Category: Current Events

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, nerds, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, October 2, 2017

• Game Club Tampa — Play D&D5e (Looking for Players) @ Grand Arena, 5:30 p.m.
• Tampa Bay SQL Business Intelligence and Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ Microsoft, 6:00 p.m.
• Board Game Night @ Armada Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
• New South Tampa Toastmasters Club  @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 p.m.
• Network & Learn, Productivity Hacks for Busy Entrepreneurs @ Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Tampa Hackerspace Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Tampa JavaScript Meetup — Code Challenge Night! @ Gaspar’s Patio Bar & Grille, 6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• GDG Tampa Bay/Tampa Bay Android Developers Group/Women TechMakers Tampa — Using Kotlin to develop for Android with an intro to Progressive Web Apps @ Big Fish App Development Studio, 7:00 p.m.
• St Pete .NET Meetup — CODE: The fundamental things apply, as time goes by @ Agile Thought, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Suncoast Toastmasters Weekly Meeting @ Western & Southern Life, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Star Wars: Destiny Organized Play @ Armada Games, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 4, 2017

• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — U Pin It @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — LaunchCode, Socread Inc., and LITA @ Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.
• Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ Tampa Bay WaVE FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 a.m.
• Tampa Bay GIS User Group October Meeting @ FDOT D7 Auditorium, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – October Meeting @ Gerdau Ameristeel, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Guild Ball Open Play / Demo Night @ Armada Games, 6:00 p.m.
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Swing Dancing in Gulfport Casino @ Gulfport Casino, 7:00 p.m.
• Gulfport Toastmasters @ Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• ReactJS Tampa Bay — REST in Peace: The Rise of GraphQL @ Exzeo, 6:30 p.m.
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — The Skeptic’s Guide To Artificial Intelligence @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Laser Cutter Orientation — Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Maverick’s Weekly Free Entrepreneur Capital-Raising Training @ Panera Bread, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• NerdBrew Trivia: South Park! @ Palms Lounge, 7:30 p.m. – 10:45 p.m.

Thursday, October 5, 2017

• Coffee and Cloud Insights Breakfast Series @ Concerto Cloud Services, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
• Tampa# – C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• Nutanix Technology Bootcamp @ Topgolf, 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• Focus On You Strategy Entrepreneur Meetups — CEO Exchange Hosted by Pilot Bank @ Pilot Bank, 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa / Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Capture the Flag @ SecureSet, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Drupal Users Group Meeting @ Panera, 6:00 p.m.
• Transformations In The Cloud — What is Dynamics 365? @ Panera, Sarasota, 6:30 p.m.
• Build Your Own 3D Printer: Mechanical 1 of 3 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — No Game No Life Zero (Subbed Viewing) @ 7:00 p.m.
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.

Friday, October 6, 2017

• Agile Open Florida 2017: “Beyond Agile” @ Polk State College, Lakeland, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Café con Tampa — Improving Transit Across the Bay & Across the Street @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
• Urban Centre Toastmasters @ Urban Centre – Tower One – Kennedy Conf. Room, 12:00 p.m.
• Government Blockchain – Tampa — Meet and Greet @ World of Beer, 6:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — First Friday, Block Party in Downtown St. Pete, 6:00 p.m.
• LFP – (Super) H.E.R.O.S – Champion RPG game @ Grand Arena, 6:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 7, 2017

• Cigar City Multirotors — ROBOTICON Tampa Bay DAY 1 @ USF SunDome, 8:00 a.m.
• Gulf Coast Makers — ROBOTICON Tampa Bay @ USF SunDome, Saturday 9:00 a.m. – Sunday 5:00 p.m.
• Cigar City Multirotors — Meet, greet and fly! @ Hamilton Park, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
• Dungeons & Dragons Adventurers League @ Armada Games, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 8, 2017

• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup / Tampa Ethereum Meetup — Learn about libraries, dependencies and upgrading contracts on Ethereum @ Blockspaces, 1:00 p.m.
• Kids’ Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, nerds, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, September 25

• Digital Photo Artists — DPA Monthly Dinner at Bogey’s Sports Pub (5:00 p.m.)
• Game Club Tampa — Play D&D5e (Grand Arena, 5:30 p.m.)
• Board Game Night (Armada Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.)
• Eat, Drink, Cryptocurrency (7770 52nd St N, Pinellas Park, 6:30 p.m.)
• Digital Photo Artists — DPA Monthly Meeting – DRONES with Jack Elka (7:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters (SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)

Tuesday, September 26

• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education— Souper Tuesday, Top 3 Lessons of Entrepreneur Success – Stephen Supe (Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Westshore Toastmasters (FIVE Labs, 1:00 p.m.)
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming (Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 p.m.)
• Clearwater FL How To Make Money In Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency — How To Make Money Passively From Home Using Bitcoin & Crypto (5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
• ADVANCED – Education on Financial Technologies — AI, Machine Learning and Data Analytics at The University of South Florida (6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
• Tampa iOS Meetup — A special last-minute meetup with a special topic: Intro to Augmented Reality! (Sourcetoad, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Functional Ybor — September Meeting – Functional Hack (Tre Amici At the Bunker, 6:30 p.m.)
• Code Katas — Let’s get together and do some more advanced code challenges! (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Taco Tuesday at BarTaco! (BarTaco, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Hackerspace Woodshop Safety (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 p.m.)
• Star Wars: Destiny Organized Play (Armada Games, 7:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, September 27

• Tampa Toastmasters Meetup — September Meeting (Quest Diagnostics, 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay WaVE OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups (Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• One Million Cups Tampa — On the Go and Yummi Empanadas (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Council of Ricks Meetup: Rickmobile @ the Parcade! (The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)

• Smart and Sustainable Cities Panel (Patel College of Global Sustainability, USF, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
• (Monthly) Azure User Group: Fun with Azure Search by John Calloway — (Wolters Kluwer, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — Project Night: TBDSG HACK ZIKA 2017 PREP! (SOFWERX, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards Party 2017 (6:00 p.m.)
• Tampa DevOps Leadership — Hashi, Containers and Kubernetes (6:00 p.m.)
• Guild Ball Open Play / Demo Night (Armada Games, 6:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Test Automation — RSVP (81Bay Brewing Company, 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night — (Critical Hit Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.)
• Gulfport Toastmasters (Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Bradenton Toastmasters – Let’s Go!!!!!!!!!!!! (Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• ReactJS Tampa Bay Meetup at The Iron Yard (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Bitcoineers — Bitcoin Meetup (Coastal Cantina & Grill, 7:00 p.m.)
• Opportunities and Threats with Connected Cars (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
• Carrollwood Toastmasters (Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure (7:00 p.m.)
• The Next Female Entrepreneur of Tampa — How To Use LinkedIn For Work or Business (Online, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Thursday, September 28

• Geek Breakfast (Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
• September 2017 StartUp Xchange (Green Bench Brewing Co., 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
• One More Customer, Tampa FL — Learn the 7 Digital Hacks that will help drive revenue… (Glory Days Grill, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays (Panera, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay AWS User Group — September Meetup: Avoiding Cloud Jail and Controlling AWS Spend (Concerto Cloud Services, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Agile — DevOps: A Catalyst for Enterprise Agility (Heidi Araya & Esteban Garcia) (Nielsen, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Code Lakeland — Tech Entrepreneurship with Todd Baylis (Catapult, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Nerd Night Out — NerdBrew meetup- boards & booze (Peabody’s — Palms Lounge, 6:00 p.m.)
• The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play — Playing Games at Perkins (Perkins, 6:00 p.m.)
• St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House (St. Pete Makers – new location, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Suncoast.js Workshop Meetup at The Iron Yard (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Python — Hack Zika 2017 jump start! (Tampa Bay WaVE, 6:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Area Software Craftsmanship Meetup — Craftsmanship Group Discussion – TBD (Panera, 6:30 p.m.)
• Suncoast iOS — Use Promises to simplify asynchronous code (VACO LLC, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — WordPress (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, September 29

