Upcoming Events

Join us for a celebration of the life of Vincent Tang, co-founder of Tampa Devs, whose work has positively impacted countless lives in our community.

Join us for a celebration of the life of Vincent Tang, co-founder of Tampa Devs, whose work has positively impacted countless lives in our community. Hear from those who have worked with Vincent and celebrate his life with the community. Light food and beverages will be served.

Join us for a for a social happy hour on Microsoft SharePoint, hosted by Tampa M365. Learn about the latest trends and best practices in SharePoint Online development and SPO architecture. Network with fellow Microsoft SharePoint professionals and expand your knowledge in business development within the Microsoft ecosystem. This workshop is perfect for those looking to enhance their skills and stay up-to-date with the ever-evolving world of Microsoft technologies. Don't miss out on this opportunity to grow your expertise and connect with like-minded individuals in the Tampa community.

VueJS has become one of the most approachable yet powerful frameworks for building modern web applications.
This session is designed for developers who are either just getting started with web development or have experience with other tools but are new to Vue. We’ll cover what Vue is, why it’s different, and how it can simplify building interactive interfaces.
By the end, you’ll have a clear sense of how Vue fits into today’s JavaScript ecosystem and the confidence to start experimenting with it in your own projects.

This month it will be a webinar style session via zoom.

👩‍💻 Who’s Invited?

Women from all industries and experience levels—designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone curious about UX, AI, innovation, or just meeting like-minded women.

🍷 What to Expect:

• Low-pressure, fun conversation prompts to break the ice
• Space to share stories, ideas, and lessons from your journey
• A WhatsApp group to keep the connections going after dinner
• A little fun with a light game and some prizes

🥂 Details:

Dinner + wine tasting will be self-pay.
Come ready to enjoy good food, good wine, and even better company.

Note:
Dinner reservation starts at 7pm, but feel free to show up early around 6pm to try and catch a 45m wine tasting for $14.

We’ll share updates about coordinating this if there’s interest in wine tasting as a group prior to dinner.

Seats are limited to 12 ladies total for a normal reservation. But if more interest is shown in a waiting list, we’ll contact Cooper’s Hawk about the potential for a bigger table.

Basic Machine Shop Safety is a prerequisite for this class. This class includes a hands on component and enrollment is strictly limited.

Plan to arrive 10 minutes early to get settled and signed in. The class will start on time.

In this class, we cover basic safety principles and usage of the Grizzly G0750 Gunsmithing Lathe.

It is open to paid members only. For details on becoming a member of Tampa Hackerspace, please visit http://tampahackerspace.com/membership/

Prior to confirming enrollment, you must have completed the Machine Shop Safety Course.

Limit 3 students.

PLEASE NOTE: When you first respond to this meetup, you will be waitlisted. As we confirm the prerequisites, we will move you to the Yes list until the class is at capacity.

We have several restrictions in place related to the Covid-19 pandemic. We are conforming to the latest CDC guidelines and subject to change with no notice.

1. If you are sick, change your RSVP and stay home.
2. If the instructor is not comfortable with your participation, you could be asked to leave without completing this class. This is done for the safety of everyone in the class.

Join us on Tuesday, October 28, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 8:15 PM for the 4th Annual CyberX Tampa Bay — the region’s premier cybersecurity celebration. Whether you’re an established professional, an emerging leader, or exploring a career in cybersecurity, this event offers valuable insights, professional connections, and an inspiring close to Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
The evening kicks off with networking over light refreshments, followed by engaging breakout sessions tailored to different career stages in cybersecurity. After another round of networking, we’ll recognize an outstanding contributor to the industry before gathering for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring leading voices in the field. We’ll wrap up with closing remarks and an opportunity to connect with peers.
Run of Show

• 5:00 – 5:50 PM: Registration & Networking
• 5:50 – 5:55 PM: Welcome & Introductions
• 6:00 – 6:40 PM: Breakout Session 1 & 2- Topics to be announced
• 6:40 – 7:00 PM: Networking
• 7:00 – 7:10 PM: Honoree Recognition
• 7:10 – 8:00 PM: Keynote Panel Discussion - Topic to be announced
• 8:00 – 8:10 PM: Closing Remarks

Whether you come to learn, share, or expand your professional network, CyberX Tampa Bay offers an energizing and collaborative atmosphere for all who care about the future of cybersecurity.

Join us in a virtual "Lean Coffee" every other week. We appreciate hearing from all voices about whatever puzzles you about Lean & Agile topics... As well as other workplace challenges!

Pro tips:
• When possible, use a laptop so you can fully participate by adding questions to the board
• Consider turning on your camera so we network more effectively!
• Look for email 24 hours before our Meetup, where we share the password

Use the following Zoom info to join the discussion:

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Meeting ID: 870 7718 9170

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Tampa Generative AI meet

Every other Tuesday

Looking forward to seeing everybody next Tuesday !

More details to follow

Joey

👋 Oleg Neskoromnyi is a Software QA Architect at Whelen with over 15 years of experience in Software Quality Engineering and Test Automation.

Throughout his career at companies like General Motors and Spirion, Oleg has mentored teams and consulted organizations on building practical, effective QA strategies.

AI is here, and your testing team is watching you to see how to respond. In this fast-paced, practical session, we'll cut through the hype and explore what it really means to lead software testers in the age of AI. You'll learn how to transform your team from skeptical observers to confident experimenters - and discover why this is about empowerment, not replacement.

Through real-world examples and concrete stories, we'll explore AI-assisted test generation, and workflows that collapse days of work into minutes. You'll see a live demonstration of an AI agent in action, showing how these tools can augment your team's capabilities right now. Whether you're just starting with AI or already experimenting, you'll leave with a clear framework for leading your team to thrive in this new landscape. Let's learn by doing together.

📍 Who should attend?
QA engineers, testers, developers, and anyone curious about how AI is transforming quality assurance.

🚀 Stay relevant. Stay ahead. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn practical, future-proof skills directly from industry leaders.

🍕 Food and drinks are proudly sponsored by iDelsoft.com, a hiring platform, helping startups and SMBs to scale their engineering teams with on-demand tech talent. 50+ companies use iDelsoft to hire remote talent.

Join us for our November 2025 Meetup!

Here are some details for this event:

Hosted By:
Dr. Tom Stablein, Program Director
Global Online M.S. AIBA Program
Muma College of Business, University of South Florida

Purpose:
For most businesses and organizations, data analytics and business intelligence is used to support mandatory business functions. For data scientists, the tools and technologies are ever-changing.

Join local experts in discussing current trends and topics in the analytics field, including AI and ML, data science, business analytics, systems design, database management, data mining, and more..

Agenda:
6:00pm-6:30pm – refreshments and networking
6:30pm-7:30pm – presentation and discussion
7:30pm-8:00pm – networking
[building closes at 8pm]

Location:
Entrepreneur Collaborative Center
2101 East Palm Avenue, Tampa FL 33605

Parking:
Please do not park in front of the ECC facility. Free parking is available in the lot located directly North of the ECC building.

RSVP:
Please RSVP early, since seating is limited to 60 attendees. If you intend to bring a guest, please have them RSVP separately, so we can plan refreshments.

Cost:
These events are provided at no cost to the local data analytics community, courtesy of the Global Online Master's of Science in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business Analytics program at the Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. For more info, visit usf.to/global-msaiba.

🚨 The countdown is ON! 🚨

Disrupt The Bay 2025 is bringing together healthcare innovators, investors, and decision-makers for a game-changing conference + pitch competition.

🗓 November 13, 2025
📍 Tampa Bay Innovation Center – St. Petersburg, FL
🎤 Featuring Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Investment Management LLC as our Keynote Speaker!
🔥 Sponsorships & Tickets are LIMITED (only 120 tickets available!) – and they are moving FAST. This is your chance to get your brand in front of C-Suite health executives, VCs, PEs, investors, and the most disruptive health tech startups in the country.

💡 Why Come?
✔️ Premium branding + visibility
✔️ Direct access to top healthcare decision-makers
✔️ Exclusive networking & deal-making opportunities
✔️ Support Save The Kids Foundation funding pediatric cancer research 💙
⏳ Time is of the essence – once these spots are gone, they’re gone!

👉 Secure your seat today: Ai Tampa Members receive a discount use promo code TBTDTB
Registration

Parking and Entrance
Parking is in rear of garage and as normal any unmarked spot. Follow signs to bldg and we'll have signs for the JUG.
TEKsystems is on the 6th floor of Urban Center 2 which is in the NW corner.

Abstract
So, I hear you’re developing Spring applications and microservices. Along comes event streaming with Apache KafkaⓇ and you need to integrate. As fate would have it, Spring and Kafka are already pretty good friends. This means you can leverage your organization’s expertise in building, testing, deploying, and monitoring Spring applications, while also reaping the benefits of event-driven design.

But why bore ourselves with yet another Java microservice. Kotlin is a first class citizen of the Spring framework. It’s proven itself as a popular language with constructs to simplify JVM-based development. And not just for cross-platform development, but for server-side implementations with frameworks like Spring, Ktor, and Micronaut - just to name a few.

In this session, I’ll walk you through writing a solution in Kotlin for producing and consuming Kafka events using Spring Kafka. We’ll highlight the Spring configuration involved in binding our application to a Kafka cluster in Confluent Cloud. We’ll use structured data - serialized with Apache Avro® - whose schemas are managed and governed by a schema registry.

When we’re done, you’ll be ready to explore this Spring-Kafka-Kotlin friendship for yourself.