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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, January 15, 2024)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, January 15 through Sunday, January 21, 2024!

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This week’s events

Monday, January 15

Event name and localeGroupTime
Brunch together on Dr. MLK Day► Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group10:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
In person at Fords Garage St PeteYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Networking at Ford’s GarageTampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals LunchTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Networking at Cafe’ DelanieTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Business Networking MeetingChristian Professionals Network Tampa Bay11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
In PERSON Networking Lunch East Brandon Reserve your seatProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Monday Business Introductions at Romi’s Taco’sTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 15
Hyperledger Bevel 1.0 Release and Road AheadHyperledger Tampa12:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
3D designingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group12:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Orlandopreneur Monthly Happy HourOrlandopreneur5:30PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Monday Feast & Game NightTampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Monthly N. Pinellas Humanist Social DinnerTampa Bay Coalition of Reason6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
MTG: Commander NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location)Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!!Toastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice6:30PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Board Game Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photosSchool is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
DigiMondaysSunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Seminole Heights SocialDefcon8138:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
Weekly MeetupBeginning Web Development8:00PM – Monday, Jan. 15
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Tuesday, January 16

Event name and localeGroupTime
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn League Round 2Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Loner Seekers Euchre – TampaLoner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!Pinellas Writers Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
D&D Adventurers League at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Trivia Night with Trivia NationTrivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young AdultsSt. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on ZoomShut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Clearwater Business Networking12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
v-Lean CoffeeTampa Bay Agile7:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
NPI St. Pete Business Builders Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
January Membership Meeting (Open to Anyone)Tampa Bay InfraGard Meetup Group9:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Transition to a Career in TechCareer Success Academy10:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Bounce Brainstorming SessionVisionary Women Entrepreneurs – Elevate Your Success10:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Transition to a Career in TechFront End Creatives10:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Transition to a Career in TechTampa Cybersecurity Training10:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Transition to a Career in TechTech Success Network10:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass TavernBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All WelcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Westchase Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda~ Meet your next referralTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Westchase Professionals Business Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda 11955 SheldonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New TampaPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New TampaWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
New Tampa RGA Chapter ~ Glory Days Meet your next referral partner!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Networking at Glory Days GrillTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Networking at AppleBee’s St. PeteTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
SWAT Networking Bradenton LuncheonSWAT Networking – Successful Women Aligning Together11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
The Business Alliance ClubThe Business Alliance11:45AM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Private Data Objects: Off-Chain, Privacy-Preserving Smart ContractsHyperledger Tampa12:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Apex Systems – Product Ownership 2.0: Navigating Demands of Agile LeadershipIIBA Tampa Bay1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Tampa to Las Vegas 8 nights HIKING – Air/single room $750, ($447 if you share)Trail Shrinks, Free Speech Hiking, Bike, Live Bands, Dancing1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Weekly Open Make NightTampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
TBSSUG Monthly MeetingTampa Bay SQL Server User Group (TBSSUG)6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Magic: The Gathering Night at FelicitousTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Authors Anonymous – Writing GroupAuthors Anonymous – Writing Group6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing MeetupWordPress Tampa Bay6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Resin Casting Class (respirator REQUIRED)Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
January 2024, Saint Petersburg Book Club, MeetupSaint Petersburg Book Club Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Tampa Bay Technology Center (TBTC) Monthly MeetingTampa Bay Coalition of Reason7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
Reverse Meeting 😬😲🤷‍♂️ – Guests Welcome! (Happy Hour to Follow)Dunedin Toastmasters 21667:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
AMA – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and SoftwareFlorida Center for Creative Photography7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 16
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Wednesday, January 17

Event name and localeGroupTime
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All WeclcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
DOWNTOWN ST PETE YOUNG NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS BREAKFAST AT THE HANGAR!Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Tampa Highrisers ToastmastersToastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup1 Million Cups – Orlando8:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
FREE Tele-Class with Nancy Matthews – *WOW* WednesdayWomen’s Prosperity Network | Volusia County9:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
In Person Networking BRANDON! Just Love Coffee Cafe – Brandon FLProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:15AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Networking at Glory Days Grill!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Networking Professionals Networking LunchTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Professional Networking Lunch Wednesday All Welcome JOIN usProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love CoffeeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Networking at Just Love Coffee!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Business Networking LunchBradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch!Network & Social – Orlando Networking Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion MeetupLady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Playing Games in the AlleyThe Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wednesday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meetingBay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Game Nights5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wednesday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Casual Commander WednesdaysSunshine Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Board Game NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot WednesdaysClermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Board Game Night at Deadwords BrewingBrews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Shut Up & Write!® [Tampa / Armature Works] – IN PERSONShut Up & Write!® Tampa6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Game Night!Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Castaways Euchre ClubCastaways Euchre Club6:50PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
MtG Modern Constructed at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and OnlineToastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords BrewingAdventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
New Beginnings & Old RivalriesCentral Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress WeeklySunshine Games7:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carollwood Professionals Networking Lunch!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Navigating Generative AI – what content creators need to knowData, Cloud and AI in Tampa8:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
East Coast Bootstrappers Breakfast®Bootstrappers Breakfast® – Tampa Bay Area8:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
How to Secure Your First Investment as a Startup Founder in 2024Tampa Startup Founder 1011:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Turn your LinkedIn Profile into a High Converting Sales FunnelNetwork After Work Tampa – Networking Events2:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
TGG hosts Nerdbrew!Tampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Data Analytics – Tampa Bay – JANUARY MEETUPData Analytics – Tampa Bay6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Digital DeLand Monthly MeetingDigitalDeLand6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Monthly Meeting: Focus on CritiquesProse Society Writers Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
CNC Mill – Fusion 360 Class2Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Happy Hour for Young Entrepreneurs & Business LeadersYoung Entrepreneurs of America YEA Meetup Group6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
January Book – Yellowface By R. F. KuangRead Between The Wines Book Club6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Name of the Wind – Patrick Rothfuss MidwayThe Weirder Things Book Club6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
CigarCitySecDefcon8137:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
[Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & CommunityTampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
VCarve BasicsTampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
CigarCitySec MeetupCentral Florida CitySec7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
3D Printing Orientation: Models and SlicersTampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Agile: The GatheringAgile Orlando7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Workshop Wednesdays. Come Craft with Us.Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
How to Express Yourself and Connect with PeopleProfessionals Meetup For Networking And Social Skillsets7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
Ask-a-Developer PanelCode CoOp Tampa8:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 17
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Thursday, January 18

Event name and localeGroupTime
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKINGTampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Clearwater Professional Networking LunchBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a giftYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your businessTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking LunchWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Leads Club MeetingSouth Shore Leads Club11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN PersonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Sarasota Speakers Exchange ToastmastersToastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Simply Referrals Tampa Business Networking12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Commander Open Play Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Thursday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Gulfport Scrabble and SocialGulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
🤠 Country Two Step Thursday Class in TampaTampa Bay Social Dancing (Latin, swing, country & ballroom)6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pathfinder SocietyCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Central Florida Board Gaming at The CollectiveOrlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
BABOK IIBA Tampa Bay Study GroupIIBA Tampa Bay7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
One Piece ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
FABulous ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders PizzaGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Dungeons and Dragons with DonavanUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Live streaming production and talentLive streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Tackle it in Ten – Entrepreneur RoundtablesEntrepreneur Round Table8:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
SBDC USF: Cash Flow vs ProfitabilitySuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup10:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Attacking Azure AD over unsecure Wi-Fi: No password or access code theftOrlando Cybersecurity Meetup11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezCareer Success Academy12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezTech Success Network12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezFront End Creatives12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezTampa Cybersecurity Training12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Machine learning for precision nutritionMoffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club3:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Navigating Generative AI – what content creators need to knowData, Cloud and AI in Tampa3:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
January Happy Hour!Business and Social Networking5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
AWS Customer Case Study: The Walt Disney CompanyTampa Bay AWS User Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Where to Focus Your SEO Efforts in 2024Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
2nd ed. AD&D Campaign.Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Tricia Clements – Google Business Profiles (GBP) in 2024West Orlando WordPress Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Adult Game Night at Conworlds EmporiumTarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass DistrictSunshine Social Deduction Gaming6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
January Book Club Discussion – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Part 1)Sanford Book Club6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa)Tampa Bay Agile6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Writing MeetupTampa Free Writing Group6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
3D Printer Orientation: Printing at Tampa Hackerspace (THS Members only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Operations Automation Office HoursTampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Fun Times on the Lanes this Winter! Join the team, meet some new people! 🎳🍻Professional Ladies Of Tampa! 🥂7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Jupyterlab From Zero to NinjaFlorida Python Ninjas7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Networking at Pier TeakiTampa Marketing Mastermind Group7:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Once Upon a Tome: the Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller – Oliver DarshireSt. Pete Booze and Book Club7:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
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Friday, January 19

Event name and localeGroupTime
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKINGTampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Clearwater Professional Networking LunchBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a giftYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your businessTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking LunchWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Leads Club MeetingSouth Shore Leads Club11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN PersonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Sarasota Speakers Exchange ToastmastersToastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Simply Referrals Tampa Business Networking12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Commander Open Play Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Thursday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Gulfport Scrabble and SocialGulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
🤠 Country Two Step Thursday Class in TampaTampa Bay Social Dancing (Latin, swing, country & ballroom)6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pathfinder SocietyCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Central Florida Board Gaming at The CollectiveOrlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
BABOK IIBA Tampa Bay Study GroupIIBA Tampa Bay7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
One Piece ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
FABulous ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders PizzaGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Dungeons and Dragons with DonavanUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Live streaming production and talentLive streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Tackle it in Ten – Entrepreneur RoundtablesEntrepreneur Round Table8:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
SBDC USF: Cash Flow vs ProfitabilitySuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup10:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Attacking Azure AD over unsecure Wi-Fi: No password or access code theftOrlando Cybersecurity Meetup11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezCareer Success Academy12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezTech Success Network12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezFront End Creatives12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Permission to Dominate Your Career with Liz M LopezTampa Cybersecurity Training12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Machine learning for precision nutritionMoffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club3:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Navigating Generative AI – what content creators need to knowData, Cloud and AI in Tampa3:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
January Happy Hour!Business and Social Networking5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
AWS Customer Case Study: The Walt Disney CompanyTampa Bay AWS User Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Where to Focus Your SEO Efforts in 2024Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
2nd ed. AD&D Campaign.Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Tricia Clements – Google Business Profiles (GBP) in 2024West Orlando WordPress Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Adult Game Night at Conworlds EmporiumTarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass DistrictSunshine Social Deduction Gaming6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
January Book Club Discussion – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Part 1)Sanford Book Club6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa)Tampa Bay Agile6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Writing MeetupTampa Free Writing Group6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
3D Printer Orientation: Printing at Tampa Hackerspace (THS Members only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Operations Automation Office HoursTampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Fun Times on the Lanes this Winter! Join the team, meet some new people! 🎳🍻Professional Ladies Of Tampa! 🥂7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Jupyterlab From Zero to NinjaFlorida Python Ninjas7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Networking at Pier TeakiTampa Marketing Mastermind Group7:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
Once Upon a Tome: the Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller – Oliver DarshireSt. Pete Booze and Book Club7:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 18
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Saturday, January 20