• Café con Tampa — Harry Cohen, Tampa City Council Member (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Learn CyberSecurity Tampa/Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — SecureSet Tampa Open House (SecureSet, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• FileMaker Developers Meetup — FileMaker Design Review (PK Information, 5:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Networking Social at The Fly Bar Rooftop (Fly Bar & Restaurant, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Hack Zika 2017: A Mosquito Control Hackathon (Tampa Bay WaVE, Friday 7:00 p.m. – Sunday 12:00 p.m.)
• Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Howl-O-Scream 2017 at Busch Gardens! (7:00 p.m.)
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — KICK ASS FRIDAY NIGHT! (7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, September 30

• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — MEGACON TAMPA 2017 (10:30 a.m.)
• MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Drones — Meet and Tweak (Barbara S. Ponce Public Library, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Joomla! User Group Tampa — E-Commerce for everyone with J2 Store (John F. Germany Public Library, 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Gaming and Streaming Fall Meetup (Lowry Parcade & Tavern, 3:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)

Sunday, October 1

• Tampa Drones — Open Fly Day – Fly what you have! (Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 a.m.)
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Small World (1:00 p.m.)

Every week (okay, with the exception of last week, thanks to one Hurricane Irma), I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, September 18

• Tampa Bay DevOps September Meetup (Salesforce Tampa, 6:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters (SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)

Tuesday, September 19

• Valpak Agile Tour (Valpak, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Westshore Toastmasters (FIVE Labs, 1:00 p.m.)
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming (Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 p.m.)
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Network & Learn, Greg DeCarlo, What is Dynamics 365? (Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Pinellas SQL User Group — Topic TBD (6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

• Tampa Bay WaVE — 1776 Challenge Cup Tampa (Tampa Theatre, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)

• Ybor |> Elixir — September Meeting – Intro to Dialyzer (KForce Tampa, 6:30 p.m.)
• Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting (IHOP, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro (6:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Laravel — Discuss What’s New in Laravel 5.5! (DirectMail2.0, 7:00 p.m.)
• Code Katas — Let’s get together and do some fun code challenges! (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• St Pete .NET Meetup — DevOps and ALM with Chris Hudson (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, September 20

• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Advomate and A Better Life, LLC (St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Operation Startup, WeGo kids, and Hillsborough Community College Dance Program (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs (9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group — Pinellas meetup (Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Harry Potter-themed murder mystery (Jack’s London Grill, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night (Critical Hit Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Gulfport Toastmasters (Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Food, Drink, & Idea Discussion (rescheduled from hurricane, 6:30 p.m.)

• Central Florida CitySec — CigarCitySec Meetup (Cigar City Brewing, 7:00 p.m.)
• Girl Develop It — Volunteer + Instructor Kickoff Meeting (7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Hackerspace — 3D Printer Orientation (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• St. Pete Makers — 3D Printer Maker Night hosted by FreeFab 3D (NEW FreeFab 3D location, 7:00 p.m.)
• Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (Intro) (7:00 p.m.)
• NerdBrew Trivia: Doctor Who! (Palms Lounge, 7:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.)

Thursday, September 21

• IAMCP(International Association of Microsoft) Tampa Chapter — What’s your #Truth? Perception, Brand, and Bringing it all Together (Microsoft Offices, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Volunteer for charity at The 26th Annual Gourmet Feastival! (5:00 p.m.)
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays (Panera Bread, 5:30 – 9:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Agile — Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Bad Monkey, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- September Meeting (St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott (Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 6:00 p.m.)
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Careers and Trends Talk: A Conversation with Nielsen (SecureSet, 6:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Internet of Things Developer Group — Securing the Connected Car with Drew Moseley and TankBot – Catchup Meeting (Microsoft Office, 6:30 p.m.)
• Functional Suncoast — Let’s Build An SPA with Elixir/Phoenix and Elm (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• The Tampa Ruby Brigade — Live Coding: Dual… or Duel? (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Bay Area — Grab Dinner and Talk! (7:00 p.m.)
• Wesley Chapel WordPress Meetup — Introduction to WordPress (7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Cocoaheads — Build a SQLite Framework in Swift (ActSoft, Inc., 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Hackerspace Woodworkers Guild (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, September 22

