Membership Benefits
KSA brings together the people and organizations who are committed to doing big things. Membership helps your organization thrive, grow, and connect with your neighbors in the Kendall Square ecosystem. From fun, thought-provoking, community-building events and programs to strategic collaboration and advocacy shaping our shared future, our members experience the best of this ecosystem.
Benefits include: Connections, Convenings, Amplification, Promotion, Collaboration, Advocacy, Leadership, and more.
Connections
We facilitate connections between our members. Kendall Square is famous for its bump factor, and we are intentional about amping up the bump factor to help our members achieve their shared mission–improving the human condition. Together, our members do big things, and solve global challenges.
Convenings
Our members have exclusive access to KSA Events and Programs throughout the year. Our convenings are centered on topics that matter.
We host: Nine Member Socials, Six Kendall Conversations, Five Innovation Tours, Professional Peer Meet-ups, Community Events, Kendall Square Challenge, Annual Meeting Celebration and more.
Amplification
Our members can count on KSA to amplify the work they do, and the impact they make on the world. We shine the spotlight on our members’ accomplishments, awards, breakthroughs, contributions, initiatives, and impact.
Plus, we feature 1,000+ events hosted by our members to ensure everyone knows what’s happening here from lectures and networking to fitness, farmers’ markets, art openings, and more.
Promotion
We promote Kendall Square and our members through multiple media channels. Plus, each year we host delegations from around the globe, and we connect them with our members across all sectors—academia, hospitality, life science, professional services, R&D, and all kinds of tech. Our Experience Kendall campaign is reaching new audiences, in greater Boston and beyond.
Collaboration
We support collaboration by bringing people together, gathering data, listening to our members, and identifying opportunities for game-changing collaboration between our members, and with the global community.
Whether the focus is on AI, energy, infrastructure, life science, quantum, or culture, our members benefit from collaboration in our evolving innovation ecosystem.
Advocacy
Tackling challenges together is essential to our shared future. No one member alone can take on the challenges we face around energy, housing, infrastructure, sustainability, transportation, or vibrancy.
KSA’s advocacy with government officials and allies in the city, state, region, and beyond is focused on ensuring a vibrant, innovative, sustainable future here in Kendall Square.
Leadership
We offer KSA members opportunities to lead and to shape the future through service on our Board of Directors, Emerging Leaders Board, and Board Alumni Council.
Contact Beth O’Neill Maloney at beth@kendallsquare.org to learn more.
More
Additional KSA benefits include an exclusive Kendall Innovation Tour, as well as access to and special KSA Member rates at the MIT Endicott House, MassBioHub, and select conferences throughout the year.
“Kendall Square is truly one-of-a-kind. This community’s openness to working together, to being challenged to pursuing something is why it’s unparalleled in its contribution to tackling some of the world’s biggest health challenges.”
Uli Stilz, KSA Board Member, Founder and Head, Novo Nordisk Bio Innovation Hub