Here’s the “official unofficial” list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for Monday, April 15 through Sunday, April 21, 2024.
This week’s events
- Monday, April 15
- Tuesday, April 16
- Wednesday, April 17
- Thursday, April 18
- Friday, April 19
- Saturday, April 20
- Sunday, April 21
Monday, April 15
Monday at 5:30 at Kforce, Tampa: Tampa Java User Group has not one, but two presentations:
- Developer Career Masterplan by Bruno Souza, Summa Technologies, and
- GenAI with Java and AWS by Vinicius Senger, AWS
Find out more and register here.
Monday at 6:30 at Buddy Brew Coffee, Tampa: Tampa Machine Learning is a new meetup group, and they’re holding their first “Coffee and ML” meetup! Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, April 16
All day Tuesday at Armature Works, Tampa: The Civo Navigate Local conference features talks and workshops on cloud native, emerging tech, AI/ML, and thought leadership, all brought to you by my favorite cloud hosting company, Civo! Use my discount code, JDCIVOLOCAL, which knocks down the admission price from $40 to $10! Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, April 17
Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Data Analytics Tampa Bay will feature Sri Subramanian, Head of Data Engineering, SurveyMonkey, who will talk about Snowflake Data Cloud, it’s end-to-end architecture, and how it can serve as a single, scalable data platform for a variety of use cases, such as data lake to data warehouse to ML. Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at Bar Louie, Tampa: Tampa Bay User Experience’s happy hour sponsored by UserTesting is your chance to meet other local UXers and get your questions answered about all things UserTesting. Find out more and register here.
Thursday, April 18
Thursday at 5 p.m. at Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux, Tampa: Tech on Tap is hosting their monthly tech networking get-together in Midtown Tampa. Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Vaco Tampa: High Tech Connect is holding their networking event at Vaco’s new “Skycenter” space! Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at St. Petersburg College EpiCenter Campus: Tampa Bay Techies, Tampa Devs, and Tampa Java User Group are jointly hosting the event “Seamless Infrastructure: Master Automated Deployments on AWS.” It will be an immersive Terraform CI/CD and Testing on AWS workshop led by Kevon Mayers, Solutions Architect, AWS. Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Bahama Breeze at Rocky Point (Tampa): Tampa Bay InfraGard is holding their bi-monthly networking social! Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Cigar City Brewery, Tampa: Lean Beer for All Things Agile! It’s a lean coffee-style discussion, but in the evening, and with beer, where you can discuss anything agile or lean! Find out more and register here.
Friday, April 19
Saturday, April 20
Sunday, April 21
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
