What’s happening in the Tampa Bay tech/entrepreneur scene (Week of Monday, March 5, 2018)

Every week, I compile a list of events for developers, technologists, tech entrepreneurs, and nerds in and around the Tampa Bay area. We’ve got a lot of events going on this week, and here they are!

Monday, March 5, 2018

• Tampa Bay SQL Business Intelligence and Analytics — Monthly Meeting @ Microsoft Corporation, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Code for Tampa Bay Brigade — Reconnect at our March Meetup @ Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Cool ‘n Confident Toastmasters — SPC – St. Petersburg/Gibbs Campus @ 6:30 PM to 7:45 PM
• Nerd Night Out — Pints & Pixels: Retro/Indie Gaming @ Brew Bus, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• South Tampa Toastmasters @ Unity of Tampa, 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

• Westshore Toastmasters @ FIVE Labs, 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
• Brandon Boardgamers — Tuesday Night Gaming @ Cool Stuff Games, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Bitcoin — BlockSpaces DTSP – Bootstrapping a Local Blockchain @ Grassroots Kava House, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Tech4Good Tampa — How to Connect Better With Supporters Through Email @ Panera Bread, 2285 Ulmerton Rd, Clearwater
• Tampa Hackerspace member meeting @ Tampa Hackerspace, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Info Night @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — Tuesday Nite Roleplayers (RPGs) (LFP) @ Grand Arena of Mind Expansion, 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• St Pete .NET Meetup — .NET Configurations and Transforms with Matthew Albright @ Bank of the Ozarks Innovation Lab, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Peter’s Clearwater Bitcoin Meetup — Show up and learn, share and chat about Bitcoin. All are welcome! @ PostcardMania, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• St. Pete Beers ‘n Board Games Meetup for Young Adults @ Flying Boat Brewing Company, 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

• Open/FREE Coworking for Latino Tech Entrepreneurs @ FirstWaVE Venture Center, 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM
• 1 Million Cups St. Pete — Me v PMDD, Inc. / Line Of Vision (LOV) @ St. Petersburg Greenhouse, 9:00 AMz
• Tampa Bay Scrum Masters Guild – March @ Nielsen, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Grand Gamers of St. Petersburg Board Game Night @ Critical Hit Games, 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM
• Tampa Artificial Intelligence Meetup — Meet us at SOFWERX! @ Doolittle Institute SOFWERX – Ybor City, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Tampa Bay IIBA — Navigating Business Analysis Education, Certification, and Resources @ South University, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
• Design St. Pete — On Design Thinking – Part 1 @ Cottonwood Bayview, 6:45 PM to 9:00 PM
• Laser Cutter Orientation — Tampa Hackerspace, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Tampa Bitcoin and Crypto Wealth Mining — Bitcoin Mining – ICO – Crypto Trading @ Bitcoin Mining Investors, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Thursday, March 8, 2018

• Tampa Bay Professionals (IT, Sales, HR & more) — SALES LEADERS – Step 1 in Managing Mistakes: what Sales Leaders need to know @ WebEx Live-Online Session, 8:30 AM to 9:00 AM
• RedHat’s Containers and Cloud-Native Roadshow Tampa @ Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Open code @ Blockspaces, 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM
• Suncoast Caring Community Toastmasters @ The Garden House at Suncoast Hospice, 5:45 PM to 6:45 PM
• Learn Cybersecurity Tampa — Hacking 101: Metasploit 101 @ SecureSet, 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM
• Front-End Design Meetup — Learning ES6 with Alvaro Cruz @ Bank of the Ozarks’ Innovation Lab, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
• Largo Board Games Meetup — Hero Realms: Ruin Of Thandar Campaign 5 @ 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
• Games & Grog (Board Games & More) @ Peabody’s, 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
• Tampa Bay UX Group open hours @ online, 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Friday, March 9, 2018

• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Waters Location) @ Panera Bread, 6001 W Waters Ave, Tampa, 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (Downtown Tampa & Seminole Heights) @ FOUNDATION coffee co., 7:30 AM to 8:30 AM
• Café con Tampa @ Oxford Exchange, 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM
• Tampa Cybersecurity Meetup — OWASP Tampa Chapter Q1 Lunch ‘n Learn @ SecureSet, 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM
• Pinellas Gamers! — Meet up and Play! @ 10851 Endeavour Way, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
• Lean Coffee for All Things Agile (St Petersburg / Tyrone) @ Panera, 2420 66th St North, St Petersburg, 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Saturday, March 10, 2018

• Machine Shop Lathe 101 (Members Only) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
• Nerd Night Out — NNO Book (and Movie) Club: A Wrinkle In Time @ AMC Woodlands Square 20, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
• St. Pete Makers — Open Make Night / Open House @ St. Pete Makers – new location, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sunday, March 11, 2018

• Bitcoin Basics: Understanding the Future of Currency Tampa Florida @ Four Points by Sheraton Suites Tampa Airport Westshore, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM
• Ethereum Tampa Bay — Intro to Solidity and Hello World smart contract @ Blockspaces, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Game Club Tampa Meetup — D&D 5e Gaming group (FULL) @ 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
• Ask a Dev Tampa Bay @ Black Crow, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
• Kids’ Open Make Day @ Tampa Hackerspace, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
• Tampa Bay Blockchain Developers Meetup — Intro to Solidity and Hello World smart contract @ Blockspaces, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
• Sew What? (Textile Arts & Crafts) @ Tampa Hackerspace, 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM