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, January 21
- Gold Coast Users Group — GCUG Supports Power (BI/Apps/Flow) Platform World Tour in Tampa @ Embassy Suites by Hilton Tampa Downtown, Monday 8:00 AM to Tuesday 5:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Shadowrun 5 – New Event (LFP 2 openings) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:15 PM to 10:15 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- 3D Printer Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Guest Speaker: Paul Puey, CEO of EDGE wallet @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, January 22
- Networking Simplicity — Keep networking simple for 2019! @ Chicken Salad Chick, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — Branding – The Secret Weapon to Your Job Search @ Computer Coach Training Center, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Cannabis Entrepreneurs & Investors — Free Webinar Adult Use Legalization @ online, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tech4Good Tampa — Using Storytelling to Improve Content Channels & Free Tech Help Session @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Product Owner – Jan “Super Powers of Product Ownership” @ South University, Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Figma Tampa Bay — Monthly meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Ethical Accelerator Meetup @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Synapse Florida — Volunteer Orientation @ Amalie Arena, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- St. Petersburg Toastmasters Club #2284 @ Hope Lutheran Church, 6:30 PM to 8:15 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Laravel — Laravel for the PHPurist @ 3rd Floor, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds & Geeks — AMC $5 Movies @ 7:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Shiny based survey platform @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Pathfinder Society of the Tampa Bay Area — PFS @ Serenity Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Wednesday, January 23
- Synapse Summit @ Amalie Arena, Wednesday 8:00 AM to Thursday 5:00 PM
- OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Creativity and Cash Flow — Have lunch, meet cool people, say who we are, what we do, what we want to do! @ 12:30 PM to 3:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Tampa Bay Wave, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Collab Lab – Where the IT Channel Connects — The Collab Lab – First MeetUp! @ Big Storm Brewing, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Inaugural Tampa Bay Kubernetes Meetup @ Nielsen Media Research, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- ReactJS Tampa Bay — 2019 Kick-off featuring Lightning Talks @ Exzeo, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Sarasota .NET Software Engineer Group — Serverless with AWS Lambda and .NET Core @ Station 2 Innovation, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Full @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Bradenton Toastmasters @ Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to Python: Fundamentals @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — APIs: CRUD, REST, and Other Buzzwords @ CoWorkTampa, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Crypto Investors Club @ Panera Bread (1908 4th Street North, Saint Petersburg), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash Meetup @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, January 24
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — AWS Security Controls and Auditing @ Robert Half Technology, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay PostgreSQL Users Group — First Postgres Tampa Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cloud Security Alliance Tampa Bay Chapter — Executive Level Panel Discussion on Cloud Security & Strategy @ 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- IIBA Tampa Bay — Microsoft Azure DevOps Workshop! @ Microsoft Corporation, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — Start of new Barrowmaze 1st ed AD&D Campaign. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Dunedin Beers & Board Games — Game Night @ Cueni Brewing Co., 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- BECOMING BRAND YOU – Female Entrepreneur Network — First Event @ 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- IPAs and APIs — QA @ Cueni Brewing Co., 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — WordPress @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Area — January 2019 Meetup! @ O’Brien’s Irish Pub & Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, January 25
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread (112 S Westshore Blvd, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Homebrew Hillsborough — Jan 2019 Homebrew Hillsborough: Demo Day at USF CONNECT @ USF Connect, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Demo Day at Suncoast Developers Guild! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Suncoast Global Game Jam @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — January Board Game Night and Taco Bar Bonanza! @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Shimoneta Anime @ 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — Using Negotiation Skills To Increase Deal Value @ Tampa Centre Club, 8:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Saturday, January 26
- Geekocracy! — Seminole Hard Rock Gasparilla Pirate Festival! @ Taps Restaurant Bar & Lounge, 12:00 PM to 11:59 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tom and Paul’s Birthday Party @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 11:59 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Avid Brew Company, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Sunday. January 27
- Steel TIG Welding Safety and Basic Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (LFP), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Sa Ri One Korean Grill for Lunch at New Brandon Location @ 1025 W Brandon Blvd, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Family Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — Church of Nintendo: Royal Rumble! @ Green Light Bar, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — NerdBrew Karaoke @ Gaspar’s Patio, 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM