Here’s the list of tech, entrepreneur, and nerd events for Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the second week of 2023: Monday, January 9 through the Sunday, January 15, 2023. Welcome to the first full work week of 2023!
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, January 9
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Monday Morning PhotoWalk at Largo Central Park Nature Preserve | 8:30 AM |
| Florida Agile – Helping You Achieve Business Agility! | LIVE Certified ScrumMaster Workshop – Tampa, FL | 8:30 AM |
| Women Who Code Tampa | WWCode Days of Code Challenge: An Ongoing Online Coding Event | 9:00 AM |
| Florida Agile – Helping You Achieve Business Agility! | Leading SAFe 5.1 Certification Course – Online Via ZOOM | 10:30 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 |
| Clean Fiction Writers of Central Florida | Writing Publishing & Marketing Your Book | 11:00 AM |
| Option Trading Strategies (Tampa Bay area) Meetup Group | Option Trading Strategies Meetup (Online) | 11:00 AM |
| Christian Professionals Network Tampa Bay | Live Online Connection Meeting- Monday | 11:30 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | St. Pete Networking Lunch! Fords Garage! Monday’s | 11:30 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | Start the Week with more connections! JOIN us at Cafe Delanie All Welcome | 11:30 AM |
| Tampa Startup Founder 101 | SEO Basics for Startups with Nick Jordan | 1:00 PM |
| Second Chance Events – Tampa | Learn How to Create a Super Easy Second Income on LinkedIn | 3:00 PM |
| Evolve Events with Us – Tampa | How to Create an extraordinary easy Passive Monthly Second Income on Linkedin | 3:00 PM |
| SCIPS, a 50+ Tampa Bay Singles Club | EUCHRE, Rummy Q and other Board Games for ENTHUSIASTIC GAME PLAYERS | 4:00 PM |
| Tampa St Pete Stocks and Options Trading Group | Success in Stagflation: Learn to Protect Your Wealth | 4:00 PM |
| Free Video Production Classes – TV/Internet | YouTube Basics (ONLINE CLASS) – FREE for Hillsborough County Residents | 4:00 PM |
| Entrepreneurs & Startups – Bradenton Networking & Education | Sara Hand: A Game for Change: Recombinant Innovation | 5:30 PM |
| Brews N Board Games | Board Game Night at Persimmon Hollow Flamingo Crossings | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Bitcoin Maximalists | Orlando Bitcoin Maximalists Meetup | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Tabletoppers | Monday Feast & Game Night | 6:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | MTG: Commander Night | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Casual Pokemon League at Nerdy Needs | 6:00 PM |
| Board Game Meetup: Board Game Boxcar | Monday Weekly Board Game Night! (Lazy Moon Colonial Location) | 6:00 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 |
| Hosted By Tampa# – C# and .NET | Group Code Challenge [Virtual] | 6:30 PM |
| Orlando Social Poker Club | Texas Holdem cash games Online every night at 7PM EST | 7:00 PM |
| Library Book Clubs – OCLS | Virtual Event: Southeast Book Club | 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 |
| Light Study PRO – A Photography Workshop for Emerging Pros | Members as far back as 2008 can access their photos | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Stoics | ONLINE: “Stoicism, Ellis, & Beck” (Part 2) | 7:00 PM |
| North Florida Stock Investing Education | North Florida Chapter Model Investment Club | 7:30 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | World of Greyhawk: 1E One-Shots | 7:30 PM |
| Bitcoiners of Southwest Florida | Where is Bitcoin Going? | 9:00 PM |
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Tuesday, January 10
Wednesday, January 11
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 7:30 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Meetings & Mixers | DOWNTOWN ST PETE YOUNG NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS BREAKFAST AT THE HANGAR! | 7:30 AM |
| Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce | Brandon’s Wonder Women Power Hour | 8:00 AM |
| Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa | Culture Revolution for a new Digital Age of Trusted AI | 8:00 AM |
| 1 Million Cups – Orlando | 1 Million Cups – Orlando Weekly Meetup | 8:30 AM |
| Florida Agile – Helping You Achieve Business Agility! | LIVE Advanced Certified ScrumMaster Workshop – Tampa, FL | 8:30 AM |
| Network After Work Tampa – Networking Events | Real Success Live Online Summit | 8:30 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Coffee & Photography at O’Keefe’s Family Restaurant in Clearwater | 9:00 AM |
| Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup | The top-5 correlation rules to master threat detection in your network | 11:00 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | Attacking AD by abusing DNS vulnerabilities | 11:00 AM |
| Professional Business Networking with RGAnetwork.net | In Person Networking BRANDON! Just Love Coffee Cafe – Brandon FL | 11:15 AM |
| Entrepreneurs & Business Owners of Sarasota & Bradenton | Sarasota Business Networking Lunch All Welcome, Just purchase Lunch! | 11:30 AM |
| Bradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers | Business Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Orlando Professional Networking Meetup Group | Orlando Networking Lunch | 11:30 AM |
| Young Professionals Networking JOIN in and Connect! | Brandon Business Professionals Just Love Coffee | 11:30 AM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Brandon Business Professionals IN Person!!!! | 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 | How To Identify a Viable Business Idea (Online) | 1:00 PM |
| Board Game Players Club | Board game playing | 1:00 PM |
| Professional Women’s Meetup | Happy Hour & Networking | 3:00 PM |
| The Tampa Chapter of the Society for the Exploration of Play | Playing Games in the Alley | 5:00 PM |
| Hosted By North St Pete, Member Driven, Fun Social Group! | St Pete Innovation District – State of Science 2023 | 5:00 PM |
| Brandon Boardgamers | Board Gaming – In Person | 5:00 PM |
| Central Florida CitySec | SwanCitySec Meetup | 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 |
| Orlando Volunteers! | Network and Discuss Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities | 5:30 PM |
| Saint Pete Boardgamers | Board Game Night! | 6:00 PM |
| Suncoast Critical Thinking Discussion Group | Critical thinkers dinner at Chinese Super buffet on fruitville RD | 6:00 PM |
| Orlando Adventurer’s Guild | [HISTORIC] Durlag’s Tower Tier 3 – DM Robert | 6:00 PM |
| Eccentricity Club (Foodies and Fun) | Korean at Korea House in Longwood | 6:15 PM |
| Shut Up & Write!® Tampa | Shut Up & Write!® [Tampa] – IN PERSON | 6:30 PM |
| Bradenton Photo Group | Camera Basics | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.TampaBayInventors.org | Tampa Bay Inventors Council – www.tbic.us bi-monthly Meetup | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Writers Alliance | Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Group | 6:30 PM |
| SWFL Coders | ChatGPT for Coders 🤖 | 6:30 PM |
| MakerFX Makerspace | MakerFX Makerspace Art Of Electronics Guild | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | MtG Modern Constructed at Armada Games | 7:00 PM |
| Writers of Central Florida or Thereabouts | The Short Attention Span Storytelling Hour | 7:00 PM |
| Geekocracy! | Book Club – The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi | 7:00 PM |
| Nerd Night Out | Games & Grog – Party Games Social Night | 7:00 PM |
| Suncoast Developers Guild | Open Code | 7:00 PM |
| Broward Drupal Users Group | Call for presenters | 7:00 PM |
| Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild | New Beginnings & Old Rivalries | 7:00 PM |
| Castaways Euchre Club | Castaways Euchre Club | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Smartphone Trivia Game Show at Wilders Pizza | 7:00 PM |
| Florida Writer’s Association / Orlando | Florida Writer’s Association / Orlando | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Lady Developers Meetup | Code challenge bi-weekly coding session | 8:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | Werewolf | 9:00 PM |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Carollwood Professionals Networking Lunch! | 11:30 PM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | Technique WED 2/1 at 7 PM – AN OVERVIEW OF BASIC COMPOSITION by LYNNE MASS | 7:00 PM |
Thursday, January 12
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Tampa Bay Bitcoin | Bitcoin Social | 7:30 PM |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tampa / St Pete Business Connections | Clearwater/Central Pinellas Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Tampa Bay Business Networking Happy Hour/Meetings/Meet Up | Pinellas County’s Largest Networking Lunch and your invited! | 11:00 AM |
| ManageEngine’s Cybersecurity Meetups | Build a holistic hybrid identity management system | 11:00 AM |
| Florida Startup: Idea to IPO | How to Cut Product Development Costs by up to 50%! | 11:00 AM |
| Business Professionals of Pinellas, Pasco & Hillsborough | Clearwater Professional Networking Lunch | 11:00 AM |
| Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) | NPI Power Lunch – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals | 11:30 AM |
| Downtown Networking Community by Serendipity Labs Orlando | Lunch and Learn: Your Healthiest You -Making 2023 the Year of Lasting Change | 11:30 AM |
| Orlando Digital Media Design Meetup | Online Class – Adobe Illustrator Level 4 | 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 |
| Tampa Bay Gaming: RPG’s, Board Games & more! | Commander Open Play Night at Armada Games | 1:00 PM |
| Data, Cloud and AI in Tampa | Culture Revolution for a new Digital Age of Trusted AI | 3:30 PM |
| Tampa – Sarasota – Venice Trivia & Quiz Meetup | Trivia Night – Bunkers Bar of Sun City Center Smartphone Trivia Game Show | 4:00 PM |
| Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and Rifts (Palladium) Group | 2nd ed. AD&D Campaign. | 6:00 PM |
| Indian Rocks Beach D&D 5e Meetup Group | Curse of Strahd Session 4 | 6:00 PM |
| Sarasota Strategy Board Game League | Terraforming Mars – Thursday January 12 | 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 |
| The Pinellas County Young “Professionals” | 2023 Happy Hour – Bar Chinchilla | 6:00 PM |
| Southwest Florida Board Game Meetup | Meetup to Play Board Games | 6:00 PM |
| Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers | Special Edition Thursday Game Night @ Southern Lights | 6:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Area Book Club | Second Thursday Virtual Book Club Meeting | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay UX Group | The TBUX Revival Social | 6:30 PM |
| Tampa Bay Women in Agile | Leadership Evolution and the Opportunities Women Bring to Business & Innovation | 6:30 PM |
| Real Life Trading – Tampa FL | RLT Tampa Stock Trading Meetup | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Hackerspace | Woodshop Tool Sign Off-Jointer, Planer, & Bandsaw (Members Only) | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Bitcoin | Bitdevs | 7:00 PM |
| Hosted By IIBA Tampa Bay | BABOK IIBA Tampa Bay Study Group | 7:00 PM |
| Tampa Bay Business Builders Meetup | Saint Petersburg Business Builders | 7:00 PM |
| Orlando Real Estate Investor Entrepreneur | WE CREATE REAL ESTATE INVESTORS/ENTREPRENEURS | 7:00 PM |
| Communication Skills for Interviews and Life | How to Increase Your Confidence and Communication | 7:00 PM |
| Live streaming production and talent | Live streaming production and talent | 7:00 PM |
| Learn-To-Trade Stocks – Online (As seen on Orlando Sentinel) | Learn-To-Trade Forex, Crypto & Futures (Online) | 7:00 PM |
| Sunshine Social Deduction Gaming | BotC night at Hourglass Brewery at the Hourglass District | 7:00 PM |
| Ladies Connect! | Mobile Creation (vision board alternative) | 7:00 PM |
Friday, January 13
Saturday, January 14
Sunday, January 15
| Group | Event Name | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Bradenton Photo Group | Sunrise over the Skyway | 7:00 AM |
| Florida Center for Creative Photography | Free – Adobe Lightroom Classic CC Class – Part 2 | 9:00 AM |
| The Art Of Photography – Tampa/Gulf Coast Chapter | SUN 1/15 at 10 AM FREE ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CRITIQUE PROGRAM | 10:00 AM |
| Geekocracy! | Geeks Go Manatee Looking & Food After | 10:00 AM |
| Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg | Shut Up & Write! – Starbucks in DTSP | 10:00 AM |
| There’s A Book For That: Self-Improvement Book Club | Weekly meeting | 10:00 AM |
| Sarasota Strategy Board Game League | DIPLOMACY! Sunday Jan 15 at Descent into Gaming | 12:00 PM |
| Gen Geek | Boyd Hill hike | 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 |
| Chess Republic | Sunday Chess at Grassroots Kava House in Ybor | 2:00 PM |
| Critical Hit Games | D&D Adventurers League | 2:00 PM |
| Toastmasters, Division D | Weekend Toastmasters | 3:00 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 |
| 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 |
| Enjoy the Crypto Space without the Roller Coaster | PAMM Account Overview Zoom | 8:00 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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