Community events, one place

An in-person hackathon where developers, designers, storytellers and students team up to build with Google's AI tools, including Gemini, Google Cloud and Firebase. Pick the Devs, Game Devs or Data for Good track. All skill levels are welcome, mentors are on hand, and you can come solo and join a team on site.

Come join us again for food and beer or whatnot as we gather to share and listen to members stories. Every other month we will have story topics and welcome everyone to share their story. Stories are generally around 10 minutes in length with some Q&A after each one.

There is no need for a slide deck, or computer. These are meant to be like just hanging around the bar, with your friends, telling a story... Because that is just exactly what it is.

Join PBSC AWS Student Group's first meetup (virtually): https://www.meetup.com/aws-sbg-at-palm-beach-state-college-palm-beach-gardens/events/317257972

All are levels welcome!

ProductTank Orlando brings together three local product leaders for short, opinionated talks on AI and product building.

• Martin Alaimo (Alaimo Labs) presents a method to consider when using AI in any product.
• Anardo Cuello (ShotNest) shares an open secret about AI and product building.
• Curtis Michelson (Jedi On The Fly) introduces a new AI model that can save money.

Sponsored by Tews Company, with thanks to Jacob Fessler and his team.

PHP in the AI Era: PHP 8.6, MCP and the Engine Behind WordPress & Drupal PHP quietly powers WordPress, Drupal, Laravel and most of the web, and every year it ships a new release that makes it even better. 2026 has been one of its best years yet, and it turns out PHP is in a great position for the AI era. Let’s talk about why!

PHP 8.6 is (almost) here. The annual release lands November 19, and it’s a good one. Partial function application lets you prefill arguments with a simple ? placeholder (goodbye, wrapper closures), and there’s a built-in clamp(), a new Time\Duration class with nanosecond precision, a SortDirection enum, and default values for readonly properties. Under the hood, a new polling API gives PHP one interface to epoll, kqueue and friends. Even the session defaults got safer out of the box. Some of it you’ll use every day, and some of it is just plain fun to dig into.

PHP is officially an AI language. The official PHP SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a collaboration between the PHP Foundation, Anthropic’s MCP team, and Symfony, so you can now expose your PHP app’s tools and data to Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI agents with a Composer install. Better yet, the newest MCP spec went stateless, which happens to be exactly how PHP has always handled requests. (Fun fact: one of MCP’s co-creators was a PHP 5.4 and 5.5 release manager. PHP people get around!)

Laravel went all in. Laravel now has three official AI packages: the AI SDK for building AI features into your app, Boost for helping coding agents write better Laravel code, and Laravel MCP for letting AI tools talk to your app. We’ll look at what each one does and when you’d actually use it.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• PHP 8.6 deep dive: partial function application, the new polling API, Time\Duration and more, with real before-and-after code.
• Building an MCP server in PHP, live, in a few minutes (the same approach works for WordPress and Drupal).
• Coding with AI agents in a Laravel project: what works, what doesn’t, and what’s surprisingly good.
• Open discussion: how are you using AI in your PHP work? Bring your wins, your fails, and your questions.

Whether you’ve been writing PHP since the 3.x days, you follow every RFC, you build WordPress themes and plugins, you maintain a Drupal site, or you just inherited your first Laravel app, there’s something here for you.

No AI experience required.

Startup Weekend Orlando brings builders, founders, students, and operators together for a weekend of pitching, prototyping, mentoring, and final presentations.

Startup Weekend Orlando brings builders, founders, students, and operators together for a weekend of pitching, prototyping, mentoring, and final presentations.

A free, hands-on community "buildathon" in Downtown Orlando for Brazilian and Latino entrepreneurs, small-business owners, marketers, creators, and professionals who want to explore building with AI. No coding experience is required. The session opens with a live demo of Lovable, a platform that turns plain-language instructions into web apps, then attendees build their own project with help from the host and other builders. Each registered participant gets 100 free Lovable credits. Bring a charged laptop and a simple app idea.

Agenda: welcome and introductions, activating free credits, building a project, publishing and sharing an app, then networking.

Hosted by Victor Chiquetti. Organized by CW Digital Marketing. Supported by Lovable.

Celebrate 10 years of Building Our Tech at its signature fundraising gala, supporting the next decade of workforce development and entrepreneurship. Join entrepreneurs, executives, innovators, community partners, and changemakers for a cocktail reception, plated dinner and hosted open bar (21+), awards celebration, curated entertainment, silent auction, and networking.

Startup Weekend Orlando brings builders, founders, students, and operators together for a weekend of pitching, prototyping, mentoring, and final presentations.

Brew UX is a social, in-person gathering for anyone in the Orlando area interested in learning about or discussing User Experience Design. Connect with your local UX community over a cup of coffee at an AM Brew, or around a pub table at one of our PM Brew UX events. --- On Thursday, November 19th at 7pm, we’ll be gathering for a 🌙 PM Brew UX Meetup in the "B Side" meeting space at Ten10 Brewing Company in Orlando.

Ready to showcase your creativity and ingenuity? Want to see what fun, cool, and innovative projects community members are working on? Then get ready for our Monthly Creative Exchange!

Join us for a fun evening of OTAB | Orlando Tech and Beer - a monthly networking and social event hosted by Accelerate Orlando & Orlando Devs. First drinks & light bites will be provided thanks to our generous sponsors!

Demo Day and Game Day for Orlando's game community and families. Indie developers pitch their games for players to try and give feedback on, with guest speakers, round-table discussions on game industry trends, networking, skill-building and board games. Hosted by Indienomicon at the Melrose Center.

Curious how AI is actually showing up in the way people build businesses, ship products, and grow their careers?

Join Building Our Tech and Startup Weekend Orlando for an evening of "Skill & Tell," where three Orlando tech leaders share the AI skills they've built and how those skills are changing the way they work. This isn't a lecture on AI theory. It's a hands-on look at real tools, workflows, and strategies from people putting them to work every day.

Orrett Davis, founder of Mighty Orbit and co-founder of Starter Studio and Orlando Tech Meetup, will share how he uses AI to help B2B SaaS and healthtech companies build demand and scale faster, drawing on a decade of growth marketing experience across the Orlando tech ecosystem.

Alex Damis, AI lead at PETE and organizer of Build the Future, will dig into agentic engineering: how he gives AI agents durable memory and structured workspaces so they can carry complex projects forward instead of starting from scratch every time.

Josh Walker, VP of AI and Engineering at a Big 4 consulting firm and co-founder of Building Our Tech, will bring an enterprise lens to the conversation, showing how the AI and cloud concepts powering Fortune 500 platforms can be translated and applied by anyone, no corporate badge required. Whether you're scaling a startup, building your own AI-powered tools, or just trying to figure out where to start, this is your chance to learn directly from people doing the work.

Who should attend Professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who want to build real AI literacy, whether you're just starting out or already experimenting with AI tools at work.

A holiday night of rapid-fire talks from Orlando's tech community. Enlighten us, but make it quick.