What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur/nerd scene (Week of Monday, June 25, 2018)

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, June 25

• Digital Photo Artists — Monthly DPA Dinner – new location = Popi’s Place in Lakewood Ranch @ 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Entrepreneur — How do you get your product into stores? @ South University – Tampa, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
• 3D Printer Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 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
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM

Tuesday, June 26

• 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
• Tampa Influencer Marketing Meetup — Monthly meetup @ Armature Works, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Fear Agent: One Bad Bet (Full) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Effective Social Media: How Often and When to Post @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ PROforma, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Laravel — Getting Comfortable with Laravel Dusk @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Trading Tuesday! @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• NerdBrew Trivia: Pokémon! @ The Lowry Parcade and Tavern, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Wednesday, June 27

• Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Jackson Harbour Island Bar, 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
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Sticky Puns / FITGRIT @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups Tampa — Better Life Productions / Expedite, LLC @ Mark Sharpe Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
• June 2018 StartUp Xchange @ Pour Taproom, 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM
• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — Expert Series: Marco M. Morana @ SecureSet Tampa Campus, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tech on Tap @ Brickhouse Tavern, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• (Monthly) Azure UG: Serverless & Schemaless with Azure Functions and CosmosDB @ Wolters Kluwer, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Power BI User Group Meeting – June 2018 Tampa @ ConnectWise, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• SRE | Other Bay Area — Kickoff | Panel Discussion @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
• Tampa Bay Business Trendsetters / Tampa Bay Tech Events — “Failing Forward and Winning” Featuring Rich Heruska @ The Attic, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting – Tabular Data Progress @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Crypto Investors Club @ Panera Bread (1908 4th Street North, Saint Petersburg), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
• Solder and Build Your Own Benchtop Power Supply @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Geekocracy! — Dave & Busters: Half-Price Games Night and Busch Gardens Raffle @ Dave and Busters, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Nerdbrew Trivia — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s!, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Joomla! User Group Tampa — Multi-Platform E-Commerce @ The Stone Soup Company, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Women In Linux — Understanding Linux, 7:00 PM

Thursday, June 28

• Geek Breakfast @ Jimbo’s Pit Bar-B-Q, 7:30 AM to 9:30 AM
• Tampa Drones Meetup — Tour de SOFWERX facility @ SOFWERX Underground, 9:00 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
• Snowflake Users Group – ETL with Sesame Software and BI with Looker @ Jackson’s Bistro Bar & Sushi, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Data Science Group — Cloud DWH & BI meetup & networking event, hosted by Looker and Snowflake, Jackson’s Bistro Bar & Sushi, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Let’s Game on Thursdays @ Panera Bread (3490 Lithia Pinecrest Road, Valrico), 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Tampa Bay AWS User Group — How to Achieve a Quick and Successful Cloud Migration @ Kforce, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
• Florida Funders’ Thirsty Thursday @ American Social Bar & Kitchen, 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
• IIBA Tampa Happy Hour! @ Coppertail Brewing Co, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa SQL User Groups — Hillsborough – Monthly Meeting @ Corporate Center I, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Downtown St. Pete Toastmasters Weekly Meeting @ St. Petersburg College, 6:15 PM to 7:30 PM
• Upskill Tampa — LinkedIn Workshop @ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• 3D Printing Guild @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Social Media Meetup — WordPress @ Tampa Bay Technology Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Hyperledger Tampa — Introduction to Hyperledger @ BlockSpaces, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Suncoast.js — Composing D3 Visuals with Vue.js Workshop @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Friday, June 29

• Metro DC Social Marketing Meetup — 25th Social Marketing Conference in June 2018, sponsored by USF @ Sheraton Sandkey Resort, 8:00 AM to Saturday at 3:00 PM
• June 2018 Homebrew Hillsborough @ Florida Funders, 8:30 AM to 11:30 PM
• Suncoast Developers Guild — Crash Course: Intro to JavaScript @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Tampa Black Women Professionals Meetup — Coopers Hawk Wine Tasting @ 4:00 PM
• Blockchain Enthusiasts — Introduction to Qtum + VeVue @ BlockSpaces, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Saturday, June 30

• Tampa Drones Meetup — 4th of July BBQ @ 9:00 AM
• MR103 Aerial Drone Workshop @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Sunday, July 1

• Tampa Python Meetup — Python 2000 – Challenger Exercise @ 10:00 AM
• Geekocracy! — Disc Golf At Cypress Point Park @ Cypress Point Park, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Legends of Andor @ 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Kids’ Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Game Night @ Dunkin Donuts, 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM