VentureWell Innovation in Action Summit

An Important Update on the 2025 VIA Summit

After deep reflection and thoughtful consideration, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel the 2025 VentureWell Innovation in Action (VIA) Summit.

As our community of educators, innovators, and changemakers navigates unprecedented challenges in higher education and beyond, we’re choosing to pause—and reimagine how we show up for you.

Please read our VIA Summit FAQ for more information.

New Opportunity To Engage

Although the 2025 VIA Summit will not take place in person, our commitment to supporting innovation leaders continues. We’re proud to introduce the VentureWell Innovation in Action Learning Series—a new virtual series designed to provide timely, trusted insights on the forces shaping higher education, entrepreneurship, and innovation.

The series begins this May with a live, virtual policy briefing designed to help higher ed leaders, innovators, and changemakers navigate the evolving federal landscape.

VIA Summit; Collage of various faculty members and speakers, against a pattern of teal, orange, and red

Our Mission Is Unchanged, and Our Commitment to You Is Unwavering

We are grateful for the vibrant network of thinkers, builders, and bold leaders who helped shape the vision for VIA. Your ideas, partnerships, and passion for equitable innovation have inspired us from day one, and they continue to guide our next steps.

While we won’t be gathering in New Orleans this June, we’ve already begun introducing new ways to virtually convene our community—virtually and regionally—in formats that are more accessible, timely, and responsive to the moment we’re in.

👉 We want to stay connected with you as we shape the future. Sign up to receive updates about upcoming opportunities and new ways to engage.

For questions or feedback, please reach out to via@venturewell.org.

Thank you to our generous VIA 2025 sponsors.

VIA sponsor logos: Presenting—The Lemelson Foundation; Visionary—Microsoft, Deshpande Foundation; Changemaker—Jones Walker, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Burton D. Morgan Foundation, Purdue University Northwest; Collaborator—Ecomap; Supporter—InfoReady, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

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