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) (Panera, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
• Café con Tampa — Steve Seibert, Florida Humanities Council (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Virtual Assistants & Entrepreneurs Meetup of Tampa Bay (6:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Networking Social (Fly Bar Rooftop, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• LFP – (Super) H.E.R.O.S – Champion RPG game (Grand Arena, 6:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.)
• Hack Zika 2017: A Mosquito Control Hackathon (Accusoft, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, September 23

• Ixlan Prerelease Weekend (Critical Hit Games, Saturday 12:00 a.m. – Sunday 7:00 p.m.)
• Girl Develop It — Intro to App Building with Salesforce (Microsoft Store – International Plaza, 10:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Advanced Articulators Toastmasters (North Tampa Branch Library, 1:00 p.m.)
• Sarasota Game Design & Development — Monthly Demos and Design (Ringling College – Academic Center, Room 120, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 4:30 p.m.)

Sunday, September 24

• Kids’ Open Make Day (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• YouTuber’s meetup in Tampa (Q-Zar Lazer Tag, 2:00 p.m.)
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) (Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Tuesday, September 5

• Tampa Bay Cyber Security Meetup — SANS – Tampa – Clearwater 2017 (7:00 a.m.)
• Drone Pilots of Tampa Bay Florida — Monthly meeting (St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Hackerspace member meeting (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa JavaScript Meetup — Code and Chille @ Gaspar’s Grille (Gaspar’s Patio Bar & Grille, 6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• GDG Sun Coast / Tampa Bay Android Developers’ Group — Google Play: Tools, App Submit, Beta Users & Hacking Apps w/ Google Apps Scripts (CareSync, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Clearwater FL How To Make Money In Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency — How To Make Money Passively From Home Using Bitcoin & Crypto (7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Welcome to the Whedonverse (The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, September 6

• Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs (FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — RobinAlbright.com and Dutchess Consulting (St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Mosquito Hunters of Tampa and The Learning Strategy, Inc. (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay Technology Networking meetup (Ulele, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – September meetup (AgileThought, Inc., 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Gulfport Toastmasters meetup (Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa# – C# and .NET — Deployment Techniques and Microservices with .NET Core 2.0 (The Hive, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup (Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Wesley Chapel WordPress Meetup — Introduction to WordPress (7:00 p.m.)
• Women in Linux Tampa Bay — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (7:00 p.m.)

Thursday, September 7

• OpenWERX Challenge: AirSpew (Doolittle Institute SOFWERX – Ybor City, 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• WordPress St. Petersburg — Agile Project Management: A Panel Discussion (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Suncoast.js meetup (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• PHP as a Social Activity — The Corner Workbench (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Build Your Own 3D Printer: Intro (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
• St. Pete How To Make Money Passively From Home With Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency! (Recreation Room 1st Floor, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Friday, September 8

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) (Panera, 7:30 a.m.)
• Café con Tampa — State Senator Denise Grimsley: The Campaign for Florida’s Next Commissioner of Agriculture (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Virtual Assistants & Entrepreneurs Meetup of Tampa Bay meetup (6:00 p.m.)

Saturday, September 9

• Veterans and Non Veterans Entrepreneurship — Utilizing Social Video Platforms to Expose Your Business (Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore, 12:00 p.m.)
• Nerd Night Out — Book Club: Furiously Happy (Cuenelli’s Rotisserie Chicken, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
• Game On – Gaming — D&D 5e – Early Session (1:00 p.m.)
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa / Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — SecureSet Tampa Open House (SecureSet, 2:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Game Club Tampa — East Texas University: The Burn (Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.)
• Tampa AstroHackers Group Meeting (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m.)
• Nerd Night Out — Largo Game Night (Waypoint 6 Tavern & Geekery, 7:30 p.m.)

Sunday, September 10

• Tampa Drones — Open Fly Day @ Wesley Chapel (10:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup / Tampa Bay Ethereum Meetup — Lets create Tampa Bay Token (TBT) as an ERC20 standard (Synoc Lab @ Synergy Internet Business Center, 1:00 p.m.)
• Kids’ Open Make Day (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) (Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

 

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Don’t forget that we’ve got a long weekend coming up thanks to Labor Day. This week’s calendar includes Labor Day Monday.

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, August 28

• Eat, Drink, Cryptocurrency meetup (Barbara S. Ponce Public Library, 6:30 p.m.)
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — Hayao Miyazaki’s Castle in the Sky (6:30 p.m.)
• SKILL: Intro To Soldering (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:30 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters (SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
• Digital Photo Artists — August Meeting – Photo Critique and Judging (7:00 p.m.)
• SEO Basics from a Professional SEO — Set Up Google Optimized Social Property (Facebook, Twitter, etc) (Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Tuesday, August 29

• August 2017 StartUp Xchange (The Mandarin Hide, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.)
• Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
• Women Who Code Tampa / Tampa Bay Agile — All About Agile (AgileThought, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Code Katas — Let’s get together and do some more advanced code challenges! (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — You’re invited to this open Toastmasters Club in South Tampa, Monday’s at 7 p.m! (Unity of Tampa, 7:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, August 30

• 1 Million Cups Tampa — The Messengers:A Podcast Documentary / TSOLife (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• (Monthly) Azure User Group: Intro to CosmosDB by Santosh Hari (AgileThought, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Code for Tampa Bay Special Meeting (SOFWERX, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 — Gulfport Toastmasters (Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (Intro) (7:00 p.m.)
• Laser Cutter Orientation (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• WordPress New Port Richey — Gravity Forms – an Introduction (Imagine-Invent-Create­, 7:00 p.m.)
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain Meetup: Clearwater (Coastal Cantina & Grill, 7:00 p.m.)

Thursday, August 31

• Geek Breakfast (Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Under the Hoodie: Tech Experts Talk Branding Yourself and Landing The Dream Job (SecureSet, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Suncoast.js meetup (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m.)
• Suncoast iOS — Creating Rich Custom UI Notifications in iOS 11 (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, September 1

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) (Panera, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
• Café con Tampa — Joshua Frank, Bifurcation to Boulevard: Tampa’s Future Without I-275 (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Sarasota Game Jam (Alfred R. Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art and Design, Friday @ 6:00 p.m. – Sunday @ 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — First Friday, Block Party in Downtown St. Pete (6:00 p.m.)
• Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, September 2

• Cigar City Multirotors — Meet, Greet and Fly! (Hamilton Park, 10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.)
• S.T.E.M. Education Meetup Tampa Bay — STEM Education Open Forum to Assist in Identifying STEM Resources and Tools (The HIVE, 3rd floor, John F. Germany Library, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
• Tampa LANFest Labor Day Weekend LAN (Tarpon Springs Recreation Department, 12:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)

Sunday, September 3

• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Dim Sum Day (11:30 a.m.)

Monday, September 4 (Labor Day)

• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Labor Day Beach BBQ (11:00 a.m.)

 

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, August 21

• Millennials Networking Professionals Group — South Tampa Professionals (717 South, in the private dining room, 11:30 a.m.)
• Eclipse get-togethers!
  • Boomer Buddies of Tampa Bay (Spinners Rooftop Revolving Bistro, The Grand Plaza Hotel, St. Pete Beach, 12:45 p.m.)
  • Tampa Bay Moves! (MOSI, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
  • Tampa Bay Adventures (SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
  • Eclipse Watch Party! Art Open Studio and Potluck (Life Enrichment Center, 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters (SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
• 3D Printer Orientation (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, August 22

• Millennials Networking Professionals Group — Power Professional Referral Chapter (Acropol Family Restaurant, Largo, 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Bradenton Networking & Education — Souper Tuesday, Everything to know about raising money but afraid to ask (11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
• Toastmasters District 48 (FIVE Labs, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)

