These are the “large” professional events that we have heard about happening in 2025, to help event planners know what else is going on (to avoid conflicts, encourage collaboration).
“Large” is at least half of a day (not evening meetups, for example).
Topic is “innovation”, loosely defined, which includes technology, entrepreneurship, and design. Includes economic development events with innovation & tech themes.
There is a focus on events happening in the Toledo region, but we also include events in Michigan or elsewhere in Ohio that are worth traveling to.
Items in BOLD are likely to be the major “innovation events” in the Toledo Region for the year.
- January 14-17: CodeMash, Sandusky
- January 15: Dayton AI Day, Dayton
- February 6: State of Tech, Columbus
- February 15-16: TechOlympics, Cincinnati
- February 20: Addy Awards (by AAF Toledo)
- February 21-22: Ohio Celebration of Women in Computing, Huron
- March 5: Ohio Information Security Conference, Dayton
- March 6: Spark Summit (career fair for creatives, by OCC with by AAF Toledo)
- March 15-16: Rocket Hacks, at University of Toledo
- March 19: TEDxBGSU
- March 27: State of the Region (by BGSU CRD)
- April 2: Ohio Food Industry Summit (by CIFT)
- April 5-6: BGSU Hack-a-thon
- April 9: Ohio GovTech Summit, Columbus
- April 14-18: Entrepreneurship Week, at BGSU (including The Hatch on 4/17)
- April 29: Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting
- May 1: Northwest Ohio AI Summit (part of a statewide series for K-12 educators and administrators)
- May 2: Stir Trek, Columbus
- May 8: Ohio Tech Summit, Columbus
- May 21: Ann Arbor SPARK Annual Meeting
- Summer: PyOhio, Cleveland
- June 10-12: Cincy AI Week
- June 26: SportsLand, Cleveland
- June 27: QA or the Highway, Columbus
- July 31: The University of Toledo Herb Innovation Center, Education in the Era of AI (save the date)
- August 27: CIO Tomorrow, Columbus (with IT Martini the night before)
- September 9-11: Industry (the software Product Conference), Cleveland
- September 11: OhioX CEO Retreat, Columbus
- September: A2Tech360, Ann Arbor
- September: Dayton Startup Week
- September 26: Ohio Tech Day, statewide
- September 28: Forbes Under 30 Summit, Columbus
- October 2-3: DataConnect, Columbus
- October 7-9: CDO Magazine Summits, Cincinnati
- October 14-16: MAICON, Cleveland
- October: Information Assurance Forum, Findlay
- October: Startup Cincy Week
- October: Michigan Tech Week
- November: EPIC Toledo Leadership Summit
- November 12: Taste of IT, Dayton
- November 19: Ohio AI Summit, Columbus
- December 9 (so far): Holiday Mixer