Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, January 20 through Sunday, January 26, 2025! 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, January 20
- Tuesday, January 21
- Wednesday, January 22
- Thursday, January 23
- Friday, January 24
- Saturday, January 25
- Sunday, January 26
Monday, January 20
Tuesday, January 21
Tuesday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Green Bench in St. Pete: It’s the January edition of St. Pete Connects, a meetup for a diverse group of entrepreneurs, founders, and community partners helping them to create friendships and network!
They’re bringing together the tech founders, connectors, creatives, and innovators of St. Pete. A laid back meet up for those new and old to the Sunshine City to find new friendships, expand their networks and build community partnerships.
Bring yourself and/or a friend and help us enjoy an evening with good beer and people.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, January 22
Thursday, January 23
Thursday morning from 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. at Computer Coach in Tampa: LinkedIn Local™ events are organic meetups, hosted by members all over the world — this one’s the Tampa Bay edition! These gatherings provide an opportunity to network, build community, discuss industry trends, and share best practices for using LinkedIn.
Who should attend?
- IT Professionals: Expand your tech network and share industry insights.
- Business Leaders: Connect with peers and explore collaboration opportunities.
- HR and Talent Acquisition Specialists: Meet top talent and discuss the latest trends in recruitment.
- Entrepreneurs and Start-up Founders: Exchange ideas and gain support from like-minded individuals.
- Community Leaders and Influencers: Strengthen your influence and build lasting relationships.
Why attend?
- Enhance Your Network: Meet diverse professionals from various industries.
- Professional Growth: Gain new perspectives and learn from others’ experiences.
- Reconnect: Strengthen existing connections and make new ones.
- Collaborative Opportunities: Discover potential partnerships and business ventures.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday evening from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. at Tampa Bay Brewing Company in Oldsmar: This event is all about meaningful conversations and building valuable connections with fellow tech professionals and industry leaders.
No presentations, no demos—just people talking to people. Come ready to connect, and grow your professional relationships in a relaxed, engaging atmosphere.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday evening from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at 501 E. Kennedy (2nd floor) in Tampa: Tampa Bay AWS User Group is hosting a re:Invent recap session where local Solution Architects from AWS will talk about the many announcements and various highlights from the 2024 re:Invent event. Speakers from AWS include Renato Fichmann and Vivek Mittal.
This event is sponsored by JetSweep, and refreshments will be served!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday evening from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective, Tampa: Tampa Bay Data Engineering Group is kicking off 2025 with an introduction to data engineering. We’ll review Joe Reis and Matt Housley’s book Fundamentals of Data Engineering and other resources to define and explore the expanding world of data engineering practices.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday evening from 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. at The Secret Insurance School: Tampa Bay’s security guild and band of merry pranksters, The Neon Temple, are featuring To Pimp a Benjamin, with Crispy presenting.
Their abstract is more fun than anything I can come up with right now, so I’ll just quote it:
Crispy has started in the basement and worked his way to the penthouse. From managing a taco joint to being one of the premier blue teamers in Tampa Bay, if not the country, he knows what the value of a buck is. He also knows how to make a dollar stretch its absolute value and make the convoluted financial system that spawned the meme below work for you. He pretty much planned his BFF Cochise’s retirement account (not that he’s smug about it). Join him for a night of financial literacy, knowledge, and some advice from a guy who’s not a financial planner and doesn’t have a college degree, but makes more than you.
Find out more and register here.
Friday, January 24
Saturday, January 25
Sunday, January 26
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
But first, a quick promo:
