Tampa is the best small tech market in North America, and if you look at what techies are doing here — largely in their spare time, week after week — you’ll see why. They’re getting together, sharing their knowledge, exchanging ideas, hatching plans, helping each other, making friends, and building a community.
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!
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New Meetup groups
A couple of new techie- and nerd-related meetup groups were announced this week:
- Tampa HashiCorp User Group: “This group is a place to meet other developers and ops engineers using HashiCorp tools! HashiCorp enables orgs to provision, secure, and run any infrastructure for any application. DevOps engineers use the HashiCorp product suite of Vagrant, Packer, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, and Consul on a daily basis. We want to get these people together to share experiences.”
- Star Wars Card Collector Tampa: “To swap physical cards and geek out about anything StarWars.”
Monday, September 23
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Daily Campus Tours – SecureSet Tampa @ SecureSet, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- OK! TRANSMIT Art + Technology Meetup — Art + Technology Meetup No. 13: CREATIVE CODING ! @ Station House, 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
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Wesley Chapel Speaks Toastmasters @ Edward Jones Building, 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
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, September 24
- Women in Agile (WIA): Women In Confidence – Information Only @ University of South Florida, 8:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Elevated for Success Women’s Networking Group — Connect and Chat – Roundtable Mastermind @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Lunch McAllisters Deli @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Women In Agile (WIA): How Women Rise — Malwarebytes Clearwater Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Figma Tampa Bay — Monthly Meetup – Topic is Illustration @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — September Business Excellence Meetup @ ConnectWise, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Liz Herdter presents Cheatsheets! @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK RAW BAR & GRILL – MADEIRA BEACH – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Wednesday, September 25
- Downtown St Pete Networking at the Hangar @ The Hangar, The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Little Guardian / EarthEver.org @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Melaleuca / What Can I Help You With @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 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
- Speakers Circle Toastmasters @ Fort Brooke Parking Garage 3rd Floor meeting room, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps — Gitlab @ Accenture, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
- Talking Mocs (Florida Southern College) Toastmasters – 4615 @ Florida Southern College, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Software QA and Testing Meetup — 🤖 Test Automation Tips & Tricks: Selenium Locators & Waits @ Sogeti Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Critical Hit Games — Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Creative Loafing’s Best of the Bay Party! @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- HackerX (Invite-only recruiting event for developers) Tampa @ Tential, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Wednesday After Work Gathering @ Bar Louie, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- St. Pete Podcasters @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa JUG (Java Users Group) — VDD: Value Driven Development – 10 Golden Rules for incremental Greatness @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Code Katas — Monthly Code Kata sponsored by Proforma @ 215 E Davis Blvd, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin/Blockchain Meetup: Networking, News, Q&A @ Coastal Cantina and Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 26
- Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Work From The Undercroft @ The Undercroft, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- GraphQL Tampa Bay — Data in Real Time @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center III, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Introduction to PowerShell @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Network After Work Tampa at MacDinton’s Irish Pub & Restaurant @ MacDinton’s Soho, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile Coaches Blitz: Self Improvement Month @ Catalina Marketing Corporation, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Architecting a Serverless SaaS Solution @ Nigel Frank International, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Portkey to Magic — Portkey Game Night @ Jacks London Grill, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Vue.js Tampa Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- IIBA Tampa Bay — IIBA Tampa Bay Q3 2019 Social & NEW BOARD INTRO! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play — Let’s play some games @ 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Hacking the Human (Members Only) @ The Undercroft, 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
- America’s TriviAddiction — CAPTAIN’S CORNER – BROOKSVILLE – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Hungry Coders — Eat and Talk Code @ BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, 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
- America’s TriviAddiction — JACK WILLIE’S BAR GRILL & TIKI – OLDSMAR – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Central Florida Red Hat User Group (CFRUG) — CFRUG September Meeting! @ Tech Data Corporation, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Cryptocurrency Tampa Meetup — Build a cognitive IoT app in just 7 steps – Chris Tyler of IBM @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, September 27
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Women Lead Tampa Bay @ Pipeline Tampa, 8:00 AM
- Trinity Odessa Toastmasters @ Holiday Inn Express Trinity, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Sept 2019 Homebrew Hillsborough: Five Labs @ FIVE Labs, 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Let’s Do Lunch and Network! – Tampa @ The Stone Soup Company, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Gulf Coast GIS User Group Meeting @ Manatee Community Foundation, 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
- Under Cover Billionaire Master Mind # 2! @ 8130 Lakewood Main St, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Howl-O-Scream 2019 Busch Gardens @ 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM
- Geekocracy! — Card Game/Board Game Night at 81 Bay Brewery! Bring your Dogs @ 81 Bay Brewery, 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Saturday, September 28
- Woodshop Router Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- GDG Suncoast — DevFest Tampa Bay @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Code + Coffee @ Station House, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- WordSmitten Writers Workshop — Beginners’ Workshop @ 7047 Sunset Dr S, 11:45 AM to 12:45 PM
- Tampa Bay Book Club — “Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee @ Tre Amici At the Bunker, 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Saint Petersburg Board Games Meetup — Board Games Night @ 4519 Burlington Ave N, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Suicide Girls: Blackheart Burlesque @ The Tampa Theatre, 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM
- Geekocracy! — Dino Bio luminescence Kayak Tour @ A Day Away Kayak Tours, 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, September 29
Upcoming events
- BarCamp Tampa Bay 2019: Tampa Bay’s biggest unconference! Imagine a conference where there are no scheduled talks until the day it happens, and those talks are scheduled and given by the attendees. There are no spectators — we’re all participants! That’s BarCamp in a nutshell. BarCamp happens on Saturday, October 5th at Keiser University Tampa.
- Tampa Community Connect: You may know Tampa’s annual community tech conference by its old name, Tampa Code Camp, but like the initials, it’s the event you know and love! Come to this all-day event and sharpen your hard and soft techie skills. Tampa Community Connect happens on Saturday, October 26th at Keiser University Tampa.
Tampa Bay technology articles
- Tech employment posts significant growth in the Tampa area (Business Observer)
- Community Voices: It’s time for a new approach to close the gap of 6K tech workers in Tampa Bay (St. Pete Catalyst)
- Could competitive video gaming be the next big thing in Tampa Bay? (Tampa Bay Times)
- What the seven-figure home purchases of top tech leaders says about the industry’s growth in Tampa-St. Pete (St. Pete Catalyst)
Announce your event!
Is there an upcoming tech, entrepreneur, or nerd event that you’d like to see in this list? Let me know — email me at joey@joeydevilla.com!