Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, April 20 through Sunday, April 26!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
- Monday, April 20
- Tuesday, April 21
- Wednesday, April 22
- Thursday, April 23
- Friday, April 24
- Saturday, April 25
- Sunday, April 26
Monday, April 20
Monday at 6:00 p.m. at Seminole Heights Library (Tampa): Tampa Devs presents How We Deleted $600K in Software Costs (And What We Learned Along the Way).
Long-time Tampa Devs member Ryan Clements, who’s also a long-time Tampa Devs member and speaker/founder of Byte Bot will share a story on how he and his team deleted $600K in software costs and the hard lessons learned along the way. The process involved replacing an expensive third-party ETL platform, revealing technical challenges that required every ounce of the team’s technical know-how.
What Ryan didn’t expect was how much the project’s success would hinge on navigating ambiguity, building stakeholder trust, and making dozens of small decisions that would compound over time. This session will dive into a story of a migration where the wins, the failures, and the lessons were earned from being in the trenches.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, April 21
Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. online: Computer Coach presents How to Write a Technical Resume.
Learn how to craft a killer technical resume that will land you interviews and impress hiring managers!
Technology is a vast industry with so many diverse specializations. Now more than ever, it’s critical that your resume represents not just your professional experience, but your technical abilities and how your skill ties in with the tech ecosystem.
During this live workshop, they’ll discuss how to write a technical resume for job searching in today’s highly competitive job market!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. at Hyde Park (Tampa): Tampa Machine Learning is holding a paper reading, where the paper in question is Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, April 22
Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. online: Heart of Agile is holding an online coffee corner, which is a relaxed Zoom gathering where practitioners come together to explore what those four moves look like in real teams, projects, and organizations.
In recent sessions, they’ve learned that people appreciate the openness of an informal conversation, and that a little bit of structure helps the discussion land more clearly.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, April 23
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Tampa Java User Group presents Automated Generation of REST API Specifications and Java Code!
Given today’s AI-based “vibe-coding” tools implementing APIs can feel deceptively easy. However implementing APIs without first defining a well-structured API interface can increase technical debt and result in brittle API architectures. In contrast an API contract-first design approach focuses on crafting the API’s client interface specification before starting API coding.
This session will explore API design principles such as employing use cases to elicit API requirements, creating business domain models to create canonical API data models, and using the OpenAPI standard for documenting client interface contracts. They’ll show how creating well-structured business domain models can accelerate API development by automatically generating OpenAPI specifications and API implementation code. Finally they’ll demo tooling that automatically transforms a graphical business domain model into a well-structured OpenAPI specification and skeleton API Java code.
This session is ideal for architects, tech leads, and senior engineers seeking to pair the speed of modern tooling with the rigor of careful API design.
Find out more and register here.
Friday, April 24
Friday at 8:30 a.m. at Pikmykid’s office (Tampa): Homebrew Hillsborough presents Pikmykid powered by CENTEGIX!
This is a very special Homebrew Hillsborough with our very own homegrown startup to company, Pikmykid powered by CENTEGIX. It will showcase one of Hillsborough County’s success stories and you’ll have the opportunity to meet the founders and learn about their journey.
Pikmykid is a Tampa-founded K–12 comprehensive safety platform built on a simple mission: to keep every student safe on campus. They empower schools to transform their daily and emergency operations with an easy-to-use platform, providing peace of mind so educators can focus on learning. Today, Pikmykid supports over 7,000 schools nationwide. Proudly built in Tampa and grown through the local innovation ecosystem, Pikmykid reflects the power of homegrown entrepreneurship scaling to national impact.
They will host a morning coffee session featuring founder stories and a discussion on building and scaling a mission-driven EdTech company from Tampa. This will include a short demo of their “campus-to-home” safety platform, followed by interactive Q&A and networking.
Find out more and register here.
Friday at 11:30 a.m. at GuidePoint Security (Tampa): It’s OWASP Tampa Chapter’s 2026 April Lunch n’ Learn!
You’re invited to join OWASP Tampa Bay Chapter and members of our local Tampa Bay community to hear from industry experts in cybersecurity. This lunch and learn will bring topics that influence discussion among your peers and provide a venue to meet others that share your passions.
The speaker will be Damien DeHart, who comes with a background in Enterprise Observability/Performance Management, where he was a major contributor to New Relic’s Observability Maturity Architecture (OMA). Currently working as a Senior Solutions Consultant at Aikido Security, his current role is focused assisting clients with their Vulnerability Management strategy.
His talk abstract: Your devs are piling on 10k lines before lunch. This is the world we live in. What do you do about it? In this session, we’ll dive into some modern and emerging coding practices, how they’ve changed the landscape of software development, and how they affect your security posture in 2026. In an AI-Native world, security should integrate across your entire SDLC, especially at the point(s) where they can expose your organization to data breaches, malware, and subsequently reputational and monetary damage.
Find out more and register here.
Saturday, April 25
Saturday at 10:00 a.m. online: Google Developer Group Central Florida presents Build Your Own YouTube Summarizer Workshop!
Join them for an exciting hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to build a YouTube Summarizer using Google’s powerful tools and APIs! Whether you’re new to development or looking to expand your skills, this event is perfect for you. With our expert guidance, you’ll navigate through the codelab and create your very own application that summarizes YouTube videos. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your programming skills and connect with fellow tech enthusiasts in the community.
Find out more and register here.
Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at Felicitous Coffee (Tampa): Liz Tiller presents a Women in Tech Tampa Meetup!
She writes:
Tampa women in tech ✨
I’m excited to officially share the details for our upcoming coffee hang!
We’ll be gathering on Saturday, April 25th at 11 AM at Felicitous Coffee (51st & Fowler, near USF / Temple Terrace).
This is a casual, welcoming space to connect with other women in tech—whether you’re a developer, designer, product manager, student, career-switcher, or just curious about the field. Come grab a coffee, meet new people, and build community.
If you’re interested in joining, drop a comment or send me a message—I’d love to get a sense of who’s coming!
Feel free to share with others in the Tampa area who might want to join us ☕
Sunday, April 26
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| CorelDraw Academy MakerSpace Pinellas |
Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group | 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Tree Fort Tech: AI for Creatives — Free Talk & QA |
EveryDay AI Learning & Social Meetup Group | 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts) 4933 W Nassau St |
Tampa Hackerspace | 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
| Game Night Returns: More Dice, More Decks & No Drama Magnanimous Brewing |
The 30/40 Social Club | 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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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:
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- 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