Category: Current Events

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!

Monday, October 8

• Tampa Bay Cyber Security Meetup — (ISC)² Security Congress @ Monday, 8:00 AM to Wednesday, 7:00 PM
• YouTube Support Group – Tampa @ Village Inn Restaurant (215 N Dale Mabry Hwy, near Kennedy), 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Cybersecurity Career Convos: Let’s talk about job security! w/ Mike Korman @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Games Developer Guild — Monday Monthly: Understanding Game Performance in Unity @ AgileThought, Inc., 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Wesley Chapel Speaks Toastmasters @ Nissan of Wesley Chapel, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Thinkers — Let’s discuss the issues and players on the Florida ballot this November! @ Carrollwood Cultural Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, October 9

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Snowflake Users Group – Talk Data Analytics Strategies with Airlines Reporting @ Jackson’s Bistro Bar & Sushi, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• DTCC Tampa Technology — Fintech: Embracing Innovation to Maximize Value @ The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ IHop (4910 Spruce Street, Tampa), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — AMC $5 MOVIES – VENOM! @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
• St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Woodshop Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM

Wednesday, October 10

• Tampa Bay Cyber Security Meetup — Florida Cyber Conference @ Wednesday, 8:00 AM to Thursday, 6:00 PM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — AcroApp / i911 @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Dropzone Gunner / Ways Security – Companion Call for Help @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay GIS User Group — October Meeting @ FDOT District 7 Auditorium, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Tech — Florida Cyber Conference 2018 @ Tampa Convention Center, Wednesday, 3:30 PM to Thursday, 5:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Empowered Business Networkers of Tampa Bay — Open Networking: October @ Leo’s Italian Grill, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — Product Owner Group – Oct: Selling your Idea: Create a Compelling Elevator Pitch @ South University – Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Beer and Board Game Night St. Pete @ Avid Brew Co., 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — TBDSG Standard Meeting @ Alessi/Vigo Foods Bacardi Memorial Tasting Room, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Getting Started in Tech @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup @ John F Germany Library, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ Marble Side Building, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• St. Pete Shopify 101 — Intro meeting and basic overview of Shopify @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Cryptocurrency Tampa Meetup — Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group Meetup @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Suncoast Skeptics — Think + Drink at South Florida Museum @ South Florida Museum, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s! @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Thursday, October 11

• Big Data Developers in Tampa — IBM Community Day: Artificial Intelligence @ Online, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• Zoho Tampa User Group — Tips and Tricks in Zoho CRM @ Marriott Westshore Hotel, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Kubernetes on Azure from Kinect Consulting @ Microsoft Corporation, 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
• Game Drive — Game Drive’s Video Game Ironman Challenge Development @ John F. Germany Public Library, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Front-End Design Meetup — React Native Up and Running @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — FOR ALL PRO MANAGERS – The Performance Coaching Process: step by step @ WebEx Live-Online Session, 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Clearwater/Dunedin Women’s Business Networking & Empowerment — Networking & Empowerment for Women @ RMT Construction, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• IPA’s & API’s — Beta @ Dunedin Brewery, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Thirsty Theater: Halloween (2018) & Halloween (1978)! @ Villagio Cinemas, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Friday, October 12

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread (6001 W Waters Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg / Tyrone) @ Panera (2420 66th St North, St Petersburg), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — All for Transportation: The Charter Amendment to Address Hillsborough’s Transportation Problems @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Demo Day at Suncoast Developers Guild! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Open House Anniversary 3 Year Party @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Beginner’s Intro to Capture The Flag @ SecureSet, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — Dinner & Social before the M.A.R.S Meeting @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Capture the Flag: Cybersecurity Hackathon @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — New 5e Campaign – Heroes of Faerun (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Strategy board game night and take-out from Cuban Breezes! @ Peral’s PC Repair, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — M.A.R.S: Evidence for Planet Nine presented by Shirley Vuille from SPAC @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Saturday, October 13

• Escape the Grind — Discover What’s Possible Empowerment Workshop @ Empower PT, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• R Ladies Lab! @ The Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Christmas Ornament Craft Class #1 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
• Geekocracy! — 2018 Tampa Oktoberfest Celebration! @ Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park, 12:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: The Jemima Code @ Haveli Indian Kitchen, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Cyber-Jedi’s — Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) aka Information Gathering @ Cisco WebEx Webinar, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Christmas Ornament Craft Class #2 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:30 PM to 4:00 PM
• St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Doctors & Masters — Tampa Octoberfest! @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Portkey to Magic — Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert @ David A. Straz Jr. Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Sunday, October 14

• Geekocracy! — Disc Golf at 22nd St. Park! @ 22nd St Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Come Fly With Us! @ Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Permaculture Tampa Bay — Introduction to Permaculture @ Our Permaculture Farm, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Sunday Game Development and Design @ Cool Stuff Games, 2:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Play Dungeons & Dragons! @ 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Blazblue Big-Screen Tournament! @ Villagio Cinemas, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM

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!

Monday, October 1

• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Expert Series: Randall Nagy @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Python Meetup — Pythonic DevOps @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetup — Art + Technology Meetup No.4 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Great Western Trail @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM

Tuesday, October 2

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Ideas are Easy – Business Ideation Fun and Games @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Plan Before You Build: Information Architecture & Content Strategy @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Startup Legal 101: Advice from Top Startup Lawyers @ Undercroft, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — My Hero Academia: Two Heroes @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• St Pete .NET Meetup — Blazor! All the buzzwords, none of the hassle! @ 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
• Go Tampa — Lexing and Parsing {{for:fun}} @ PowerChord, Inc., 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, October 3

• Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Eat Cheap / School of Rock St. Petersburg @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Assisting Hands Gulf Coast / Aviles Translations, LLC @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center. 9:00 AM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open Code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — Entrepreneurs Workshop @ Industrious Tampa, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ Vology Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to JavaScript: Build a Guessing Game @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Design St. Pete — How UX and Agile can be friends @ Cottonwood Bayview, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
• Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• America’s TriviAddiction @ GIL & RICK’S SPORTS BAR – LARGO – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — ‘Mean Girls’ at the Tampa Theater! *Wear Pink* @ Tampa Theater, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Thursday, October 4

• Drupal Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Modern Web Design & Development Meetup, focusing on Drupal CMS @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• WordPress Tampa — SEO for your WordPress website @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast.js — Lightning Talks ⚡️ and Creating Recursive Components in Vue.js 💻 @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — $1.00 Tacos at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop! @ Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Friday, October 5

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company (13028 Dale Mabry Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — New 5e Campaign – Heroes of Faerun (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Let’s see ‘Venom’ at AMC Veterans! @ AMC Veterans 24 theater, 6:45 PM to 9:45 PM
• Couples Game Night, Indie Music, & More (Mid 20’s-40’s) — Sales @ Crowbar Tampa, 7:30 PM to 11:54 PM

Saturday, October 6

• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — DotNetConf – Discover the World of .NET @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
• Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Intro to App Building with Salesforce @ Suncoast Developer’s Guild, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Tampa School of AI — Coffee Meetup @ Blind Tiger Cafe, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Women’s Knowledge & Skills Exchange — 1st Meet & Greet !! @ Jimmie B. Keel Community Room D, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Dr. Petrov’s Lab @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Jailbreak! @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:45 PM to 9:45 PM

Sunday, October 7

• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Full), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Geeokcracy — Brunch Brainstorm @ World of Beer (2815 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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!

Monday, September 24

• Digital Photo Artists — Monthly DPA Dinner = Popi’s Place in Lakewood Ranch @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Open Sesame! Garage Door Hacks @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
• Geekocracy! — Play ‘Overwatch’ Deathmatch at Geekout Games and Pizza Party! @ Geek Out! Games, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, September 25

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Defcon 813 — Boot-n-root-beer @ The Wild Rover, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• The return of Tampa iOS Meetup! @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa JUG — The New Java Release Schedule and What It Means to You @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Startup Founder 101 — Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur in Tampa @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Portkey to Magic — Game of Thrones Trivia @ Jacks London Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Laravel — Laravel Nova & What’s New in Laravel 5.7 @ 3rd Floor, 33 6th Street South, St. Petersburg, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa R Users Group — Deep Learning vs Machine Learning in R @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, September 26

• Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — A Gift to Africa / Yummi Foods @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Engineering Marketing Consultants (EMC) / HireMadSkills, Inc. (MadSkills) @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — Blockchain: What it is, How it Works, And What it Means @ Tampa Electric – TECO Plaza Atrium, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – Tampa @ Brickhouse Tavern, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• St. Pete Podcasters — Sept Meeting | Jimmy Murray @ Station House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — Defining your Digital Business Model @ PSCU Financial Services, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• IIBA Tampa Happy Hour! @ Coppertail Brewing Co, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Free Crash Course: Basic JavaScript @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Harder Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• ST PETE SHOPIFY 101 — Intro meeting and basic overview of Shopify @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday, September 27

• Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
• LaunchCode’s Disrupting the Digital Norm @ CAVU, 8:15 AM to 11:00 AM
• ENGAGE – A Network for Evolving Entrepreneurs — Mastering Your Inner Game for Entrepreneurs with Dr Linda @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• Tampa and Orlando Google Cloud Computing Events — Machine Learning Made Easy on Google Cloud Platform & Apigee! @ Tampa Aquarium, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — How to build a WILDLY profitable business off of INSTAGRAM @ The Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Customer Case Study – Verizon and Amazon GuardDuty @ Verizon, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting: Data Engineering at scale with Azure Databricks @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Best Times to Post on Social Media @ In The Loop, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• GDG SunCoast — Flutter Study Jam – Part 3 @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to Node @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — The Transformers (1986) Movie Event @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, September 28

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — Funding our public schools w/ Jeff Eakins, Superintendent of Hillsborough Schools @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Sept 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Cardinal Solutions, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
• The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — RChain: Building “The Coin Faucet” dApp @ BlockSpaces, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Saturday, September 29

• Digital Divas — DIVA BRUNCH @ Cheddars Scratch Kitchen, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Pinchaser’s Cyber Bowling Special! @ Pinchasers / VETERANS location, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Sunday, September 30

• Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Come Fly With Us! @ Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Python Meetup — Free Python Training: New Student Enrollment @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Learn to Play Role Playing Games @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Dunkin’ Donuts (5610 E Fowler Ave), 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

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!

Monday, September 17

• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Cybersecurity Career Convos: Let’s talk about job security! w/ Mike Korman @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cloud Security Alliance Tampa Bay Chapter — 12 Ways to Hack Two Factor Authentication (2FA) – Chapter Meeting [Registration is closed for Sept. 17 event; sign up for podcast] @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetup #3 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Tampa Cashflow Club — Cashflow 101 Game – How to play & game play @ Kat’s Office – BH, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild Jr: Scratch Class for Kids (ages 8-12) @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay DevOps Monthly Meetup: Top Reasons Why DevOps Fails @ Salesforce Tampa, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — A Look at the Open Courts Data Project, with Steve Spiker @ The Attic On Kennedy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Gloomhaven @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• 3D Printer Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• I Love Marketing! – Let’s talk about using marketing to grow your business @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, September 18

• Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — The Entrepreneurs Growth Seminar @ Suntrust Building, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
• Tampa Bay Tech — Nutanix’s X Tour: Imagine What’s Next @ The Florida Aquarium, Tuesday, 11:00 AM to Wednesday, 3:00 PM
• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa SQL User Groups — Powershell for DBA @ St Pete College – EpiCenter, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – Gateway @ Brewer’s Tasting Room, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• The .NETwork: UX @ Kforce, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Power BI Tampa – Fantastic Functions and Where to Find Them – September 2018 @ ConnectWise, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: Project Support & Crowdsourcing Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Python — Python Round Table @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Spirited Toastmasters @ St Stephens Catholic School, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Fear Agent: Dark Secret (Full) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 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

Wednesday, September 19

• Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — ARC Tracker, Inc. and University of Athletes and Athletics @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — QA THE AGILE WAY: TBT @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group @ Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Looking For Players @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay UX Group — Understanding & Managing Biases That Can Influence UX @ 352 Inc, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Resume Writing Workshop with Tech Ladies, GDI, and Suncoast Developers Guild @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Build a Web App with JavaScript & jQuery @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Women In Linux — Understanding Linux, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Getting Your Project from VCarve to CNC (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Thursday, September 20

• Girlfriends&Coffee Networking Group @ Belleair Coffee Company, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
• Digital Marketing Tampa Bay Meetup — Hey Google, what does VEO mean for my brand? @ PowerChord, Inc., 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
• Lean Beer for All Things Agile @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Speakers, Presenters, Managers & Leaders — How not to be a boring speaker and engage your audience @ The Alley at South Shore, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• WITI – STEM Opportunities and Challenges Panel Discussion @ SPC EpiCenter Collaborative Labs, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Crash Course: Intro to Ruby on Rails @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — ‘3rd Thursday’ Food Trucks and Live Music @ The Grand Central at Kennedy, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa.rb: Mystery Meetup! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Enterprise Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, September 21

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co., 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — Connecting Florida’s Major Cities with High Speed Rail w/ Bob O’Malley @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Defcon813 — OWASP Tampa Day 2018 @ 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — Grow Financial Agile Tour @ Grow Financial, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
• Tampa Otaku — MegaCon Tampa @ Tampa Convention Center, Friday, 4:00 PM to Sunday, 5:00 PM
• Tampa Otaku — St Pete Asian Street Fair & Craft Beer Fest – Free Admission @ Albert Whitted Park, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — September Board Game Night! @ Friday, 7:00 PM to Saturday, 12:00 AM
• Open Source Hack and Chill @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Mindful Social Group — Tampa’s “The Power of NOW” by Eckhart Tolle Book Experience @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• CoderNight — Individual Challenge @ Malwarebytes Clearwater Office, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Saturday, September 22

• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — MEGACON TAMPA 2018-Sept. 21st-23rd @ Saturday, 10:00 AM to Sunday, 7:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — 2018 Tampa Bay Megacon! @ Tampa Convention Center, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• MR101: Intro to Drones (Multi-Rotors) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Bradenton Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Meetup — We’re combining Sarasota and Bradenton Bitcoin and Blockchain Meetups this month @ Connect Bradenton, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — KARAOKE NIGHT! @ Fat Cat Tavern, Saturday, 8:30 PM to Sunday, 12:30 AM

Sunday, September 23

• Make Tampa Hackerspace Better Workday and cookout @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Paintball! @ Orbital Paintball, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Full), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Women as Leaders Network (WALN) — WALN’s 2nd Anniversary Party at Axe and Ale @ 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Suncoast Audiophile Society — Sept “Mini Meet”- Oppo 205 vs. outboard DAC’s @ 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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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!

Monday, September 10

• SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Welcome to SpeakEasy Toastmasters Club Meetup Group! @ Hibachi Buffet, 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Women’s Entrepreneurial Think Tank @ Neptune Grill, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
• Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Thinkers — Do we need to tweak the “freedom of expression” part of the First Amendment? @ Carrollwood Cultural Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, September 11

• Business Development and Sales — Leads and Coffee @ Belleair Coffee Company, 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft) Tampa Chapter @ Microsoft Offices, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Monthly (2nd Tuesday) Meeting of the N. Pinellas IBD Meetup Group @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• St. Pete-Clearwater Investor’s Business Daily Meetup Group Monthly Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Tampa Investor’s Business Daily Meetup Group — Monthly Meeting October 3rd (schedule change) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ IHop (4910 Spruce Street, Tampa), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay ServiceNow Developer Quarterly Meeting @ Tampa International Airport-Tpa, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Ybor Tech — September OpenHack @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — FOR ALL PROS – Speaking More Effectively @ WebEx Live-Online Session, 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Web Entrepreneurs @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Brandon Toastmasters Club @ Hillsborough Community College, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Woodshop Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM
• Suncoast Skeptics — Brainy Bowling @ AMF Bowling, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday, September 12

• Tampa Bay WaVE — Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — RaftUp / Galaxis @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Special presentation by US Small Business Administration / Verimour @ 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
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: I^2L: Interactive Introduction to Linux @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Beer and Board Game Night St. Pete @ Avid Brew Co., 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- September Meeting @ St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• TampaDev — Tampa Community Connect Meetup Night, featuring “Getting Started with IoT and Azure”, and “Data Science, and the Changing Role of Data Professionals” @ Keiser University, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast Skeptics — Think + Drink at South Florida Museum @ South Florida Museum, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ Marble Side Building, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Pub Trivia Night at World of Beer! @ World of Beer, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG – Tampa @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Thursday, September 13

• Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Starbucks Reserve in Univ Of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Building, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
• Tampa Education Technology Meetup — Keiser University – Career Fair @ Keiser University – Tampa Campus, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — Digital Marketing 101 for Startups and Entrepreneurs @ St Petersburg College,12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives About Agile (Steven Granese) @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Application Insights – A Deep Dive @ Bloomin’ Brands, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Sisters in Technology — Network after work @ Panera Bread (364 Brandon Town Center Mall, Brandon), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Software QA and Testing Meetup — First Meetup – Tampa Software QA and Testing @ Sogeti Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Front-End Design Meetup — Interactive Web Apps with CSS Variables @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Predator Party Double Feature + Gameshow! @ Villagio Cinemas, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Friday, September 14

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread (6001 W Waters Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg / Tyrone) @ Panera (2420 66th St North, St Petersburg), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — Greg Lindsay, author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Tampa Bay Tech Events — The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — ‘The Predator’ at AMC Veterans 24 – Tampa Joes restaurant after! @ AMC Veterans 24 theater, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
• MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — M.A.R.S Regular Monthly Meeting @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Saturday, September 15

• Geekocracy! — Hillsborough River clean-up: Ricks on the River! @ Ricks On the River, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Learn to Play Dungeons and Dragons @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: Year One @ Three Birds Tavern, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Cyber-Jedi’s — Vulnerability Discovery using NMap @ Cisco WebEx Webinar, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Tampa Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins Restaurant & Bakery (2626 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater), 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• New Port Richey Casual Games and Fun Socializing Group! — Buffet Dinner/sushi and a fun game night to follow. @ Habachi Buffet, 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
• Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Sunday, September 16

• Geekocracy! — “The Back 9” – Disc Golf At Cypress Point Park @ Cypress Point Park, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Full), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

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!

Monday, September 3

Please note: Unless the event has the words “Labor Day” in its title, you should double-check with the organizer to confirm that it’s actually happening.

• Tampa Drones Meetup — Labor Day BBQ @ Hilton RC Airfield, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Retro/Indie Gaming at Brew Bus (Pints & Pixels) @ Brew Bus Brewing, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, September 4

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Positioned for Growth – Opportunity and Timing with Sara Hand After Hours @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Introduction to Writing Persuasive Content for the Web @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• West Pasco Toastmasters #2824 @ West Pasco Board of Realtors, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• **Spirited Toastmasters** @ St Stephens Catholic School, 6:30 PM to 8:15 PM
• CLEARWATER eMarketing Groups — Quick and Easy Ways to Create Content, presented by Michael Crose @ iHop, 30200 US Hwy 19 South of Curlew Rd, Clearwater, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• St Pete .NET Meetup — Introduction to Azure IoT Suite with John Wang @ Bank of the Ozarks Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Pathfinder Society of the Tampa Bay Area — PFS @ Serenity Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Anime, Nerds and Geeks — AMC $5 MOVIES – KIN @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
• St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, September 5

• Tampa Bay WaVE — Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Seed Funders / Givvn @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — User Friendly Credit / Body by Chinyere @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ KForce Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Looking For Players @ Oragnizer’s house, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• USF entrepreneurs and startups networking @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — ML Product Management: Bias and Risk Management @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Sarasota Drone Flying Meetup — Let’s fly The Ringling Museum!!! All experience levels are welcome!!!!!!! @ The Ringling Museum, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Web Development vs Data Science @ CoCreativ, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Thursday, September 6

