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Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 19 through Sunday, December 25, 2022. That’s right — this is the week leading up to Christmas!
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- 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 (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Keep these two things in mind for the next couple of weeks:
- The end of December is usually a slow time for meetups.
- A number of organizers schedule their events using Meetup.com’s “autopilot” feature, using an option like “2nd Tuesday of every month,” and it doesn’t account for holidays with lengthier downtimes, like Christmas.
The closer an event is to Christmas, which falls on Sunday this year, the more likely it is to be cancelled. Double-check with the organizers before attending an event!
Monday, December 19
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | In person at Fords Garage St Pete | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Clean Fiction Writers of Central Florida | Writing Publishing & Marketing Your Book | 12:00 PM |
| Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet | YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents | 4:00 PM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and other Board Games for ENTHUSIASTIC GAME PLAYERS | 4:00 PM |
| Orlandopreneur | Orlandopreneur Holiday party | 5:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Google Cloud User Group | Google Cloud Next 22 Announcements | 5:30 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480 | 6:00 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Persimmon Hollow Flamingo Crossings | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Night | 6:00 PM |
| TIME OF YOUR LIFE! 50+ | Trivia Social Liam Fitzpatricks / Lake Mary | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Bitcoin Maximalists | Second Orlando Bitcoin Maximalists meetup | 6:30 PM |
| Shut Up & Write!® Orlando | Shut Up & Write!® Dr. Phillips/Orlando | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | Tomb of Annhilation (APL 6 Forgotten Realms) – DM Carson | 6:30 PM |
| Ironhack Tampa – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking | Learn the Basics of Python Programming from an Industry Expert 📊 | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop for Emerging Pros | Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos | 7:00 PM |
| Library Book Clubs – OCLS | Virtual Event: Hiawassee Book Club | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Board Game Night at Armada Games | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Online Poker Club | Texas Holdem cash games Online every night at 7PM EST | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Learning from Epictetus” (Part 1) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Meet New People As Adults – Which is Harder Than Expected | Trivia Night to Meet New People | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262 | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Spanglish Toastmasters Club 7703731 | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
Tuesday, December 20
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Business Strategy Meetup Group | Business Networking | 7:15 AM |
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI St. Pete Business Builders Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 7:30 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | How to Find Product Market Fit Quickly | 11:00 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | Enhance your help desk productivity with ADManager Plus integration | 11:00 AM |
| SWAT Networking – Successful Women Aligning Together | SWAT Networking Bradenton Luncheon | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers | Upper Pinellas,Oldsmar,Westchase Networking Lunch -Wild Rover Brewing Company | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Westchase/Oldsmar Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome | 11:00 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | Westchase/Oldsmar Business Networking Lunch ~ All Welcome | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Oldsmar/Westchase Networking Lunch – Wild Rover Brewing Company | 11:00 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Professional Business Networking Lunch Glory Day’s New Tampa | 11:30 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals | New Tampa Networking Lunch at Glory Day’s Grill New Tampa | 11:30 AM |
| Manatee River Business Exchange Club | Great group for referrals – Several new members – WE are growing!!! | 12:00 PM |
| Orlando Professional Networking Meetup Group | Ladies Entrepreneurs of Dr. Phillips | 12:00 PM |
| Global Networking Summit | Networking Brunch | 12:00 PM |
| WEB3CFL -Art – Music – Gaming -Bitcoin -Crypto -Blockchain | Bitcoin/Crypto. Buying, Selling and sharing ideas. Small group atmosphere. | 1:00 PM |
| Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet | Social Video Marketing Tips(ONLINE CLASS)-FREE for Hillsborough County Residents | 4:30 PM |
| St. Petersburg Business Networking Pick-up Basketball | Weekly pickup networking basketball | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Photographic Arts Community | How To Sell Yourself with Booray Perry | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Marvel Crisis Protocol Night | 6:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Meet & Greet at O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay SQL Server User Group (TBSSUG) | TBSSUG Monthly Meeting | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Weekly Open Make Night | 6:00 PM |
| Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events | Free Virtual Tampa Networking | 6:00 PM |
