Global Nerdy

Here’s what’s happening in the thriving tech scene in Tampa Bay and surrounding areas for the week of Monday, March 17 through Sunday, March 23, 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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• Monday, March 17
• Tuesday, March 18
• Wednesday, March 19
• Thursday, March 20
• Friday, March 21
• Saturday, March 22
• Sunday, March 23

Monday, March 17

Monday at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa) — Tampa Bay AI Meetup will have a workshop where you can build an AI job application helper app that takes your resume and fine-tunes it to better match the description of the job you’re applying for. If recruiters have their ATS, you should have your own tools!

Find out more and register here.

Monday at Mad Hatters Ethnobotanical Tea Bar (St. Pete) at 6:00 p.m.: Saint Petersburg Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group is having their regular Monday meetup.

Find out more and register here.

Tuesday, March 18

Tuesday at 10:00 a.m., online: Computer Coach presents Sourcing Job Opportunities, a webinar that will teach you how to uncover hidden job leads, connect with the right people, and use smarter search techniques to land your next job faster.

Find out more and register here.

Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): TIE Tampa Bay presents Breaking Barriers: Confronting Bias, Burnout & Reality of Female Leadership. Join this event for an insightful discussion with women entrepreneurs and leaders sharing their firsthand experiences and on-the-ground perspectives, as well as celebrating Women’s History Month!

Find out more and register here.

Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at University boba tea house (Tampa): Tampa Artificial Intelligence Applications Meetup Group is holding a generative AI meetup.

Find out more and register here.

Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. at Jimmie.B.Keel library (Tampa): Tampa Bay Microsoft Fabric Analytics User Group (TFAB) is holding their monthly meeting.

Find out more and register here.

Wednesday, March 19

Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. at Embarc Collective (Tampa): Tampa Bay Python is holding a Python social! Join organizer Joe Blankenship for an evening of introductions and discussions on the Tampa Bay Python group and how they want to grow their community in 2025! Come and let them know what you think and what we can do together.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday, March 20

Thursday at Saint Leo University Wellness Center (St. Leo): The 5th Annual Grow Pasco event will take place! Its purpose: to help educate business owners throughout Pasco County and provide an environment to network with like-minded entrepreneurs. 15 breakout sessions led by over 30 business professionals and a keynote by Cope Notes’ Johnny Crowder.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Green Bench Brewing (St. Pete): Women in Tech and Entrepreneurship’s St. Pete Chapter is holding a casual gathering of high-performing, non-conforming women founders, tech workers, VCs, and hype girls.

Join WTE Founder & CEO Raechel Canipe, alongside St. Pete Ambassadors Karen Norris, Victoria Suarez, PMP, CSM, SAFe Agilist, STMP™, and Aimee Wera, for an evening of meaningful connections, candid conversations, and the kind of community that fuels success.

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 6:30 at Wild Rover Brewing Company (Tampa): Lean Beer Tampa is a great place to ask questions and share your stories of using Agile and Lean software approaches, over an adult beverage, if you choose. They discuss any topics on Agile and Lean that are of interest to whomever is gathered. You suggest the topics, then they prioritize that list democratically, through a good ole’ fashion vote. They manage our discussions via time boxes, and a Roman vote (drinks up/drinks down). Vegas rules apply!

Find out more and register here.

Thursday at 7:00 p.m. at the Neon Temple (Tampa): The Neon Temple, Tampa Bay’s security guild, is having their regular Thursday evening meeting featuring lightning talks! If you want to learn about cybersecurity and find out what’s going on in Tampa Bay’s cyber scene, this is the place.

Find out more here.

Thursday at 7:00 p.m., online: Break Into Cyber Security Group present a webinar — Five 21st century resume tips for techies. In this session they’ll highlight five 21st century approaches to freshen up your resume and catch the attention of hiring managers.

Find out more and register here.

Friday, March 21

Saturday, March 22

Sunday, March 23

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