Category: Current Events

What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 30, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 29, 2017

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 30

Board Game Night @ Armada Games, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Tampa iOS Meetup — Even more augmented reality with ARKit! @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM

Tuesday, October 31

NerdBrew’s 1st Halloween & Anniversary Party! (ft. DJ Vorlauf) @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Wednesday, November 1

Big Data Developers Tampa — Data Science for All: It’s a Whole New Game @ Global OnLine, 6:00 PM

Thursday, November 2

Go Tampa — Distributed Tracing with OpenTracing / Jaeger @ Hive @ John F. Germany Library 3rd floor, 7:00 PM

Friday, November 3

Product Camp Gulf Coast @ Keiser University, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Saturday, November 4

Sunday, November 5

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 23, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 22, 2017

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!

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Board Game Night – Monday @ Armada Games, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 15, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 15, 2017

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!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 9, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 8, 2017

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!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, October 2, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date October 2, 2017

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!

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, September 25, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 24, 2017

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.)

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What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, September 18, 2017)

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date September 17, 2017

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.)