Event name and localeGroupTime
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pokémon Tournament Battles for a Prize!Orlando Pokemon Tournament Meet up2:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, TampaChess Republic9:30AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Coffee, Board Games, & ScrabbleUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Weekly WorkshopPinellas Community Code Workshop12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Winning The Week – 1st MeetWinning The Week12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
FREE Fab Lab OrientationSuncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Earning Your Living by Living Your Dream PreviewOrlando New Entrepreneurship Connections1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Community Hang-out NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Creative business minds & coffeeOrlando Innovative Business Minds: Creative Strategy Meetup8:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Wood Shop Router Table 101 (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
🌐 SAT 1/20 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAMThe Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
IIBA Tampa Bay day of beautification at Duran ParkIIBA Tampa Bay10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Midjourney Basics: Intro & FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Health 2024: Pickleball Class Lev 1&2 (9-Dunedin 11:30-StPet[sun4] )The Pinellas County Young “Professionals”11:30AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
A Day at the Races . . . Horse Racing at Tampa Bay DownsFlorida Center for Creative Photography11:30AM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Campaign with Ray at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Table read screenplaysScreenwriters of Tomorrow/Today, Critique Meetup12:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
January Book Chat 📚🎅🏼 The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline MartinTampa Women’s Bookclub1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
What is Justice? (Philosophy)Clearwater Socrates Café1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
January Book ClubTampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaTampa Book Club – Award-Winning Books3:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Game Project Therapy (Virtual)Tampa Games Developer Guild4:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Marvel Champions Campaign at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Gaming Group5:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
IN-PERSON: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Book 7)Orlando Stoics5:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Lost Mines of Phandelver: Session 3 – DM MikeOrlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Gen Geek Onesie Mini Golf EventGen Geek6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Golf Group – RPG One-ShotsOviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)6:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
Long Exposure Photography – 2nd Ave NE – 7pm – 2 HoursTampa Photography Group7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 20
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Sunday, January 21

Event name and localeGroupTime
Pokémon Tournament Battles for a Prize!Orlando Pokemon Tournament Meet up2:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Warhammer 40KClermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Venice Strategy Board GamersBoard Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
D&D Adventurers LeagueCritical Hit Games2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in YborChess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Pokemon LeagueSunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Game DayDrunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames)4:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Lankhmar: City of AdventureBrandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Swing Dance Sunday at the Torpedo RoomThe Greater Tampa Bay Dance Meetup Group6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Open Game NightUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
A Duck Presents NB Movie NightNerd Night Out7:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!Nerdbrew Events9:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Wild Iris Cafe Breakfast Meet!Dunedin Professional Meetup8:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Craig Park in Tarpon SpringsSuncoast Drone Club9:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Indian Shores Library BooksaleIndian Shores Library Read and Feeds9:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 21
🌐 SUN 1/21 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAMThe Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 21
CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCH AT ROSEMARY & THYMESuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group10:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Large format printingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Board Games at Big Storm in OdessaBeyond Catan, A Group of Board Game Geeks12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Steel MIG Welding Safety and Basic Usage (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Direct to Film Digital PrintingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group1:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
TGG Flea MarketTampa Gaming Guild2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Winter Park Chess Meetup 001Winter Park Social Chess Club2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
D&D Adventures with Kenny – the Lands of Faerun at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Sunday GamingTampa Gaming Guild4:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Continuing adventures in the setting of Symbaroum.St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group5:15PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts)Tampa Hackerspace5:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
Worst Case ScenarioIts Game time6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 21
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky
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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, January 8, 2024)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the first week of 2024 — Monday, January 8 through Sunday, January 14, 2024!

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Monday, January 8

Event name and localeGroupTime
WWCode Days of Code Challenge: An Ongoing Online Coding EventWomen Who Code Tampa11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Networking at Ford’s GarageTampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 8
In person at Fords Garage St PeteYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals LunchTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Networking at Cafe’ DelanieTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Business Networking MeetingChristian Professionals Network Tampa Bay11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 8
Monday Business Introductions at Romi’s Taco’sTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 8
In PERSON Networking Lunch East Brandon Reserve your seatProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 8
How Do You Find Product-Market Fit for Your StartupTampa Startup Founder 1011:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Let’s play SpadesOrlando Spades Meetup Group5:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
SBDC Hillsborough County: Business Plan Six Week SeriesSuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Future Home Buyers & Sellers – Open Bar @ The Bier BoutiqueThe Pinellas County Young “Professionals”6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Monday Feast & Game NightTampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
MTG: Commander NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location)Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!!Toastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice6:30PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Introverts at AMC Screen UnseenO-Town Introverts6:30PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Monday Night One-Shot RPG: Beatniks from Planet X!St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Board Game Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
First Book Club Meeting of 2024 !!!!Women’s Book Club Reading Books about Women7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photosSchool is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
DigiMondaysSunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Jan. 8
Weekly MeetupBeginning Web Development8:00PM – Monday, Jan. 8
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Tuesday, January 9

Event name and localeGroupTime
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Grow Your Business: SBA ProgramsSuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup9:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass TavernBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All WelcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Networking at Glory Days GrillTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New TampaWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Networking at AppleBee’s St. PeteTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New TampaPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
The Business Alliance ClubThe Business Alliance11:45AM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Simply Referrals Tampa Business Networking12:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Clearwater Business Networking12:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Be the CEO of Your Career & Job Search with a Strategic MindsetTech Success Network1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Be the CEO of Your Career & Job Search with a Strategic MindsetFront End Creatives1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Be the CEO of Your Career & Job Search with a Strategic MindsetCareer Success Academy1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Be the CEO of Your Career & Job Search with a Strategic MindsetTampa Cybersecurity Training1:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Impuestos EmpresarialesSuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup3:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Large Language Mates: A fun guide on how NOT to let your AI take over the worldData, Cloud and AI in Tampa4:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Embrace the Unknown: Adventure with Mason GravelyEntrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education5:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Weekly Open Make NightTampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Hobby NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Tuesday Chess MeetupCasselberry Kid-Friendly Chess Meetup6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Authors Anonymous – Writing GroupAuthors Anonymous – Writing Group6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Learn About Podcasting and How to Monetize Your Interest!Tampa eMarketing Groups6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!!Florida Podcasters Association6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
YEA Young Entrepreneur Meetup! Seminar & NetworkingYoung Entrepreneurs of America YEA Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Loner Seekers Euchre – TampaLoner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!Pinellas Writers Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
The Sarasota Creative WritersThe Sarasota Creative Writers Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Woodshop Safety (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Dunedin Toastmasters – Guests Welcome 👍🐛Dunedin Toastmasters 21667:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Pizza PythonThe Orlando Python User Group7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
DevOps Dinner 2024 – Alehouse in Colonial PlazaOrlando DevOps7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Trivia Night with Trivia NationTrivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young AdultsSt. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
D&D Adventurers League at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
AMA – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and SoftwareFlorida Center for Creative Photography7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Let’s Meetup and Discuss “The Immortalists” by Chloe BenjaminCentral Florida Books and Brews7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on ZoomShut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Jan. 9
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Wednesday, January 10

Event name and localeGroupTime
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All WeclcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Tampa Highrisers ToastmastersToastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Implementing Ethical AI and Privacy with an Integrated Governance ProgramData, Cloud and AI in Tampa8:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup1 Million Cups – Orlando8:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Creating Your Marketing Budget and Content for 2024Suncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Networking at Glory Days Grill!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love CoffeeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Networking at Just Love Coffee!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Brandon Networking Professionals Networking LunchTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Professional Networking Lunch Wednesday All Welcome JOIN usProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Synapse Volunteer Info SessionTech Success Network12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Synapse Volunteer Info SessionFront End Creatives12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Synapse Volunteer Info SessionCareer Success Academy12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Synapse Volunteer Info SessionTampa Cybersecurity Training12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Synapse Volunteer Info SessionTECHnically Volunteers of Tampa Bay12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Web Design And SEO/SEM Three Sixty DegreesWeb Design And SEO/SEM Three Sixty Degrees12:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Founder Showcase: Pre-Seed Startup Pitch & Networking Event (Online Conference)Tampa Startup Founder 1011:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Apex Systems – Business Analysis on SteroidsIIBA Tampa Bay1:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Christian Small Business Owners NetworkingChristian Small Business Owners → Education + Networking1:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion MeetupLady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Building a Multi-Six Figure Business through Social Media MarketingNetwork After Work Tampa – Networking Events3:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
SwanCitySec MeetupCentral Florida CitySec5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wednesday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Playing Games in the AlleyThe Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wine Down Wednesday at Stonewood Grill in BrandonFun with Friends in Tampa Bay5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meetingBay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Game Nights5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wednesday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Whiskey Tech WednesdaysDefcon8136:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Oh My!Tampa Devs6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Board Game NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot WednesdaysClermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Board Game Night at Deadwords BrewingBrews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Virtual Workshop/Working Meeting: Website Help Night for NonprofitsTech4Good Tampa6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us bi-monthly MeetupTampa Bay Inventors Council – www.TampaBayInventors.org6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Game Night!Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Tampa Writers Alliance Critique GroupTampa Writers Alliance6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Castaways Euchre ClubCastaways Euchre Club6:50PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
How To Get Paid To Review Amazon Products – Amazon Influencer ProgramTampa Amazon Seller Meetup Group7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and OnlineToastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
[Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & CommunityTampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Call for presentersBroward Drupal Users Group7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
MakerFX Embrilliance Study GroupMakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
MtG Modern Constructed at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Wasteland Wednesdays Gaslands Refuelled RPG StoryUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords BrewingAdventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Books & Banter: The Woman in Me by Britney SpearsLibrary Book Clubs – OCLS7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
New Beginnings & Old RivalriesCentral Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Communication – Personal and Professional GrowthMake Contacts Meet People and Communicate7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Mastering Communication: A Key to Professional SuccessProfessionals Meetup For Networking And Social Skillsets7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
The Short Attention Span Storytelling HourWriters of Central Florida or Thereabouts7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
Code challenge Monthly coding sessionOrlando Lady Developers Meetup8:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 10
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Thursday, January 11

Event name and localeGroupTime
Clearwater Professional Networking LunchBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a giftYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your businessTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking LunchWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN PersonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Sarasota Speakers Exchange ToastmastersToastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Commander Open Play Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Gulfport Scrabble and SocialGulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Pathfinder SocietyCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Central Florida Board Gaming at The CollectiveOrlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Live streaming production and talentLive streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
BABOK IIBA Tampa Bay Study GroupIIBA Tampa Bay7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
One Piece ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders PizzaGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Dungeons and Dragons with DonavanUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKINGTampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
🌟3 Steps to Boost Your Visibility & Sales without Fear Shame or JudgementVisionary Women Entrepreneurs – Elevate Your Success10:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Onboarding Acceleration – A Hyperledger JourneyHyperledger Tampa12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
2023 Lunch n’Learn – End to End Machine Learning ChallengeOrlando Machine Learning and Data Science12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
January Silent Book ClubEnglewood Silent Book club1:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Implementing Ethical AI and Privacy with an Integrated Governance ProgramData, Cloud and AI in Tampa3:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Vue Testing with CypressVue.js Tampa Bay6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
2nd ed. AD&D Campaign.Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
The Manifesting Agilist: Release and Renew – 2024 Vision BoardTampa Bay Women in Agile6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Generative AI ArtMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Operations Automation Office HoursTampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
How to Get Rid of Unwanted Thoughts and EmotionsCommunication Skills for Career Advancement Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Book Discussion: Lessons in ChemistrySarasota Books & Brews7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
Weekly HacksHacktivate – Hackathon Meetup Group8:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 11
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Friday, January 12