| Women, Words and Wine | December book- The Beekeeper of Aleppo | 6:00 PM |
| Adventures On Tap DnD and Board Games | Nerd Night at Deadwords Brewing | 6:00 PM |
| Pinellas Writers | Weekly Group Meetings – All Writers Welcome! | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Moose Lodge 2117 Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Investor/Training Meetup | Tampa Bay Investor Training | 6:30 PM |
| West Pasco Toastmasters Club #2824 | Weekly Meeting | 6:30 PM |
| WordPress St. Petersburg | Ask Us Anything: WordPress Support Crowdsourcing Meetup | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Investor/Training Meetup | Tampa Bay Investor Training | 6:30 PM |
| Saint Petersburg Book Club Meetup Group | Dec Book Club | 6:30 PM |
| Ironhack Orlando – Tech Careers, Learning and Networking | The basics of Data Analytics 📈 | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason | Online: Tampa Bay Technology Center (TBTC) Monthly Meeting | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Armada Games | 7:00 PM |
| St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games for Young Adults | St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults | 7:00 PM |
| TB Chess – Tampa Bay – St. Petersburg Chess Meetup Group | Let’s play chess at 54th Ave Kava House! | 7:30 PM |
| Become A Crypto-Verse-Preneur! Get A Free NFT! | Become A Crypto-Verse-Preneur! | 7:30 PM |
| Shut Up & Write!® Tampa | Online Event: Shut Up & Write on Zoom | 7:45 PM |
Wednesday, December 21
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Toastmasters Division E | World Toasters | 7:10 AM |
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 7:30 AM |
| Business Networking for Entrepreneurs of Color | Virtual Business Networking – Entrepreneurs of Color | 8:00 AM |
| Bootstrappers Breakfast® – Tampa Bay Area | East Coast Bootstrappers Breakfast® | 8:30 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | Tracking Windows user logon 101 | 11:00 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Online Mastermind 3rd. Wednesday | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers | Brandon Networking Professionals Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton | Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch! | 11:30 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | Brandon Business Professionals Just Love Coffee | 11:30 AM |
| Bradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers | Business Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| National Association of Entrepreneurs Mastermind Group | National Association of Entrepreneurs Mastermind Group Meeting | 11:30 AM |
| Web Design And SEO/SEM Three Sixty Degrees | Web Design And SEO/SEM Three Sixty Degrees | 12:00 PM |
| Tampa Startup Founder 101 | AMA + FI Info Session with Co-Founder & CEO Jonathan Greechan | 1:00 PM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Port Richey Professional Networking at NerdQuest Cafe inside Gulf View Mall | 1:30 PM |
| TampaBayNetworkers | 15+30 Virtual Networking | 2:45 PM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | FREE WEBINAR: How to Outsource Development of Your App | 5:00 PM |
| Brandon Boardgamers | Board Gaming – In Person | 5:00 PM |
| The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play | Playing Games in the Alley | 5:00 PM |
| Tampa Gaming Guild | Wednesday Board Game Night | 5:30 PM |
| Sarasota Business Exchange Club | We ARE meeting again at Rusty Bucket Restaurant | 5:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Hobby Night – Minis Painting Tips & Tricks at Armada Games | 6:00 PM |
| DigitalDeLand | Digital DeLand Monthly Meeting | 6:00 PM |
| InFLOWential Leader & Entrepreneur Community Social | InFLOWential Leader & Entrepreneur Community Social | 6:00 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Deadwords Brewing | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Blood on the Clocktower & Board Games! (Deadwords Brewing Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Board Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| The Pinellas County Young “Professionals” | Winter Solstice Wine Wednesday bitch @ Draculas legacy | 6:00 PM |
| The Weirder Things Book Club | Dark Matter by Blake Crouch finish | 6:30 PM |
| Shut Up & Write!® Tampa | Shut Up & Write!® [Tampa / Sorrento Sweets] – IN PERSON | 6:30 PM |
| Design St. Pete | Design St. Pete – Holiday Happy Hour | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | 3D Printing Orientation: Models and Slicers | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders Pizza | 7:00 PM |
| Castaways Euchre Club | Castaways Euchre Club | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Bitcoin | [Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & Community | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | New Beginnings & Old Rivalries | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida CitySec | CigarCitySec Meetup | 7:00 PM |
| Agile Orlando | The Agile Un-Book Lean Beer | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | Games & Grog – Party Games Social Night | 7:00 PM |
| Comics, Animation and etc. | Far Sector | 9:00 PM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!! | 11:30 PM |
Thursday, December 22
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking | 7:30 AM |
| TampaBayNetworkers | Suncoast Networkers | 8:30 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up | Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited! | 11:00 AM |
| Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup | 5 incident response tips derived from cyberattacks in 2022 | 11:00 AM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | How to Cut Product Development Costs by up to 50%! | 11:00 AM |
