Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 6 through Sunday, January 12, 2025! 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, January 6
Tuesday, January 7
Tuesday evening at GuidePoint Security, Tampa: Speaker Aniruth Narayanan will talk at the Tampa Devs meetup about data lake technologies, and the history of relational databases, data warehouses, ML algorithms, and data lakes. He’ll will also dive into technical details of table formats like ACID guarantees of Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg, the underlying file formats like Apache Parquet, and how they come together to create the lakehouse for ML and AI.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday evening at New World Tampa: The inaugural edition of the Ideas on Tap lecture series will feature three speakers talking about ideas:
- Justin Davis, VP UX at Sourcetoad: Your Idea Probably Sucks
- Annemarie Boss, Facilitator at UMBN Collaborative: Become an Idea Machine
- Brent Britton, Partner at Bochner PLLC: How Ideas Take Flight
Admission is free, New World has great beer and pizza (even with gluten-free crust), and it should be an entertaining, engaging evening!
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, January 8
Wednesday evening at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Data Analytics & AI Tampa Bay is holding their January meetup. This meetup’s topic is part two of a two-part series: Mastering LLM Integrations: Anything LLM, Ollama, and the Path to AI Agents.
Part 2 is about AI agents. Building on the foundations established in Part 1, Part 2 will focus on AI Agents through the lens of CrewAI. This segment will offer an overview of CrewAI’s capabilities and applications in AI Agent development. The session will conclude with a live demonstration of AI Agents in action, illustrating how the foundational concepts from Part 1 translate into real-world use cases.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, January 9
Thursday evening at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Tampa Java user Group and Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence Meetup present What you need to know: Data, apps, and AI for graph databases.
Join Jennifer Reif is a Developer Relations Engineer at Neo4j, who will walk through what a graph database is and how it can transform your applications and data. She’ll talk about creating, querying, and displaying data and learn how to integrate a graph database into applications. Finally, she will discuss how graph databases can be used in AI applications and the strengths they bring to the table. Live code will demonstrate these concepts in action.
Find out more and register here.
Friday, January 10
Friday morning, online: Join Tampa Bay User Experience for a virtual coffee talk! Got questions about UX? Want to discuss a specific topic? This is the place to do it.
Find out more and register here.
Saturday, January 11
Sunday, January 12
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
