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Doing business
Google · Bloomberg · Spotify
Visits and talks at their New York offices, among others.
Visionarium takes young people inside the companies, studios and universities where the world is actually being built — and introduces them to the people building it.
Racquet and Tennis Club
Park Avenue, New York
Young people don't only need more information. They need more exposure — more questions, more conversations, more possibilities.
Visionarium creates experiences that take learning beyond the classroom and into the real world, connecting young people with the people, places and ideas that change what they believe is possible.
“Because sometimes the most important thing a young person can discover is not an answer. It’s a possibility they had never imagined before.”
The Visionarium experience is designed to move participants beyond observation. They don’t simply visit a city. They enter it. They live it.
They meet people who are building, creating, leading and changing the world around them.
They ask questions. They make decisions. They collaborate.
They discover interests they didn’t know they had.
And sometimes, they discover a different version of themselves.
We believe potential grows when perspective expands.
That’s why Visionarium is built around exposure to different:
“Because sometimes the most important thing a young person can discover is not an answer. It’s a possibility they had never imagined before.”
Visionarium is a growing ecosystem of experiences designed for different stages, interests and ambitions. Each experience has its own identity, and the Visionarium philosophy connects them all.
One edition at a time, each in its own city. These are the ones ahead — an edition keeps its page after it ends, so what sells the next one is the record of the last.
Visionarium Barranquilla 2026 has already happened. See every edition.
October 5–10, 2026
Miami, Florida, United States
A new city. A new chapter. The same belief.
The world expands when you enter it.
Visionarium returns with a new immersive experience designed to connect young people with the people, places, ideas and possibilities shaping Miami and the world around it.
Visionarium was born in New York. For years, young people entered rooms they never imagined they would enter, and met people they never imagined they would meet — business, technology, culture, art, education and leadership from the inside.
But New York was never the destination. It was the beginning: the city changes edition to edition, and what it proved travels with the program.
The fixtures of the New York editions, and the shape every edition since has been built on. Each new edition publishes its own agenda on its own page — these are the rooms this program has actually been inside.
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Google · Bloomberg · Spotify
Visits and talks at their New York offices, among others.
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Prominent designers and artists
Visits and lectures on the global business of art and design.
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John West
A workshop with the speech coach to Wall Street's top executives.
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Racquet and Tennis Club
A training dinner at New York's exclusive club on Park Avenue — the room on this page's cover.
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Prominent philanthropists
A lecture and meet & greet.
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Columbia · NYU · The New School · Parsons
Guided visits and orientation on campus, among others.
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New York admissions advisor
A session with a top New York college admissions advisor.
The evolution
The city changes. The experience evolves. The world keeps expanding.
What remains is the Visionarium belief that when young people are given access to new environments, meaningful relationships and bigger possibilities, they begin to imagine more for themselves, and for the world around them.
Visionarium is best understood by the people who have lived it.
The students who came looking for experiences often left talking about something else: a friendship, a new idea, a new direction, a new definition of success, or a different understanding of themselves.
Lines students wrote after an edition. Every name is real and published with permission — and there are more of them on Stories.
“I came thinking that only the best were recognized. I left knowing that there were infinite ways of being the best — so we can all be the best.”
“Lala once said to me — ‘Dream big, because all dreams are possible and the world is yours.’ Today I can say that thanks to Visionarium, I’m on the right path to become who I really want to be.”
“In the streets of New York you sense some sort of equality. No person is more important than the rest. Everyone is thriving to get to their destination. Everyone mobilizes the same way: walking.”
Visionarium is powered by a growing network of people who believe that the next generation deserves access to bigger conversations.
Students. Alumni. Mentors. Leaders. Advisors. Organizations.
It runs on a standing team with executive directors in Mexico, and an advisory board of working professionals.
Maria Clara García
Founder & CEO
Marianna Maldonado
Head of Programs
Sofia Restrepo
Visionarium Coordinator
Ana Sofía Garza
Executive Director, Mexico
Vanessa Jimeno
Director of Social Impact
Every mark below is somewhere a Visionarium group has been taken — offices, campuses and institutions entered as guests, not as customers. Google, Bloomberg and Spotify are among the visits and talks documented across the New York editions.












You don’t have to know exactly where you’re going.
You just have to be willing to see what else is possible.
Visionarium
From New York to the world.
Visionarium is a creativity and leadership incubator for young people.
What we offer. We combine immersive experiences, mentorship, hands-on learning, culture and access to people and environments that expand perspective.
Our purpose. To help young people identify what moves them, develop a vision for their future and gain the confidence and tools to pursue it.
Registration for Visionarium Miami is open.
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