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VIEA Summit 2025 – Tickets and Summit Website Now Live

Summit Registration Now Open!

Regular pricing in effect until October 10th for the annual Vancouver Island Economic Summit at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre, October 28, 29 and 30, 2025.

 
VIEA Strategic Plan Launched!

VIEA is excited to share our new strategic plan! With six goals and objectives the plan aims to enhance VIEA’s role in fostering a thriving and sustainable economy in the region through collaboration, visibility, and impactful initiatives. Thank you to all our members and community partners that supported the development of VIEA’s Strategic Plan!

Explore the Economic Dashboard

The Economic Dashboard is Now Live!

Available for public access for a limited time – visit the interactive Dashboard via our Economic Report page – click through below for both the current report access, as well as historical data.

Island Good is Great!

We’ve licensed Island Good with expanding numbers of producers and retailers and built islandgood.ca to serve licensees and aid consumers.

Vision 2050

Vision 2050 is an exciting project aimed at building a diverse, sustainable, and self-reliant economy for Vancouver Island and the rural islands by 2050. 

Vancouver Island Regional Supply Chain Study

The Vancouver Island Regional Supply Chain Study is out!  It highlights the challenges businesses face—from infrastructure gaps to high costs—and lays out a clear path forward.

VIEA Supports
A balanced economy that is resilient, diverse, evolving, competitive, integrated, inclusive, equitable, urban and rural, wealth retentive, and export rich.
Vibrant, efficient, wasteless, regenerative use of natural resources, broad use of circular economic principles, disciplined, conservationist land use management.
Goods production capacity with coordinated supply chains sufficient to sustain the Island region population in case of emergency.
Development of a stronger ecosystem through advocacy and collaboration to address upstream challenges that prevent innovation from getting to market and contributing to the vitality of our economy.

Browse VIEA’s Latest Economic Report for Vancouver Island.

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02/10/2025
The countdown is on! From October 28–30, 2025, the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA) will host the 19th annual ‘State of the Island’ Economic Summit at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo.   Whether you’re an entrepreneur, policymaker,...
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27/08/2025
  From Insight to Action – Your Ideas Belong Here Join us October 28 to 30 in Nanaimo for three powerful days of insight, inspiration, and action where we can chart the course to 2050 together. Opening Keynote –...
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29/07/2025
  Join us October 28–30 in Nanaimo for three days of insight, inspiration, and connection. This year’s theme, A Sea of Change, speaks to the global pressures facing Island communities and the bold, collaborative actions needed to shape a...
  Join us October 28–30 in Nanaimo for three days of insight, inspiration, and...
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