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!
It’s a particularly busy week here, as it’s Startup Week Tampa Bay 2019, the fifth annual celebration of the for the Tampa Bay tech and startup scene! Taking place in St. Petersburg on Monday and Tuesday and Tampa for the rest of the week, it’s a series of events and presentations featuring local and global “bright lights” of technology and entrepreneurship sharing their ideas. Check out the schedule, join the fun, and participate in the community!
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, February 4
- Startup Week Tampa Bay, Day 1 @ St. Petersburg locations
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Shadowrun 5 – New Event (LFP 2 openings) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:15 PM to 10:15 PM
- St. Pete Entrepreneurs Book Club: Originals by Adam Grant @ InVision Creative Cafe, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, February 5
- Startup Week Tampa Bay, Day 2 @ St. Petersburg locations
- 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 – Network & Learn After Hours @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Card Games – Tampa — Tuesday night cards! @ Millers Ale House, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Heart of Agile: An Exploration of Collaboration – featuring Alistair Cockburn @ Accusoft East Annex/Technology Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- DefCon 813 — OSCP Exam NW-Tampa Study Group @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay PHP — Laravel for the PHPurist @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- WordPress St Pete Meetup at SDG / Gravity Forms Workshop @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club — Weekly Meeting @ West Pasco Board of Realtors, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- **Spirited Toastmasters** @ St Stephens Catholic School, 6:45 PM to 8:15 PM
- Upskill Tampa — SEO Tips for Small Businesses @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Palm Harbor eMarketing Groups — Why You Can’t Afford to Not Do Video Marketing in 2019, by Tony Rockliff @ iHop (30200 US Hwy 19 South of Curlew Rd · Clearwater), 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — Intro to Selenium with Jim Evans @ 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
- Anime, Nerds and Geeks — Tuesday Night Movies: Mortal Engines @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Wednesday, February 6
- Startup Week Tampa Bay, Day 3 @ Armature Works, Tampa
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Downtown St Pete Networking at tThe Hangar~ Wednesday Mornings @ The Hangar Restaurant, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Panel + Lunch: Women Transforming Tampa Tech | Techstars Startup Week @ Armature Works, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Tampa Bay Wave, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- GraphQL Tampa Bay — Intro to GraphQL @ Perch Security, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ ISC2, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Free Crash Course: Best Practices Development Pipeline for Ops @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Git & Github: Your Coding Safety Net @ CoWorkTampa, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to Python: Fundamentals @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — Fixing Images without a GAN @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Writers Alliance — Five Elements that Create Unforgettable Fiction with Lorin Oberweger @ Barnes & Noble Carrollwood, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Design St. Pete — How to run an effective design sprint @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM
- Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 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
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Harder Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, February 7
- Startup Week Tampa Bay, Day 4 @ Armature Works, Tampa
- February 2019 StartUp Xchange @ St. Pete Brewing Co., 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Cocktails and conversation ~ Hosted by 3 C’s Catering @ Cafe Delanie, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Defcon 813 Monthly Social @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Barrowmaze Campaign @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- WordPress Tampa — WordPress in Higher Education @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Pete Scrabble Night 9: Won’t you be my Scrabbletine? @ Community Cafe, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- IPAs and APIs — Chatbots @ Dunedin Brewery, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Dunedin Beers & Board Games — Game Night @ Cueni Brewing Co., 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Come see The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part @ AMC Veterans 24, 6:45 PM to 9:45 PM
- Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Hands on testing of patches for Drupal Core and Modules and Q&A time @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road · Clearwater), 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Monthly St Pete Business Builders Meetup @ Avid Brew Co., 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- SKILL: Intro To Soldering @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Steel TIG Welding Safety and Basic Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Meet and Tweak – Racing Drone Build Class @ TB Drones & Hobbies, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, February 8
- Startup Week Tampa Bay, Day 5 @ Armature Works, Tampa
- 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
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Grown Up Nights @ 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Mars Astronomy Club — Dinner & Social before the Telescope Clinic @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave · Tampa), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — LaserOps: “The Geekpire” Strikes Back! @ LaserOps, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Mars Astronomy Club — MARS Astronomy Club Telescope Clinic by Joe Reichle, VP @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave · Tampa), 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday, February 9
- Make THS Better Workday @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Racing Drone Free Fly @ Highlander Park, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Advance Civilization Game @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM
- SRQ – FPV — Fun Fly @ 5201 51st St E, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Remote & Self-Employed Professionals of Tampa Bay — Monthly Welcome Lunch @ Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
- Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: Head On @ Bunga Raya Malaysian Cuisine, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bio- Hacking Meetup — Bio-Hacking 1st Meetup 2019 @ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Brain Controlled Drone Race @ USF Sun Dome @ Yuengling Center, 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — Murder mystery dinner! (Vampires and Medieval style) @ 6:00 PM to 11:15 PM
- St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cards Against Humanity – Tampa Bay and Lakeland — Knight Parade – Ybor City [Shared Event] @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Sunday, February 10
- Geekocracy! — Paintball! @ Orbital Paintball, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (LFP), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Dubbed Viewing) @ 12:55 PM to 2:55 PM
- Geekocracy! — Dungeons & Dragons Homebrew Testing @ 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Family Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Pen Turning Class @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E Campaign – Starlight Exhibition @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
