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
On Tuesday morning at 10:00, Computer Coach will host an online session titled How to Write a Technical Resume. In this live workshop, they’ll discuss how to write a technical resume for job searching in today’s highly competitive job market!
Find out more and register here.
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 day!
Women in Tech and Entrepreneurship are having an online session at 11:30 a.m.: Scale Your Business Without Losing Integrity, Going Viral, or Burning Out. Arielle Morten will share integrity-based strategies in this master class for women entrepreneurs.
Find out more and register here.
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.
| Event name and location |
Group |
Time |
World Toasters Toastmasters Club
Online |
Toastmasters Division E |
7:05 AM to 8:00 AM EST |
Grow Your Business with focused Referral Networking
Sons of Italy Lodge |
BNI Tampa -Referral based networking |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST |
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 EST |
NPI Profit Partners Chapter – Exchange Qualified Business Referrals
Panera Bread |
Network Professionals Inc. of South Pinellas (NPI) |
7:30 AM to 9:00 AM EST |
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 EST |
Tampa Highrisers Toastmasters
Hyde Park United Methodist Church |
Toastmasters District 48 |
7:45 AM to 8:45 AM EST |
✨The Writing of Serious Sam 4 and The Talos Principle Mar 5th, 11 AM (EST)
Online |
Orlando Unity Developers Group |
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM EST |
Scale Your Business Without Losing Integrity, Going Viral, or Burning Out
Station 400 |
Women in Tech and Entrepreneurship |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST |
Lakewood Ranch/Sarasota Business Networking Lunch ~ Connect your busniess
Station 400 |
RGA Networking Professional Business Networking |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST |
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 EST |
Brandon Professional Networking Lucnh
Just Love Coffee Cafe |
RGA Networking Professional Business Networking |
11:30 AM to 1:00 PM EST |
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 EST |
Inspiring Authors & Book Immersion Meetup
Online |
Lady Lake Memoir Writing Meetup Group |
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM EST |
Wednesday Night Gaming
Nerdy Needs |
Brandon Boardgamers |
5:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST |
Bay pines toastmaster’s hybrid meeting
C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center |
Bay Pines Toastmasters |
5:15 PM to 6:30 PM EST |
March Tech Fest
Embarc Collective |
High Tech Connect |
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST |
Securing inside your perimeter with Microsoft Purview
Embarc Collective |
Tampa Bay Azure User Group |
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST |
Orlando Chess Association
West Osceola Library |
Chess in Orlando |
5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST |
Wednesday Board Game Night
Bridge Center |
Tampa Gaming Guild |
5:30 PM to 11:00 PM EST |
Agile Lean Beer (St. Petersburg)
OCC Road House & Museum |
Tampa Bay Agile |
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST |
Relational Databases and Data Warehouses: A Practical Overview
Vaco Tampa Skycenter |
Tampa Devs |
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST |
Casual Commander Wednesdays
Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games |
6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST |
Board Game Night
Critical Hit Games |
Critical Hit Games |
6:00 PM to 11:00 PM EST |
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 EST |
Trivia Night @ Swan Brewing
Swan Brewing |
Lakeland Hangouts (20’s & 30’s) |
6:15 PM to 8:15 PM EST |
Blockchain & Crypto Investors & Enthusiasts – International Blockchain Group
Grand Central Brewhouse |
Blockchain and Crypto Investors and Enthusiasts |
6:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
Game Night!
Southern Lights Brewing Company |
Drunk’n Meeples the Social Tabletop (Board) Gamers |
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM EST |
Sun Coast Euchre Club
The Hanger Restaurant & Flight Lounge |
Suncoast Euchre Club -St Pete |
6:50 PM to 8:50 PM EST |
Carrollwood Toastmasters Meetings meet In-Person and Online
Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library |
Toastmasters District 48 |
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EST |
Improve Your Communication and Presentation Skills
Online |
Communication Skills for Interviews and Presentations |
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST |
Games & Grog @ The Grove SoHo!
Grove Soho |
Nerdbrew Events |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST |
New Beginnings & Old Rivalries
Online |
Central Florida AD&D (1st ed.) Grognards Guild |
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM EST |
Games & Grog (Social Game Night in SoHo)
Grove Soho |
Nerd Night Out |
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST |
Cardfight Vanguard!! OverDress Weekly
Sunshine Games | Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh! |
Sunshine Games |
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST |
Writer’s Meetup
8420 Ulmerton Rd |
Largo Writing Meetup Group |
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EST |
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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
According to cybersecurity news site The Record (they’re pretty good; you should bookmark them), newly-appointed U.S. Defense Secretary (and former FOX News host, philanderer, and raging alcoholic with a track record that “falls short of military standards”) ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia last week.
Here’s what CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — has to say about Russia. This is from their Russia Cyber Threat Overview and Advisories page, which was on their website at the time of writing, but it might not be for much longer:
Friends in the cybersecurity industry — prepare a lot of headaches in the near future.
