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

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, nerds, and tech entrepreneurs in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Do you have an tech or entrepreneurial event in or around the Tampa Bay area that you’d like to see listed here? Drop me a line about it at joey@globalnerdy.com!

Monday, October 16

• Sarasota/Bradenton Women Entrepreneurs Meetup — Tools for Success! @ Square 1 Burgers, 5239 University Parkway, Sarasota, 11:30 a.m.
• Play D&D5e (Looking for Players) @ Grand Arena, 5:30 p.m.
• Tampa Bay DevOps October Meetup @ Salesforce Tampa, 6:00 p.m.

• Agile Social Launch Party! @ Cask & Ale, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Sarasota “Doctor Who” Fan Meetup — October Viewing Party @ Square 1 Burgers, 5239 University Parkway, Sarasota, 6:00 p.m.
• Board Game Night – Monday @ Armada Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
• The Suncoast Developers Guild — Kids Academy: Learning to Code (1 night event) @ Gooee, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
• 3D Printer Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• New South Tampa Toastmasters Club @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday, October 17

• Valpak Agile Tour @ Valpak, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 p.m.
• Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — The Power of Your Voice and Civic Engagement Panel, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Pinellas SQL User Group — October 2017 – Everything you wanted to know about Data Partitioning… @ St Pete College – EpiCenter, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Tacos and Tunes Tuesday, with IIBA Tampa Bay! @ c.1949, 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
• Ybor |> Elixir — October Meeting – Introduction to Phoenix 1.3 @ 6:30 p.m.
• Free in TB!! — Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future @ 6:45 p.m.

• Tampa R Users Group inaugural meetup @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Laravel — Bringing TDD To an Existing Application @ DirectMail2.0, 7:00 p.m.
• Suncoast Toastmasters Weekly Meeting @ Trinity Presbyterian Church, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Anime, Nerds & Geeks — $5 Movies – The Foreigner @ 7:00 p.m.
• Star Wars: Destiny Organized Play @ Armada Games, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, October 18

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co., 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
• OPEN/FREE Coworking for Veteran Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Lumitec and AWV Complete @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 a.m.
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — BarCamp Tampa Bay, CareerSource Tampa Bay, and H202Pool @ Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 a.m.
• Demo Day @ The Iron Yard, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

• Tampa Bay Agile — Continuous Flow in the Digital Age (Steve Bell) @ Vology, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• The Suncoast Linux Users Group Pinellas @ Pinellas Park Public Library, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 6:00 p.m. – 11:30 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Gaming Group — Pathfinder Kingmaker Adventure Path @ “My House”, 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
• Gulfport Toastmasters @ Gulfport Library, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Bradenton Toastmasters – Become the speaker you were born to be! @ Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Tampa JavaScript Meetup — Code and Chille @ Gaspar’s Grille, 6:45 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
• Women as Leaders Network (WALN) — Shopping Night @ Canvas (free wine & cheese), 7:00 p.m.
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Tokyo Ghoul Live Action Movie (Subtitled), 7:00 p.m.
• Central Florida CitySec — CigarCitySec Meetup @ Cigar City Brewing, 7:00 p.m.
• Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Thursday, October 19

• Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Happy Hour Networking – Cigars, Fine Wines and Brews @ Long Ash Cigar Bar, 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread, 5:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
• Lean Beer for All Things Agile @ Bad Monkey, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Emerging Tech Leaders Tampa Bay Happy Hour @ 6:00 p.m.
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Career Conversations Featuring COL John E. McLaughlin @ SecureSet, 6:00 p.m.
• Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Best On-Page Optimization Practices @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 6:00 p.m.
• Fiverr MeetUp @ Vology, 6:30 p.m.
• The Tampa Ruby Brigade — Tampa.rb: Tampa Side – Mystery Meetup! @ Andy Beverly School, 7:00 p.m.
• Amazon Sellers in the Tampa Bay Area — Grab Dinner and Talk! @ 7:00 p.m.
• Build Your Own 3D Printer: Wiring 2 of 3 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.
• THS Woodworkers Guild (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 p.m.
• Functional Suncoast — Learn You an Elm for Greater Good @ TEC Garage at SPC Downtown Campus, 7:00 p.m.

Friday, October 20

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Brandon & Riverview) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
• Café con Tampa — Cultural Vitality: A Tool for Economic Prosperity with Martine Collier, Arts Council of Hillsborough County @ 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
• Build the Centaur: Data Science Capability Collaboration Event — Doolittle Institute SOFWERX – Ybor City, 8:00 a.m.
• Free Computer Repair and Technology Training — Free Computer Repair @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
• NecronomiCon – Florida’s Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Convention @ Holiday Inn Tampa Westshore Airport, Friday 12:00 p.m. – Sunday 4:00 p.m.
• LFP – (Super) H.E.R.O.S – Champion RPG game @ Grand Arena, 6:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
• Nerd Night Out — See New Tampa Players’ production of Addams Family! *snap, snap* @ University Area CDC, 8:00 p.m.
• Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Requiem from the Darkness @ 8:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 21

• BarCamp Tampa Bay @ USF Muma College of Business, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Nerd Night Out — LAN Party @ Saturday 10:00 a.m. – Sunday 5:00 p.m.
• Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 p.m.
• Sarasota Game Design & Development — Arcade / Play session @ Alfred R. Goldstein Library at Ringling College of Art and Design, 2:00 p.m.
• Clearwater/ St. Petersburg Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins, 2626 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater, 3:00 p.m.
• Nerd Night Out — Karaoke Night @ Fat Cat Tavern, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 22

• Cigar City Multirotors — October MultiGP Points Race @ Hamilton Park, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
• D&D5e Weekly Campaign (Looking for Players) @ Grand Arena, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Nerd Night Out — Walking Dead trivia/Premiere Party @ Peabody’s (Palms Lounge), 6:00 p.m.
• Tampa Bay Young Professionals — Free Pops at the Park with the Florida Orchestra @ 6:15 p.m.