Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 16 through Sunday, December 22, 2024! This list includes both in-person and online events.
Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
- Monday, December 16
- Tuesday, December 17
- Wednesday, December 18
- Thursday, December 19
- Friday, December 20
- Saturday, December 21
- Sunday, December 22
Monday, December 16
Tuesday, December 17
Tuesday evening at Green Bench Brewing, St. Petersburg: St. Pete Connects is holding their December happy hour from 5:30 – 7:30! It’s a meetup for entrepreneurs, founders, and community partners who want to create friendships and network.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, December 18
Wednesday evening at WeWork, followed by Yeoman’s Pub, Tampa: The DUG Tampa Power Platform Meetup is having their December Showcase and Holiday Party! It will start with a showcase of Power Platform applications at 6, followed by going to Yeoman’s around 7:30. Do you have something you build that you want to share? This is your opportunity to show it off, and then celebrate with the group at Yeoman’s!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, December 19
Friday, December 20
Saturday, December 21
Sunday, December 22
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