Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, May 18 through Sunday, May 24!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
- Monday, May 18
- Tuesday, May 19
- Wednesday, May 20
- Thursday, May 21
- Friday, May 22
- Saturday, May 23
- Sunday, May 24
Monday, May 18
Tuesday, May 19
Wednesday, May 20
Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Duke Energy Center for the Arts – Mahaffey Theater (St. Pete): poweredUP Tampa Bay Tech Fest returns! It’s one of the largest technology conferences in the Tampa Bay region and brings together hundreds of technology leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, and students for a full day of learning, insight, and connection.
This year, they’re going with a new format designed to give attendees both the big-picture view of where technology is heading in our region and the practical knowledge they can take back to their teams.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): Clarky AI presents an AI-focused happy hour bringing together developers, founders, business owners, AI companies, and enthusiasts. Tickets are $30, and the price includes two drink tickets.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, May 21
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Tampa Bay AWS User Group presents Automating AWS Cost Reduction with Open Source + n8n + AI!
Join Sam Kasimalla (Enterprise Architect, ex-AWS engineer) and Rohith Kandi (Cloud Engineer) for an exclusive session on building actionable checklists to reduce your AWS costs. Sam will demo his open-source AWS scanning script (Apache 2.0 licensed, safe to run with a minimum read-only IAM policy) which audits every facet of your AWS environment and outputs a prioritized action list. This is brand new content, not available on YouTube or anywhere else.
You’ll learn how to leverage native AWS billing tools and where third-party applications fill the gaps, with hands-on coverage of Conquerors AWS Cost Auditor, Cloud Custodian, Komiser, and Infracost. Sam and Rohith will also show how to wire these tools together using n8n and AI to automate workflows like generating Jira tickets, or tickets in your system of choice.
Find out more and register here.
Friday, May 22
Saturday, May 23
Sunday, May 24
| Event name and location | Group | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market |
Chess Republic | 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT |
| D&D Adventurers League Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
| Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games | 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
| Tampa AI Builders Meetup – Casual Meet & Greet Steep Station Kava Bar |
AI Wealth Builders of Tampa | 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
| A Duck Presents NB Movie Night Discord.io/Nerdbrew |
Nerd Night Out | 7:00 PM to 11:30 PM EDT |
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About this list
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
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- Programming, DevOps, systems administration, and testing
- Tech project management / agile processes
- Video, board, and role-playing games
- Book, philosophy, and discussion clubs
- Tech, business, and entrepreneur networking events
- Toastmasters and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
- Anything I deem geeky