Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, October 1
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Expert Series: Randall Nagy @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Pythonic DevOps @ 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetup — Art + Technology Meetup No.4 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Largo Board Games Meetup — Great Western Trail @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
Tuesday, October 2
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Ideas are Easy – Business Ideation Fun and Games @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Plan Before You Build: Information Architecture & Content Strategy @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Startup Legal 101: Advice from Top Startup Lawyers @ Undercroft, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds & Geeks — My Hero Academia: Two Heroes @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Blazor! All the buzzwords, none of the hassle! @ Bank of the Ozarks Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Go Tampa — Lexing and Parsing {{for:fun}} @ PowerChord, Inc., 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, October 3
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Eat Cheap / School of Rock St. Petersburg @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Assisting Hands Gulf Coast / Aviles Translations, LLC @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center. 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open Code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — Entrepreneurs Workshop @ Industrious Tampa, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ Vology Office, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Intro to JavaScript: Build a Guessing Game @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Design St. Pete — How UX and Agile can be friends @ Cottonwood Bayview, 6:45 PM to 8:45 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction @ GIL & RICK’S SPORTS BAR – LARGO – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘Mean Girls’ at the Tampa Theater! *Wear Pink* @ Tampa Theater, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Thursday, October 4
- Drupal Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Modern Web Design & Development Meetup, focusing on Drupal CMS @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- WordPress Tampa — SEO for your WordPress website @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast.js — Lightning Talks ⚡️ and Creating Recursive Components in Vue.js 💻 @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — $1.00 Tacos at Fuzzy’s Taco Shop! @ Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Friday, October 5
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread (2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company (13028 Dale Mabry Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Florida Soul: From Ray Charles to KC @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — New 5e Campaign – Heroes of Faerun (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Let’s see ‘Venom’ at AMC Veterans! @ AMC Veterans 24 theater, 6:45 PM to 9:45 PM
- Couples Game Night, Indie Music, & More (Mid 20’s-40’s) — Sales @ Crowbar Tampa, 7:30 PM to 11:54 PM
Saturday, October 6
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — DotNetConf – Discover the World of .NET @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM
- Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Intro to App Building with Salesforce @ Suncoast Developer’s Guild, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa School of AI — Coffee Meetup @ Blind Tiger Cafe, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open House! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Women’s Knowledge & Skills Exchange — 1st Meet & Greet !! @ Jimmie B. Keel Community Room D, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Dr. Petrov’s Lab @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Geekocracy — ‘A-Maze-ing’ Escape Room – Jailbreak! @ A-maze-ing Escape Rooms, 7:45 PM to 9:45 PM
Sunday, October 7
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Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, September 24
- Digital Photo Artists — Monthly DPA Dinner = Popi’s Place in Lakewood Ranch @ 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Open Sesame! Garage Door Hacks @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus @ 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Geekocracy! — Play ‘Overwatch’ Deathmatch at Geekout Games and Pizza Party! @ Geek Out! Games, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 25
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs @ 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Defcon 813 — Boot-n-root-beer @ The Wild Rover, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- The return of Tampa iOS Meetup! @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa JUG — The New Java Release Schedule and What It Means to You @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Startup Founder 101 — Making the Leap from Employee to Entrepreneur in Tampa @ Tampa Bay Wave, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Portkey to Magic — Game of Thrones Trivia @ Jacks London Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Laravel — Laravel Nova & What’s New in Laravel 5.7 @ 3rd Floor, 33 6th Street South, St. Petersburg, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Deep Learning vs Machine Learning in R @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, September 26
- Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — A Gift to Africa / Yummi Foods @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Engineering Marketing Consultants (EMC) / HireMadSkills, Inc. (MadSkills) @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- IEEE Professionals of the Florida West Coast — Blockchain: What it is, How it Works, And What it Means @ Tampa Electric – TECO Plaza Atrium, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – Tampa @ Brickhouse Tavern, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- St. Pete Podcasters — Sept Meeting | Jimmy Murray @ Station House, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Business Process Improvement Professionals Of Tampa Bay — Defining your Digital Business Model @ PSCU Financial Services, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IIBA Tampa Happy Hour! @ Coppertail Brewing Co, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Free Crash Course: Basic JavaScript @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Harder Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- ST PETE SHOPIFY 101 — Intro meeting and basic overview of Shopify @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 27
- Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- LaunchCode’s Disrupting the Digital Norm @ CAVU, 8:15 AM to 11:00 AM