| WEB3CFL -Art – Music – Gaming -Bitcoin -Crypto -Blockchain | Crypto Set-up Class -Limited to 5 Seats Only | 11:00 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | 2 core concepts of Identity Management | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Business Game Changers Group | Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 11:30 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals | Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Chuck Lager America’s Tavern | 11:30 AM |
| “Learn and Earn” Millionaire Mind Secrets & Networking | Online Zoom! Millionaire Mind Lunch; Book Club and Networking! | 12:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Commander Open Play Night at Armada Games | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Bunkers Bar of Sun City Center Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 4:00 PM |
| Summerfield Board/Card Game Night | Summerfield Tabletop/Board/Card Games | 6:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | 2nd ed. AD&D Campaign. | 6:00 PM |
| Social & Networking Event | Social/Networking Event | 6:00 PM |
| Hosted By Magic the Gathering Tampa/Brandon/St Pete | Nerdy Needs (Casual Thursday Commander Night) | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup | Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Warhammer Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Free Writing Group | Writing Meetup | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Writers Alliance | Tampa Writers Alliance Poetry Group | 6:30 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers | THURSDAY Game Night @ Brighter Days Brewing Company | 6:30 PM |
| YEA Young Entrepreneurs of America | YEA: Young Entrepreneur Networking & Mixer | 6:30 PM |
| Live streaming production and talent | Live streaming production and talent | 7:00 PM |
| Business Networking for Entrepreneurs of Color | Virtual Business Networking – Entrepreneurs of Color | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Laser Cutter Orientation (Members Only) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Stocks, Options & ETFs (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
Friday, December 23
🎄Keep in mind that a number of people schedule their LinkedIn events on “autopilot” and set the for “every 3rd Friday of the month,” or something similar. They often forget to account for holidays. Check with the organizers that an event is actually happening before going!
Saturday, December 24
🎄 Christmas Eve alert: These events are scheduled on LinkedIn and Eventbrite, but there’s no guarantee that they’re actually happening this day. Check with the organizers!
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Philosophy Meetup | Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss. | 7:00 AM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Early Bird Ocala | 8:00 AM |
| Chess Republic | Coffee & Chess: Tampa Midtown | 9:30 AM |
| Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | 9:30 AM |
| Winning The Week | Winning The Week – 4th Meet | 10:00 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Casual Scrabble Play | Scrabble for ALL levels! | 11:00 AM |
| Suncoast Makers | FREE Fab Lab Orientation | 1:00 PM |
| Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) | Golf Group – RPG One-Shots | 6:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Community Hang-out Night | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | THE ONE-SHOT GUILD | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NB Community Hang-out Night! | 7:00 PM |
Sunday, December 25
🎄 Merry Christmas! Take all of the events listed below with a grain of salt and a big cup of eggnog — they may not actually be happening! Check with the organizers before you go.
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Christmas Morning with Duke and Duchess (Bald Eagles) | 8:00 AM |
| There’s A Book For That: Self-Improvement Book Club | Weekly meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group | Holiday & Human Light Gathering | 1:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames) | Weekend Game Day | 1:00 PM |
| Beginners Guide to D & D (Tampa Bay area) | D&D Adventurers League | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Find Your Funny Toastmaster | 6:30 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Stocks – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Crypto, Forex & Futures (Online) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex, Crypto & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck! | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Social Poker Club | Texas Holdem cash games Online every night at 7PM EST | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Cryptos, Forex & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s! | 8:00 PM |
| Solana – Tampa | Office Hours | 8:00 PM |
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I’m looking forward to Tampa Bay’s tech community holiday party, the 2nd Annual Tech Meetup Extravaganza, which takes place this Wednesday, December 14 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective.
It’s organized by Computer Coach, sponsored by High Tech Connect, and it’s a meetup of Tampa Bay tech meetups, including the ones Anitra and I organize: Coders, Creatives, and Craft Beer and Think Like a Coder.
To attend the event, you need to bring either an unwrapped gift or make a minimum $10 cash donation for the local toy drive. Register for the event here!
I’m going to mask up at this event. Yes, I’ll have to pop it off to have a drink or have some of the snacks they’ll be serving, but I’ll be masked most of the time.
