The Tampa Bay Chamber proudly presents the annual recap video produced by our Member company, Mad Bear Productions! This video premiered at the 140th Annual Meeting on December 4, 2025 highlighting the 140 years of growth and success of the Tampa Bay Chamber, the region's business community, and the people and programs fueling our economy.
Recent Updates
Return on Involvement
Return On Growth
The Tampa Bay Business Accelerator
The Tampa Bay Business Accelerator helps small businesses scale and achieve sustainable growth by identifying and overcoming obstacles such as limited access to funding, decision-makers, and information. Through this support, businesses are able to strengthen operations, create jobs, and build long-term stability, ultimately making a lasting impact on the Tampa Bay economy.
Competitive Edge Series
The Competitive Edge Series is the premier educational program offering business and professional development classes for attendees to gain new skill sets and a practical application for implementation in their own business.
Return On Advocacy
Issue Identification
Help define the policy priorities of the Tampa Bay business community. We will empower you to call attention to legislation on which you feel the Chamber should take a position. Members help create the Legislative Agenda each year when determining what issues to address.
Elected Official Engagement
Foster relationships with elected officials at the federal, state and local level to make certain the opinions of members are known to those key decision makers. Also working with elected officials to get their standpoint on topics and issues that matter most to our members and sharing those perspectives with the entire membership like in our candidate interview video series.
Public Policy Events
Attend any of our public policy events designed to give you a better understanding of key public policy issues that could impact your business or the Tampa Bay community.
Benchmarking
On our Annual Benchmarking Trip, we visit and gain an insider’s view of another major city’s success and put these new ideas to work locally in Tampa Bay.
Return On Leadership
Leadership Tampa
Since 1970, Leadership Tampa has introduced its class members to major facets of the Tampa Bay community through an intensive professional development course to challenge members to see their community as they never have before.
Leadership Tampa Alumni
Graduates of the prestigious Leadership Tampa program have ongoing impact and influence through Leadership Tampa Alumni, which provides regular opportunities for members to gain new insights, grow meaningful business relationships and give back to the community.
Emerging Leaders
Emerging Leaders is a young professional leadership program designed for emerging leaders ages 21 to 35. The program works to impact the business community across the region by providing professional development, networking, and community outreach opportunities for young professionals.
Collegiate Leadership
Modeled after the Leadership Tampa Program for business and community leaders, the Collegiate Leadership Program inspires, educates, and engages a diverse group of emerging leaders as they transition from college to career. Collegiate Leadership is a tuition-based, academic-year-long program that prepares a diverse group of student leaders to have a positive impact on their future communities, while they learn extensively about what makes Tampa Bay a favored place to live and work.
Thanks to our Partners
Membership Has Its Benefits
Which benefit plan is best for you? What are you looking to gain from your Chamber membership? How active do you want to be? Who do you want to build relationships with? Each plan offers its own features and services, along will all the things available to all Chamber members, at a price to suit your individual budget.