Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, March 10 through Sunday, March 16, 2025!
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
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This week’s events
Monday, March 10
Monday at 6:00 p.m. at Mad Hatters Ethnobotanical Tea Bar: It’s the first meeting of the Tampa Artificial Intelligence Applications Meetup Group / Saint Petersburg Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday, March 11
Tuesday morning at 10, online: Computer Coach will host the webinar, “Career Changing Without Resetting Your Journey,” and learn actionable steps to transition successfully. Recognize your current skills and seize new opportunities without starting from scratch. Register now and take the next step in your career!
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Career Source Hillsborough Pinellas’ Spring 2025 Job Fair will take place at EpiCenter at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater!
✨ Why Attend?
✅ Meet employers from various industries
✅ Explore exciting career opportunities
✅ Bring your resume and be ready to network
This event is free and open to all job seekers! Don’t miss this chance to take the next step in your career.
Find out more and register here.
Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. at Vaco (Tampa): Tampa Bay Product Group will feature Jason Vogel, who’ll share how Product Managers can leverage the power of Feature Flags to manage the complexity and risk inherent in deploying critical business systems.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, March 12
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Brick House Tavern + Tap, Tampa: Are you passionate about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship? Looking for a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience and expand your professional network? Join this event for an exclusive Information Session & Networking Event to learn how you can volunteer at the Synapse Innovation Summit—Florida’s premier event for innovators, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders.
Yes, this is a way for you to attend Synapse Summit for free!
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 5:30, online: NextGen Tech and AI of St Pete are holding an online session: an exclusive Tech Talk event where they’ll dive into the latest innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence!
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday at 6:00 p.m. at the Entrepreneur Collaborative Center, Tampa: Data Analytics and AI Tampa Bay will feature a data case study: Predicting Outcomes of Single-Family Residential Home Same-Year Resales. This project aimed to predict whether single-family residential homes in Florida, resold within the same year, would result in a profit or a loss. Using data from the Florida Department of Revenue (FDOR) Assessment Rolls from 2009 to 2020, they built binary classification models to distinguish between profitable and unprofitable resales. They developed three machine learning models: Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Random Forest, chosen for their ability to measure the importance of input variables. Feature importance functions from the Scikit-Learn module were applied to identify the most significant factors affecting resale outcomes.
Find out more and register here.
| Event name and location |
Group |
Time |
World Toasters Toastmasters Club
Online |
Toastmasters Division E |
7:05 AM to 8:00 AM EDT |
Grow Your Business with focused Referral Networking
Sons of Italy Lodge |
BNI Tampa -Referral based networking |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT |
NPI St. Pete Sunrise Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
St Petersburg Yacht Club |
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT |
St Pete Downtown Young Professional Networking Breakfast Connect your business
Hangar Restaurant, Albert Whitted Airport |
RGA Networking Professional Business Networking |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT |
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Panera Bread |
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EDT |
Tampa Highrisers Toastmasters
Hyde Park United Methodist Church |
Toastmasters District 48 |
7:45 AM to 8:45 AM EDT |
IAM Simplified: Enhancing Security and Efficiency with AD360
Online |
Orlando Cybersecurity Meetup |
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EDT |
Brandon Professional Networking Lucnh
Just Love Coffee Cafe |
RGA Networking Professional Business Networking |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT |
Lakewood Ranch/Sarasota Business Networking Lunch ~ Connect your busniess
Station 400 |
RGA Networking Professional Business Networking |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT |
Lakewood Ranch Business Networking Lunch at Station 400, JOIN in and Connect
Station 400 |
Bradenton/Sarasota Networking Meetings and Mixers |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EDT |
NPI North St. Pete Networkers Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Carrabas Italian Grill |
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) |
11:30 AM to 12:45 PM EDT |
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion Meetup
Online |
Lady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group |
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EDT |
Social “Hump Day” Wednesdays
Online |
Social Entrepreneurs Networking Group |
2:15 PM to 4:15 PM EDT |
Wednesday Night Gaming
Nerdy Needs |
Brandon Boardgamers |
5:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT |
Synapse Volunteer Information Session + Gathering
Brick House Tavern + Tap |
Tech Success Network |
5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
Tech Talk: Latest Innovations in Artificial Intelligence
Online |
NextGen Tech and AI of St Pete |
5:30 PM to 6:30 PM EDT |
Orlando Chess Association
West Osceola Library |
Chess in Orlando |
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
Wednesday Board Game Night
Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild |
5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
Data Analytics & AI – Tampa Bay – MARCH MEETUP
Entrepreneur Collaborative Center |
Data Analytics – Tampa Bay |
6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT |
Casual Commander Wednesdays
Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games |
6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
Great Big Trivia Wednesdays @ Terra Ceia Bay Country Club Palmetto 6-8PM
Terra Ceia Bay Country Club |
South Florida Poker, Music & Entertainment Group |
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
The Fallen Lands
2103 Laceflower Dr |
Brandon and Seffner area AD&D and OSR Group |
6:00 PM to 9:30 PM EDT |
Board Game Night
Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games |
6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EDT |
Women’s Chess Club!
St. Petersburg Chess Club |
Chess Republic |
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
Game Night!
Southern Lights Brewing Company |
Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers |
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM EDT |
Shut Up & Write!® at a Speak Easy
Speakeasy Central Kava Bar |
Shut Up & Write!® St. Petersburg |
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
Sun Coast Euchre Club
The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge |
Suncoast Euchre Club -St Pete |
6:50 PM to 8:50 PM EDT |
[Virtual] Tampa Bay Bitcoin Meetup: News, Markets, & Community
Online |
Tampa Bay Bitcoin |
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and Online
Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library |
Toastmasters District 48 |
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT |
Communication Practice and Improvement
Online |
Communication Skills for Interviews and Presentations |
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EDT |
Games & Grog @ The Grove SoHo!
Grove Soho |
Nerdbrew Events |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT |
Judge Dredd: A Sci-Fi One-Shot
Game-O-Storus |
St Pete and Pinellas Tabletop RPG Group |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT |
Magic Pioneer Event
Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games |
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT |
Join Us on Wed, 3/12 at 7 PM for “HumaNature”: A Presentation by Ken Weissblum
Online |
The Art Of Photography – Tampa/St. Pete |
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT |
New Beginnings & Old Rivalries
Online |
Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild |
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EDT |
Games & Grog (Social Game Night in SoHo)
Grove Soho |
Nerd Night Out |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EDT |
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress Weekly
Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games |
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EDT |
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Thursday, March 13
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective, Tampa: Tampa Bay Java Group presents Why Software Testing Is a Waste of Time + Reputation Formula. Testing software takes up a lot of time in the software development process, often the same time if not more than the time required for the development itself. Just like development, testing also requires continued maintenance efforts. This (rightfully so) makes a lot of people in different roles, be it managers, developers or even testers question whether or not that time effort is really justified. With more and more companies deploying every 10 minutes or even less start to wonder: why invest time in testing when you can rollback issues in a matter of seconds, in some cases even automatically?
Learn more about common pitfalls, time wasters, and what you can do to make your testing strategy more efficient in this talk!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Casa Santo Stefano, Tampa: Join Tampa Bay Women in Agile for an evening of networking at Casa Santo Stefano in Ybor City! Don’t miss this opportunity to network with like-minded professionals, gain valuable insights, and empower yourself to excel in your career. Whether you are a seasoned Agile practitioner, looking to advance in your career, or learning about agile, this community is filled with knowledgeable and open minded professionals. Let’s come together to support and uplift each other on our professional journeys!
Come and connect with your Tampa Bay Agile community. All are welcome who support Women in Agile!
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 6:00 p.m. at Magnanimous Brewing, Tampa: Tampa Power Platform and Tampa M365 will have their regular get-together where you can enjoy beers, socialize, and network with awesome local techies. Whether you’re new to Microsoft 365 or an experienced M365 IT Pro / Developer, this event is a great opportunity to meet new faces and get to know your local counterparts.
Find out more and register here.
Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at Neon Temple: Learn “snake charming” — Furio and his flowing, lucious hair will give you all you need to not just learn procedural Python, but create art with it.
Find out more here.
Friday, March 14
Saturday, March 15
Sunday, March 16
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:
- 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
The Synapse Summit takes place at Raymond James Stadium all day Tuesday! I’ll be there at the Packfiles booth — drop by and say hi!
Tuesday at 5:30: It’s TampaTech Taps & Taco Tuesday at Hidden Springs Ale Works! Here’s what’ll be there:
Wednesday from 4 – 6 p.m. at Rapid7: Comcast Business and Rapid7 invite you to an exclusive Cybersecurity Roundtable & Networking Event designed to help you stay ahead of today’s most sophisticated cyber risks.
Thursday at 6 p.m. at Hays: Tampa Bay AWS User Group presents From Complexity to Clarity: An AWS Security Journey. In this session, Dhiren Zakkam, Manager for Cloud Engineering at World Kinect, will share his real-world experience tackling the challenges of managing identities, permissions, and access in AWS at scale — what worked, what didn’t, and how his team streamlined their AWS security strategy.