The scene at BarCamp Tampa Bay 2018 last Saturday.
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, November 12
- Geekocracy! — Disc Golf at 22nd St. Park – the back nine! @ 22nd St Park, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Career Convo: Bill Gauvin @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay DevOps Meetup — TBDevOps Meetup: Terraform: pros, cons, alternatives @ Wolters Kluwer, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- YouTube Support Group – St. Petersburg — Village Inn (9107 4th Street, St. Petersburg), 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Thinkers — What Can Be Done About Climate Change? @ Carrollwood Cultural Center, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Mining Mondays @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Let’s watch Overlord AKA Return to Castle Wolfenstein @ AMC Theatres – Veterans 24, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
Tuesday, November 13
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — TECH Talk November 2018 @ Tampa Bay Innovation Center , 8:30 AM
- 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
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Open Hack Night @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (ECC), 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — War Games: Applied Cryptography 2 @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Social Media Branding for Entrepreneurs ⚡ Babe Crafted + Startup Sisters @ Factory 114, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Weekly Open Make Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- .NETwork | St. Pete @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — AI Study Group Meeting @ Town ‘N Country Regional Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Florida Podcasters Association General Meeting!!! @ IHop (4910 Spruce Street, Tampa), 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Ybor Tech — November OpenHack @ Zydeco Brew Werks, 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
- Code Katas — Let’s Do Some Fun Code Challenges! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Anime, Nerds & Geeks — OVERLORD – AMC $5 MOVIES @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Pre-Release Gameshow: Fantastic Beasts 2! @ Villagio Cinemas, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Woodshop Safety (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:15 PM to 9:15 PM
Wednesday, November 14
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — 6th Annual Building Entrepreneurship Around TampaBay (BEAT) Event @ USF CONNECT, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Open/FREE Coworking for Women Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — YogaLoka / CommonWorks Development Co. @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Mentorem Technologies / Kerns Defense @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Gulf Coast GIS User Group — GIS Day @ State College of Florida, 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Entrepreneurs Network — How Professionals Around the World Generate a Weekly Flow of New Client Leads @ Online, 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
- Twilio Talks Tampa – St. Pete @ 3 Daughters Brewing, 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay UAS and Drone University — Saint Petersburg College UAS Meetup- November Meeting @ St. Petersburg College EpiCenter, 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — Spark Sessions: The Untapped Power of Diversity @ Factory 114, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Community Connect Meetup Night @ Keiser University, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Women Who Code Tampa — Tech Tool Night ⚡ Get-Together to Share Your Favorite Coding Resources @ CoLabs, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Beer and Board Game Night St. Pete @ Avid Brew Co., 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Build Your Own Website with HTML/CSS @ Secureset Academy, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Data Science Group — TBDSG Standard Meeting @ Alessi/Vigo Foods Bacardi Memorial Tasting Room, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Open Code @ Marble Side Building, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- The Suncoast Linux Users Group — SLUG – Tampa @ New HDR Location, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women In Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Introduction to Fusion 360 @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Nerdbrew Events — Games & Grog @ Peabody’s! @ Peabody’s Billiards and Games, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Bitcoin Cash @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Chess With Cochez — Chess Night @ The Bricks – Ybor City, 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM
Thursday, November 15
- Tampa Bay Area – Bootstrappers Breakfast @ Starbucks Reserve in Univ Of Tampa’s Lowth Entrepreneurship Center Building, 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — DESIGN THINKING: Develop meaningful solutions through a process of innovation @ Hillsborough Community College, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — Effectuation: Learn about the Entrepreneurial Method. What makes an entrepreneur, entrepreneurial? @ Hillsborough Community College, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Global Entrepreneurship Week — Who Owns the Ice House–8 Life Lessons from an Unlikely Entrepreneur – Learn how to cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset @ Hillsborough Community College, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
- The Green Asterisk Coworking @ The Pearl, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — War Games: Network Security 1—ARP Poisoning @ SecureSet, 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM
- Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa) @ The Pub (at Bay Street in Int’l. Plaza), 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Speakers, Presenters, Managers & Leaders — Become a Great Speaker – this week – Story Telling @ The Alley at South Shore, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa SEO and Internet Marketing Monthly Meetup with Steve Scott @ In The Loop, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Sarasota Science, History, and Current Event Book Club — 1861: A Civil Awakening @ Yuniku Endless Sushi & Hibachi, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cloud Security Alliance Tampa Bay Chapter — Rethinking Cybersecurity For the Digital Transformation Era @ South University, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Seffner D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Campaign. Open to new players. @ 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa JUG — The Java Language: Looking to the Future While Keeping Its Foundations @ PSCU, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Crash Course: Active Storage @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — ‘3rd Thursday’ Food Trucks and Live Music @ The Grand Central at Kennedy, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tampa Bay Cocoaheads — Writing a parser in pure Swift @ ActSoft, Inc., 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- The Tampa Ruby Brigade — Tampa.rb: Mystery Meetup! @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa R Users Group — R with Power BI and Tableau v2 @ Southern Brewing & Winemaking, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Florida Podcasters Association — Orlando Full Sail YouTube & Podcasters Meetup @ 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Nerd Night Out — Thirsty Theater: Fantastic Beasts Double Feature! @ Villagio Cinemas, 7:00 PM to 11:45 PM
Friday, November 16
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co., 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay Agile — Grow Financial Agile Tour @ Grow Financial, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Empowered Business Networkers of Tampa Bay — Laughter is the Best Medicine after a Busy Week of Business! @ Snapper’s Grille & Comedy Club, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Portkey to Magic — Private Theater Rental: The Crimes of Grindelwald @ 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Latinos Cocktail Informativo — Latinos Connection @ Sheraton Tampa East Hotel, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Doctors & Masters — Ybor City! @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Saturday, November 17
- Make THS Better Workday and Pot Luck @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Let’s eat DIM SUM! @ China Yuan, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Microcontrollers and Robotics — Microcontroller Monthly Meetup (M3) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Tampa Unity User Group — Game Project Therapy @ Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — See “Fantastic Beasts” at AMC Westshore @ AMC West Shore210 Westshore Plaza, 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- Tampa Hackerspace Monthly Board Game Night @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Nerd Night Out — KARAOKE NIGHT! @ Fat Cat Tavern, 8:30 PM – 12:30 AM
Sunday, November 18
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E campaign (Full), bi-weekly @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Tampa Python Meetup — Pet Projects @ PANERA, 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Learn about Token Curated Registries @ Tampa Bay Wave, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Brandon Boardgamers — Sunday Board Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — *RSVP Early* ‘Geeksgiving’ – Hogwarts-themed potluck feast! @ Seven Oaks Club House, 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM