Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, April 22 through Sunday, April 28, 2024 .
This week’s events
Monday, April 22
Tuesday, April 23
Tuesday at 7:30 a.m., online: v-Lean Coffee! Find out more and register here!
Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., online: Computer Coach features Tech Training Navigator, Find out more and register here.
I’ll admit it; OPUG’s Meetup group photo made me laugh.
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., online: The Orlando Python User Group’s Find out more and register here.
Also on Tuesday at 7:00 p.m., online: Google Women Techmakers Florida Find out more and register here.
Event name and location Group Time v-Lean Coffee Online Tampa Bay Agile 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM EDT Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486 Online Toastmasters District 48 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT NPI St. Pete Business Builders Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals St Petersburg Yacht Club Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT Volunteer Fair Palm Harbor Library North Pinellas Community Leaders 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT Jog & Calisthenics Park of the Americas Orlando Night Shift Third Shift Workers 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect! SeaGlass Tavern Tampa / St Pete Business Connections 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass Tavern SeaGlass Tavern Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Oldsamar/Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New Tampa Glory Days Grill Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT Westchase Professionals Business Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda 11955 Sheldon SeaGlass Tavern Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa Glory Days Grill Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT The Business Alliance Club 763 Cortaro Dr The Business Alliance 11:45 AM to 1:15 PM EDT InfraGard Healthcare Sector Spring Virtual Meetup Online Tampa Bay InfraGard Meetup Group 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT PDM SWUGs Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner! (& maybe a midnight snack), Open discussion Online PDM-SWUG, SolidWorks User Group 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT Chess club Tuesdays Conworlds Emporium Tarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT Virtual Tech Training Navigator Online Career Success Academy 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT Weekly Open Make Night 4931 W Nassau St Tampa Hackerspace 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Power Networking in Sarasota Yard House Project Management of Pinellas County 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Together we are stronger Online Friends with skills and resources 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Disney Lorcana Night Critical Hit Games Critical Hit Games 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Magic: The Gathering Night at Felicitous Felicitous (on 42nd) Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Meet & Greet at O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant Florida Center for Creative Photography 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT Weekly Tuesday Evening Online Zoom Meeting Online Pinellas Writers Group 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Authors Anonymous – Writing Group Maya Cafe Lounge & Gallery Authors Anonymous – Writing Group 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT Build The Game Dots and Boxes in Flutter Online Gdg Ocala 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa Gaspars Patio Bar & Grille Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT Weekday Writing Get Down The Writers Room We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Central Florida Computer Society TechSIG (Please join us!!) Online Central Florida Computer Society 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT Pythonic Monthly Meeting Online The Orlando Python User Group 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Self Publishing with AI Online Clearwater Podcasters 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT What the Heck is AI? AI/ML Intro and Google Gen AI Tutorial Online Google Women Techmakers Florida 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Creative Speaking Roots To Crown Creative Speaking St Pete 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Dunedin Toastmasters – Guests Welcome 👍🐛 Unity Community Church Dunedin Toastmasters 2166 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sunshine Games 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game Show Moose Lodge Game Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Boards & Bones SpookEasy Lounge Nerdbrew Events 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults Pinellas Ale Works Brewery St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT Trivia Night with Trivia Nation Irish 31 Pub House & Eatery Trivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT The Hacienda for April 2024 Superica Winter Park Literate Ladies of Orlando…Well Bred…Well Read 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT Spy × Family Code: White $6 Movies AMC West Shore 14 Anime N’ Nerds 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House! 2705 54th Ave N TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group 7:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom Online Shut Up & Write!® Tampa 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM EDT Return to the top of the list
Wednesday, April 24
Wednesday at 12:30 p.m., online: Heart of Agile’s Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 6:00 p.m., Dracula’s Legacy Wine Bar and Bistro, Tampa: Coders, Creatives and Craft Beer Find out more and register here.
