Global Nerdy : Tampa Bay’s Technology Blog

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, August 24 through Sunday, August 30!

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

Monday, August 24

Event name and location	Group	Time
Venice Area Toastmasters Club #5486 Online event	Toastmasters District 48	7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
Speakeasy Toastmasters #4698 Online event	Toastmasters District 48	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Games at Barriehaus Trinity Barriehaus Beer Company, Trinity	Advance 3 Spaces Neurodivergent Social Gaming	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Sarasota Blood on the Clocktower Clocktower meetup	Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton	6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
MTG: Commander Night Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Toast of Lakewood Ranch Toastmasters Club Lakewood Ranch Town Hall	Toastmasters District 48	6:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
North Port Toastmasters Meets Online!! Online event	Toastmasters District 48	6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Mothership Monday: Out of Darkness Part Deux Kitchen Table Games (New Location)	St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group	6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Let’s Talk Toastmasters Online event	Toastmasters Divisions C & D	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck! Online event	Nerdbrew Events	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
DigiMondays Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Weekly General Meetup Online event	Beginning Web Development	8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Where is Bitcoin Going? Online event	Bitcoiners of Southwest Florida	9:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
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Tuesday, August 25

Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Hidden Springs Ale Works (Tampa): It’s time for another TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday! It’s a friendly, casual get-together of Tampa Bay’s tech scene for conversations, great drinks, and (of course) free tacos!

Find out more and register here.

Event name and location	Group	Time
CEO Toastmasters Online event	Toastmasters Divisions C & D	8:00 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
AI Tips, Value Propositions, Positioning and Strategies Online event	Tech Success Network	10:00 AM to 11:00 AM EDT
Tyrone, St. Pete, Central Pinellas Networking Lunch meeting at Carrabba’s Grill Carrabba’s Italian Grill	RGA Networking Professional Business Networking	11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
August \| TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday Hidden Springs Ale Works	Kelsey Puryear	5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Weekly Open Make Night 4931 W Nassau St	Tampa Hackerspace	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Bartow Toastmasters HYBRID Meeting 2250 S Floral Ave	Toastmasters Division E	6:00 PM to 7:15 PM EDT
Spanglish Toastmasters Club 7703731 Online event	Toastmasters Division G	6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Disney Lorcana Night Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Hobby Night Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Paper Reading Hyde Park	Tampa Machine Learning	6:15 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
Free Thinkers: Exploring The Big Questions President Barack Obama Main Library	Freethinker’s Workshop	6:15 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Winter Haven Toastmasters St Paul’s Episcopal Church	Toastmasters Division E	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa Shamrocks Ale House	Loner Seekers Euchre – Tampa	6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
D&D @ Critical Hit Games (Full) Critical Hit Games	RPG-Pinellas	6:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Pythonic Monthly Meeting Online event	The Orlando Python User Group	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Virtual “Show and Tell” of Projects by the Community Online event	Google Developer Group Central Florida	7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Find Your Voice: Dunedin Toastmasters Unity Community Church	Dunedin Toastmasters 2166	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Winter Springs Toastmasters Club Online event	Toastmasters Divisions C & D	7:00 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults 3 Daughters Brewing	St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Trivia Nights @ Escape Brewing Company – Trinity Escape Brewing Company	Tampa Bay Area Trivia Players	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Badass Babes – Weekly Movie Night Online event	Nerdbrew Events	7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Trading Tuesday Online event	Bitcoiners of Southwest Florida	8:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Boards & Bones Table Top RPGs Online event	Nerdbrew Events	8:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
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Wednesday, August 26

Event name and location	Group	Time
NATIONAL CHERRY POPSICLE DAY — COOL GAMES! Wednesday, August 26, 2026 Wednesday, Aug 26 · 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM EDT	Tampa (Citrus Park Area) Games Meetup Group	9:40 AM
World Toasters Toastmasters Club Online event	Toastmasters Division E	7:05 AM to 8:00 AM EDT
Tampa Highrisers Toastmasters Hyde Park United Methodist Church	Toastmasters District 48	7:45 AM to 8:45 AM EDT
Coffee, Bitcoin & AI: Work From “Home” Wednesday at Sober Bar Sober Bar	Tampa Bay Bitcoin	8:00 AM to 10:00 AM EDT
Computer Repair Clinic 2079 Range Rd	Tampa Bay Technology Center	8:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
Productivity Wednesday 300 E State Street	Kazba Cafe – Oldsmar FL	10:00 AM to 3:00 PM EDT
Lunch Hour Meetup Online event	Sarasota Web Development Meetup Group	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Heart of Agile Coffee Corner — August 2026 Online event	Heart of Agile St. Pete – Tampa – Orlando	12:30 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Active Directory GPOs for beginners Online event	Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup	2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Wednesday Night Gaming Nerdy Needs	Brandon Boardgamers	5:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
40k Escalation League Battlebrush Games	Battlebrush Games: Paint Minis & Play Warhammer/Warmachine	5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Bay Pines Toastmasters Meeting Bay Pines	Bay Pines Toastmasters Club	5:15 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Power and Perils of AI Aided Coding Kforce Corporate Headquarters	Tampa Java User Group	5:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
CNC Wednesday’s MakerSpace St. Petersburg	Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group	5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT
Wednesday Board Game Night Bridge Center	Tampa Gaming Guild	5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Chess Night at Conworlds Emporium Every Wednesday Conworlds Emporium	Tarpon Springs Community Fun & Games	5:30 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Orlando Chess Association West Osceola Library	Greater Orlando Chess	5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Board game night at CHG! Critical Hit Games	Saint Pete Boardgamers	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Casual Commander Wednesdays Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Board Game Night Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Trivia Night at Gulf Gate Food+Beer Gulf Gate Food +Beer	Sara-so-tall	6:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group Online event	Tampa Writers Alliance	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and Online Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library	Toastmasters District 48	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Apopka Foliage Toastmasters Online event	Apopka Foliage Toastmasters	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Games & Grog! Board game night @ Peabodies Peabodies	Nerdbrew Events	7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
ONLINE / SPANISH: LAS MEDITACIONES DE MARCO AURELIO Online event	Orlando Stoics	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress Weekly Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
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Thursday, August 27

Event name and location	Group	Time
Sarasota Speakers Exchange Toastmasters Online event	Toastmasters District 48	12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Open Board Gaming Day at Dark Side Dark Side Comics & Games	Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton	4:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Bingo Goes Nitro: High-Energy Night at The Ritz The Ritz Theater	Winter Haven 40’s and Up Social Group.	5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Omni Toastmasters Club 6861 Online event	Toastmasters Divisions C & D	5:45 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
BINGO at EAGLEBROOK! The Club at Eaglebrooke: Golf Course	Adventure Group of Lakeland	5:45 PM to 8:15 PM EDT
New in Tech Tampa — Meet, Connect & Network! Florida Avenue Brewing Co Seminole Heights	Tampa Bay New-In-Tech	6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
[AL] Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk [APL 4 Tier 1] Coliseum of Comics Kissimmee	Adventurers of Central Florida	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Board Game Night Conworlds Emporium	Tarpon Springs Community Fun & Games	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Warhammer Night Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa) Wild Rover Brewing Company	Tampa Bay Agile	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
START YOUR OWN SIDE GIG! Small Business Thursdays! MakerSpace Pinellas	Makerspaces Pinellas Meetup Group	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Shut Up & Write!® Tales and Teas The Muddy Root Kava Cafe	Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg	6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Writing Meetup HotWax Coffee Shop, Kava Bar & Tap House	Tampa Free Writing Group	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Tampa Writers Alliance Poetry Group Barnes & Noble Carrollwood	Tampa Writers Alliance	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Creative Writing club Foxtail coffee	Cozy Club	6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Palm Harbor Toastmasters Club #8248 1500 16th St	Toastmasters District 48	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Tales From The Loop Collect.GG Collectables	St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
FABulous Thursdays Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
One Piece Thursdays Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Pathfinder Society Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Live streaming production and talent 124 S Ring Ave	Live streaming production and talent	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Coyote vs. Acme AMC Veterans 24	Tampa Movie Group	7:15 PM to 9:15 PM EDT
Thursday Tacos & Tax Write Offs Online event	Nerdbrew Events	7:30 PM to 10:30 PM EDT
Game Night! Lucky Spartan	Tampa 20’s and 30’s Social Crew	7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT
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Friday, August 28

Event name and location	Group	Time
Osceola Toastmasters Club Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA)	Toastmasters Division E	7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT
Exploring FinTech: Careers, Skills & Emerging Trends Online event	Tech Success Network	12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EDT
Age of Sigmar: Escalation League Battlebrush Games	Battlebrush Games: Paint Minis & Play Warhammer/Warmachine	5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Rush laser light show at MOSI in Tampa Aug 28 MOSI	The Campfire Experience	5:00 PM to 7:45 PM EDT
Friday Board Game Night Bridge Club	Tampa Gaming Guild	5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
Movie: Coyote vs Acme AMC Veterans 24	Geekocracy!	6:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
MTG: Commander FNM Critical Hit Games	Critical Hit Games	6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
AI-Assisted Editing Workshop La Vie Bridal	La Vie Photo Studio (Clearwater, FL)	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Friday Scrappy Hour: Knit, Crochet, Stitch & Sip at The Common Thread! The Common Thread Yarn Shop & Café	St. Pete Knit, Crochet & Fiber Arts at The Common Thread	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Dade City Game Night James Irvin Civic Center	Advance 3 Spaces Neurodivergent Social Gaming	6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Taps & Drafts \| EDH/MtG Night 1Up Entertainment, Tampa	Nerdbrew Events	7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Modern FNM Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT
Stoicism and the Art of Happiness, DJ Robertson Online event	Orlando Stoics	7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
Friday Pokemon Tournament Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:30 PM to 11:30 PM EDT
Scooby-Doo: Spooky Castle Escape Room! Escapology	Sarasota Social Singles (20s-40s)	8:40 PM to 10:10 PM EDT
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Saturday, August 29

Event name and location	Group	Time
ACCORDING TO HOYLE DAY — PLAY BY THE RULES…!Saturday, August 29, 2026 Saturday, Aug 29 · 4:45 PM to 9:30 PM EDT	Tampa (Citrus Park Area) Games Meetup Group	12:55 PM
Saturday Chess at Wholefoods in Midtown, Tampa Whole Foods Market	Chess Republic	9:30 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
EZ Stock (Stock, Options, Market) 2079 Range Rd	Tampa Bay Technology Center	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
NPR YouTube Content Creator support group meet n greet SIMS PARK AMPHITHEATER	YouTube Content Creator Meetup Group	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Twilight Imperium 4 Glitch’s House	Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton	11:00 AM to 9:00 PM EDT
Youth Dungeons & Dragons Saturdays (Ages7-12) At Conworlds Emporium Saturday, Aug 29 · 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT	Tarpon Springs Community Fun & Games	1:00 PM
FREE Fab Lab Orientation Faulhaber Fab Lab	Suncoast Makers	1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT
D&D (5e) @ Game-o-Storus (FULL) Game-o-Storus	St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group	1:30 PM to 5:30 PM EDT
Board Brews Zephyrhills Brewing Company	Nerdbrew Events	5:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
DAGGERHEART ONESHOT Collect.GG Collectables	St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group	5:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Warmachine Journeyman League Battlebrush Games	Battlebrush Games: Paint Minis & Play Warhammer/Warmachine	5:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Community Hang-out Night Online event	Nerdbrew Events	6:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Tampa Hackerspace Board Game Night 4935 W Nassau St	Tampa Hackerspace	7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT
Yu-Gi-Oh Evening Tournament Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	7:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT
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Sunday, August 30

Event name and location	Group	Time
Adventures of the Tomb of Annihilation (5e 2024 D&D Campaign) Sunday, Aug 30 · 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EDT	Adventurers of Central Florida	4:00 PM
Sunday Open Stitch: Fiber Arts Social at The Common Thread Yarn Shop & Café! The Common Thread Yarn Shop & Café	St. Pete Knit, Crochet & Fiber Arts at The Common Thread	10:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT
Coffee & Meaning 803 N Tampa St, Tampa, FL 33602	Coffee & Meaning	11:40 AM to 1:00 PM EDT
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
Craft Club Cinema Presents: 50 First Dates Craft-Along Green Light Cinema	St. Pete Knit, Crochet & Fiber Arts at The Common Thread	2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT
Sunday Pokemon League Sunshine Games \| Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!	Sunshine Games	4:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT
Sew Awesome! (Textile Arts & Crafts) 4933 W Nassau St	Tampa Hackerspace	5:30 PM to 8:30 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:

- 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

The stats

Since that I posted that first article on August 16, 2006 to Global Nerdy, it’s been…

20 years
2 blogging platforms (Blogware, then WordPress)
11 million pageviews
Almost 5,000 articles (this one will be number 4,989)
2 cities/countries:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2006 – 2014
- Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. 2014 – present

…and of course, one helluva blogging adventure!

The name

I didn’t come up with the name; at least not directly. It was generated by a program I wrote, The Duke of URL, which demonstrated the “namespinner” API made by Tucows, where I was working as their developer advocate. You enter some keywords into the app, and it presented you with a list of suitable and available domain names.

One of the available domain names it presented was globalnerdy.com. The name was a little ridiculous; it sounded like the sort of thing made by whoever comes up with names for Japanese role-playing videogames. But it was kind of catchy and I decided to go with it.