Oceantic Network’s Ventus Gala brings together the global offshore wind community to celebrate our collective accomplishments as well as honor the leaders and innovators that inspire the industry with ingenuity and confidence. Join your peers and colleagues at the annual event, taking place April 29, 2025, in Virginia Beach and enjoy an evening of coming together to share in the growth, achievements, excellence in our industry.
Oceantic Network
The Oceantic Network, formerly known as the Business Network for Offshore Wind, is the premier member-based organization dedicated to growing the offshore wind and other ocean renewable industries and their supply chains.
Virginia Beach, VA
Tickets go on sale the week of September 30, 2024
Gathering in Virginia Beach to celebrate industry trailblazers
The Ventus Gala is a formal event where preeminent industry leaders, supporters, and advocates gather to celebrate the global offshore wind industry’s accomplishments as well as honor the year’s Ventus Awards recipients – companies and individuals who are setting a path to move the offshore wind industry forward with their innovative, collaborative, and groundbreaking work. The 2025 Ventus Gala will take place in conjunction with the Network’s International Partnering Forum (IPF) in Virginia Beach.
Significance of the Ventus Awards
The Network’s Ventus Awards are named after what is essential to the work we do: wind. It also refers to the Venti, or Roman Gods for wind – each with their own directional power from north, south, east and west. These awards honor those people, companies and organizations that embody the powerful force of wind to set the industry on course for new and better future, be it products, programs, or technology that allow us to harness wind to better lives of those around us through clean energy, a safer environment, and innovative jobs.
The Ventus award represents the intertwining of elements to create a harmonious balance of elegance and strength. It is the swirling gusts and the rolling tides—a culmination of the natural cyclical process. A reminder that only by the combination of efforts can we effect the change we wish to see. Each award is created from handblown glass by artist Tim McFadden in his Baltimore studio.
An Evening to Remember
Join us at the Virginia Beach Convention Center Ballroom
6 p.m.: Opening Reception
7 p.m.: Awards & Dinner
9 p.m.: Closing Reception
Tickets & table reservations available beginning September 30, 2024
Need Accommodations in Virginia Beach?
The Ventus Gala will take place at the Virginia Beach Convention Center (1000 19th St., Virginia Beach, Va 23451). The Network is reserving a block of rooms at several prominent hotels in the area. Housing will open in late August, so check back for more details.
Charitable Cause: Rising Star Student Scholarship
A portion of all Gala tickets and table sales help to fund the Rising Start Student Scholarship, which Oceantic awards each year to college-bound high school seniors who have demonstrated impeccable academic achievement and a keen interest in pursuing a career in ocean renewables. Meet our 2024 scholarship winners.
Tax deductible donations by an individual or company directly to the scholarship can be made online.
Sponsor the Gala
To inquire about sponsorship opportunities, please email [email protected]. Download our Sponsorship Opportunities PDF to learn more.
Virginia Beach Convention Center
Housing will open in late August, so check back for more details.
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