Thursday, April 25
Thursday is Day 1 of the Front-End Design Conference! There are still some tickets left as I write this. Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at 501 E. Kennedy, Tampa: The DUG Power Platform and Dynamics 365 meetup Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Del Frisco’s Grille, Tampa: Tampa Bay AWS User Group Find out more and register here.
Event name and location Group Time Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking The Happy Hangar Café Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT Front-End Design Conference Palladium Theater Front-End Design Conference 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM EDT Secure access and ensure compliance with access certification Online Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your business The Breakroom Bar & Grill Tampa / St Pete Business Connections 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift The Breakroom Bar & Grill Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited! The Breakroom Bar & Grill Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch The Breakroom Bar & Grill Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN Person The Breakroom Bar & Grill Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch Bahama Breeze Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT InfraGard Financial Services Sector Spring Virtual Meetup Online Tampa Bay InfraGard Meetup Group 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT Sarasota Speakers Exchange Toastmasters Online Toastmasters District 48 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT Grand Bay Canasta Online Grand Bay Canasta Meetup Group 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT Commander Open Play Night at Armada Games Armada Games Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers Board Game Cafe Meeple Movers Meeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT Thursday Night Gaming 3407 Lithia Pinecrest Rd Brandon Boardgamers 5:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT Gulfport Scrabble and Social The Drunken Taco Gulfport Scrabblers and Social 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT DUG Tampa April Power Meetup : Power Pages w Nikita Polyakov 501 E Kennedy Blvd DUG Power Platform & Dynamics 365 – Tampa 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT April Happy Hour!! Evie’s Tavern & Grill On Main Street Business and Social Networking 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT Jump On The Sarasota SCENE With Rohring Results! A Networking Event Art Avenue Small Businesses Getting Success With Social Media Marketing 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL8) Coliseum of Comics Kissimmee Orlando Adventurer’s Guild 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT TBDEG – Open Discussion on Data Modeling Online Tampa Bay Data Engineering Group 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT AWS Social Networking Event! Del Frisco’s Grille Tampa Bay AWS User Group 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT AWE Nite Orlando: XR Mixer/ Networking 64 N Orange Ave AWE Nite Orlando 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective The Collective: A Comic & Game Community Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass District Hourglass Brewing at Hourglass District Sunshine Social Deduction Gaming 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT 2nd ed. AD&D Campaign. 405 Mahogany Dr Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT Pathfinder Society Critical Hit Games Critical Hit Games 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT The Vanishing Season – by Joanna Schaffhausen Barbara S. Ponce Public Library Mystery and Thriller St Pete Book Club 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Relaxed Social for Young Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Cres Community Young Entrepreneurs of America YEA Meetup Group 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Writing Meetup HotWax Coffee Shop, Kava Bar & Tap House Tampa Free Writing Group 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Tampa Writers Alliance Poetry Group Barnes & Noble Carrollwood Tampa Writers Alliance 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT WordPress Online Tampa Bay Technology Center 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Operations Automation Office Hours Armature Works Tampa Robotic Process Automation Group 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT 3D Printing Guild Tampa Hackerspace West Tampa Hackerspace 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT WordPress Monthly Meetup Online WordPress Clearwater FL 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament Balance Martial Arts & Gaming Balance Martial Arts and Gaming 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT FABulous Thursdays Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sunshine Games 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House! 54th Ave Kava House TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders Pizza Wilder’s Pizza Game Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Dungeons and Dragons with Donavan Unlucky Roll Cafe Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT Book Club: The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin Asian Pearl Geekocracy! 7:00 PM to 10:55 PM EDT Live streaming production and talent 124 S Ring Ave Live streaming production and talent 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro Green Bench Brewing Company St. Pete Booze and Book Club 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM EDT Return to the top of the list
Friday, April 26
Friday is Day 2 of the Front-End Design Conference! There are still some tickets left as I write this. Find out more and register here.
