Tampa is the best small tech market in North America, and if you look at what techies are doing here — largely in their spare time, week after week — you’ll see why. They’re getting together, sharing their knowledge, exchanging ideas, hatching plans, helping each other, making friends, and building a community.
Here’s what’s happening in Tampa Bay this week!
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!
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This week’s big event: BarCamp Tampa Bay 2019!
A BarCamp is an “unconference”: a conference in which the normal rules are turned upside-down. Typical conferences have their agendas set in advance by the conference organizers. In a BarCamp, the agenda is set by all the attendees at the start of the event, when people who want to start a discussion or share an idea claim a time slot of the day’s schedule grid. Some sessions are presentations, while others are less like lectures and more like open discussions.
BarCamp Tampa Bay is one of the best indicators of the strength of Tampa Bay’s tech community and one of the best opportunities for you to take part in that community! Thanks to the generosity of the sponsors, BarCamp is FREE to attend, and lunch is provided for FREE as well! Join us at BarCamp on Saturday, October 5th at Keiser University Tampa!
For more details, visit BarCamp Tampa Bay’s page.
Monday, September 30
- Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Daily Campus Tours – SecureSet Tampa @ SecureSet, 10:00 AM to 10:30 AM
- Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5E — Curse of Strahd (FULL) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Book Club — September Book – Disrupt You by Jay Samit @ Computer Coach Training Center, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — ROOKIES SPORTS BAR – SPRING HILL – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Welcome to SpeakEasy Toastmasters Club Meetup Group! @ Hibachi Buffet, 6:15 PM to 8:00 PM
- Make Your Own Resin Seascape @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters @ SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — 3 DAUGHTERS BREWING – ST. PETERSBURG – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- You’re Invited to a fun Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contests Monday night!! @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Tuesday, October 1
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Carrolwood Networking Lunch McAllisters Deli @ McAlister’s Deli, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
- Tampa NoSQL — Online Session: Cassandra Architecture and Use Cases @ Online, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
- THS Member Meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
- WordPress St. Petersburg — Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing Meetup @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — WESTSHORE PIZZA – BELLEAIR BLUFFS – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 — 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
- St Pete .NET Meetup — Angular Elements: Use your fancy SPA components from your not-so-fancy MPA @ Bank of the Ozark’s Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Bitcoin — Trading Tuesday! @ Tampa Bay Wave, 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
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK RAW BAR & GRILL – MADEIRA BEACH – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Wednesday, October 2
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Downtown St Pete Networking at the Hangar~ Wednesday Mornings @ The Hangar Restaurant & Flight Lounge, 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
- Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Superhero: You (McComas CG Consulting Group) / Broke Is No Joke Enterprises @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AM
- 1 Million Cups Tampa — GeoSpace Labs @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 9:00 AM
- Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative — Advanced Storytelling for Entrepreneurs @ 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
- Florida Southern College Toastmasters – 4615* @ Florida Southern College, 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Business Intelligence and Data Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ AgileThought, Inc, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild @ Healthesystems, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Bay AWS — AWS Well-Architected: A Blueprint for Cloud Success @ TBD, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- WordPress Tampa — Driving Online Traffic on a $0 Budget @ Charles J. Fendig Public Library, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Suncoast Developers Guild — Free Crash Course – Intro to TypeScript @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
- Tampa Writers Alliance — October Workshop: Playing with Process @ Barnes & Noble Carrollwood, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Laser Cutter Orientation @ Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Cryptocurrency Tampa Meetup — Token Talk With Tracie – Quorum J.P. Morgan Coin @ Tampa Bay Wave, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Women in Linux — Understanding Linux @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- Tampa Bay Blockchain Group — Bitcoin Cash @ 81Bay Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — DAIQUIRI SHAK – MADEIRA BEACH – SPECIAL HARRY POTTER THEMED TRIVIA !!! @ 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Thursday, October 3
- Tampa C# and .NET — Coffee & Code @ Pour House at Grand Central, 11:15 AM to 1:15 PM
- Young Professionals of Tampa Bay Networking Group — Wesley Chapel Networking Lunch @ Grillsmith Wesley Chapel, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- The University of Tampa TECO Energy Center for Leadership — Leadership Speaker Series – feat. Roger Germann of The Florida Aquarium @ The University of Tampa – Vaughn Center 9th Floor Boardroom, 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM
- Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education — Network & Learn After Hours with Cyber Security Specialist Marcus Green @ Station 2 Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- Tampa Bay Tech Career Advice Forum — National Techies Day Celebration @ 1102 N Dale Mabry Hwy, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Defcon813 — Meet and Greet with Schellman @ 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- Entrepreneur Social Club @ NOVA 535, 6:00 PM
- Brandon and Seffner area D&D Meetup — 1st ed AD&D Dwimmermount Campaign @ 405 Mahogany Dr, 6:00 PM to 10:00 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
- Suncoast,js — 3 forces united: Basic authentication with Auth0 and React.js deployed to Heroku @ Suncoast Developers Guild, 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- America’s TriviAddiction — BAYSCAPE BISTRO AT HERITAGE ISLES – NEW TAMPA – LIVE TEAM TRIVIA !!! @ 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
- Drupal User Group of Tampa Bay — The Life Cycle of a Drupal Issue @ Panera Bread, 7:00 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
- 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
- Masterminds Tampa: Where Founders & Marketers Talk Growth — Made in the USA: The Story of the Blue Delta Jeans Cofounders @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Friday. October 4
- 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
- Trinity Odessa Toastmasters @ Holiday Inn Express Trinity, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
- Speaking and Presentation Skills Success — How Do I Determine, Quote, Explain, and Negotiate My Fee When I Get Asked? @ Sheryl’s place, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
- Microsoft Tech Talks – Florida — Azure Stack HCI: Get cloud benefits for every workload @ Microsoft, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
- 10/4 St. Pete’s Digital 1st Friday Meetup…sponsored by iSOCRATES @ Rising Tide Innovation Center, 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM
- AMRoC Fab Lab — October First Friday: AMRoC-A Year in the Making, a Work in Progress @ AMRoC Fab Lab, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
- St. Petersburg Board Game Night FIRST FRIDAY Game Night (October) @ Overflow Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 11:59 PM
- Tampa Bay Young Professionals Group — WOBtoberfest at World of Beer Westchase @ 7:00 PM to 12:00 AM
- 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, October 5
- BarCamp Tampa Bay 2019 @ Keiser University, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Make THS Better Workday @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Ihorror film festival @ Cuban Club, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
- Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Saturday Brunch n’ Code @ AMRoC FabLab, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
- Geekocracy! — Dim Sum at Ho Ho Choy, 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
- Kakkoii-Otaku Clan — JOKER @ AMC Veterans 24, 1:00 PM to 3:30 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! — Country Bar and line dancing at Dallas Bull @ The Dallas Bull, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM