Ohio Technical User Groups and Conferences

To make it easier to find user groups and tech events in Ohio (or nearby), I created this repo and hope to keep it updated through community involvement. Please submit a pull request with events not listed!

Conferences & Tech Events

January

• Codemash - Sandusky
• Global Game Jam - Multiple Locations

February

• Ohio DevFest
• OCWIC Conference
• Tech Takeover - Columbus

March

• The Ohio State University's annual makeathon - Columbus

April

• Central Ohio ISSA Infosec Summit - Columbus
• ShowOHI/O - Columbus

May

• Stir Trek - Columbus
• QA or the Highway - Columbus
• Dayton Hamvention - Dayton
• The Path to Agility - Columbus

June

• GDEX, The Midwest’s Premier Gaming Expo - Columbus

July

• Cincy Deliver - Cincinnati
• Cleveland Give Camp - Cleveland
• PyOhio - Columbus + Remote
• DataConnect Conference - Columbus
• Women in Analytics DataConnect Conference - Columbus

August

• JavaScript & Friends - Columbus
• IT Martini Today - Columbus
• CIO Tomorrow - Columbus

September

• Central Ohio Software Symposium - Columbus
• Columbus Security B-Sides - Columbus
• Columbus WITCON - Columbus

October

• Momentum Developer Conference - Cincinnati
• Pittsburgh Give Camp - Pittsburgh
• GiveBackHack - Columbus
• PMI professional development day - Columbus

November

• GPSec Columbus Tech Summit - Columbus
• Business Analysts Professional Development Day - Columbus
• Queen City Conference - Cincinnati

December

• Ohio Linux Fest - Columbus

User Groups

Akron

• UX Akron
• Akron Game Developers

Columbus

• Central Ohio .NET Developers Group
• Columbus Ruby Brigade
• Women in Tech International (WITI) Columbus
• Columbus AWS Meetup
• ColumbusJS
• International Institute of Business Analysis - Columbus Chapter
• Central Ohio Java User Group (COJUG)
• Columbus Cloud Native
• Columbus Elixir
• Central Ohio Azure
• Black Tech 614 - Learning Communities
• acm-w / OCWiC - All over Ohio?
• Project Management Institute Central Ohio
• Central Ohio IT Leaders
• The Central Ohio GameDev Group
• Columbus Tech Support: Supporting the softer side of tech
• Free Code Camp Columbus

Cleveland

• Cleveland Product
• Cleveland C# User Group
• CLEpy
• Hudson Codecraft
• Azure Cleveland
• Google Developer Group Cleveland
• Cleveland Java Group
• Cleveland PyLadies
• Cleveland Power Platform User Group
• Cleveland Ruby Brigade
• DevOps Cleveland

Cincinnati

• Cincinnati .NET User Group - CINNUG - Look through Techlife-Cincy calendar for CINNUG/CinARC meetings

Dayton

• GemCity TECH
  • Code for Dayton
  • New to Tech
  • Dayton Web Developers
  • Dayton Dynamic Languages
  • Dayton .NET Developers
  • Gem City Game Developers
  • Frameworks (digital design)
  • Gem City Machine Learning

Toledo

• Northwest Ohio .NET Users Group (NWNUG)
• Toledo Web Professionals
• WordPress Toledo
• Northwest Ohio Microsoft 365 User Group

Multiple cities

• getWITit Events - Columbus/Cinci/Cleveland/Pittsburg

Other aggregator sites

• TechLife Cincy
• TechLife Columbus
• Sadukie's list of community events - focus on Northeast Ohio
• OhioX Events page