- ENGAGE – A Network for Evolving Entrepreneurs — Mastering Your Inner Game for Entrepreneurs with Dr Linda @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Tampa and Orlando Google Cloud Computing Events — Machine Learning Made Easy on Google Cloud Platform & Apigee! @ Tampa Aquarium, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — How to build a WILDLY profitable business off of INSTAGRAM @ The Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS User Group — Customer Case Study – Verizon and Amazon GuardDuty @ Verizon, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting: Data Engineering at scale with Azure Databricks @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Best Times to Post on Social Media @ In The Loop, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- GDG SunCoast — Flutter Study Jam – Part 3 @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to Node @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — The Transformers (1986) Movie Event @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, September 28
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Funding our public schools w/ Jeff Eakins, Superintendent of Hillsborough Schools @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Sept 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Cardinal Solutions, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
- The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — RChain: Building “The Coin Faucet” dApp @ BlockSpaces, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Saturday, September 29
- Digital Divas — DIVA BRUNCH @ Cheddars Scratch Kitchen, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Pinchaser’s Cyber Bowling Special! @ Pinchasers / VETERANS location, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, September 30
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Open Fly Day – Come Fly With Us! @ Sheffield Disc Golf Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Free Python Training: New Student Enrollment @ 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Learn to Play Role Playing Games @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Dunkin’ Donuts (5610 E Fowler Ave), 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, September 17
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Cybersecurity Career Convos: Let’s talk about job security! w/ Mike Korman @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cloud Security Alliance Tampa Bay Chapter — 12 Ways to Hack Two Factor Authentication (2FA) – Chapter Meeting [Registration is closed for Sept. 17 event; sign up for podcast] @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- OK! TRANSMIT, Art + Technology Meetup #3 @ Duncan McClellan Gallery, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Cashflow Club — Cashflow 101 Game – How to play & game play @ Kat’s Office – BH, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild Jr: Scratch Class for Kids (ages 8-12) @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps Monthly Meetup: Top Reasons Why DevOps Fails @ Salesforce Tampa, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — A Look at the Open Courts Data Project, with Steve Spiker @ The Attic On Kennedy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Largo Board Games Meetup — Gloomhaven @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- 3D Printer Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- I Love Marketing! – Let’s talk about using marketing to grow your business @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 18
- Tampa Small Business Owner Workshops — The Entrepreneurs Growth Seminar @ Suntrust Building, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Tech — Nutanix’s X Tour: Imagine What’s Next @ The Florida Aquarium, Tuesday, 11:00 AM to Wednesday, 3:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Powershell for DBA @ St Pete College – EpiCenter, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – Gateway @ Brewer’s Tasting Room, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- The .NETwork: UX @ Kforce, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Power BI Tampa – Fantastic Functions and Where to Find Them – September 2018 @ ConnectWise, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: Project Support & Crowdsourcing Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Python — Python Round Table @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Spirited Toastmasters @ St Stephens Catholic School, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Fear Agent: Dark Secret (Full) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday, September 19
- Tampa Bay WaVE — OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — ARC Tracker, Inc. and University of Athletes and Athletics @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 5:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — QA THE AGILE WAY: TBT @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Suncoast Linux Users Group @ Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Looking For Players @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UX Group — Understanding & Managing Biases That Can Influence UX @ 352 Inc, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Resume Writing Workshop with Tech Ladies, GDI, and Suncoast Developers Guild @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Build a Web App with JavaScript & jQuery @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Getting Your Project from VCarve to CNC (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Thursday, September 20
- Girlfriends&Coffee Networking Group @ Belleair Coffee Company, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
- Digital Marketing Tampa Bay Meetup — Hey Google, what does VEO mean for my brand? @ PowerChord, Inc., 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Lean Beer for All Things Agile @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Speakers, Presenters, Managers & Leaders — How not to be a boring speaker and engage your audience @ The Alley at South Shore, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- WITI – STEM Opportunities and Challenges Panel Discussion @ SPC EpiCenter Collaborative Labs, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Crash Course: Intro to Ruby on Rails @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘3rd Thursday’ Food Trucks and Live Music @ The Grand Central at Kennedy, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa.rb: Mystery Meetup! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Hyperledger Tampa — Enterprise Blockchain: Hyperledger Fabric @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, September 21
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co., 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Connecting Florida’s Major Cities with High Speed Rail w/ Bob O’Malley @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Defcon813 — OWASP Tampa Day 2018 @ 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Grow Financial Agile Tour @ Grow Financial, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Tampa Otaku — MegaCon Tampa @ Tampa Convention Center, Friday, 4:00 PM to Sunday, 5:00 PM
- Tampa Otaku — St Pete Asian Street Fair & Craft Beer Fest – Free Admission @ Albert Whitted Park, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — September Board Game Night! @ Friday, 7:00 PM to Saturday, 12:00 AM
- Open Source Hack and Chill @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Mindful Social Group — Tampa’s “The Power of NOW” by Eckhart Tolle Book Experience @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- CoderNight — Individual Challenge @ Malwarebytes Clearwater Office, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday, September 22
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — MEGACON TAMPA 2018-Sept. 21st-23rd @ Saturday, 10:00 AM to Sunday, 7:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — 2018 Tampa Bay Megacon! @ Tampa Convention Center, 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- MR101: Intro to Drones (Multi-Rotors) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Bradenton Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Meetup — We’re combining Sarasota and Bradenton Bitcoin and Blockchain Meetups this month @ Connect Bradenton, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — KARAOKE NIGHT! @ Fat Cat Tavern, Saturday, 8:30 PM to Sunday, 12:30 AM
Sunday, September 23
- Make Tampa Hackerspace Better Workday and cookout @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Paintball! @ Orbital Paintball, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Full), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Women as Leaders Network (WALN) — WALN’s 2nd Anniversary Party at Axe and Ale @ 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Suncoast Audiophile Society — Sept “Mini Meet”- Oppo 205 vs. outboard DAC’s @ 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
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Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, September 10
- SecureSet Info Night Tampa @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Welcome to SpeakEasy Toastmasters Club Meetup Group! @ Hibachi Buffet, 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Women’s Entrepreneurial Think Tank @ Neptune Grill, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Thinkers — Do we need to tweak the “freedom of expression” part of the First Amendment? @ Carrollwood Cultural Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 11
- Business Development and Sales — Leads and Coffee @ Belleair Coffee Company, 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- IAMCP (International Association of Microsoft) Tampa Chapter @ Microsoft Offices, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Monthly (2nd Tuesday) Meeting of the N. Pinellas IBD Meetup Group @ 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- St. Pete-Clearwater Investor’s Business Daily Meetup Group Monthly Meetup @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Investor’s Business Daily Meetup Group — Monthly Meeting October 3rd (schedule change) @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ IHop (4910 Spruce Street, Tampa), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay ServiceNow Developer Quarterly Meeting @ Tampa International Airport-Tpa, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Ybor Tech — September OpenHack @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — FOR ALL PROS – Speaking More Effectively @ WebEx Live-Online Session, 7:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — Web Entrepreneurs @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Brandon Toastmasters Club @ Hillsborough Community College, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Woodshop Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM
- Suncoast Skeptics — Brainy Bowling @ AMF Bowling, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday, September 12
- Tampa Bay WaVE — Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — RaftUp / Galaxis @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Special presentation by US Small Business Administration / Verimour @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Bernini of Ybor Lunch Networking @ Bernini (innovative italian cuisine), 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: I^2L: Interactive Introduction to Linux @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Beer and Board Game Night St. Pete @ Avid Brew Co., 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- September Meeting @ St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- TampaDev — Tampa Community Connect Meetup Night, featuring “Getting Started with IoT and Azure”, and “Data Science, and the Changing Role of Data Professionals” @ Keiser University, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Skeptics — Think + Drink at South Florida Museum @ South Florida Museum, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ Marble Side Building, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Pub Trivia Night at World of Beer! @ World of Beer, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG – Tampa @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Thursday, September 13
- Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Starbucks Reserve in Univ Of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Building, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Education Technology Meetup — Keiser University – Career Fair @ Keiser University – Tampa Campus, 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Startup Space Tampa Bay Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses — Digital Marketing 101 for Startups and Entrepreneurs @ St Petersburg College,12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E (Looking for Players) — New Campaign @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Follow the Money: How to Talk to Executives About Agile (Steven Granese) @ Valpak Manufacturing Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Application Insights – A Deep Dive @ Bloomin’ Brands, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Sisters in Technology — Network after work @ Panera Bread (364 Brandon Town Center Mall, Brandon), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Software QA and Testing Meetup — First Meetup – Tampa Software QA and Testing @ Sogeti Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Front-End Design Meetup — Interactive Web Apps with CSS Variables @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Predator Party Double Feature + Gameshow! @ Villagio Cinemas, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Friday, September 14
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread (6001 W Waters Ave, Tampa), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg / Tyrone) @ Panera (2420 66th St North, St Petersburg), 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa — Greg Lindsay, author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Tech Events — The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘The Predator’ at AMC Veterans 24 – Tampa Joes restaurant after! @ AMC Veterans 24 theater, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- MARS ASTRONOMY CLUB — M.A.R.S Regular Monthly Meeting @ Perkins Restaurant (5002 E Fowler Ave, Tampa), 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Saturday, September 15
- Geekocracy! — Hillsborough River clean-up: Ricks on the River! @ Ricks On the River, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Learn to Play Dungeons and Dragons @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — NNO Book Club: Year One @ Three Birds Tavern, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Cyber-Jedi’s — Vulnerability Discovery using NMap @ Cisco WebEx Webinar, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins Restaurant & Bakery (2626 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater), 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- New Port Richey Casual Games and Fun Socializing Group! — Buffet Dinner/sushi and a fun game night to follow. @ Habachi Buffet, 6:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Sunday, September 16
Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!
Monday, September 3
Please note: Unless the event has the words “Labor Day” in its title, you should double-check with the organizer to confirm that it’s actually happening.
- Tampa Drones Meetup — Labor Day BBQ @ Hilton RC Airfield, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Retro/Indie Gaming at Brew Bus (Pints & Pixels) @ Brew Bus Brewing, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 4
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Positioned for Growth – Opportunity and Timing with Sara Hand After Hours @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Introduction to Writing Persuasive Content for the Web @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- West Pasco Toastmasters #2824 @ West Pasco Board of Realtors, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- **Spirited Toastmasters** @ St Stephens Catholic School, 6:30 PM to 8:15 PM
- CLEARWATER eMarketing Groups — Quick and Easy Ways to Create Content, presented by Michael Crose @ iHop, 30200 US Hwy 19 South of Curlew Rd, Clearwater, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Introduction to Azure IoT Suite with John Wang @ Bank of the Ozarks Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Pathfinder Society of the Tampa Bay Area — PFS @ Serenity Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds and Geeks — AMC $5 MOVIES – KIN @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, September 5
- Tampa Bay WaVE — Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Seed Funders / Givvn @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — User Friendly Credit / Body by Chinyere @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ KForce Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- The Tampa Bay Gaming Group: D&D, D20, Pathfinder, & More! — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path – Looking For Players @ Oragnizer’s house, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- USF entrepreneurs and startups networking @ 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — ML Product Management: Bias and Risk Management @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Sarasota Drone Flying Meetup — Let’s fly The Ringling Museum!!! All experience levels are welcome!!!!!!! @ The Ringling Museum, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Web Development vs Data Science @ CoCreativ, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Bitcoin Cash @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Thursday, September 6
- FL Biz Incubator Morning Spark Tank @ Dunedin Golf Club, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Girlfriends&Coffee Networking Group @ Belleair Coffee Company, 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
- Tampa# – C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
- Tampa Doctors & Masters — Texas BBQ! @ Smokin’ Pig BBQ, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — The Chosen, a home brew pathfinder variant (FULL) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- Drupal Website Development, Design & Technologies Meetup — Modern Web Design & Development Meetup, focusing on Drupal CMS @ Panera Bread, 2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater
- Tampa Product Management Meetup — Product Management Meetup Task Force Kickoff – DTSP @ Green Bench Brewing Company, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay RPA — NO COST RPA TRAINING @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Vue.js, a new JavaScript Framework @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Frontend Crash Course: JavaScript Fundamentals @ Station House, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast.js — Big O Notation and What is “this” in JavaScript? @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Agile Social — Reflections and Retrospectives – Mini Workshop ‘N Mingle @ City Blue, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday, September 7
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Speaking and Presentation Skills Success — List Building For Expanding Success @ Sheryl’s place, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Beginner’s Intro to Capture The Flag & Raffle @ SecureSet, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Capture the Flag: Cybersecurity Hackathon & Raffle! @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Machine Shop Mill and Chill (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Tampa Bay Grand Prix – Go-Karts! (Ladies night specials!) @ Tampa Bay Grand Prix Indoor Go Kart Racing, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Saturday, September 8
- Content Creators — Tips & Tricks of Editing – Guest Speaker @ PRIVATE RESIDENCE, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers – new location, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Doctors & Masters — Art Walk & Canopy! @ The Canopy, St. Petersburg, 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa CE-5 Ambassador to the Universe Meetup — September Group CE-5 Meet Up @ 7:00 PM to 3:00 PM