Event name and localeGroupTime
Improve your communication, listening, and leadership skillsWinter Park Toastmasters – Learn while having FUN!7:15AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black ProfessionalsPinellas County Black Business Meetup Group8:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome!Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOMEYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 12
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business NetworkingNetwork & Social – Orlando Networking Events8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Business over Breakfast ClearwaterTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Networking over breakfastTampa Bay Networking and Events9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
FBI ~ Friday Business Introductions at Largo Family RestaurantProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Online Networking with Brandon Biz ProsBrandon Biz Pros9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build ConfidenceChristian Professionals Network Tampa Bay9:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorm togetherMs. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorming together10:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Friday Business Introductions TampaTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All WelcomeTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
International Networking Westshore McAlisters DeliTampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters WestshoreProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
WEEKLY FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING AT GAMER’S COMMANDBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Board Game Night!Clermont Nerd Games5:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Friday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
MTG: Commander FNMCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social NightNerd Night Out6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
GROWTH MINDSETSelf-Perfected Orlando6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Dirty Dancersizing ClassBusiness Networking and Other Events7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
PVP Boardgame ShowdownUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Friday Pokemon TournamentSunshine Games7:30PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Weekly MeetupPlant City Web Development Group8:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Regular weekly meetupPlant City Marketing Group8:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Friday night game nightIndica Cafe Events9:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Virtual “2nd Fridays” Lean Coffee OrlandoAgile Orlando7:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Focused conversation for documentarians: How we share our expertiseWrite the Docs Florida8:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Local Stories Live! Hillsborough CountySuncoast Credit Union Micro Enterprise Development Meetup9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 12
WINTER PARK: Join us for outrageous connection, growth and networking too!Powerful Women Networking11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 12
Let’s meet at The Wellborn!Orlando Women Connect6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Shut Up & Write!® GulfportShut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg6:30PM – Friday, Jan. 12
MakerFX Maskerspace Laser GuildMakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
Join our Facebook group!The Pinellas County Young “Professionals”7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 12
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Saturday, January 13

Event name and localeGroupTime
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, TampaChess Republic9:30AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Coffee, Board Games, & ScrabbleUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Weekly WorkshopPinellas Community Code Workshop12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Winning The Week – 1st MeetWinning The Week12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
FREE Fab Lab OrientationSuncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Earning Your Living by Living Your Dream PreviewOrlando New Entrepreneurship Connections1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Community Hang-out NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
🌐 SAT 1/13 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAMThe Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Founders Event | January 13 & 14, 2024Bitcoin Ben Crypto Club Meetup’s10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Midjourney Basics: Intro & FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Geeks Hike Alafia River State Park, After LunchGeekocracy!11:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Bravo Group Campaign ContinuesOviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)11:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Annual Squid Games 😝Gen Geek12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
RPG: Coyote & Crow, a Native American Sci-Fi AdventureMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
From Zero to 7-Figures: How I Would Do It Again from Zero on Amazon in 18 MonthsTampa Amazon Seller Meetup Group1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
GOAL SETTING WORKSHOP: Create 2+ Ideal Action Plans to Achieve Your Goals!Beast Mode Networking Orlando1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Strategy Board Games – January!Babcock Ranch Board Games1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
NNO Book Club: A Prayer for the Crown-ShyNerd Night Out1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Street Photography @ Ybor (Free)Tampa Bay Photo Walks1:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Laser Cutter Orientation (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Singles Mixer & E-bike TourThe Pinellas County Young “Professionals”2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Radiant Citadel Adventures (Tier 1)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Game Night 2nd Saturday of each Month 4 – 10 PMSeminole Isle Monthly Board Games 2nd Saturday Evening Group4:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Monthly Bitcoin: Q and ABitcoin Orlando4:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth CampaignMeeple Movers Gaming Group5:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Outback SteakhouseInformation Technology Orlando Group6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
Tampa Hackerspace Board Game Night and PotluckTampa Hackerspace6:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 13
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Sunday, January 14

Event name and localeGroupTime
Warhammer 40KClermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Venice Strategy Board GamersBoard Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in YborChess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
D&D Adventurers LeagueCritical Hit Games2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Pokemon LeagueSunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Sunday Game DayDrunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames)4:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Lankhmar: City of AdventureBrandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
A Duck Presents NB Movie NightNerd Night Out7:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!Nerd Night Out9:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Veterans Memorial ParkSuncoast Drone Club9:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 14
🌐 SUN 1/14 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAMThe Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 14
CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY Meetup AT Members Ken’s Residence on Siesta KeySuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group10:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Intro to SewingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Mutant Crawl Classics RPG 1-shot with Ray at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Brunch at World of Beer (Sunday Funday)Fun with Friends in Tampa Bay12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Writing Meet-Up: New Year, New Words – Let’s Get to Work!Prose Society Writers Group12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Monthly Gaming at the Deltona LibraryBoard Gamers of West Volusia12:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
3D designingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
2ND SUNDAY OF THE MONTH BOARDGAMING AT NERDY NEEDSBrandon Boardgamers1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Join us for the Windows Special Interest GroupCentral Florida Computer Society1:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
3D Printing basicsMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Keys From the Golden Vault (tier 2, lvl 8 preferred)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
3D printingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group3:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Neotopia Demo with RickUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup3:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
LectureThe Guild of Independent Game Developers5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
Alphabet Soup 2024 | Finding Letters in the World Around UsFlorida Center for Creative Photography5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 14
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky
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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, January 1, 2024)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the first week of 2024 — Monday, January 1 through Sunday, January 7, 2024!

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This week’s events

Monday, January 1

Event name and localeGroupTime
In person at Fords Garage St PeteYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 1
Networking at Ford’s GarageTampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 1
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals LunchTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Jan. 1
Networking at Cafe’ DelanieTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 1
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 1
In PERSON Networking Lunch East Brandon Reserve your seatProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Jan. 1
Intro to Unreal EngineTampa Bay Community Network – Media Center4:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Monday Feast & Game NightTampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Casual Pokemon League at Nerdy NeedsTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
MTG: Commander NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!!Toastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice6:30PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Board Game Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photosSchool is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Jan. 1
DigiMondaysSunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Jan. 1
New Year’s Day Bowling Night! Pin Chasers► Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group8:40PM – Monday, Jan. 1
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Tuesday, January 2

Event name and localeGroupTime
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
NPI St. Pete Business Builders Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass TavernBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All WelcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Westchase Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda~ Meet your next referralTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Westchase Professionals Business Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda 11955 SheldonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New TampaPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New TampaWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Networking at Glory Days GrillTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
New Tampa RGA Chapter ~ Glory Days Meet your next referral partner!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Networking at AppleBee’s St. PeteTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
SWAT Networking Sarasota LuncheonSWAT Networking – Successful Women Aligning Together11:30AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
The Business Alliance ClubThe Business Alliance11:45AM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Simply Referrals Tampa Business Networking12:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Weekly Open Make NightTampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Magic: The Gathering Night at FelicitousTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn League Round 2Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Hobby NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Meet & Greet at O’Keefe’s Family RestaurantFlorida Center for Creative Photography6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
📸 An Introduction To Portrait Shoots For Photographers – Techniques & Tips 📸Beginner, Hobby & Amateur Photographers Of Orlando6:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Build The Game Dots and Boxes in FlutterGDG Tampa Bay6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Loner Seekers Euchre – TampaLoner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!Pinellas Writers Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Intermediate/Advanc­ed Spanish ConversationThe Spanish Language and Culture Group7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
D&D Adventurers League at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Naples Toastmasters Club #2835Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Dunedin Toastmasters – Guests Welcome! (Happy Hour to Follow)Dunedin Toastmasters 21667:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
MakerFX Makerspace 3D Printing BasicsMakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Trivia Night with Trivia NationTrivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young AdultsSt. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on ZoomShut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Jan. 2
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Wednesday, January 3

Event name and localeGroupTime
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All WeclcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
DOWNTOWN ST PETE YOUNG NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS BREAKFAST AT THE HANGAR!Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Downtown St Pete Professionals Networking BreakfastProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Tampa Highrisers ToastmastersToastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup1 Million Cups – Orlando8:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Networking Meeting- WeeklyNorth Venice Business Referral Networking Meetup Group8:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
In Person Networking BRANDON! Just Love Coffee Cafe – Brandon FLProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:15AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Networking at Glory Days Grill!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Brandon Networking Professionals Networking LunchTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Carrollwood Professional Networking Lunch Wednesday All Welcome JOIN usProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Networking at Just Love Coffee!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love CoffeeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch!Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Business Networking LunchBradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Play board/card games and make friends.Daytime Board and Card Games2:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion MeetupLady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Wednesday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meetingBay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Wednesday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Casual Commander WednesdaysSunshine Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Critical Hit Games: Board Game NightThe Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Board Game NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot WednesdaysClermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Trivia Night at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Gaming Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Board Game Night at Deadwords BrewingBrews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Monthly Meeting: Kick Off the Year with SMART Writing GoalsProse Society Writers Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Galen Gareis/Iconoclast on Cables & CordsSuncoast Audiophile Society6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Shut Up & Write!® [Tampa / Armature Works] – IN PERSONShut Up & Write!® Tampa6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Advance Resin 3D PrintingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Blockchain Investors and EnthusiastsBlockchain and Crypto Investors and Enthusiasts6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Bitcoin Genesis Block Day 2024Orlando Bitcoiners6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Game Night!Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
The Last House on Needless St -finalThe Weirder Things Book Club6:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Castaways Euchre ClubCastaways Euchre Club6:50PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Global Tarot Circle on YouTube LiveTampa Bay Area Tarot Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and OnlineToastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
MtG Modern Constructed at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Magic Pioneer EventSunshine Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
[In-Person] BITCOIN GENESIS DAY CELEBRATION!Tampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Workshop Wednesdays. Come Craft with Us.Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords BrewingAdventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
New Beginnings & Old RivalriesCentral Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
How to Express Yourself and Connect with PeopleProfessionals Meetup For Networking And Social Skillsets7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Communication – The Key to ConnectMake Contacts Meet People and Communicate7:00PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress WeeklySunshine Games7:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
Carollwood Professionals Networking Lunch!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30PM – Wednesday, Jan. 3
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Banner ad: CIVO, the cloud native service provider. Blazing fast Kubernetes cluster launch times in under 90s. Simplify development and reduce infrastructure costs. From just $5 a month, with $250 free credit to get started.
Civo doesn’t just throw amazing conferences here in Tampa Bay,
they’re also a great, developer-friendly cloud-native service provider!
Find out more.

Thursday, January 4

Event name and localeGroupTime
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKINGTampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Tackle it in Ten – Entrepreneur RoundtablesEntrepreneur Round Table8:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Clearwater Professional Networking LunchBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your business!Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a giftYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your businessTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking LunchWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN PersonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Thursday, Jan. 4
The Business Networking Midday Power Hour by Simply Referrals on Zoom!!Simply Referrals Tampa Business Networking12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Downtown Tampa Toastmasters MeetUpDowntown Tampa Toastmasters MeetUp12:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Sarasota Speakers Exchange ToastmastersToastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Commander Open Play Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Gulfport Scrabble and SocialGulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
FCCP Weekly Photo Assignment 1: SwingsFlorida Center for Creative Photography5:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Extending UiPath RPA Processes with JavaTampa Java User Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
1st Thursday Networking Mixer, Romi’s Tacos & RGANetwork.net $10 cash at doorTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Business Happy Hour ~ Cafe Delanie 1st Thursday Every Month 6pm to 8pmYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
After Hours Mixer Romi’s Tacos! All Welcome $10 cashTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
1st ed. AD&D Campaign.Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
After Hours Networking Happy Hour! Romi’s Tacos New LocationTampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Business Networking Mixer 1st Thursday ~ JOIN us!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Pathfinder SocietyCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass DistrictSunshine Social Deduction Gaming6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Central Florida Board Gaming at The CollectiveOrlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Writing MeetupTampa Free Writing Group6:30PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Tampa Bay Drupal & Web Technologies Q&A. Everyone welcome!Tampa Bay Drupal User Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Live streaming production and talentLive streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
[RESCHEDULED] Bitcoin Bay Year in ReviewTampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
BABOK IIBA Tampa Bay Study GroupIIBA Tampa Bay7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Operations Automation Office HoursTampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
One Piece ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
FABulous ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Virtual Business Networking – Entrepreneurs of ColorBusiness Networking for Entrepreneurs of Color7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders PizzaGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Dungeons and Dragons with DonavanUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Country line @3 daughtersGen Geek7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
January – A Thousand Splendid SunsBooks & Brews!7:00PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
Sip & share at Kava CultureTampa Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup Group7:45PM – Thursday, Jan. 4
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Friday, January 5

Event name and localeGroupTime
Improve your communication, listening, and leadership skillsWinter Park Toastmasters – Learn while having FUN!7:15AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build ConfidenceChristian Professionals Network Tampa Bay9:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
First Friday WordPress Collaboration Meetup – January 2024West Orlando WordPress Meetup10:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
TsudoiTampa Japanese Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
MakerFX Makerspace Soft Arts GuildMakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Tabletop: Friday Board Game NightOviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black ProfessionalsPinellas County Black Business Meetup Group8:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome!Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOMEYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 5
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business NetworkingNetwork & Social – Orlando Networking Events8:45AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Networking over breakfastTampa Bay Networking and Events9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Business over Breakfast ClearwaterTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
FBI ~ Friday Business Introductions at Largo Family RestaurantProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Online Networking with Brandon Biz ProsBrandon Biz Pros9:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorm togetherMs. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorming together10:00AM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters WestshoreProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All WelcomeTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
Friday Business Introductions TampaTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Networking Westshore McAlisters DeliTampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Jan. 5
WEEKLY FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING AT GAMER’S COMMANDBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Board Game Night!Clermont Nerd Games5:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Friday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social NightNerd Night Out6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
MTG: Commander FNMCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
GROWTH MINDSETSelf-Perfected Orlando6:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Modern FNMSunshine Games7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Dirty Dancersizing ClassBusiness Networking and Other Events7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
PVP Boardgame ShowdownUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Friday Pokemon TournamentSunshine Games7:30PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Weekly MeetupPlant City Web Development Group8:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Regular weekly meetupPlant City Marketing Group8:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
Friday night game nightIndica Cafe Events9:00PM – Friday, Jan. 5
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30PM – Friday, Jan. 5
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Saturday, January 6

Event name and localeGroupTime
Become an FCCP Supporter Plus & Access 100+ Hours of Educational VideosFlorida Center for Creative Photography7:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Landscape and Wildlife Photography – Anderson Blvd. – 8am – 2 HoursTampa Photography Group8:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Monthly In Person Group Meeting – All Writers Welcome!Pinellas Writers Group9:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Midjourney Basics: Intro & FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Weekly WorkshopPinellas Community Code Workshop12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Meet & Greet 1Dropshipping Entrepeneurs of Tampa Bay12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Campaign with Ray at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Street Photography @ Downtown Tampa (Free)Tampa Bay Photo Walks1:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Singles Mixer & E-bike TourThe Pinellas County Young “Professionals”2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Game Day: First Saturday of Every MonthIndienomicon2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
The Covenant of Water Book DiscussionTampa Bay Book Club2:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Outside the Binary Boardgame MeetupCritical Hit Games3:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Outside the Binary Boardgame Meetup at Critical Hit GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!3:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Exploring Shadows: Discussing ‘Blood Meridian’ by Cormac McCarthyErudite Epics Symposium3:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Marvel Champions Campaign at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Gaming Group5:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
IN-PERSON: The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Book 6)Orlando Stoics5:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Lost Mines of Phandelver: Session 3 – DM MikeOrlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Outback SteakhouseInformation Technology Orlando Group6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Golf Group – RPG One-ShotsOviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)6:30PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Saturday Morning Mindfulness and Spirit WalkLiving Metaphysical9:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, TampaChess Republic9:30AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Coffee, Board Games, & ScrabbleUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Winning The Week – 1st MeetWinning The Week12:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Earning Your Living by Living Your Dream PreviewOrlando New Entrepreneurship Connections1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
FREE Fab Lab OrientationSuncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Community Hang-out NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
Tampa Nerd Online Hang-out & Game Night!Nerd Night Out7:00PM – Saturday, Jan. 6
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Sunday, January 7

Event name and localeGroupTime
Dunedin CausewaySuncoast Drone Club9:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 7
CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCH AT ROSEMARY & THYMESuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group10:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Plotter CriCut vinyl cuttingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Steel MIG Welding Safety and Basic Usage (Members Only)Tampa Hackerspace1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Sunday GamingTampa Gaming Guild1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Eat, Drink, Discuss!!Riverview Intellectual Discussions Meetup Group1:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
T-Shirts and Caps printingMakerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
D&D Adventures with Kenny – the Lands of Faerun at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Role-Playing Games (RPG) Group2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Adult Game Night at Conworlds EmporiumTarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup4:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Women’s Basketball 🏀Women’s Basketball5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
RPG One-Shot, A continuing adventure in the setting of Symbaroum.St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts)Tampa Hackerspace5:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
February West Volusia Networking SocialVolusia Young Professionals Group (covers East and West)6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
FIELD TRIP: City of Orlando MLK MarchOrlando Stoics6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Warhammer 40KClermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Venice Strategy Board GamersBoard Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in YborChess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
D&D Adventurers LeagueCritical Hit Games2:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Sunday Game DayDrunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames)3:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Sunday Pokemon LeagueSunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Lankhmar: City of AdventureBrandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Gospel Karaoke and Bible StudyIndica Cafe Events6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
Open Game NightUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup6:00PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
A Duck Presents NB Movie NightNerd Night Out7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 31
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 31
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!Nerd Night Out9:30PM – Sunday, Jan. 7
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky
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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, December 25, 2023)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the very last week of the year — Monday, December 25 through Sunday, December 31, 2023!

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This week’s events

Keep in mind that a lot of Meetup organizers schedule their events on “autopilot” for the same time each month and may not have accounted for the holidays. Double-check with event organizers that an event is actually taking place before attending!

Monday, December 25

Event name and localeGroupTime
Merry Christmas!Gen Geek12:00AM – Monday, Dec. 25
In person at Fords Garage St PeteYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Networking at Ford’s GarageTampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals LunchTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Networking at Cafe’ DelanieTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Monday Business Introductions at Romi’s Taco’sTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 25
St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’sProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 25
Bathrobe Pajama Christmas @ The Drunken TacoThe Pinellas County Young “Professionals”1:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Holiday & Human Light GatheringSuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group1:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Intro to Unreal EngineTampa Bay Community Network – Media Center4:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Monday Feast & Game NightTampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Casual Pokemon League at Nerdy NeedsTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
MTG: Commander NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
MERRY CHRISTMAS North Port ToastmastersToastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice6:30PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Board Game Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photosSchool is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
ONLINE: Monday Meeting is SKIPPEDOrlando Stoics7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 25
DigiMondaysSunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Dec. 25
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Tuesday, December 26

Event name and localeGroupTime
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
NPI St. Pete Business Builders Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass TavernBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All WelcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Westchase Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda~ Meet your next referralTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Westchase Professionals Business Networking Lunch -Grand Hacienda 11955 SheldonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New TampaPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New TampaWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Networking at Glory Days GrillTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
New Tampa RGA Chapter ~ Glory Days Meet your next referral partner!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Networking at AppleBee’s St. PeteTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
The Business Alliance ClubThe Business Alliance11:45AM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Weekly Open Make NightTampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Magic: The Gathering Night at FelicitousTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
🕺 Zumba in the Park Tuesday in TampaTampa Bay Fitness (tennis, pickleball, volleyball, yoga etc)6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn League Round 2Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Hobby NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Holiday Special Viewing PartySarasota “Doctor Who” Fan Meetup6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Loner Seekers Euchre – TampaLoner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!Pinellas Writers Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
The Sarasota Creative WritersThe Sarasota Creative Writers Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
D&D Adventurers League at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Central Florida Computer Society TechSIG (Please join us!!)Central Florida Computer Society7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Trivia Night with Trivia NationTrivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young AdultsSt. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game ShowGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
AMA – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and SoftwareFlorida Center for Creative Photography7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on ZoomShut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Dec. 26
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Wednesday, December 27

Event name and localeGroupTime
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All WeclcomeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
DOWNTOWN ST PETE YOUNG NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS BREAKFAST AT THE HANGAR!Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Tampa Highrisers ToastmastersToastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
In Person Networking BRANDON! Just Love Coffee Cafe – Brandon FLProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:15AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Networking at Glory Days Grill!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Brandon Networking Professionals Networking LunchTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Carrollwood Professional Networking Lunch Wednesday All Welcome JOIN usProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Networking at Just Love Coffee!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love CoffeeYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Business Networking LunchBradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch!Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Lunch Hour MeetupSarasota Web Development Meetup Group12:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Heart of Agile MONTHLY Coffee CornerHeart of Agile St. Pete – Tampa – Orlando12:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Email Marketing 101Email Marketing For Success1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Starbucks meetup for Christians age 18-30Business meetup for Christians2:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion MeetupLady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Playing Games in the AlleyThe Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Wednesday Night GamingBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meetingBay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Game Nights5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Wednesday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim SumTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Casual Commander WednesdaysSunshine Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot WednesdaysClermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Wine Down Wednesday – Ladies Night at Meeple Movers Board Game CafeMeeple Movers Gaming Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
CRITICAL THINKERS SUPPER AT AMOB LANDSIDE IN PRIVATE ROOMSuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Board Game Night at Deadwords BrewingBrews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Shut Up & Write!® [Tampa / Armature Works] – IN PERSONShut Up & Write!® Tampa6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Weekly Wednesday Qigong [online class]Tampa Qigong and Daoist Meditation6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Game Night!Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Tampa Writers Alliance Critique GroupTampa Writers Alliance6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
3D Printing Orientation: Models and SlicersTampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and OnlineToastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
MtG Modern Constructed at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Book Club: The House in the Cerulean SeaGeekocracy!7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Magic Pioneer EventSunshine Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
MakerFX Monthly Membership MeetingMakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
CitrusSec MeetupCentral Florida CitySec7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Castaways Euchre ClubCastaways Euchre Club7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Wasteland Wednesdays Gaslands Refuelled RPG StoryUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords BrewingAdventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
New Beginnings & Old RivalriesCentral Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress WeeklySunshine Games7:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 27
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Thursday, December 28

