Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, September 14 through Sunday, September 20!
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, September 14
- Tuesday, September 15
- Wednesday, September 16
- Thursday, September 17
- Friday, September 18
- Saturday, September 19
- Sunday, September 20
Monday, September 14
Monday at 5:45 at Entrepreneur Collaborative Center (Tampa): Join Tampa Bay AI Meetup for a rare Monday meetup where Pratik Patel from Hugging Face (yes, that Hugging Face) will talk about pi.dev.
pi.dev is an open-source, terminal-based agent harness that strips away the bloat to give local LLMs direct access to a minimal toolset (read, write, edit, bash). Most AI coding assistants are sealed cloud platforms heavy on dashboards and light on local control, and pi.dev addresses that gap.
This talk will explore how to harness a minimalist architecture to build a local “mini-software factory.” Pratik will show you how to feed a structured application specification to pi.dev and watch it autonomously architect, generate, and test a project end-to-end. You’ll see the exact configuration, prompt engineering tricks, and custom extensions needed to make this work seamlessly using a 100% local LLM pipeline.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, September 15
Wednesday, September 16
Thursday, September 17
Friday, September 18
Saturday, September 19
Sunday, September 20
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