• Tampa Game Developers — Let’s see how many GameDevs there are in the Tampa Bay area (PF1 Pro Services, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa JavaScript Meetup — Code and Chili (Gaspar’s Patio Bar & Grille, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Alexa & Lex Developers — Build your first Alexa Skill (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Bitcoineers — Introduction to Crypto-Currency Investing (Grassroots Kava House, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)

Wednesday, August 23

• Tampa Toastmasters Meetup — August 23rd Meeting (Quest Diagnostics, 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Bay Wave — OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups (Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Richter Publishing and Suncoast Compost (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups St. Petersburg — HelloAlex.io and Salt Buddy, Inc. (St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.)
• Tampa Test Automation — Please RSVP (Vology Office, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay AWS User Group — August Meetup: Serverless Computing (Lambda) (The Iron Yard, 6:00 p.m.)

• Tampa Bay Agile — PO Group August: Bob Galen! Increasing your situational awareness (KForce, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — Project Night: TBDSG Standard Meeting (SOFWERX, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Bitcoineers — SegWit Activation Party! (Bay Harbor Hotel, 6:00 p.m.)
• Gulfport Toastmasters (Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Florida Self-Publishers Monthly Meeting (McAlister’s Deli, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay DevOps — August DevOps Meetup – Achieving Mass Sharing and Reuse with Jenkins (Accenture, 6:30 p.m.)
• Learn to Pick Locks (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (7:00 p.m.)

Thursday, August 24

• DIY SEO for Small-Medium Businesses St. Pete — Last Meetup – SEO Lesson 6 (The Iron Yard, 5:00 p.m.)
• Network After Work at The Tampa Club (Tampa Club, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Code Lakeland — A/B Testing for Your Website with Pete Schiebel (Catapult, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott (Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 6:00 p.m.)
• The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play — Playing Games at Perkins (Perkins, 6:00 p.m.)
• Fiverr MeetUp at Panera Bread, Feather Sound, Clearwater (Panera, 6:15 p.m.)

• Tampa Bay Python — pygame Workshop (Tampa Bay WaVE, 6:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Area Software Craftsmanship Meetup — Group Discussion (Panera, 6:30 p.m.)
• Florida Salesforce Developer Group — Salesforce DX & CI CD (Bisk Education, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — WordPress (Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Suncoast.js — Let’s Build A Simon Game in JavaScript (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Intro How To Make Money Passively From Home (Panera, Clearwater, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)
• Woodshop Safety (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 p.m.)

Friday, August 25

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) (Panera, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
• Café con Tampa — Paul Seago, No Casinos, Update on The Gambling Landscape (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• August 2017 Homebrew Hillsborough (Syniverse, 8:30 a.m.)

• Hack Hospitality Hackathon (Station House / The Iron Yard, Friday @ 5:00 p.m. – Sunday @ 8:00 p.m.)
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa/Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Fourth Friday at Rock Brothers (Rock Brothers Brewing, 5:00 p.m.)
• Beer and Bow Ties Benefiting the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay (The Cuban Club. 6:00 p.m.)

Saturday, August 26

• Hack Hospitality Hackathon (Station House / The Iron Yard, Friday @ 5:00 p.m. – Sunday @ 8:00 p.m.)
• Cigar City Multirotors — August MultiGP Points Race (Hamilton Park, 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
• Digital Divas brunch meet and greet — open to all members (11:00 a.m.)
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — The Ancient Magus Bride (subtitled) (2:00 p.m.)
• MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Game Club Tampa — ETU: The Sanctuary (Grand Arena, 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.)

Sunday, August 27

• Hack Hospitality Hackathon (Station House / The Iron Yard, Friday @ 5:00 p.m. – Sunday @ 8:00 p.m.)
• Nerd Night Out — Game Night (Dunkin Donuts, 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) (Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, August 14

• Focus On Entrepreneurs Book Club (Panera Westshore, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — Practical Data Science with D3.js, R, and Python (Tampa Bay WaVE, 6:15 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Kids Academy – Intro to Programming (ages 8-12) (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Kids Academy – Intro to HTML/CSS (ages 8-12) (The Iron Yard, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, August 15

• Tampa Bay Agile — Valpak Agile Tour (Valpak, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.)
• Pinellas SQL User Group — Two Shortened Sessions on Temporal Tables and Azure DataCenter (St Pete College – EpiCenter, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• Weekly Open Make Night (Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay UX — What’s the future of IT in Tampa Bay? Attend this panel discussion to find out! (KForce, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Ybor |> Elixir — Intro to Dialyzer (KForce, 6:30 p.m.)

