Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, December 8 through Sunday, December 14!
This list includes both in-person and online events. Note that each item in the list includes:
✅ When the event will take place
✅ What the event is
✅ Where the event will take place
✅ Who is holding the event
This week’s events
Monday, December 8
Monday starting at 5:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): Tampa Bay Artificial Intelligence Meetup teams up with Tampa Java User Group and Tampa Devs for one last tech talk in 2025 featuring Dr. Venkat Subramaniam on using use AI-based tools to detect issues in code. He’ll use multiple examples, apply automated fixes, he’ll explain each change and why it’s there!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, December 9
Tuesday starting at 5:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): It’s a meetup of meetups for a holiday party! Join a whole lot of Tampa Bay’s local tech meetups to mark the holiday season, the end of 2025, and high hopes for 2026 for a big get-together.
There’s also a raffle: bring an unwrapped gift or gift card — or purchase a raffle ticket — to enter the raffle, with prizes being offered by Tampa Bay’s tech meetups, and proceeds going to Joshua House.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, December 10
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at spARK LABS (St. Pete): AI Salon St. Pete / Tampa present a fireside chat with Florida CFO Group partner Phil Nahajewski and Alex Vega, where they’ll talk about what it really means to be an AI-native leader, how the next wave of innovators think, build, and make decisions that move industries forward.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. at the Entrepreneurial Collaborative Center (Tampa): It’s the last AI & Data Analytics meetup of the year, and as always, there’ll be a presentation on current trends and topics in the analytics field, including AI and ML, data science, business analytics, systems design, database management, data mining, and more!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, December 11
Friday, December 12
Saturday, December 13
Sunday, December 14
About this list
How do I put this list together?
It’s largely automated. I have a collection of Python scripts in a Jupyter Notebook that scrapes Meetup and Eventbrite for events in categories that I consider to be “tech,” “entrepreneur,” and “nerd.” The result is a checklist that I review. I make judgment calls and uncheck any items that I don’t think fit on this list.
In addition to events that my scripts find, I also manually add events when their organizers contact me with their details.
What goes into this list?
I prefer to cast a wide net, so the list includes events that would be of interest to techies, nerds, and entrepreneurs. It includes (but isn’t limited to) events that fall under any of these categories:
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- 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 and other events related to improving your presentation and public speaking skills, because nerds really need to up their presentation game
- Sci-fi, fantasy, and other genre fandoms
- Self-improvement, especially of the sort that appeals to techies
- Anything I deem geeky