Event name and localeGroupTime
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals NetworkingPasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Wesley Chapel/Lutz networking breakfastProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Tampa Geek BreakfastEmerging Tech Leaders Tampa Bay8:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKINGTampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Clearwater Professional Networking LunchBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your business!Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a giftYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your businessTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking LunchWesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN PersonProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business ReferralsNetwork Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Sarasota Speakers Exchange ToastmastersToastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Commander Open Play Night at Armada GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple MoversMeeple Movers Gaming Group2:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Gulfport Scrabble and SocialGulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
1st ed. AD&D Campaign.Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Warhammer NightCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Central Florida Board Gaming at The CollectiveOrlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
2023 Photo Walk: Holiday Lights at the FL Botanical GardensOur Photo Tribe Workshops6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
“Baby Girl” by Sheree L GreerKitchen Table Literary Happy Hour: Sips and Stories6:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Tampa Writers Alliance Poetry GroupTampa Writers Alliance6:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
WordPress – NO MEETING IN DECEMBERTampa Bay Technology Center7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
3D Printer Orientation: Printing at Tampa Hackerspace (THS Members only)Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Live streaming production and talentLive streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Predicting a New Year Members-only Livestream on YouTubeTampa Bay Area Tarot Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Bitcoin Bay Year in ReviewTampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Operations Automation Office HoursTampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
One Piece ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
FABulous ThursdaysSunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
WordPress – NO MEETING IN DECEMBERWordPress Clearwater FL7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders PizzaGame Night Meetup for Trivia in Tampa, Sarasota, Venice7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Dungeons and Dragons with DonavanUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
Weekly HacksHacktivate – Hackathon Meetup Group8:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 28
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Friday, December 29

Event name and localeGroupTime
Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black ProfessionalsPinellas County Black Business Meetup Group8:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome!Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOMEYoung Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business NetworkingNetwork & Social – Orlando Networking Events8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Networking over breakfastTampa Bay Networking and Events9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Business over Breakfast ClearwaterTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
FBI ~ Friday Business Introductions at Largo Family RestaurantProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Online Networking with Brandon Biz ProsBrandon Biz Pros9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorm togetherMs. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorming together10:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayBusiness Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters WestshoreProfessional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All WelcomeTampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Business Introductions TampaTampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking Westshore McAlisters DeliTampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Professionals Networking MeetingTampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
WEEKLY FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING AT GAMER’S COMMANDBrandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Board Game Night!Clermont Nerd Games5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Board Game NightTampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social NightNerd Night Out6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
MTG: Commander FNMCritical Hit Games6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
GROWTH MINDSETSelf-Perfected Orlando6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Modern FNMSunshine Games7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Dirty Dancersizing ClassBusiness Networking and Other Events7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
PVP Boardgame ShowdownUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Pokemon TournamentSunshine Games7:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Weekly MeetupPlant City Web Development Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Regular weekly meetupPlant City Marketing Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday night game nightIndica Cafe Events9:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every FridayTampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build ConfidenceChristian Professionals Network Tampa Bay9:30AM – Friday, Dec. 29
RANDOM EUCHRE TOURNAMENTCastaways Euchre Club6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 29
New Year’s Weekend Silent Disco at the Salty NunGeekocracy!7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 29
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Saturday, December 30

Event name and localeGroupTime
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, TampaChess Republic9:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Coffee, Board Games, & ScrabbleUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Winning The Week – 1st MeetWinning The Week12:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Earning Your Living by Living Your Dream PreviewOrlando New Entrepreneurship Connections1:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
FREE Fab Lab OrientationSuncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Community Hang-out NightNerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening TournamentSunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
SHARKS BAR & GRILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA – LARGOAmerica’s TriviAddiction7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Yu-Gi-Oh TournamentBalance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Tampa Nerd Online Hang-out & Game Night!Nerd Night Out7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Humane Society Tampa Bay: Volunteer Event (15 participant cap)20’s & 30’s Tampa Outdoor Adventures8:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 30
The Color PurpleChan’s Book Club of Tampa Bay10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 30
Bravo Group Campaign ContinuesOviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 30
Tampa Blue Hour/Night PhotowalkNight & Long Exposure Photography5:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 30
Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth CampaignMeeple Movers Gaming Group5:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 30
Goodbye 2023 Game NightNew Port Richey Casual Games and Fun Socializing Group!5:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 30
Overnight Board Game session – December 30thTarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup8:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 30
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Sunday, December 31

Event name and localeGroupTime
Warhammer 40KClermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Venice Strategy Board GamersBoard Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in YborChess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit GamesTampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sunday Pokemon LeagueSunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Lankhmar: City of AdventureBrandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Open Game NightUnlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup6:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
A Duck Presents NB Movie NightNerd Night Out7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!Nerd Night Out9:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
IHOP Restaurant CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCHSuncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group9:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 31
Sunday Game DayDrunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames)4:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 31
Alphabet Soup 2023 | Finding Letters in the World Around UsFlorida Center for Creative Photography5:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 31
Store Closing EarlyCritical Hit Games7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 31
New Years Lights FestGen Geek8:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 31
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky
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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, December 18, 2023)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 18 through Sunday, December 24, 2023.

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This week’s events

Keep in mind that this is the week leading up to Christmas! A lot of Meetup organizers schedule their events on “autopilot” for the same time each month and may not have accounted for the holidays. Double-check with event organizers that an event is actually taking place before attending!

Monday, December 18

Event name and localeGroupTime
Networking at Ford’s Garage
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 18
In person at Fords Garage St Pete
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Networking at Cafe’ Delanie
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Business Networking Meeting
Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Monday Business Introductions at Romi’s Taco’s
Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 18
St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 18
Ask an Investor Anything: Q&A with a Venture Capitalist
Tampa Startup Founder 1011:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Intro to Unreal Engine
Tampa Bay Community Network – Media Center4:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
2nd Annual Orlandopreneur Holiday Happy Hour
Orlandopreneur5:30PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Monthly N. Pinellas TBCor Humanist Social Dinner
Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698
Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480
Toastmasters Divisions C & D6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Monday Feast & Game Night
Tampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
MTG: Commander Night
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Rising Sun – with Daimyo Box!
Sarasota Strategy Board Game League6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location)
Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Uplifting: “I Am the Messenger” by Markus Zuzak
Books & Banter (traveling bookclub)6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Intro to the Babylock Embroidery Machine (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace6:30PM – Monday, Dec. 18
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!!
Toastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game Show
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup6:30PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Learn the Basics of Python Programming from an Industry Expert 📊
Ironhack Tampa – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262
Toastmasters Division E7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Spanglish Toastmasters Club 7703731
Toastmasters Division G7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Board Game Night at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos
School is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club
Library Book Clubs – OCLS7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
ONLINE: Stoic Open Mic
Orlando Stoics7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Polar Bear Swim, FL-style, in 80°F water: Olympic-size pool in Tampa!
► Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Spookeasy Lounge – Black Christmas & Silent Night, Deadly Night!!!
Horror Fan Fun Time Gang7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
DigiMondays
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Seminole Heights Social
Defcon8138:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
Weekly Meetup
Beginning Web Development8:00PM – Monday, Dec. 18
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Tuesday, December 19

Event name and localeGroupTime
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486
Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
v-Lean Coffee
Tampa Bay Agile7:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass Tavern
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New Tampa
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Networking at Glory Days Grill
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Networking at AppleBee’s St. Pete
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
New Tampa RGA Chapter ~ Glory Days Meet your next referral partner!
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
The Business Alliance Club
The Business Alliance11:45AM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Event Changed – New AWS re:Invent Roadsnow
Tampa Bay AWS User Group2:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Six Figures Blueprint
Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events3:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
2023 “Last Supper” End-of-Year Stoic Dinner Meeting
Tampa Stoics5:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Tampa Bay Tech Leaders Year-End Celebration
Masterminds Tampa Bay6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Let’s Learn to Turn Ornaments!
Tampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Weekly Open Make Night
Tampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
TBSSUG Monthly Meeting
Tampa Bay SQL Server User Group (TBSSUG)6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Tampa Bay Tech Leaders Year-End Celebration
Masterminds Tampa Bay Area6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn League Round 2
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Magic: The Gathering Night at Felicitous
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa
Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
December 2023 Saint Petersburg Book Club
Saint Petersburg Book Club Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!
Pinellas Writers Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Weekday Writing Get Down
We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Tampa Bay Technology Center (TBTC) Monthly Meeting
Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
[Hybrid] Presentation Karaoke 2023
DOUX — Downtown Orlando UX Meetup7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
The basics of Data Analytics 📈
Ironhack Orlando – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Trivia Night with Trivia Nation
Trivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game Show
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
AMA – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and Software
Florida Center for Creative Photography7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Yule Be Celebrating With An American Beauty Potluck Party!
Literate Ladies of Orlando…Well Bred…Well Read7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!
TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom
Shut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Dec. 19
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Wednesday, December 20

Event name and localeGroupTime
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All Weclcome
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Downtown St Pete Professionals Networking Breakfast
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
DOWNTOWN ST PETE YOUNG NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS BREAKFAST AT THE HANGAR!
Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Tampa Highrisers Toastmasters
Toastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup
1 Million Cups – Orlando8:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Career Transition & Job Seeker Virtual Networking & Support Meeting
Career Rebound – New Job or Career Search for Professionals9:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Safety Harbor Waterfront Park
Suncoast Drone Club9:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!
Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Networking at Glory Days Grill!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love Coffee
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Networking at Just Love Coffee!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
NPI North St. Pete Networkers Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Business Networking Lunch
Bradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Holiday Matsuri 2023
All For Nerds12:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
How To Generate Clients From LinkedIn in 2024
Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion Meetup
Lady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Wednesday Night Gaming/Holiday Party
Brandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meeting
Bay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim Sum
Tampa Game Nights5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Wednesday Board Game Night
Tampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Placeholder: Student Trip Meeting
Tampa Hackerspace5:45PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Digital DeLand Monthly Meeting
DigitalDeLand6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Board Game Night
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Critical Hit Games: Board Game Night
The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot Wednesdays
Clermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
The Woman from Death Row – by Peter Hogenkamp
Mystery and Thriller St Pete Book Club6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Board Game Night at Deadwords Brewing
Brews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Game Night!
Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
The Last House on Needless St -midway
The Weirder Things Book Club6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
CigarCitySec
Defcon8137:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and Online
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
CigarCitySec Meetup
Central Florida CitySec7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Bitcoin Social
Tampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Castaways Euchre Club
Castaways Euchre Club7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Workshop Wednesdays. Come Craft with Us.
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords Brewing
Adventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
New Beginnings & Old Rivalries
Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Mastering Communication: A Key to Professional Success
Professionals Meetup For Networking And Social Skillsets7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Communication – Personal and Professional Growth
Make Contacts Meet People and Communicate7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress Weekly
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 20
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Banner ad: CIVO, the cloud native service provider. Blazing fast Kubernetes cluster launch times in under 90s. Simplify development and reduce infrastructure costs. From just $5 a month, with $250 free credit to get started.
Civo doesn’t just throw amazing conferences here in Tampa Bay,
they’re also a great, developer-friendly cloud-native service provider!
Find out more.

Thursday, December 21

Event name and localeGroupTime
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Wesley Chapel/Lutz networking breakfast
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKING
Tampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Tackle it in Ten – Entrepreneur Roundtables
Entrepreneur Round Table8:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your business
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!
Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Leads Club Meeting
South Shore Leads Club11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN Person
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745
Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Sarasota Speakers Exchange Toastmasters
Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Holiday Matsuri 2023
All For Nerds12:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Commander Open Play Night at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers
Meeple Movers Gaming Group2:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Live, Love & Enjoy Social Hour at Bonefish Grill
Live, Love & Enjoy!4:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Gulfport Scrabble and Social
Gulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Booktok Club
Library Book Clubs – OCLS5:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)
Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Let’s Learn to Turn Ornaments!
Tampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
The Basics of Web Development
Ironhack Tampa – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Adult Game Night at Conworlds Emporium
Tarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
2nd ed. AD&D Campaign.
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Pathfinder Society
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)
Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass District
Sunshine Social Deduction Gaming6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective
Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
December Book Club Discussion – Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Sanford Book Club6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Writing Meetup
Tampa Free Writing Group6:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Live streaming production and talent
Live streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Operations Automation Office Hours
Tampa Robotic Process Automation Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
One Piece Thursdays
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament
Balance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!
TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders Pizza
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Dungeons and Dragons with Donavan
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Gen Geek7:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 21
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Friday, December 22

Online webinar - The Game is On! Jobseekers vs. the ATS - Thrusday, 12/22/2023 at 12:00 p.m. - Kathy Lansford-Powell, Job Search Trainer / Coach. Presented by Computer Coach.

Guest speaker Kathy Lansford-Powell, a trusted job search expert, leads an online seminar covering insider tactics to get past the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and landing your resume in the hands of a person. Find out more and register here.

Event name and localeGroupTime
Improve your communication, listening, and leadership skills
Winter Park Toastmasters – Learn while having FUN!7:15AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black Professionals
Pinellas County Black Business Meetup Group8:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome!
Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOME
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business Networking
Network & Social – Orlando Networking Events8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Business over Breakfast Clearwater
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Networking over breakfast
Tampa Bay Networking and Events9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
FBI ~ Friday Business Introductions at Largo Family Restaurant
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
TBUX Lite: Virtual Coffee Talk
Tampa Bay UX Group9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Online Networking with Brandon Biz Pros
Brandon Biz Pros9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build Confidence
Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay9:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorm together
Ms. Biz Connectz- business leaders brainstorming together10:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Festive AI Art: Crafting Holiday Treasures with Midjourney&A.I. Creative Compass
Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every Friday
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All Welcome
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Business Introductions Tampa
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Professionals Networking Meeting
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Professionals Networking Meeting
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
International Networking Westshore McAlisters Deli
Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters Westshore
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 22
The Game is On! Jobseekers vs. the ATS
Tech Success Network12:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Holiday Matsuri 2023
All For Nerds12:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
WEEKLY FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING AT GAMER’S COMMAND
Brandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Board Game Night!
Clermont Nerd Games5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Board Game Night
Tampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
ONLINE Board Game Fridays!
Meeple Movers Gaming Group5:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG Night
Nerdbrew Events6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Commander Night
Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
MTG: Commander FNM
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social Night
Nerd Night Out6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
GROWTH MINDSET
Self-Perfected Orlando6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Shut Up & Write!® Gulfport
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg6:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
MakerFX Makerspace 3D Printing Guild
MakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Dirty Dancersizing Class
Business Networking and Other Events7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
PVP Boardgame Showdown
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Tabletop: Friday Board Game Night
Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
3D Printing Hang Out
3D Printing Orlando7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Christmas Caroling for a Cause
Gen Geek7:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday Pokemon Tournament
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Weekly Meetup
Plant City Web Development Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Regular weekly meetup
Plant City Marketing Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
Friday night game night
Indica Cafe Events9:00PM – Friday, Dec. 22
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Saturday, December 23

Event name and localeGroupTime
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.
Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Early Bird Ocala
Toastmasters Division G8:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Landscape & Nature Photography @ Ft. DeSoto Beach (Free)
Tampa Bay Photo Walks9:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Wood Shop Lathe 101 (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Open Fly @ 22nd St Park
Tampa Bay Drone Club10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Coffee, Board Games, & Scrabble
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Pickleball Beginners Class Level 1&2 (9am-Dunedin 11:30am-StPet 2pm-Rowlett)
The Pinellas County Young “Professionals”11:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Winning The Week – 1st Meet
Winning The Week12:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Online | VIRTUAL Mastermind Experience: Connecting, Creating & Collaborating
Women’s Prosperity Network | Fort Lauderdale Chapter12:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
FREE Fab Lab Orientation
Suncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Lost Mines of Phandelver: Session 3 – DM Mike
Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Community Hang-out Night
Nerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Golf Group – RPG One-Shots
Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)6:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
SHARKS BAR & GRILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA – LARGO
America’s TriviAddiction7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament
Balance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Tampa Nerd Online Hang-out & Game Night!
Nerd Night Out7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
Eat, Drink and be Ugly !
Gen Geek8:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 23
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Sunday, December 24

Event name and localeGroupTime
IHOP Restaurant CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCH
Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group9:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Warhammer 40K
Clermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Venice Strategy Board Gamers
Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
4TH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH BOARDGAMING AT NERDY NEEDS
Brandon Boardgamers1:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in Ybor
Chess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Weekend Toastmasters
Toastmasters Divisions C & D3:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sunday Pokemon League
Sunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sunday Game Day
Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames)4:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Lankhmar: City of Adventure
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts)
Tampa Hackerspace5:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Let’s Learn to Turn Pens!
Tampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Open Game Night
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup6:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Store Closing Early
Critical Hit Games7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!
Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
A Duck Presents NB Movie Night
Nerd Night Out7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
Office Hours
Solana – Tampa8:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!
Nerd Night Out9:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 24
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky
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Meetups Programming Tampa Bay

Notes from Venkat Subramaniam’s talk, “Design Trade-Offs in Modern Architectures”

On Tuesday, Venkat Subramaniam, author of a lot of great books, including the award-winning Practices of an Agile Developer, gave yet another one of his insightful, informing, and entertaining presentations at the joint meetup run by three of Tampa’s big tech meetup groups, Tampa Bay Techies, Tampa Devs, and Tampa Java User Group.

When I arrived at the venue, Kforce’s office — Tampa’s cushiest meetup venue — the cafeteria area just outside the presentation room was already packed.

In moving from Toronto to Tampa — ten years ago in March! — I had to get rid of most of my books, keeping only those that had either great meaning or great usefulness.

One of those books that I held onto was the first edition of Subramaniam’s Practices of an Agile Developer (there’ve been six editions in total).

So I did the natural thing: I brought it to the meetup so that I could get it autographed!

I love the photo above, which Ammar Yusuf took. It looks like a Bollywood buddy film!

The book was published in 2006, and even after all this time, a lot of it is still applicable, thanks to the book’s emphasis not on technology, but on people and practices. If you’re a software developer or manage them, you should read it!

I have never seen a meetup where not only every seat in Kforce’s presentation room was filled, but where they brought in additional seats, and the remainder gathered by the entrance.

It was great to see so many people from our developer community come out, as well as to see a great programmer, author, and presenter give a solid and entertaining presentation.

My thanks to Venkat Subramaniam for presenting, Kforce for hosting, and the organizers:

My notes from the presentation

  • There are things I thought I knew that are no longer valid
  • We need to constantly re-check our assertions and assumptions
  • When building software, we need to consider:
    • Functional requirements, which stakeholders are quite focused on
    • We also need to spend time on non-functional requirements, such as performance and security
  • There are a number of “ities” that we need to consider:
    • Scalability
    • Interoperability
    • Deployability
    • Configurability
    • Security
    • Accessibility (which we really need to pay more attention to)
  • The answer to “What’s important?” can’t be “everything”
  • Where’s the line between architecture and design?
    • Design decision changes hurt a little
    • Architectural decision changes can hurt a lot more
  • What are the characteristics of good design?
  • Consider the case of extensibility:
    • It’s a slippery slope
    • So much code has been written in the name of extensibility
    • I remember once writing code that modeled chemical reactions and thought I would extend it. The chemists who I worked with said that they only work with hydrocarbons, and those molecules would never behave in the ways my software would support
    • Extensibility requires the ability to anticipate really well
      • If we anticipate really well, we get extensibility
      • If we do it poorly, we get unnecessary complexity
      • Code is like a crowded train — the more people on the train, the harder it is to get in and move around
      • These days, I say wait until you see evidence of a need to change something before thinking too much about extensibility
  • Reusability
    • Grady Booch says to make the code usable first, then think about reusability
    • Usability requires specificity; reusability requires genericity
    • Examples of reusability done badly:
    • Standardization is important but has to follow innovation and active multiple users
    • Two phenomenal examples of reusability:
      • Ruby on Rails — based on hundreds of projects
      • Spring — what if we used POJOs, reflection, and XML?
  • The SOLID principles
    • Consider the Single Responsibility Principle
      • Cohesion: code is narrow, focused, and does one thing really well
        • Like things are together, unlike things are apart
        • If you use design principles, try to keep in mind what value they provide
        • I found a sock and fork on a table. What questions would you ask about this?
          • What if I told you that the table was in a museum?
          • The lesson is that context matters
          • What may be right in a certain time may not be right in another
          • There is no one cohesion in general
  • We do two kinds of partitioning all the time
    • Technology-based partitioning
    • Domain-based partitioning
  • Which one is predominant?
  • Most of us have been doing technology-based partitioning — it’s where we spend a lot of time and effort
    • Think of talking to a bank executive and saying that you’re building a client-server system — they’ll be confused, because as far as bankers are concerned, clients are customers
    • We have teams built around technology-based partitioning: “front-end developer, back-end developer, Angular developer,” and so on
    • Remember Conway’s Law!
    • In one example, I talked to a developer working for a bank who said they were on the front-end team. When I asked about making changes, they said “that’s back-end; you have to talk to them.” This is technology-based partitioning.
    • At another bank, I talked to another developer who said they were on the “move money” team. When I asked about making changes, they said “talk to my teammate”. This is domain-based partitioning.
  • If you build the team around the technology, they will focus on the technology
  • If you build the team around the domain, they will focus on the product
  • Monoliths: We often focus on technology-based partitioning
  • Microservice: We often (or should) focus on domain-based partitioning
  • Client-server: You’re optimizing for technology
  • Microservices: You’re optimizing for domain
  • In talking to people building microservices, I ask “Why?”
    • The answer should be “In order to provide business agility”
  • YAGNI
    • Don’t write anything until you really need it
    • There’s a balance between YAGNI and extensibility
    • Do what you know is needed
  • DRY
    • The general idea is that every piece of knowledge should have a single, unambiguous, authoritative source of representation
    • It’s about removing of duplication of effort, not just duplication of code
    • I once consulted with a place that had a database where the tables had something on the order of 800 columns
      • Every application in the enterprise uses that database!
      • It’s DRY
      • Focus: Stability, not agility
      • Changing the schema will break a lot of apps
      • File change request — where progress goes to die
    • Two things in life and programming that I will never share:
      • Toothbrush
      • Database — Sharing a database loses encapsulation
    • The higher the encapsulation, the higher the business agility
  • We want low coupling and loose coupling
  • Do we want reuse?
    • Answer is typically yes
  • Do we want to reduce coupling?
    • Also yes
  • Increase reuse: increase coupling
  • Reduce coupling: increase duplication and reduce reuse
  • Microservces tenets:
    • 1. Encapsulation
    • 2. Autonomy of development
    • 3. Isolation of deployment — how do we provide?
  • Performance
    • The most important question: Not if the speed is great, but is the performance adequate?
    • The end result of worrying about performance is the worry, not the performance
  • Do microservices provide excellent performance?
    • No
    • They’re distributed across multiple services
  • If you want more scalability, you have to reduce performance
  • If you want more performance, you have to reduce scalability
  • To fail 100%, be absolute in your demands
  • Distributed transactions are so 20th century
    • They’re an interesting technical idea — zero practical
    • Technical transactions have to be extremely short-lived
  • Two things are figments of the imagination for programmers:
    • Transactions
    • Concurrency
  • Please never ask your business analyst/people: “Is consistency important?”
    • It plants the seed of fear in their mind
    • Remember the CAP Theorem!
    • You can’t provide all three of these at the same time
      • (Strict) Consistency
      • Availability
      • Partition tolerance
  • If we work hard to deliver what’s not necessary, we miss out on the truly necessary things
  • Architecting is an act of evaluating trade-offs

Worth watching

Following his theme of evaluating trade-offs, Decision Dials is a talk of Subramaniam’s from Devoxx UK earlier this year. It looks at the art of decision making, the consequences of the choices we make, and how they tie that into the everyday architecture and design of enterprise systems.

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Tampa Bay tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events list (Week of Monday, December 11, 2023)

Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 11 through Sunday, December 17, 2023.

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This week’s events

The big event of the week is the 3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup, the meetup of Tampa Bay tech meetups, happening Thursday, December 14th at Embarc Collective from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Join Tampa Bay’s tech scene as we get together, mark the end of another year, catch up, and celebrate the growth of “The Other Bay Area!” Find out more and register here.

Monday, December 11

Event name and localeGroupTime
State of the Word Watch Party 2023 (Online)
WordPress Tampa Bay10:00AM – Monday, Dec. 11
State of the Word Watch Party 2023 (Slack)
WordPress Orlando10:00AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Networking at Ford’s Garage
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 11
In person at Fords Garage St Pete
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Networking at Cafe’ Delanie
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Start the Week with more connections MONDAYS at Romi’s Tacos All Welcome!
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Business Networking Meeting
Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Monday Business Introductions at Romi’s Taco’s
Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 11
In PERSON Networking Lunch East Brandon Reserve your seat
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Monday, Dec. 11
Intro to Unreal Engine
Tampa Bay Community Network – Media Center4:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Radiant Ridge Toastmasters
Toastmasters Division G5:30PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698
Toastmasters District 486:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Monday Feast & Game Night
Tampa Bay Tabletoppers6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Ankh Gods of Egypt – with Tomb of Wonders
Sarasota Strategy Board Game League6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
MTG: Commander Night
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location)
Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar6:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Intro to the Babylock Embroidery Machine (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace6:30PM – Monday, Dec. 11
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!!
Toastmasters District 486:30PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Three Bridges Brewing Trivia Night with the Smartphone Trivia Game Show
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup6:30PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Stirling Toastmasters Club #7461614
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Orlando DevOps Holiday Social
Orlando DevOps7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Board Game Night at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos
School is closed- Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg7:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
DigiMondays
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Monday, Dec. 11
Weekly Meetup
Beginning Web Development8:00PM – Monday, Dec. 11
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Tuesday, December 12

Event name and localeGroupTime
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486
Toastmasters District 487:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Tuesday Westchase Business Networking Lunch at Sea Glass Tavern
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Westchase Professional Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Networking at SeaGlass Tavern~ All Welcome, join us!!!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Westchase Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome JOIN us and connect!
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Networking at Glory Days Grill
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New Tampa
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Networking at AppleBee’s St. Pete
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Don`t repeat my mistakes on your Data road | Gulnar Albushova
Orlando Power BI User Group12:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Holiday Power Happy Hour
Orlando 100k Network Meetup Group5:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Weekly Open Make Night
Tampa Hackerspace6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
The Basics of UX UI Design
Ironhack Tampa – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn League Round 1
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Learn About Podcasting and How to Monetize Your Interest!
Tampa eMarketing Groups6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!!
Florida Podcasters Association6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
YEA Young Entrepreneur Meetup! Seminar & Networking
Young Entrepreneurs of America YEA Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Holiday Party 🌴🎅🕎 – Guests Welcome 👍🐛
Dunedin Toastmasters 21666:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa
Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
December Book Club Meeting
Oldsmar Reads Between The Lines6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome!
Pinellas Writers6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
The Sarasota Creative Writers
The Sarasota Creative Writers Meetup Group6:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Woodshop Safety (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Special Guest: JIMMY SONG – Meet & Greet Book Signing
Tampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Pizza Python
The Orlando Python User Group7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Lakeland Note Investing Meetup Group
Lakeland Note Investing Group7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Trivia Night with Trivia Nation
Trivia Night at Irish 31 Seminole7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game Show
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
D&D Adventurers League at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
AMA – Ask Me Anything Related to Photography, Computers and Software
Florida Center for Creative Photography7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Let’s Meetup and Discuss “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Central Florida Books and Brews7:00PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House!
TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:30PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom
Shut Up & Write!® Tampa7:45PM – Tuesday, Dec. 12
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Wednesday, December 13

On Wednesday evening, Tampa Bay Science Data Group will feature this presentation: Item Response Theory – Using data and models to recognize good questions. Here’s the abstract:

Item response theory is part of the field of psychometrics, concerned with the design and administration of questionnaires and tests. Using models and methods from IRT, we can learn which items or questions give us less information about the latent trait we want to measure (for instance, student subject knowledge). We will briefly go over the basics of a 2-parameter logistic models, generate some synthetic data, fit some models on that data and interpret the results. We’ll also take a look at why some standardized tests aren’t very good at differentiating students of different abilities and the impact this has on predicting student scores using supervised learning.

Find out more and register here.

Event name and localeGroupTime
St Pete Networking Breakfast at the Hangar Meet St Pete’s Top Pro’s All Weclcome
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Networking at The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Downtown St Pete Professionals Networking Breakfast
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)7:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Tampa Highrisers Toastmasters
Toastmasters District 487:45AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Technical Meetup Group hosted by IBM – 2023 Accomplishments and 2024 Plan
Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa8:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
East Coast Bootstrappers Breakfast®
Bootstrappers Breakfast® – Tampa Bay Area8:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup
1 Million Cups – Orlando8:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
FREE Tele-Class with Nancy Matthews – *WOW* Wednesday
Women’s Prosperity Network | Orlando Chapter9:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Midjourney Prompt Help & Advanced FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!
Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Networking at Glory Days Grill!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Carrollwood Networking Lunch! Join us and win!
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Brandon Business Professionals Just Love Coffee
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Networking at Just Love Coffee!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!!
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Brandon Networking Professionals Networking Lunch
Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Business Networking Lunch
Bradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch!
Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton11:30AM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Free Webinar: Is Bing worth your time and energy?
Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott12:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Pitch Lounge: Get Feedback on Your 1-Minute Pitch Idea from Startup Experts
Tampa Startup Founder 1011:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Webinar:How Performant Node Infrastructure Drives Enterprise Blockchain Adoption
Hyperledger Tampa1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Online Event: Shut Up & Write!® Your Life Story (on Zoom)
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg1:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion Meetup
Lady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group2:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
The Ultimate 2024 Client Acquisition Marketing Guide
Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events3:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
SwanCitySec Meetup
Central Florida CitySec5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Playing Games in the Alley
The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Board Gaming – In Person
Brandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Creative Community Meetup at Melrose – A.I. Powered Technologies
Orlando Video & Post Production Meetup5:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meeting
Bay Pines Toastmasters5:15PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
DUG- Tampa December Power Meetup – Advanced Networking
DUG Power Platform & Dynamics 365 – Tampa5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Felicitous Game Night w/Heritage Dim Sum
Tampa Game Nights5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Wednesday Board Game Night
Tampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Whiskey Tech Wednesdays
Defcon8136:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Chess Club Every Wednesday
Tarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Board Game Night
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Dungeons & Dragons One Shot Wednesdays
Clermont Nerd Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Learn to Play Wingspan at Meeple Movers Board Game Cafe
Meeple Movers Gaming Group6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Board Game Night at Deadwords Brewing
Brews N Board Games6:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
TBDSG: Item Response Theory – Using data and models to recognize good questions
Tampa Bay Data Science Group6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us bi-monthly Meetup
Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.TampaBayInventors.org6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Holiday Movies and Specials Trivia
Geekocracy!6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
December Digital Camera Basics – Online
Our Photo Tribe Workshops6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group
Tampa Writers Alliance6:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and Online
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
[Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & Community
Tampa Bay Bitcoin7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Call for presenters
Broward Drupal Users Group7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Let’s Talk Design & Animation
Central Florida: Motion Design Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
MakerFX Embrilliance Study Group
MakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Castaways Euchre Club
Castaways Euchre Club7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Wasteland Wednesdays Gaslands Refuelled RPG Story
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Nerd Night: Board Games and Beer at Deadwords Brewing
Adventures On Tap: TTRPGs and Board Games7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
New Beginnings & Old Rivalries
Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
End of Year Dinner
Chan’s Book Club of Tampa Bay7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
How to Express Yourself and Connect with People
Professionals Meetup For Networking And Social Skillsets7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
The Short Attention Span Storytelling Hour
Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts7:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress Weekly
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Understanding Linux
Women In Linux8:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
AWS 2023: re:Invent re:Cap!!!
Florida AWS Security Users Meetup Group8:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
Code challenge Monthly coding session
Orlando Lady Developers Meetup8:00PM – Wednesday, Dec. 13
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Thursday, December 14

The 3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup, happens Thursday! Find out more and register here.

