @ Speggstacular, 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
- Hillsborough County Public Library Collective — Let’s Talk Business Formation @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — New Tampa Business Networking Lunch @ Glory Days Grill, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Lunch McAllisters Deli @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — It’s a 4 Year Anniversary Open House & Holiday Season Kick-off @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Defcon813 — DC813 Study Group – Getting into the guts of memory @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Business Club/Networking After Hours — At&T networking event & Ribbon Cutting CELEBRATION @ AT&T, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Ladies Connect! — Waterside marriott (bar on riverwalk) @ Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel and Marina, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Blockspaces — Token Talk With Tracie – Enjin Coin @ The Attic, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK RAW BAR & GRILL – MADEIRA BEACH – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) [Full] @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — Introduction to Accessibility with Harish Beeram @ Bank of the Ozark’s Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Pints & Pixels @ Yard of Ale, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Wednesday, December 4
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Drum Echoes, Inc. @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Podfest MultiMedia Expo / Get Fit For War @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Ybor Networking @ Bernini of Ybor, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Invest Florida Show – Tampa Cashflow Meetup — Holiday Reception! @ Suites at Madison, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brooksville Writers Group Meetup @ The Rising Sun Bistro, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay InfoSec — A New Start: Career Resources for Veterans and Transitioning Military @ ConnectWise, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Bradenton Fiction Writers’ Incubator Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — WHAT’S GOING ON INSIDE OF ME: THE SCANNING FIBER ENDOSCOPE @ 702 N Franklin St, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Vue.js Tampa Bay — A Better Vue is Imminent with 3.0 @ Bank OZK Innovations Lab, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Business Club/Networking After Hours — Networking AfterHours Downtown st.pete @ Ichicoro Ane, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Business Club/Networking After Hours — Networking AfterHours @ Nykl – New York Kitchen & Lounge, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – December @ Clearly Agile, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- WordPress Tampa — Your SEO depends on your accessibility and you didn’t even know it! @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Crypto Investors Club (5 STAR RATED) @ Hawthorne Bottle Shoppe, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — How artificial intelligence is used with satellite and GIS @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay ServiceNow Developer Meetup — Final MeetUp for the year at Tampa Intl Airport @ Tampa International Airport, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Design St. Pete — Designing for early stage products @ 360 Central Ave, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
- Cryptocurrency Tampa Meetup — Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency Meetup: Networking, News, Q&A @ Coastal Cantina and Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Area — How to Increase Amazon Product Rank and Sales Using Google Shopping & Adwords! @ O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- I Love Marketing! – Let’s talk about using marketing to grow your business @ Winter Haven Gardens Inn, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete SEO and Content Enthusiasts — The Local SEO Essentials by Full Scale SEO @ The Symphony Agency, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, December 5
- Tampa# – C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — MELLOW MUSHROOM THURSDAY’S NETWORKING LUNCH @ Mellow Mushroom, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Business Networking MasterClass — Grow Your Networking ROI @ SpringHill Suites by Marriott Tampa, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Wave End of Year Event: The Future of Tech in Tampa Bay @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Cocktails and Connections @ Cafe Delanie, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneur Social Club @ NOVA 535, 6:00 PM
- Hungry Coders — Eat and Talk Code @ Mugs Sports Bar and Grill, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Go See the Tampa Bay Lightning vs. the Minnesota Wild! @ 6:55 PM to 10:00 PM
- Books, Brews & Bags! — December – Before and Again @ Crooked Thumb Brewery, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- St Petersburg Business Builders Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Electronics Guild Meetup: Moving Forward on Projects @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Clearwater Writers Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM
- Drupal User Group of Tampa Bay — 2020 Planning and Open Chat/Questions @ Panera Bread, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Network Marketing Meetup Group — Meet and Greet @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, December 6
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Defcon813 — OWASP Tampa Day 2019 @ 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Friday Business Introductions @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Weekly Metropolitan Ministries Toastmasters Group @ Metropolitan Ministries Welcome Center, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Microsoft Tech Talks – Florida — Azure Network Security: Securing Your Cloud Perimeter @ Microsoft Corporation, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Gulf Coast GIS User Group Meeting @ Manatee Community Foundation, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
- St. Pete Write Now — Christmas Party @ Punky’s Bar and Grill, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- St. Petersburg Board Game Night FIRST FRIDAY Game Night (December) @ Overflow Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Dine at the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — 80s Video Night @ The Castle, 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Bad Santa at the Tampa Theater! @ Tampa Theater, 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM
Saturday, December 7
- Make THS Better Workday @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — MXing-It-Up – MX Chip IoT DevKits workshop @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Car-free Scavenger Hunt in downtown St. Pete @ 1:33 PM to 5:00 PM
- Cards Against Humanity – Tampa Bay and Lakeland — Ugly Sweater Crawl – Lakeland (shared public event) @ 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM
Sunday, December 8
- FTC Robotics Team Practice (Team only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Lakeland Black Professionals — Networking Business Mixer @ Federal Bar Lakeland, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Game Night at Brew Bus @ Brew Bus Brewing, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Night Salsa Social 💃🕺part 2 @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
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