Friday at 12:00 p.m., online: Tampa Bay UX Group
Event name and location Group Time Fun Run Hyatt Place St. Petersburg / Downtown Front End Conf Events 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM EDT Improve your communication, listening, and leadership skills Winter Park Community Center Winter Park Toastmasters – Learn while having FUN! 7:15 AM to 9:00 AM EDT FOURTH Friday WordPress Collaboration Meetup – April 2024 Axum Coffee West Orlando WordPress Meetup 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM EDT Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black Professionals Online Pinellas County Black Business Meetup Group 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EDT Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOME Online Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM EDT A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome! Online Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM EDT A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business Networking Online Network & Social – Orlando Networking Events 8:45 AM to 10:15 AM EDT Front-End Design Conference Palladium Theater Front-End Design Conference 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EDT Online Networking with Brandon Biz Pros Online Brandon Biz Pros 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build Confidence Online Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM EDT AI: Empowering Transformation – A Personal Journey of Rebuilding Online Career Success Academy 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorm together Online Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorming together 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All Welcome McAlister’s Deli Tampa Bay Networking and Events 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters Westshore McAlister’s Deli Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT International Professionals Networking Meeting McAlister’s Deli Tampa / St Pete Business Connections 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT S Orlando/Dr Phillips: Join us for fun connection growth & networking too! Orlando, Florida Powerful Women Networking 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM EDT International Networking Westshore McAlisters Deli McAlister’s Deli Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT International Networking at McAlisters Deli every Friday McAlister’s Deli Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT International Professionals Networking Meeting McAlister’s Deli Tampa / St Pete Business Connections 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT TBUX Virtual: Portfolio Share & Review Online Tampa Bay UX Group 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT St. Pete Arthouse Cinema Club-“Two Lives in Pittsburg” AMC Sundial St. Pete Arthouse Cinema Club 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT Board Game Night! Happy Troll Games Clermont Nerd Games 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Camping at Zolfo Springs, all ages! Pioneer Park Outdoor Adventures South Florida Friday, April 26, 2024 at 5:00 PM to Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 2:00 PM EDT ONLINE Board Game Fridays! Online Meeple Movers Gaming Group 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT Friday Board Game Night Bridge Club Tampa Gaming Guild 5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Putt Putt Dinner Evie’s Tavern & Grill on Bee Ridge Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT RANDOM EUCHRE TOURNAMENT Euchre Castaways Euchre Club 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT MTG: Commander FNM Critical Hit Games Critical Hit Games 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT Outdoor Escape Room Competition- Escapely and dinner at Gringo’s Gringos Locos DOWNTOWN Orlando Escape Room Meetup 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social Night Industrious Nerd Night Out 6:00 PM to 11:45 PM EDT Shut Up & Write!® Gulfport Peninsula Cocktails + Kitchen Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT Fallen Leaves @ Eckerd College Miller Auditorium The Tampa Bay Movie Fans Meetup Group 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM EDT MakerFX Makerspace 3D Printing Guild MakerFX Makerspace MakerFX Makerspace 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night 410 Dancing Water Dr Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM EDT Friday Night Smash Bros at Unlucky Roll Unlucky Roll Cafe Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG Night | Centro Ybor Big Storm Brewing Tap Room – Tampa Nerdbrew Events 7:00 PM to 11:45 PM EDT Modern FNM Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! Sunshine Games 7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT 3D Printing Hang Out MakerFX Makerspace 3D Printing Orlando 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT Solana Hackathon WorkGroup 1205 N Franklin St Solana Tampa 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT Friday night game night 🌱Indica Cafe 💨 Tampa Bay’s First & Greatest CBD Lounge Indica Cafe Events Friday, April 26, 2024 at 9:00 PM to Saturday, April 27, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT Return to the top of the list
Saturday, April 27
Sunday, April 28
About this list
How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
Tech project management / agile processes
Video, board, and role-playing games
Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
Anything I deem geeky