Event name and localeGroupTime
12 Secrets of Professional Humor Writing
Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts6:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Business Over Breakfast ~ Happy Hangar IN PERSON JOIN US!
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome7:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
LUTZ, FL – HAPPY HANGER CAFE THURSDAY NETWORKING
Tampa Bay Networking and Events8:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Learning Tokens @ Hyperledger Besu – 3rd. Session
Hyperledger Tampa11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch JOIN us and connect your business
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited!
Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:00AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch
Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Leads Club Meeting
South Shore Leads Club11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!
Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Breakroom Bar & Grill 11:28 Doors open at 11:00am IN Person
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Lutz / Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Bahama Breeze!
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI)11:30AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
The Business Alliance Club
The Business Alliance11:45AM – Thursday, Dec. 14
2023 Lunch n’Learn – End to End Machine Learning Challenge
Orlando Machine Learning and Data Science12:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Sarasota Speakers Exchange Toastmasters
Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Telecom Park Toastmasters #6745
Toastmasters District 4812:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Soul Yoga
Zen City Brews Events and News12:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Exploring GenAI with watsonx.ai: Unleash the power of foundation models
Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa1:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Commander Open Play Night at Armada Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!1:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
RPG: Pathfinder Society at Meeple Movers
Meeple Movers Gaming Group2:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Technical Meetup Group hosted by IBM – 2023 Accomplishments and 2024 Plan
Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa3:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Gulfport Scrabble and Social
Gulfport Scrabblers and Social5:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tech Success Network5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence Meetup5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tampa Devs5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Career Success Academy5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tampa Bay Apple Coding Meetup5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tampa Cybersecurity Training5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
End of Year Social
Tampa Bay UX Group5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Front End Creatives5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
3rd Annual End of Year Tech Meetup
Tampa Bay Techies5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Tomb of Annihilation (T2-APL7)
Orlando Adventurer’s Guild5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
It’s a Holiday Ugly Sweater Party with Young Professionals in Orlando!
Young Professionals in Orlando 5:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night)
Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Pathfinder Society
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective
Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup6:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
“This is How You Bury Your Ancestors” by Silk Jazmyne Hindus
Kitchen Table Literary Happy Hour: Sips and Stories6:30PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Live streaming production and talent
Live streaming production and talent7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248
Toastmasters District 487:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
December Meet-Up (Holiday Party with Computer Coach)
Tampa Bay InfraGard Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Holiday Dinner – West Orlando WordPress
West Orlando WordPress Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Orlando Devs Holiday Party
Orlando Developers Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
One Piece Thursdays
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament
Balance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Thursday chess at 54th Ave Kava House!
TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Grandpa Beck Games Demo
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders Pizza
Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup7:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
Weekly Hacks
Hacktivate – Hackathon Meetup Group8:00PM – Thursday, Dec. 14
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Friday, December 15

Event name and localeGroupTime
Improve your communication, listening, and leadership skills
Winter Park Toastmasters – Learn while having FUN!7:15AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Caffeine & Connections: Friday Fuel for Black Professionals
Pinellas County Black Business Meetup Group8:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Focused conversation: Conference talks (and other ways to show off what we know)
Write the Docs Florida8:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Business Networking All Welcome!
Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Tampa Young Professionals Virtual Networking Friday Morning All WElCOME
Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect!8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 15
A.C.T. Acquire Connections Today Morning Virtual Business Networking
Network & Social – Orlando Networking Events8:45AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Business over Breakfast Clearwater
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Networking over breakfast
Tampa Bay Networking and Events9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
FBI ~ Friday Business Introductions at Largo Family Restaurant
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Online Networking with Brandon Biz Pros
Brandon Biz Pros9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Virtual Coffee
Project Codex9:00AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Toastmasters – Improve Speaking Skills & Build Confidence
Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay9:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every Friday
Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Westshore Business Networking Lunch at McAlisters Deli Every Friday All Welcome
Tampa Bay Networking and Events11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Friday Business Introductions Tampa
Tampa Bay Networking Meetings and Mixers11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
International Professionals Networking Meeting
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
International Networking Westshore McAlisters Deli
Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
International Professionals Networking Meeting
Tampa / St Pete Business Connections11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Friday International Business Introductions at McAlisters Westshore
Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
WINTER PARK: Join us for outrageous connection, growth and networking too!
Powerful Women Networking11:30AM – Friday, Dec. 15
Titan Holiday parties 2023 | Clearwater
Amazon Seller Meetup | Clearwater, Florida5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
WEEKLY FRIDAY NIGHT GAMING AT GAMER’S COMMAND
Brandon Boardgamers5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Board Game Night!
Clermont Nerd Games5:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Friday Board Game Night
Tampa Gaming Guild5:30PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Taps & Drafts | EDH/MtG Night
Nerdbrew Events6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
MTG: Commander FNM
Critical Hit Games6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Learn to Play Codenames (a party game) at Meeple Movers Board Game Cafe
Meeple Movers Gaming Group6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Nihongo De Okay
Tampa Japanese Meetup6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Taps & Drafts | Casual EDH/MtG Social Night
Nerd Night Out6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
GROWTH MINDSET
Self-Perfected Orlando6:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
MakerFX Makerspace Woodshop Guild
MakerFX Makerspace7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Dirty Dancersizing Class
Business Networking and Other Events7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Karaoke Night at Conworlds Emporium
Tarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
PVP Boardgame Showdown
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
ONLINE: Conversation with William O. Stephens, Ph.D.
Orlando Stoics7:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Friday Pokemon Tournament
Sunshine Games7:30PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Weekly Meetup
Plant City Web Development Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Regular weekly meetup
Plant City Marketing Group8:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Friday night game night
Indica Cafe Events9:00PM – Friday, Dec. 15
International Networking at McAlisters Deli every Friday
Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers11:30PM – Friday, Dec. 15
Monthly Cell Phone Photo Showcase
Florida Center for Creative Photography11:59PM – Friday, Dec. 15
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Saturday, December 16

Event name and localeGroupTime
Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss.
Central Florida Philosophy Meetup7:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Early Bird Ocala
Toastmasters Division G8:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Bird Photography @ Hillsborough River
Tampa Bay Photo Walks9:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Hunters Creek Toastmasters
Toastmasters Division E9:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa
Chess Republic9:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
🌐 SAT 12/16 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM
The Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Coffee, Board Games, & Scrabble
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup10:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Midjourney Basics: Intro & FAQ with A.I. Creative Compass!
Midjourney A.I. Art Meetup Group11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Code, Coffee, and Brunch
Orlando DevOps11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Dungeons & Dragons for Teens Bi-Weekly
Tarpon Springs Pop Culture & Gaming Meetup11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Bravo Group Campaign Continues
Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG)11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Jane Austen’s Birthday!
The Jane Austen Book Club11:00AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
A Day at the Races . . . Horse Racing at Tampa Bay Downs
Florida Center for Creative Photography11:30AM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Weekly Workshop
Pinellas Community Code Workshop12:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Meet & Greet
Dropshipping Entrepeneurs of Tampa Bay12:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Table read screenplays
Screenwriters of Tomorrow/Today, Critique Meetup12:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
FREE Fab Lab Orientation
Suncoast Makers1:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Board Games!
Babcock Ranch Board Games1:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Advanced Laser Cutter Skills (Members Only)
Tampa Hackerspace2:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
NETWORKING SKILLS WORKSHOP: Learn How to Create More Win-Win Outcomes!
Beast Mode Networking Orlando2:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
ONLINE: Science Saturdays: Dr. Albert Ellis & REBT, Part 2
Socrates Cafe – “The unexamined life is not worth living”3:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
ONLINE: Science Saturdays: Dr. Albert Ellis & REBT, Part 2
Orlando Stoics3:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Game Project Therapy (Virtual)
Tampa Games Developer Guild4:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Game Night at Gamers Guild – Mid December
New Port Richey Casual Games and Fun Socializing Group!4:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
White Elephant Gift Exchange at Meeple Movers Board Game Cafe
Meeple Movers Gaming Group5:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Geeks Go to the Florida Botanical Gardens Christmas Display
Geekocracy!5:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Christmas in the Wild
Gen Geek6:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Community Hang-out Night
Nerdbrew Events6:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Tampa Hackerspace Board Game Night / Potluck / White Elephant – Holiday Edition
Tampa Hackerspace6:30PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Critical Hit Games Reverse White Elephant Gift Party
Critical Hit Games7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament
Sunshine Games7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Yu-Gi-Oh Tournament
Balance Martial Arts and Gaming7:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
Friendmas- All you can Eat KBQ/SUSHI!
Gaming.net8:00PM – Saturday, Dec. 16
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Sunday, December 17

Event name and localeGroupTime
Wild Iris Cafe Breakfast Meet!
Dunedin Professional Meetup8:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Dunedin Causeway
Suncoast Drone Club9:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Intro to Star Trails Photography Workshop: 3/3 – Post-Processing Star Trails
Florida Center for Creative Photography9:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Indian Shores Library Booksale
Indian Shores Library Read and Feeds9:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
🌐 SUN 12/17 at 10 AM ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM
The Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete Chapter10:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY Meetup AT Members Ken’s Residence on Siesta Key
Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group10:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Warhammer 40K
Clermont Nerd Games11:00AM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Venice Strategy Board Gamers
Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton12:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
RPG: Pathfinder Extinction Curse Bk2 “Legacy of the Lost God”
Meeple Movers Gaming Group12:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Sunday Gaming
Tampa Gaming Guild1:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Family Open Make Day
Tampa Hackerspace2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in Ybor
Chess Republic2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games
Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more!2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
D&D Adventurers League
Critical Hit Games2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Keys From the Golden Vault (tier 2, lvl 8 preferred)
Orlando Adventurer’s Guild2:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
St. Pete Arthouse Cinema Club – “Falling Leaves” – Dec 17 2023, 03:00 PM
St. Pete Arthouse Cinema Club3:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
iNugGits Launch Party
Intro to Robotics iNugGits STEM Academy3:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Sunday Pokemon League
Sunshine Games4:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
IN-PERSON: A Walking Meditation – Causeway Trail
Tampa Stoics4:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Lankhmar: City of Adventure
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group5:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Resched: Downtown Tampa Winter Village and Riverwalk! Enjoy Hot Cocoa, Skate…
► Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group5:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Open Game Night
Unlucky Roll Cafe Board Game Meetup6:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Gospel Karaoke and Bible Study
Indica Cafe Events6:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Find Your Funny Toastmaster
Toastmasters Division E6:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck!
Nerdbrew Events7:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
Office Hours
Solana – Tampa8:00PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s!
Nerd Night Out9:30PM – Sunday, Dec. 17
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About this list

How do I put this list together? It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.

In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.

What goes into this list? I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:

  • Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
  • Tech project management / agile processes
  • Video, board, and role-playing games
  • Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
  • Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
  • Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
  • Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
  • Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
  • Anything I deem geeky