I’m doing this based on suggestions from public health officials, who’ve been talking about indoor masking, as a “tripledemic” of three highly contagious respiratory viruses — COVID-19, RSV, and the good ol’ flu — is starting to make the rounds as holiday gatherings and travel increase.
You shouldn’t feel weird about masking up when many people around you choose not to. I don’t — but mind you, I’m often seen walking around with an accordion — but if you want to mask up and feel weird about doing so, come find me at the party and we’ll hang out together.
Here’s the source.
Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 12 through Sunday, December 18, 2022.
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- 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 (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Monday, December 12
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events | The Blowing Up Summit | 11:00 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | In person at Fords Garage St Pete | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| North Tampa Networking Group | Business networking | 11:30 AM |
| Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events | The Trust Equation Masterclass | 3:00 PM |
| Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet | YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents | 4:00 PM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and other Board Games for ENTHUSIASTIC GAME PLAYERS | 4:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Radiant Ridge Toastmasters | 5:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Coalition of Reason | Monthly N. Pinellas TBCor Humanist Social Dinner | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Clean Fiction Writers of Central Florida | Writers Meet & Greet | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Casual Pokemon League at Nerdy Needs | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Night | 6:00 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Persimmon Hollow Flamingo Crossings | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Comics, Animation and etc. | Sapiens Vol. 1: The Birth of Humankind | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | 3D Printer Orientation: Printing at Tampa Hackerspace (THS Members only) | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Introduction to Fusion 360 | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Awkward Conversations, Open Mic” (Part 3) | 7:00 PM |
| Meet New People As Adults – Which is Harder Than Expected | Trivia Night to Meet New People | 7:00 PM |
| Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop for Emerging Pros | Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
Tuesday, December 13
Wednesday, December 14
Don’t forget that Tampa Bay’s 2nd Annual Tech Meetup Extravaganza happens on the evening of Wednesday, December 14th at Embarc Collective from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.!
The event is FREE to attend — just RSVP on the event page!
Thursday, December 15
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking | 7:30 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking | 7:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Wesley Chapel/Lutz networking breakfast | 7:30 AM |
| TampaBayNetworkers | Suncoast Networkers | 8:30 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Docker Davenport FL | Community All-Hands #7 | Virtual event | Dec 15th &16th | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up | Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited! | 11:00 AM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | How to Cut Product Development Costs by up to 50%! | 11:00 AM |
| WEB3CFL -Art – Music – Gaming -Bitcoin -Crypto -Blockchain | Crypto Set-up Class -Limited to 5 Seats Only | 11:00 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift | 11:00 AM |
| Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup | Fight privilege creep with these 5 measures | 11:00 AM |
| Business Game Changers Group | Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | Why identity-first security will be critical in 2023 and beyond | 11:00 AM |
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 11:30 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch at Chuck Lager America’s Tavern | 11:30 AM |
| Wesley Chapel, Trinity, New Tampa, Business Professionals | Wesley Chapel Professional Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| “Learn and Earn” Millionaire Mind Secrets & Networking | Online Zoom! Millionaire Mind Lunch; Book Club and Networking! | 12:00 PM |
| Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa | Technical Meetup Group hosted by IBM – 2022 Accomplishments and 2023 Plan | 3:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Bunkers Bar of Sun City Center Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 4:00 PM |
| Tampa Professional Networking Meetup | Happy Hour Networking – Cigars, Fine Wines and Brews | 5:00 PM |
| All Things Kubernetes Tampa | All Things Kubernetes Meetup | 5:00 PM |
| Business and Social Networking | Happy Hour!! | 5:30 PM |
| We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group | Virtual Writing Get Downs- Share It Now! | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Warhammer Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup | Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective | 6:00 PM |
| Social & Networking Event | Social/Networking Event | 6:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | 2nd ed. AD&D Campaign. | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Agile | Lean Beer for All Things Agile (Tampa) | 6:30 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | Magic the Gathering Drafts at Angry Chair Brewing! | 6:30 PM |
| Live streaming production and talent | Live streaming production and talent | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Laser Cutter Orientation (Members Only) | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Video Production Professionals | Group Kickoff and Networking! | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Girls Who Code for Grades 6-12 | 7:00 PM |
| Sunshine Social Deduction Gaming | BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass District | 7:00 PM |
Friday, December 16
Saturday, December 17
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Philosophy Meetup | Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss. | 7:00 AM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Early Bird Ocala | 8:00 AM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | GSWCF: Pen Turning | 9:00 AM |
| Data Tech Florida | Global AI Developer Days | 9:00 AM |
| Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | 9:30 AM |
| Chess Republic | Coffee & Chess: Tampa Midtown | 9:30 AM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Hunters Creek Toastmasters | 9:30 AM |
| Orlando Lady Developers Meetup | Code with me – learning sessions weekly on Saturdays | 10:00 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Do the Victorian Christmas Stroll at Historic Plant Hall (Tampa Bay Hotel/ UT) | 10:00 AM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | South Florida Model Investment Club Meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Around The World: International Book Club – Metrowest | FRANCE – The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George | Brunch at Cafe de Paris | 10:00 AM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | SAT 12/17 at 10 AM FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM | 10:00 AM |
| Winning The Week | Winning The Week – 3rd Meet | 10:00 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) | Bravo Group Campaign Continues | 11:00 AM |
| Geekocracy! | Potluck Picnic and “Weird Elephant” Gift Exchange | 12:00 PM |
| Suncoast Makers | FREE Fab Lab Orientation | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Women’s Book Club Meetup Group | December Book Club | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Wood Shop Router Table 101 (Members Only) | 1:00 PM |
| Central Florida Florida Foam Fighting (Fumetsu) | Fighter Practice! (Newbies welcome) | 2:00 PM |
| Tampa Book Club – Award-Winning Books | All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy | 3:00 PM |
| Tampa Games Developer Guild | Game Project Therapy (Virtual) | 4:00 PM |
| Kitchen Table Book Club: Year of Short Stories | What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeymi | 6:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Community Hang-out Night | 7:00 PM |
| The Pinellas County Young “Professionals” | Edge District Holiday Bar Crawl | 7:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | CHG Reverse White Elephant Gift Party | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NB Community Hang-out Night! | 7:00 PM |
| Gen Geek | Enchant St petersburg | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | THE ONE-SHOT GUILD | 7:00 PM |
Sunday, December 17
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Indian Shores Library Read and Feeds | Indian Shores Library Holiday Book Sale | 9:00 AM |
| Saint Petersburg Introverts Socializing (Ages 20s-40s) | Paddling at Weedon Island Preserve | 9:30 AM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | SUN 12/18 at 10 AM FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM | 10:00 AM |
| There’s A Book For That: Self-Improvement Book Club | Weekly meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group | CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCH AT ROSEMARY & THYME | 10:00 AM |
| Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton | Games at Descent Into Gaming | 12:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames) | Weekend Game Day | 1:00 PM |
| Beginners Guide to D & D (Tampa Bay area) | D&D Adventurers League | 1:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | D&D Adventurers League | 2:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | Weekend Toastmasters | 3:00 PM |
| Business Owners and Professionals | Let’s get out and have some fun. | 4:00 PM |
| GDG SunCoast | Flutter Study Jams – Getting Started with Flutter [Online Workshop] | 4:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Holiday Lights in the Gardens Photo Walk at Florida Botanical Gardens | 4:30 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | Rifts | 5:00 PM |
| Spellbound Bookstore Events | Meet & Greet Book Signing with Ginny Myers Sain | 5:00 PM |
| Geekocracy! | Geek out over Florida Botanical Gardens’ holiday lights | 5:30 PM |
| Literate Ladies of Orlando…Well Bred…Well Read | 2nd Annual White Elephant Chrismahanukwanzakah Potluck! In Moscow! | 6:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Stocks – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Crypto, Forex & Futures (Online) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex, Crypto & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck! | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Cryptos, Forex & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Solana – Tampa | Office Hours | 8:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s! | 8:00 PM |
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Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 5 through Sunday, December 11, 2022.
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- 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 (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Monday, December 5
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Option Trading Strategies (Tampa Bay area) Meetup Group | Option Trading Strategies Meetup (Online) | 11:00 AM |
| Clean Fiction Writers of Central Florida | Writer’s Critique Group | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | In person at Fords Garage St Pete | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Downtown Networking Community by Serendipity Labs Orlando | Lunch & Learn – Marketing with a Sweet Twist | 11:30 AM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and other Board Games for ENTHUSIASTIC GAME PLAYERS | 4:00 PM |
| Web3Collab St. Petersburg | Why Helium tanked and the future of TIPIN: A conversation with Burak Sezen | 6:00 PM |
| We Write Here Black and Women of Color Writing Group | Virtual Writing Get Downs | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | ACE Advanced Toastmasters 3274480 | 6:00 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Persimmon Hollow Flamingo Crossings | 6:00 PM |
| TIME OF YOUR LIFE! 50+ | Trivia Social Liam Fitzpatricks / Lake Mary | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | Tomb of Annhilation (APL 6 Forgotten Realms) – DM Carson | 6:30 PM |
| MakerFX Makerspace | MakerFX Makerspace 3D Printing Basics | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Awkward Conversations” (Part 2) | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Board Game Night at Armada Games | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Lakeland (FL) Toastmasters Club #2262 | 7:00 PM |
| Meet New People As Adults – Which is Harder Than Expected | Trivia Night to Meet New People | 7:00 PM |
| Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop for Emerging Pros | Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos | 7:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Spanglish Toastmasters Club 7703731 | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | North Florida Chapter Model Investment Club | 7:30 PM |
| Hosted By Defcon813 | Cert Study Session | 8:00 PM |
Tuesday, December 6
Wednesday, December 7
Thursday, December 8
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | Wesley Chapel/Lutz networking breakfast | 7:30 AM |
| Pasco County Young Entrepreneurs/Business Owners All Welcome | Happy Hangar Early Bird Professionals Networking | 7:30 AM |
| TampaBayNetworkers | Suncoast Networkers | 8:30 AM |
| Moffitt Cancer Center Bio-Data Club | Fourth Annual Hackathon | 9:00 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up | Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited! | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| WEB3CFL -Art – Music – Gaming -Bitcoin -Crypto -Blockchain | Crypto Set-up Class -Limited to 5 Seats Only | 11:00 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | The Founders Meeting where it all Began! JOIN us! Bring a guest and get a gift | 11:00 AM |
| “Learn and Earn” Millionaire Mind Secrets & Networking | Online Zoom! Millionaire Mind Lunch; Book Club and Networking! | 12:00 PM |
| Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet | YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents | 3:00 PM |
| Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa | Designing People-Centered AI: Modelling power and powerful modelling! | 3:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Bunkers Bar of Sun City Center Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 4:00 PM |
| Entrepreneurs Empower Empire | Entrepreneurs Empower Empire Live Holiday Happy Hour | 5:00 PM |
| Summerfield Board/Card Game Night | Summerfield Tabletop/Board/Card Games | 6:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | 2nd ed. AD&D Campaign. | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Board Gaming Weekly Meetup | Central Florida Board Gaming at The Collective | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Warhammer Night | 6:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | Magic the Gathering Drafts at Angry Chair Brewing! | 6:30 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Taps and Drafts: Angry Thursdays! | 6:30 PM |
| Book Club Babes | Book Club Babes December Meetup! | 7:00 PM |
| Lets Do All the Stuff | Are you smarter than a 5th grader trivia! | 7:00 PM |
| Real Life Trading – Tampa FL | RLT Tampa Stock Trading Meetup | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Bitcoin | Bitdevs | 7:00 PM |
| Communication Skills for Interviews and Life | Communication Practice and Improvement | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Girls Who Code for Grades 6-12 | 7:00 PM |
| Cocktails and Convo: Book club for RomCom Lovers | Martinis and Book talk | 7:00 PM |
| Business Networking for Entrepreneurs of Color | Virtual Business Networking – Entrepreneurs of Color | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Business Builders Meetup | Saint Petersburg Business Builders | 7:00 PM |
| Let Go of Your Past and Make New Positive Friends | How to Let Go of the Past and Begin Anew | 7:00 PM |
| Live streaming production and talent | Live streaming production and talent | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only) | 7:00 PM |
| YEA Young Entrepreneurs of America | YEA MEETING – CONNECT W YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS IN TAMPA | 7:00 PM |
Friday, December 9
Saturday, December 10
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Philosophy Meetup | Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss. | 7:00 AM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Early Bird Ocala | 8:00 AM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | GSWCF: Make a Laser-Engraved Keepsake Box | 9:00 AM |
| Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | 9:30 AM |
| Chess Republic | Coffee & Chess: Tampa Midtown | 9:30 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Continue the Learning over Lunch at O’Keefe’s | 11:00 AM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | BetterInvesting Yankee Model Investment Club Meeting | 11:00 AM |
| Orlando Unity Developers Group | Create an Escape Room VR Game – 3 Part Class | 11:00 AM |
| Critical Hit Games | Star Wars Legion: Casual Play | 12:00 PM |
| Suncoast Makers | FREE Fab Lab Orientation | 1:00 PM |
| Orlando Startups And Entrepreneurs | Meet-and-Greet | 2:00 PM |
| Geekocracy! | Hyppo Ice Pop and Optional Bike Ride | 2:00 PM |
| Central Florida Florida Foam Fighting (Fumetsu) | Fighter Practice! (Newbies welcome) | 2:00 PM |
| Casual Scrabble Play | Scrabble for ALL levels! | 2:00 PM |
| ITADAKIMASU Tampa Japanese Food Meetup | Dinner at Mikes Sushi | 4:00 PM |
| Bitcoin Orlando | Monthly Bitcoin: Q and A | 4:30 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | IN-PERSON: “The Discourses of Epictetus” (Part 1) | 5:00 PM |
| Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) | Golf Group – RPG One-Shots | 6:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NB Community Hang-out Night! | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Community Hang-out Night | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | THE ONE-SHOT GUILD | 7:00 PM |
Sunday, December 11
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| There’s A Book For That: Self-Improvement Book Club | Weekly meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group | CRITICAL THINKERS SUNDAY BRUNCH AT ROSEMARY & THYME | 10:00 AM |
| Geekocracy! | Geeks Go Hiking: Upper Tampa Bay Trail & Bite | 10:00 AM |
| Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton | Games at Descent Into Gaming | 12:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames) | Weekend Game Day | 1:00 PM |
| Beginners Guide to D & D (Tampa Bay area) | D&D Adventurers League | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Family Open Make Day | 1:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | New Player Nights East Colonial – Tier 1 (Various DMs) | 1:00 PM |
| Central Florida Computer Society | Join us for the Windows Special Interest Group | 1:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | D&D Adventurers League | 2:00 PM |
| Tampa Stoics | IN-PERSON: A Walking Meditation – Causeway Trail | 4:30 PM |
| The Guild of Independent Game Developers | Lecture | 5:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | Rifts | 5:00 PM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Find Your Funny Toastmaster | 6:30 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Cryptos, Forex & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex, Crypto & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Stocks – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Crypto, Forex & Futures (Online) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck! | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s! | 8:00 PM |
| Solana – Tampa | Office Hours | 8:00 PM |
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
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Think about it. With an unearned position as a hero to many on Earth, taking credit for the hard work of other people or fortuitous circumstances, a lack of concern for those working under him, and the id of a fourteen-year-old boy, it’s clear that the comic book character that best exemplifies Elon Musk isn’t Tony Stark, but Zapp Brannigan.
Inform the men!”
Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, November 28 through Sunday, December 4, 2022.
Every week, with the assistance of a couple of Jupyter Notebooks that I put together, I compile this list for the Tampa Bay tech community.
As far as event types go, this list casts a rather wide net. It includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under the category of:
- 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 (because nerds really need to up their presentation game)
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Anything I deem geeky
By “Tampa Bay and surrounding areas”, this list covers events that originate or are aimed at the area within 100 miles of the Port of Tampa. At the very least, that includes the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater, but as far north as Ocala, as far south as Fort Myers, and includes Orlando and its surrounding cities.
