Table of Contents
The Lead
Our Community in Action: Scenes and signals from across the ecosystem
Events by Category
Developer Meetups: (2) Where Builders Are Sharpening Their Craft
Networking & Community: (5) Rooms Where New Opportunities Start
AI & Emerging Tech: (1) One Deep Dive Shifting How We Build
Entrepreneurship, Startups, & Innovation: (1) Founder Sessions Driving Smarter Growth
High‑Impact Events Worth Planning For: (4) The Big Moments Worth Planning Around
The Insights
Event Recaps: What Happened. What Mattered. What’s Next.
Memphis‑Made Spotlight: Inside a 48-Hour Game Jam Build.
Powered by Community: The People and Organizations Making This Possible
📸 Our Community in Action
BDPA Memphis “Pixel Pioneers” youth programming
Memphis Data Professionals
Memphis AI Meetup — Weekly Coffee & Conversation
🗓️ Click here for the full event calendar
This link takes you to a calendar of events, listed in chronological order: Community Calendar🌐.
Developer Meetups, Workshops, & Tech Talks
💻 DevMemphis Monthly Meetup
March 4 — 6:00PM (In-Person)
Memphis developers under one roof. Share what you’re building, swap lessons learned, and expand your circle beyond Slack threads. If you want to stay plugged into the city’s builder momentum, this is a high-signal room worth showing up for.
RSVP & Event Details
🔐 Memphis InfoSec: DEFCON901
March 6 — 5:00PM (In-Person)
Learn how to run powerful AI models on your own hardware, no cloud required. This session breaks down the tools, terms, and setups Memphis builders need to keep data private, automate real workflows, and experiment freely. A practical, high‑signal meetup with pizza and community energy.
𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲
Why These Events Matter This Week:
Memphis moves forward when we build skills, back emerging talent, and show up for each other. This week’s events strengthen leadership, sharpen communication, and deepen the connections that keep our tech ecosystem growing with purpose and momentum.
🌍 Women Innovating Memphis by Epicenter Memphis
March 4 — 10:45AM (In-Person)
A Women’s History Month gathering that connects leadership, entrepreneurship, and real opportunity in Memphis tech. Expect candid dialogue, small-group exchange, and room-level access to leaders shaping what’s next. If you value access and alignment, this is a strategic room.
🎓 GMITC Women in Tech Annual Luncheon – Celebrating Women in Higher Education
March 5 — 11:30AM (In-Person)
Hear directly from women shaping innovation across Memphis higher ed and venture ecosystems. Expect practical career insight, real leadership lessons, and meaningful connections. A strong room for anyone thinking long-term about growth and impact in our local tech economy.
🧠 Code School Mock Interviews
March 6 — 9:00AM (In-Person)
Help strengthen Memphis’s emerging tech talent pipeline. Volunteer to run mock interviews and give actionable feedback to future full-stack and AI engineers. High leverage way to invest in the next wave of local builders, and expand your own network in the process.
🛠️ Midsouth Makers’ Monthly Saturday Open House
March 7 — 11:00AM (In-Person)
Step inside Memphis’s hands-on innovation community. Tour the space, meet fellow builders, and explore tools that turn ideas into prototypes. Ideal for curious technologists, hobbyists, and creators looking to plug into a collaborative, skill-sharing ecosystem.
🖥️ Code Connector: Code and Share
March 7 — 1:00PM (Virtual)
Practice articulating your projects in a supportive environment. Whether you’re refining your pitch for interviews or mentoring others, this virtual meetup sharpens communication and builds visibility inside the Memphis tech community. Low barrier. High return.
𝐀𝐈 & 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡
🤖 Memphis AI Meetup — Weekly Coffee & Conversation
March 4 — 10:15AM (In-Person)
Join a 30‑minute, no‑pressure conversation on what’s working with AI in real workflows. It’s a casual, open space for anyone exploring automation, swapping insights, and building community momentum in Memphis tech. All levels welcome. Lead by Scott Finney.
Entrepreneurship, Startups, & Innovation
☕ BBB Monthly Networking Mixer: Coffee & Conversations
March 6 — 9:30AM (In-Person)
A low-pressure way to expand your Memphis business network. Meet founders and professionals, exchange referrals, and get clarity on trust and accreditation in the Mid-South market. Practical connections that can translate into real opportunities.
High‑Impact Events Worth Planning For
Why This Section Matters This Week:
These multi‑day events require planning. Here are the high‑impact opportunities Memphis builders should have on their radar.
Oracle Innovation Day Memphis - Presented by Camptra
March 11, 2026 | In-Person
A practical, Memphis‑focused look at how AI and cloud technologies are reshaping operations across regulated industries. Expect expert insight, live demos, and peer conversations designed to help leaders move from exploration to execution.
Memphis AgentCamp
March 16, 2026, | Virtual
A full day dedicated to making AI accessible for every role and skill level. Speaker lineup is still forming, but the event promises hands‑on learning and community‑driven sessions built for Memphis professionals exploring AI’s real‑world impact.
Digital Delta Defense - Cybersecurity CTF Competition
March 28 | In-Person
A hands‑on cybersecurity challenge hosted by UMRF Ventures and Raymond James, at the FedEx Institute of Technology. Build skills by solving real scenarios, collaborate with peers, and contribute to the momentum behind Memphis’s growing security talent pipeline.
Special Note: This is geared towards college-aged individuals!
DevOps Days + AI Nashville 2026
May 14-15 | In-Person
Part of the respected global DevOpsDays series, this regional event blends DevOps and AI insights with practical, practitioner‑led sessions. A strong option for Memphis teams looking to sharpen delivery, resilience, and modern engineering practices.
Explore Recaps of Local Tech Events
Most founders know how to build. Far fewer know how to be understood. And that gap costs them in every room that matters.
At the Crews Center for Entrepreneurship's Launchpad Session #2, Carl Fredrick Hill (someone who has clearly been in the rooms early-stage founders are trying to reach) walked a full house of University of Memphis students and early-stage founders through the communication discipline behind a pitch. Not the performance. The discipline.
The framework was simple and stayed in the room all evening: the pitch is a package, and most founders are handing people a gift nobody can open. Hill taught the mechanics, silence, timing, the body, the narrative, and then demonstrated every principle by going first, sharing something personal. Three founders went next. None had a polished pitch. What they had was harder to fake and more compelling to watch.
What emerged was intentional communication: where vulnerability isn't a liability, it's the thing that makes an audience believe you before you've finished your first sentence.
👉 Read how three Memphis founders discovered their most credible pitch wasn't a framework, it was their own story → https://memphistechscene.beehiiv.com/p/before-you-need-to-what-memphis-founders-learned-about-being-understood
Memphis-Made Spotlight: When Horror Meets Strategy in 48 Hours
At this year's Global Game Jam, Annie (Phuong) Do, Michael Robinson, Maritza Colon, and Jude Sanders built Horror Mask Tower Defense, a story-driven tower defense game where every defensive tower hides a darker purpose. Event hosted by Memphis Game Developers in partnership with BDPA Memphis
What They Built
A lost boy in a haunted forest becomes host to a living mask that promises protection. Players place towers to survive enemy waves, but the towers don't just defend; they harvest. Each fallen foe drops souls that feed the mask's hunger. The towers evolve. The waves intensify. The mask tightens its grip.
The team coordinated through Discord after Memphis' ice storm forced the jam online. Annie Do programmed in Godot using GDScript, Robinson composed music in FL Studio with live guitar, Colon wrote the narrative in Google Docs, and Sanders created art in Adobe Fresco. Three Memphis-based builders plus Colon joining from New York, all working remotely to fuse roguelike replayability with tower defense strategy.
After the 48-hour deadline, they kept building. A post-jam meetup led to new features: a Tower Index displaying all available defenses, a home base hub for traversing different areas, procedurally generated forest maps, two new towers (Bone Chain and Hex Tower), and refined boss battle mechanics.
Why It Matters
This is Memphis game development adapting in real time: a team that coordinated through an ice storm, shipped a genre-blending game in 48 hours, then continued refining it because the work mattered to them. It's the kind of momentum that happens when local builders have infrastructure like Memphis Game Developers and BDPA Memphis creating space to experiment—even when the city literally freezes.
Face the mask and play Horror Mask Tower Defense → https://globalgamejam.org/games/2026/horror-mask-tower-defense-9
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