Happy new year! I hope you enjoyed your holidays and perhaps even got a chance to take a break to rest and recharge. 2020’s now in full swing, and so is Tampa Bay! I’m back back with my weekly list of the area’s tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events.
Monday, January 6
- Tampa Bay Connections — Monday Referral Partners @ Wrights Gourmet House & Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — 4 Key Strategies to Landing your Next Job Offer @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — AWS re:Invent Recap! @ SOFWERX, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — ROOKIES SPORTS BAR – SPRING HILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon – Sarasota – Bradenton Trivia & Quiz Meetup — Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA – ST. PETERSBURG @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters Invites You to Awesome, Learn-by-Doing Meetings! @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, January 7
- Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — Dale Carnegie Leadership Training: Free Meetup for Managers & Supervisors @ Presidents Plaza – Dale Carnegie Training, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Connections — New Tampa Business Networking Lunch @ Glory Days Grill, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Clearwater Renaissance Speakers Toastmasters @ Clearwater Community Volunteers, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — TERMINAL ANTENNA DESIGN FOR FUTURE WIRELESS @ University of South Florida, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Synapse Volunteer Info Meeting @ Brick House Tavern + Tap, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Be Your Own Boss- Business for Yourself, Not By Yourself — Taco Tuesday-I’ll buy taco’s! Starting a Side Gig & Reducing Taxes @ Casita Taqueria, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Pinellas Business Crowd — WordPress — You’ve Heard of It But What Is It? @ Office Services 101, LLC, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Monk and Bard Gaming — Game night – make new friends! @ Residence at Colony Apts, 6:00 PM to 9:00 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
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) [Full] @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — Introduction to T4 templates with Martin Soles @ 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
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Trading Tuesday! @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Pints & Pixels @ Yard of Ale Soho, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds and Geeks — AMC $7 MOVIES @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK RAW BAR & GRILL – MADEIRA BEACH – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday, January 8
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Downtown St Pete Networking at the Hangar – Wednesday Mornings @ The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup — Centre for Women DreamBuilder Program @ Suncoast Business Innovation and Solutions Center, 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Bernini of Ybor Lunch Networking @ Bernini (innovative italian cuisine), 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Brandon Business Professionals @ Carrabba’s, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Brooksville Writers Group Meetup @ The Rising Sun Bistro, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Full Stack Meetup — Scaling Server Architectures on a Budget @ ClearlyAgile, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – January @ New York Life, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — Study Group Meeting: Paper Discussion @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Design St Pete 2020 New Year’s Social @ 360 Central Ave, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – ST. PETE – SPECIAL DISNEY THEMED TRIVIA !!! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Ethereum Tampa Bay — Token Talk With Tracie – Enjin Coin @ The Attic On Kennedy, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Open Code @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Suncoast Linux Users Group @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Bitcoin Cash @ 81Bay Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Arthenia L. Joyner University Area Community Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, January 9
- Carrollwood Business Connection — Let’s get together for some great networking! @ Brunchies, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa Business Professionals — Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar @ The Happy Hangar Café, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Girlfriends&Coffee Networking Group @ Belleair Coffee Company, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Wesley Chapel Networking Lunch @ Grillsmith Wesley Chapel, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — MELLOW MUSHROOM THURSDAY’S NETWORKING LUNCH @ Mellow Mushroom, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Dunedin Professional Meetup — Happy Hour Martini’s & Treats @ Carmel Kitchen & Wine Bar, 3:15 PM to 4:45 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Entrepreneur, Educator, and Impact Advocate Dr. Andy Gold Network & Learn @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Startup Grind X Lakeland — Scratch to Scale @ Catapult Lakeland, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Lean Beer for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Pour Tap Room, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Intro to Data Visualization @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Build a Tech Portfolio to Launch + Accelerate Your Coding Career @ Brave Haus, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour- Meet Up — Cocktails, Connections & Conversations for 2020 JOIN us @ Cafe Delanie, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Get Hard-Members Only @ The Undercroft, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon and Seffner area D&D, Pathfinder, and Starfinder — 1st ed AD&D Dwimmermount Campaign @ 405 Mahogany Dr, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — CRESCENT OAKS COUNTRY CLUB – TARPON SPRINGS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — CAPTAIN’S CORNER – BROOKSVILLE – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 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 Beer and Board Games — Beers and Board Games at Cueni Brewing in Dunedin (Every Thursday) @ Cueni Brewing Co., 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Introduction to 3D Printing with MatterControl and the Rostock (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- St Pete Business Builder Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- The Pinellas County Young “Professionals” — Bi-Weekly Thirsty Thursday Happy Hour – Brutique Edition @ bartique, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, January 10
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg / Tyrone) @ Panera, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — Dale Carnegie Sales: Free Meetup – SALES PROS @ Presidents Plaza – Dale Carnegie Training Center, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Friday Business Introductions @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Threat Angler — Intro to Docker @ online, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Write Now St. Pete @ 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- Mars Astronomy Club — MARS: Leeann Muszynski presenting, “Dark Matters” @ IHOP Temple Terrace, 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- The Pinellas County Young “Professionals” — Join our Facebook group and group chat! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — First Dinner of the New Year! At OLIVIA, a new restaurant in south Tampa @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Saturday, January 11
- IIBA Tampa Bay — Park Beautification Event @ 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — You Can Hack It! @ SecureSet, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- R Ladies Tampa — Tidyverse Skills: GGplot I – Data Visualization @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Closing Flea Market – Games and Movies @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Black Women Professionals Meetup — 2020 Vision Board Party @ 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: The Golem and the Jinni @ Cooper’s Hawk Winery & Restaurant, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason — The Humanist Society: Science – Threats and Hopes @ Dunedin Public Library, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Designing 3D Printable Objects with TinkerCAD (GSWCF) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Intellectual Connection for Myers-Briggs N’s (Intuitives) — N Social Mixer! @ Red Mesa Cantina, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Monster Jam (RSVP & pay by early Jan 4th) @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — Game Night at Waypoint @ Waypoint 6 Tavern and Geekery, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, January 12
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Thai Brunch at Wat Mongkolratanaram Buddhist Temple @ 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
- Book vs. Movie Club — New Year, New YOU @ Oxford Exchange, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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