This week’s events
Monday, November 28
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | In person at Fords Garage St Pete | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Downtown St Pete Business Professionals Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Orlando Digital Media Design Meetup | Virtual Class: Designing with the Adobe Mobile Suite | 2:00 PM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and more at 3PM this MONDAY ONLY. On other Mondays it is 4pm | 3:00 PM |
| Warehouse Arts District Association (WADA) | WADA/CITYVERSE NFT TOWN HALL | 5:30 PM |
| Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group | Tampa Get Together | 6:00 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Persimmon Hollow Flamingo Crossings | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Thinkers | Katherine’s Baaack! Evangelists, Misogynists, and Repugnicans, BEWARE! | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location) | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Casual Pokemon League at Nerdy Needs | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Members Only: Ceramic Cup Glazing and Casting | 6:00 PM |
| Sarasota “Doctor Who” Fan Meetup | November Viewing Party | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Night | 6:00 PM |
| Clean Fiction Writers of Central Florida | Writers Meet & Greet | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Off the Wagon Kitchen & Brewery Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 6:30 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Toxic Relationships and Attachments” | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Q&A (0NLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Meet New People As Adults – Which is Harder Than Expected | Trivia Night to Meet New People | 7:00 PM |
| Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop for Emerging Pros | Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Social Poker Club | Texas Holdem cash games Online every night at 7PM EST | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| The Nomadic Entrepreneur Group Sarasota | Learn How to Create a Ridiculously Easy Second Income on LinkedIn | 8:00 PM |
Tuesday, November 29
Wednesday, November 30
Thursday, December 1
Friday, December 2
Saturday, December 3
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Central Florida Philosophy Meetup | Wake Up and Think Clearly Saturday morning share and discuss. | 7:00 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | FREE Camera Sensor Cleaning for FCCP Supporters — Join FCCP Now and Save $$$ | 8:00 AM |
| Toastmasters Division G | Early Bird Ocala | 8:00 AM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Board Game Boxcar Winter Con 2022 | 9:00 AM |
| Chess Republic | Coffee & Chess: Tampa Midtown | 9:30 AM |
| Toastmasters Division E | Hunters Creek Toastmasters | 9:30 AM |
| Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | Writers Group at the Haunted Antique Shop | 9:30 AM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | SAT 12/3 at 10 AM FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM | 10:00 AM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | Discounted Cash Flow Series | 10:00 AM |
| Sarasota and Bradenton Continuing Education CEU Community | Saturday CEU • Hand Reflex System | 10:00 AM |
| Orlando Lady Developers Meetup | Code with me – learning sessions weekly on Saturdays | 10:00 AM |
| Orlando Melrose Makers | In-Person: Makerspace Open Lab | 10:30 AM |
| Oviedo Middle Aged Gamers (OMAG) | Bravo Group Campaign Continues | 11:00 AM |
| Orlando Unity Developers Group | Create an Obby Style Video Game | 11:00 AM |
| Geekocracy! | Geeks go Hiking at Jay B. Starkey Park | 11:00 AM |
| World Class Business Networking Orlando | Business Success Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Winning The Week | Winning The Week – 1st Meet | 12:00 PM |
| Suncoast Makers | FREE Fab Lab Orientation | 1:00 PM |
| Central Florida Florida Foam Fighting (Fumetsu) | Fighter Practice! (Newbies welcome) | 2:00 PM |
| Orlando Machine Learning and Data Science | [IN-PERSON] Databricks demo: transfer learning with MLflow | 3:00 PM |
| Socrates Cafe – “The unexamined life is not worth living” | ONLINE: “Nobel Prize Winners: Inspiring Stories” (Part 2) | 3:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Community Hang-out Night | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | THE ONE-SHOT GUILD | 7:00 PM |
| The Non Non Non Fiction Book Club | 2nd Book Club Meeting @ Southern Brewing: The Undying by Anne Boyer | 7:00 PM |
| Gen Geek | Birthday Bar Crawl 🎉 | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Horror Movie Fans 20s-30s | Month 1 of 12 till Halloween | 9:30 PM |
Sunday, December 4
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| There’s A Book For That: Self-Improvement Book Club | Weekly meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Soberish Hang Outs and Book Club | Discussing Quit Drinking Without Willpower by Allen Carr | 10:00 AM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | SUN 12/4 at 10 AM FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM | 10:00 AM |
| Board Games and Card Games in Sarasota & Bradenton | Games at Descent Into Gaming | 12:00 PM |
| Beginners Guide to D & D (Tampa Bay area) | D&D Adventurers League | 1:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples West Pasco (Boardgames) | Weekend Game Day | 1:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | D&D Adventurers League at Critical Hit Games | 2:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | D&D Adventurers League | 2:00 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | Weekend Toastmasters | 3:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | Epic New Player Nights – Various DMs (Tier 1: Level 1-4) | 5:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | Rifts | 5:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Forex – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex, Crypto & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Alphabet Soup | Finding Letters in the World Around Us | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Crypto – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Cryptos, Forex & Futures (ONLINE) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerdbrew Events | Hidden Gems Night, Presented by A Duck! | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Stocks – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Crypto, Forex & Futures (Online) | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | NerdBrew Karaoke @ MacDinton’s! | 8:00 PM |
| Solana – Tampa | Office Hours | 8:00 PM |
Do you have any events or announcements that you’d like to see on this list?
Let me know at joey@joeydevilla.com!
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