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!
This weekly list is posted as a voluntary service to the Tampa tech community. With the notable exceptions of Tampa iOS Meetup and Coders, Creatives and Craft Beer — both of which I run — most of this information comes from Meetup.com, EventBrite, and other local event announcement sites. I can’t guarantee the accuracy of the dates and times listed here; if you want to be absolutely sure that the event you’re interested in is actually taking place, please contact the organizers!
Special Labor Day / Hurricane Dorian update
Between Labor Day (which happens on Monday) and Hurricane Dorian (which at the time of writing, appears to be veering away from Tampa Bay), events scheduled for earlier in the week might not take place. Before you make plans to attend an event, make sure that it’s actually happening!
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Monday, September 2
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Daily Campus Tours – SecureSet Tampa @ SecureSet, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Labor Day Pool Party and BBQ – Indoors and out! Come eat @ 11:00 AM to 7:00 PM
- Intellectual Connection for Myers-Briggs N’s (Intuitives) — Pizza & The depths of Being Misunderstood @ 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Silent Headphone Disco GLOW Party @ 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — ROOKIES SPORTS BAR – SPRING HILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – ST. PETERSBURG – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Tuesday, September 3
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- Tampa Bay PHP — Don’t Be Afraid to Callback! @ Sourcetoad, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club — Weekly Meeting @ West Pasco Board of Realtors, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) [Full] @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 10:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- St. Pete .NET Meetup — What is Azure Key Vault with Chris San Souci @ Bank of the Ozark’s Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Birthday Celebration at Noble Crust @ 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK RAW BAR & GRILL – MADEIRA BEACH – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Wednesday, September 4
- Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net — Downtown St Pete Networking at the Hangar @ The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Tampa Bay WaVE — Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Suncoast Developers Guild @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — Murder House LLC / Riley Technology Solutions, Inc. @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative (HCPLC) — Prototyping Your Product @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Bernini of Ybor Lunch Networking @ Bernini (innovative italian cuisine), 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- EDGE Business Magazine’s 1st Annual Celebration of Women 2019 @ The Godfrey Hotel & Cabanas Tampa, 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Brooksville Writers Group Meetup @ The Rising Sun Bistro, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild — Logan Butler: Effective retrospective technique @ Vology, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — Board Game Wednesdays (Always looking for more players) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- WordPress Tampa — Your SEO depends on your accessibility and you didn’t even know it! @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Learn to Code | Thinkful Tampa — Free Crash Course | HTML & CSS @ Tampa Bay WaVE, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Writers Alliance — Plotting Versus Pantsing and All Combinations Thereof @ Barnes & Noble Carrollwood, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Free Crash Course – Intro to Crash Courses and Public Speaking @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — From Concept to Practice with TensorFlow and C @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — Are You Game? Let’s Meetup at Dave & Buster’s! @ 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
- Carrollwood Toastmasters @ Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Thursday, September 5
- Tampa SEO & Internet Marketing Meetup with Steve Scott — Learn WordPress: The Basics and Beyond @ 11928 Sheldon Rd, Thursday 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- cYbor Security Meetup — Work From The Undercroft @ The Undercroft, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Cash Flow Projections or Getting Your Financial House in Order for Growth @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 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
- America’s TriviAddiction — CAPTAIN’S CORNER – BROOKSVILLE – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — CRESCENT OAKS COUNTRY CLUB – TARPON SPRINGS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Clearwater Writers Meetup Group @ 6:30 PM to 11:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — BAYSCAPE BISTRO AT HERITAGE ISLES – NEW TAMPA – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — JACK WILLIE’S BAR GRILL & TIKI – OLDSMAR – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Drupal User Group of Tampa Bay — Drupal 8: Making a View to show Tabbed Content @ Panera Bread, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Books, Brews, and Bags! — September – Orphan Train @ Green Bench Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Shopbot Safety and Usage (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace West, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- St Pete Business Builder Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneur Social Club @ NOVA 535, 6:00 PM
Friday, September 6
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Carrollwood) @ Maple Street Biscuit Company, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg) @ Panera Bread, 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
- poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech (Virtual) Summit @ 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- Trinity Odessa Toastmasters @ Holiday Inn Express Trinity, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Speaking and Presentation Skills Success — How To Get Paid From A Free Talk @ Sheryl’s place, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Connections — Tampa Bay Networking Friday Lunch @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa Professional Networking Meetup — Let’s Do Lunch and Network – Brandon @ Smokey Bones Bar & Fire Grill, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Capture the Flag @ SecureSet, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- Digital 1st Friday Meetup, St. Petersburg, FL @ 9/6 St. Pete’s Digital 1st Friday Meetup…sponsored by iSOCRATES @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Techstars Startup Weekend Lakeland @ Catapult Lakeland, Friday 6:00 PM to Sunday 8:30 PM
- Digital First Friday – Downtown St. Pete @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 6:00 PM
- September First Friday at the Fab Lab: Decentralized Community Agriculture @ AMRoC Fab Lab @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Petersburg Board Game Night FIRST FRIDAY Game Night (September) @ Overflow Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — First Friday, Block Party in Downtown St. Pete @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — FRIDAY NIGHT ST. PETE SHUFFLE! @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Cricut Craft Time @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Young Professionals Social Meetup Tampa-St. Pete-Sarasota — Tampa’s Premier First Friday @ Acropolis Greek Taverna – South Tampa, 11:00 PM to 3:00 AM
Saturday, September 7
- Make THS Better Workday @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Learn to hack part 2 @ 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — FREE – Fun in the Park! Sports and Food! @ 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — Bier Fest Busch Gardens @ 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton — Games at Kelly & Scott’s House @ Kelly & Scott’s House, 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — IT Chapter2 @ Regal Park Place Stadium 16 with RPG, 6:40 PM to 8:40 PM
Sunday, September 8
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — IT Chapter Two – AMC Veterans 24 @ 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM
- Geekocracy! — Coffee and Games at “The Haus”! @ The Haus Coffee Shop, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Family Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
- Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
And finally…
What’s with the guy in the photo at the top of the article? That’s Lane Pittman, who has a hobby of putting on some Slayer, facing hurricane winds, and headbanging defiantly: