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, April 23
- PopUp Business School USA Start Up Support Group @ The Attic, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
- Wesley Chapel Speaks Toastmasters @ Nissan of Wesley Chapel, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Fusion 360 Deep Dive (8 Weeks) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM
- YouTube Support Group — Producing your Video for YouTube! @ Village Inn, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Digital Photo Artists — Light Painting with David Frayer @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Pints & Pixels Gaming Night! @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
Tuesday, April 24
- Leads and Coffee @ Belleair Coffee Company, 7:45 AM to 9:00 AM
- Tampa Entrepreneurship Meetup — Forex Trading for Beginners @ Bean Arrow Coffee, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — Network After Work with Like Minded Entrepreneurs and Grow Your Business @ Glory Days Grill, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech — Flexential’s Business on the edge: Why you need edge computing now (Online webinar), 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Writing, Publishing & Marketing Meetup — Six Month Writing Series, Week 3 @ The Kaizen Collaborative, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- The Patio After Hours Networking Mixer @ The Patio, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay IIBA — Requirements Elicitation Techniques by Priscilla Partaw @ KForce, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa iOS Meetup — Our 20th meetup: Saving data in iOS apps, part one @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Taco Tuesday at BarTaco!! @ BarTaco, 6:30 PM to 8:45 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Portkey to Magic — Deathly Hallows Trivia Night @ Jacks London Grill, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — Shiny Server @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 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, April 25
- 10th Anniversary Front End Design Conference @ The Palladium Theater, Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 8:00 AM to Friday, April 27, 2018, 5:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Starbucks Reserve in Univ Of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Building, 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
- OPEN/Women’s Networking Event – 1 Million Cups @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Networking Breakfast @ Minuteman Press, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- Joomla! User Group Tampa — Lunch with Mike Demo from Open Source Matters @ The Westshore Grand – No Name Lounge, 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — 6 Step Formula To Get More Dream Clients & Become Expert Authority With Meetup (Online webinar), 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- April 2018 StartUp Xchange @ Pour Taproom, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
- Tech Talks – Problem solving with Design — Design Studio: foster a collaborative environment and build shared understanding @ Bank of the Ozark’s Innovation Lab, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- (Monthly) Azure User Group: IoT & DevOps by Jared Porcenaluk @ Tribridge Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Golang St Pete — WTF is Go @ TBD, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- ReactJS Tampa Bay — Lightning Fast Mobile Development With React Native and Expo @ Exzeo, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Power BI User Group Meeting – April 2018 @ ConnectWise, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Code Lakeland — Internet of Things (IoT) 101 with Jesse Schein @ Catapult, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- THE GREAT DEBATE!!!! at Bradenton Toastmasters! @ Manatee Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us Weekly Meetup @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Learn to Pick Locks @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Blockchain Enthusiasts — Blockchain/Cryptocurrency Meetup: News, Q&A, Networking, Social @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bitcoin and Crypto Wealth Mining — Bitcoin Mining – ICO – Crypto Trading @ Bitcoin Mining Investors,7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, April 26
- Tampa Bay Tech Events — Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — HR PROS- Sustainable Employee Engagement: Fact or Myth (Online session), 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Sun Coast Networking Meeting @ Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 8841 Park Boulevard, Seminole, 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
- Tampa Strategic Growth Alliance breakfast Meeting! @ 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
- Professionals With A Purpose — 1st annual Networking event @ Red Door No. 5, 5:30 PM to 9:30 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
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread, 3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Network After Work at Irish 31 Hyde Park @ Irish 31 Pub House & Eatery, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Getting Started with Machine Learning Service and Python @ Corporate Center I, 2202 North Westshore Boulevard Suite 122, Tampa, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Azure User Group — Azure Serverless Computing @ Microsoft Corporation, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Expert Series: Jeff Toth @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Ethical Accelerator Meetup @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Front End Creatives — Voice APIs and AI with IBM Watson @ Veredus Corporation, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace,7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech — Florida Funders’ Thirsty Thursday @ St Pete Station House, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UX Group — TBUX Office Hours (Online, on Slack) @ 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Friday, April 27
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Westshore) @ Panera Bread, 112 S Westshore Blvd, Tampa, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- April 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Symphonic Distribution, 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Avengers: Infinity War – AMC Veterans @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Avengers Infinity Wars (New Tampa Showing) @ AMC Highwoods 20, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Saturday, April 28
- Girl Develop It Tampa Bay — Intro to HTML & CSS @ The Symphony Agency, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
- GDG SunCoast — Google Assistant – Build Actions for Your Community @ 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Machine Shop Lathe 101 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — International Table Top Day @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM
- Defcon813 — Router hacking lab – owning Layer 3 @ 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Clearwater / St Petersburg Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 2626 Gulf to Bay Boulevard, Clearwater, 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Bradenton Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency Meetup — We will pick up on questions where we left off at the last Meetup @ Connect Bradenton, 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM
- Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg — Board Games @ Serenity Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- SKILL: Intro To Soldering @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Sunday, April 29
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — How do ERC20 tokens work? @ Blockspaces, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- D&D Adventurers League: Low Level Tables @ Critical Hit Games, 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Dunkin Donuts, 5610 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM