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 30
- Digital Divas — Sunset Challenge: Post your best sunset photos! @ 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM
- R-Ladies Sarasota — Intro to R Markdown & Reproducibility @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- D&D 5th Edition Riverview/Apollo Beach — D&D 5e at Four Stacks Brewing @ Four Stacks Brewing Company, Apollo Beach, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
- Legion Drones Meet & Greet @ Legion Drones, 7:00 PM to 9:00 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
Tuesday, May 1
- Tampa Entrepreneurship Meetup — Forex Trading for Beginners @ 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — BlockSpaces DTSP – Bootstrapping a Local Blockchain @ Grassroots Kava House, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — The Cryptocurrency/Blockchain Revolution – what it means and why you should care @ Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- THS Annual Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- **Spirited Toastmasters** — St Stephens Catholic School, Riverview, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Creating A Generic Repository in .NET Core w/ Entity Framework Core 2 @ Bank of the Ozark’s Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Largo Board Games Meetup — Anachrony @ Kitchen Table Games, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- CLEARWATER eMarketing Groups — How to be Smarter, Faster, presented by Matt DiMaio @ I-Hop for MeetUp, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Laravel — Sending Text Messages with Laravel @ 3rd Floor, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Peter’s Clearwater Bitcoin Meetup — Show up and learn, share and chat about Bitcoin. All are welcome! @ PostcardMania, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Wednesday, May 2
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St Pete — Hooked Candle Company and Beacon Oncology Nurse Advocates @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Purpose Pioneers and CrowdSync @ Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Herding Cats and Coders Book Launch / Collaboration Book Launch @ The Tampa Club, 6:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – May @ AgileThought, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — What can you learn from the Fast.ai MOOC? @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Crypto Investors Club @ Panera Bread, 1908 4th Street North, Saint Petersburg @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Design St. Pete — Foundational User Research – Exploring opportunities in Urban Farming @ Cottonwood Bayview, 6:45 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
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bitcoin and Crypto Wealth Mining — Bitcoin Mining – ICO – Crypto Trading @ Bitcoin Mining Investors, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, May 3
- Tampa# – C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread, 3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico, 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Beginners Intro to Capture The Flag @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Networking Social at The Aloft Hotel WXYZ Bar @ 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- 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
- Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour- Meet Up — Cocktails and Connections ~ 1st Thursday of the Month @ Cafe Delanie, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Gutenberg Q&A Panel Discussion @ TEC Garage at SPC Downtown Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Bay IIBA — BABOK Study/Discussion Groups for Tampa Bay IIBA @ South University, 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Capture The Flag: Cybersecurity Hackathon @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Suncoast.js — Styling and Animating in Vue.js and How to Encourage Your Developer Team @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Hyperledger Tampa — Introduction to Hyperledger @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Friday, May 4
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread, 2285 Ulmerton Road, Clearwater, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Painting with the force! — May the Fourth Paint Night @ Miss Anitas Crafts, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Champions of Azeroth — Mojo Books Hang-out @ Mojo Books & Music, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Champions of Azeroth — May The 4th: Spaceballs At Tampa Theater! @ The Tampa Theatre, 10:30 PM to 12:30 AM
Saturday, May 5
- BarCamp Sarasota-Bradenton — Tech Talks: Cool people. Cool tech. @ Station 2 Innovation Center, Bradenton, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Cigar City Multirotors — Meet, Greet and Fly! @ Hamilton Park, 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — G.A.M.E RPG Convention @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM