Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, March 3 through Sunday, March 9, 2025! That’s right; it’s not just a new week, but a whole new month!
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, March 3
- Tuesday, March 4
- Wednesday, March 5
- Thursday, March 6
- Friday, March 7
- Saturday, March 8
- Sunday, March 9
Monday, March 3
Tuesday, March 4
Tuesday evening at 6:30 p.m., online: NextGen Tech and AI of St. Pete is holding their webinar, Tech Talk: Latest Innovations in Artificial Intelligence. This will bean exclusive Tech Talk event where we will dive into the latest innovations in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Find out more and register here.
Wednesday, March 5
Wednesday’s an especially busy night!
Tampa Bay Azure User Group is hosting Securing inside your perimeter with Microsoft Purview at 5:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective. Trofeo provides a tour of Purview and an understanding of how to leverage this powerful security tool. Come early and stick around after the event for networking, which will a joint event with High Tech Connect (see below)!
Find out more and register here.
It’s High Tech Connect’s first event of 2025! It starts at 5:30 p.m. at Embarc Collective, with networking a brief presentations by these sponsors and more:
- Trofeo: We design, implement, and optimize Microsoft Azure solutions that deliver growth-oriented, data-driven business outcomes.
- Grifin: Turn your spending into investing.
- Think Big for Kids: Think Big for Kids is breaking the cycle of poverty by providing middle and high school students with career exploration, mentorship, and job readiness and placement to excel in today’s workforce.
- Embarc Collective: Embarc Collective supports the most driven and focused tech entrepreneurs in Florida.
This is a join event with Tampa Bay Azure Group (see above)!
Find out more and register here.
Tampa Devs’ presentation will be on Relational Databases and Data Warehouses! They’ll look at the fundamental distinctions between Relational Databases and Data Warehouses, shedding light on crucial concepts like row store and column store. We will delve into the physical storage of data on disk and examine how it influences performance. It will take place at Vaco Tampa Skycenter at 6:00 p.m.
Fond out more and register here.
Agile Lean Beer St. Pete is all about promoting knowledge sharing and networking among professionals with a passion for Agile Product Development. Come drink with us and explore anything Agile. Whether you’re a Scrum enthusiast or just curious about Agile practices, this is the perfect platform to exchange experiences, network, vent, and foster your Agile knowledge. All this while drinking beer together! It’s happening at OCC Road House & Museum at 6 p.m..
Find out more and register here.
Thursday, March 6
Tampa Bay Drupal & Web Technologies Q&A is happening at The Bricks in Ybor on Thursday at 7 p.m.!
Find out more and register here.
Friday, March 7
Saturday, March 8
Sunday, March 9
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