Wednesday, August 16

• OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs (FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Text Our Company / Sandboni (Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.)
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Startup Tampa Bay / Innclusive (St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.)
• Geek Lunch — Lunch @ Burger Monger in St. Pete (Burger Monger, St. Pete, 12:00 p.m.)
• Suncoast Linux Users Group meetup (Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Power BI User Group (Microsoft, 6:00 p.m.)
• Free Crash Course- Chrome Developer Tools (The Iron Yard, 6:15 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.)
• Nerd Night Out — Disney Trivia (Peabody’s — Palms Lounge, 6:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.)
• Blockchain Meetup: Bitcoin Meetup: Hello $4k! Record breaking month for btc. (Coastal Cantina & Grill, Safety Harbor, 7:00 p.m.)
• Tampa AstroHackers Group Meeting (THS Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Qlikview User Group — Monthly ‘Qlik Pick’ Meeting (7:00 p.m.)
• Central Florida CitySec — CigarCitySec Meetup (Cigar City Brewing, 7:00 p.m.)
• Women in Linux — Linux? Understanding Infrastructure. (Intro) (7:00 p.m.)
• NerdBrew Trivia: Alice in Ponderland (Disney Trivia!) (Palms Lounge, 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.)

Thursday, August 17

• Gulf Coast Makers — SOFWERX Tour & Meetup (SOFWERX, 5:00 p.m.)
• Tech on Tap (Whiskey Joes, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Career Conversations: Economic Development and Tech Careers in Tampa (SecureSet, 5:30 p.m.)
• WITI – Tampa Bay (Women in Technology International) — Colors: Identifying your natural behaviors to build more effective relationships (Tribridge, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.)
• Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Bad Monkey, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Tampa Azure User Group (Microsoft, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.)
• Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott (Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 6:00 p.m.)
• Tampa.rb: Tampa Side – Mystery Meetup! (Andy Beverly School, 7:00 p.m.)
• Functional Suncoast — Putting the functional into .NET with F# (The Iron Yard, 7:00 p.m.)
• Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Bay Area — Grab Dinner and Talk! (7:00 p.m.)
• Florida Salesforce Developer Group — Salesforce DX & CI CD (Bisk Education, 7:00 p.m.)
• PHP as a Social Activity — Meet & Greet (Panera Bread – Westshore, 7:00 p.m.)
• Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Intro How To Make Money Passively From Home (Panera Clearwater, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.)
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Friday, August 18

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Brandon/Riverview)­ (Panera Brandon Town Center, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
• Café con Tampa — Dr. Todd Wills “Physician’s Assistants in Healthcare Today” (Oxford Exchange, 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.)
• Creative Mornings St. Pete @ The Iron Yard (The Iron Yard, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.)
• FileMaker Developers Tampa Bay — FileMaker 16 and DevCon Recap (PK Information, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.)
• Homebrew Computing (Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.)

Saturday, August 19

• Women in Linux — #WILinux Summit 2017 _ Virtual Conference (8:00 a.m.)
• St Pete .NET Meetup — Day of TDD (Agile Thought, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Drones — Open Fly Day @ Wesley Chapel (10:00 a.m.)
• Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m.)
• Clearwater/St. Petersburg Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy (Perkins Clearwater, 3:00 p.m.)

Sunday, August 20

• Tampa Drones — Open Fly Day – Fly what you have! (Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 a.m.)
• Kids’ Open Make Day (Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Deploy a crowdfunding contract to the Rinkeby testnet (Synoc Lab @ Synergy Internet Business Center, 1:00 p.m.)