• FL Biz Incubator Morning Spark Tank @ Dunedin Golf Club, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• Girlfriends&Coffee Networking Group @ Belleair Coffee Company, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
• Tampa# – C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
• Tampa Doctors & Masters — Texas BBQ! @ Smokin’ Pig BBQ, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — The Chosen, a home brew pathfinder variant (FULL) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM
• Drupal Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Modern Web Design & Development Meetup, focusing on Drupal CMS @ Panera Bread, 2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater
• Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – DTSP @ Green Bench Brewing Company, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Bay RPA — NO COST RPA TRAINING @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Vue.js, a new JavaScript Framework @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Frontend Crash Course: JavaScript Fundamentals @ Station House, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast.js — Big O Notation and What is “this” in JavaScript? @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Agile Social — Reflections and Retrospectives – Mini Workshop ‘N Mingle @ City Blue, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, September 7

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Speaking and Presentation Skills Success — List Building For Expanding Success @ Sheryl’s place, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Beginner’s Intro to Capture The Flag & Raffle @ SecureSet, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Capture the Flag: Cybersecurity Hackathon & Raffle! @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Machine Shop Mill and Chill (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Tampa Bay Grand Prix – Go-Karts! (Ladies night specials!) @ Tampa Bay Grand Prix Indoor Go Kart Racing, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday, September 8

• Content Creators — Tips & Tricks of Editing – Guest Speaker @ PRIVATE RESIDENCE, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers – new location, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Doctors & Masters — Art Walk & Canopy! @ The Canopy, St. Petersburg, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa CE-5 Ambassador to the Universe Meetup — September Group CE-5 Meet Up @ 7:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Sunday, September 9

• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM

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!

Monday, August 27

• Tampa Bay Agile — QA THE AGILE WAY: A Speaker Session “Can feedback loops help build team speed” @ Keiser University Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetups — Art + Technology Meetup No.2 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Making Cyber Threat Intel Actionable with Python @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay IIBA — Workshop: Requirements Prioritization Games and Strategies @ KForce Tampa, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Connections — Business Over Beers – Carrollwood @ Brass Tap – Carrollwood, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Women’s Entrepreneurial Think Tank @ Neptune Grill, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Tuesday, August 28

• Business Development and Sales — Leads and Coffee @ Belleair Coffee Company, 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
• Success Strategies for Business Owners — Giving Back is GOOD for Business @ Manatee County Central Library, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs), 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Tampa R Users Group — Tensorflow/Keras! @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• NerdBrew Trivia: Cartoons! @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Wednesday, August 29

• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Fearless Mobile Climbing / Kilowatt Quest @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — NORACORE / Show Up @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — What you need to know about creating an IT Resume @ Computer Coach Training Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• St. Pete Podcasters — Kick-Off Meeting @ Station House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Sarasota Drone Flying Meetup — Let’s fly The Ringling Museum!!! All experience levels are welcome!!!!!!! @ The Ringling Museum, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Crash Course: Intro to React Native @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Harder Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM
• Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Network After Work with Like Minded Entrepreneurs and Grow Your Business @ Best Buy District Office, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Wing Wednesday! $0.89 Wings and Liter of Beer Specials at Shamrock’s Ale House! @ Shamrocks Ale House,7:30 PM to 10:30 PM

Thursday, August 30

• Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
• GDG SunCoast — Migrating to the Google Cloud Platform – How to Get Started @ Vology, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread (3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico), 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Data Analytics Meetup @ CCG, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — The Chosen, a home brew pathfinder variant (FULL) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Cross Promotion: Azure Data Bricks @ 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Game Drive’s Power Up Meetings @ John F. Germany Public Library, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• St. Pete Makers — Intro to Soldering @ St. Pete Makers – new location, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Introduction to Hyperledger @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, August 31

• Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Homebrew Hillsborough — August 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Diamond View, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
• The Green Asterisk Coworking — The Pearl @ 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Pathfinder RPG game (Full) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM

Saturday, September 1

• Cigar City Multirotors — Meet, Greet and Fly! @ Mango Dog Park, 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
• Remote Employees of Tampa Bay — Newcomers Welcome Lunch (new & old alike) @ Panera Bread (3181 Curlew Road, Oldsmar), 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Tampa Python Meetup — CRUD Contest @ 12:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Board game meetup for Oldsmar, Town N’ Country, Westchase area @ The Wild Rover Pub and Brewery, 4:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Sunday, September 2

• Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Fly what you have! @ Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Brunch Brainstorm @ World of Beer, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM