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, 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

 

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 13

• Karma is The New Rich — Great Minds Think Alike @ Stonewood Grill, Sarasota, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Unity User Group — Monday Monthly: Creating an abstract lerping class @ AgileThought, Inc., 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — The Non-Technical Side of Success @ John F. Germany Public Library, 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 Thinkers — Why is income inequality increasing? How can it be stopped? @ Carrollwood Cultural Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women’s Entrepreneurial Think Tank @ Neptune Grill, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Pints & Pixels + Mario Kart Tournament! @ Brew Bus Brewing, 7:00 PM to 11:00 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, August 14

• Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — Townhall with Steve Allen @ 10:30 AM to 12:15 PM
• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Entrepreneurial Trendsetters — Blockchain, Growth Hacking, and Indie Games | Marcus Malcolm @ The Attic, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Monthly (2nd Tuesday) Meeting of the N. Pinellas IBD Meetup Group @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Ybor Tech — August OpenHack @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:30 PM to 9:00 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
• Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Web Entrepreneurs @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Woodshop Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM

Wednesday, August 15

• OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — The Doyenne Company / The Stuby @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Jimmy Teaches Everything / E-CALL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Coppertail Brewing SIP Night @ Coppertail Brewing Co, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa @ Career Convos: Ricardo Daza, PhD, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — QA THE AGILE WAY: TBT @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Session Zero Of D&D 5e The Faerûnian Revival @ The Gamers Guild, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG – Pinellas @ Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• SKILL: Intro To Soldering @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Otaku — Cowboy Bebop: The Movie @ AMC Regency 20, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Grave Of The Fireflies Studio Ghibli Festival 2018 (Dubbed Viewing) @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Indie Game Jammers — Game Showcase @ Google Hangout, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Thursday, August 16

• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread (3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road), 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Technology and Marketing Mastermind — FREE Head Shot Photo Shoot | Networking | Luxury Menswear 80% Discount @ McB’s Menswear Shop – Downtown St Pete, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast Caring Community Toastmasters @ The Garden House at Suncoast Hospice, 5:45 PM to 7:45 PM
• Lean Beer for All Things Agile @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• WITI – Tampa Bay (Women in Technology International) — Big Data @ Tech Data Global Headquarters, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything – WordPress Project & Support Crowdsourcing Meetup @ TEC Garage at SPC Downtown Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Tampa JUG — Revisiting Effective Java in 2018 @ PSCU, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Florida Podcasters Association — Orlando FULL SAIL Quarterly Meetup! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Functional Suncoast — Learn You a Erlang for Greater Good @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Fusion 360 Open Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa.rb: Creating a Blockchain in Ruby @ Andy Beverly School, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Suncoast iOS — Machine Learning for Developers @ ActSoft, Inc., 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Hyperledger: Exploring the Fabric Blockchain @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, August 17

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co. (1607 North Franklin Street), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Grow Financial Agile Tour @ Grow Financial, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Saturday, August 18

• Digital Divas — Lets explore the interesting things Tarpon Springs has to offer and have lunch! @ Rusty Bellies Waterfront Grill, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Florida Aquarium & Fabrica Woodfire Pizza! @ Florida Aquarium, 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• ContentCreators – TOOLS & APPS FOR GENERATING CONTENT @ 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Tampa Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins (2626 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater), 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Sunday, August 19

• DJs and Producers — PASS THE AUX @ EXECUTIVE STUDIOS, 7:00 PM to 10:00 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, August 6

• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — August Monthly Tampa MeetUp: Crunch Time for NDCH! @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 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
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Tuesday, August 7

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Disaster Preparedness & Business Continuity – Panel Discussion 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
• Tampa Bay Investors & Traders — StockTwits Meetups — How to Win Wall Street’s Money @ Panera Bread (3420 W Doctor M.L.K. Jr Blvd, Tampa), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• St Pete .NET Meetup — Deliberate Practice for Programmers with Joe Zack @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• CLEARWATER eMarketing Groups — Internet Marketing for Business Owners @ I-Hop for MeetUp (30200 US Hwy 19 South of Curlew Rd., Clearwater), 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Pathfinder Society of the Tampa Bay Area — PFS @ Serenity Games @ Serenity Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• St Pete .NET Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — AMC $5 MOVIES – The Darkest Minds @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Wednesday, August 8

• Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Tampa Counseling and Wellness / Yummi Foods, 9:00 AM
• Google Cloud for Healthcare Southeastern U.S. — Migrating to the Google Cloud Platform – How to get started – Tampa event @ Vology, 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Encryption @ SecureSet, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile — Product Owner Group – Aug: User Feedback – How does it really work? @ KForce, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- August Meeting @ St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — TBDSG Standard Meeting: Round Table Discussion @ Alessi/Vigo Foods Bacardi Memorial Tasting Room, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Crypto Investors Club @ Panera Bread, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ Marble Side Building, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG – Tampa @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s!, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Thursday, August 9

• Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Jackson Harbour Island Bar, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
• Organizational Culture and Engagement Problem Solving — Regularly Scheduled Meeting @ South University – Tampa, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread (3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico), 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• NEW BEGINNING TOASTMASTERS — First Baptist Chr-St Ptrsbrg, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Upskill Tampa — SEO Tips for Small Businesses @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Intro to Web Programming Crash Course: Not Another To Do List! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Ethical Hacking & Cyber Security for Young Professionals — Beer and Wireless Hacking @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Hyperledger: Storing and retrieving data with Fabric @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, August 10

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread, 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 @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Tampa Bay Salesforce Developer Group — Lightning Champions @ Bisk Education, 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
• Tampa Drones Meetup — Catch a Sunset @ Seminole Water Front Park, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Congo River Minigolf in Clearwater! @ Congo River Golf, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Saturday, August 11

• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — National Day of Civic Hacking – St. Petersburg @ Suncoast Developer’s Guild, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — National Day of Civic Hacking – Tampa @ Industrious Tampa, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
• Tampa Drones Meetup — Racing Drone Free Fly @ Highlander Park, 10:00 AM to Sunday, 1:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — G.A.M.E RPG Convention @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:30 AM to 10:30 PM
• Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: The Fold @ Lagerhaus Brewery & Grill, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

• Tampa CE-5 Ambassador to the Universe Meetup — AUGUST REGULAR CE-5 Meet up @ 7:00 PM to Sunday, 2:00 AM
  

Sunday, August 12

• Geekocracy! — Disc Golf at Picnic Island @ Picnic Island Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Bay MIDI Synthesizer Meetup — Clearwater Discuss, Show&Tell @ Clearwater Public Library System – Main Library, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Looking for Players), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 1:00 PM to 5:00 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, July 30

• 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
• YouTube Support Group — Creating Simple Graphics for your YouTube Channel and Videos @ Village Inn (9107 4th Street, , St. Petersburg), 7:00 PM to 8:00 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
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM

Tuesday, July 31

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Bay IIBA – Virtual Lunch and Learn Series: Work with Passion @ online, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• BoardMeetings – Meet People, Play Games — Karts for Kids – A Mario Kart Tournament for Charity @ Park & Rec, 6:00 PM to 11:59 PM
• Power BI User Group Meeting – July 2018 Tampa @ ConnectWise, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Sisters in Technology — Network After Work @ Panera Bread (364 Brandon Town Center Mall, Brandon), 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Portkey to Magic — Happy Birthday Harry! Trivia Night @ Jacks London Grill, 6:45 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
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Indie Game Jammers — Game Jam Final Showcase @ online, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Play Overwatch at ‘Geek Out!’ & Taco Tuesday Night! @ Geek Out! Games, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• NerdBrew Trivia: Harry Potter (Part 2)! @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 11:30 PM

Wednesday, August 1

• 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 — Proper Edible Cookie Dough / LumaStream @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — PixelStix / Vivid Consulting Group LLC. @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — Entrepreneurs Workshop @ Rocky Point Centre, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ Healthesystems, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — Quantifying the Human Brain During Human-Computer Interaction @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Games & Grog Night @ Peabody’s (Palms Lounge), 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 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

Thursday, August 2

• Coffee and Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread (3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico), 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Fermidox – Tampa’s Premier Digital Marketing Social Club — Digital Mixer – Influencers in Marketing, Data, Dev & More @ Rock Bros. Brewing, 5:30 PM to 7:30 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
• American Marketing Association, Tampa Bay Chapter — AMA After Hours Networking Event @ CoWorkTampa, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Agile / Tampa Bay Area Software Craftsmanship Meetup — Welcome to the Heart of Agile: 4 Words + a Community (Dr. Alistair Cockburn) @ Malwarebytes Clearwater Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Building a Serverless Website – Presentation by Amazon @ Nielsen, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• 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
• Tampa Bay DevOps — DevOps and Artificial Intelligence AI @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay RPA — Learn how Software Automation / RPA can provide you a competitive advantage @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Choosing a WordPress Host: Q&A @ TEC Garage at SPC Downtown Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Introduction to Hyperledger @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, August 3

• 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, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa — The Importance of Public Art (and supporting local artists) with Mark Aeling and Carrie Jadus @ 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
• Tampa Bay Comic Con! @ Tampa Convention Center, 10:00 AM to Sunday, 6:00 PM
• Speaking and Presentation Skills Success — Negotiation Strategies @ 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa eMarketing Groups — Lunch & Learn: Promoting Yourself and Your Brand On and Offline @ Co-Work Landing, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Beginner’s Intro to Capture The Flag @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Capture the Flag: Cybersecurity Hackathon! @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Marvel v. DC @ Tampa Bay Comic Con! @ Tampa Bay Comic Con, Tampa Convention Center, 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Saturday, August 4

• 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
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg — Board Games @ Serenity Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Marvel v. DC @ Tampa Bay Comic Con! @ Tampa Bay Comic Con, Tampa Convention Center, 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Sunday, August 5

• 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 (2815 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Blood Rage @ 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Critical Hit Games — D&D Adventurers League: Level 1-4 Tables @ Critical Hit Games, 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Coming up