“Innovation is a team sport. All of us who are trying to do something big, need to do it together.”
Sangeeta Bhatia, MIT Professor, Biotech Founder, KSA Founders’ Award, 2024 Annual Meeting Celebration: Innovation for People + The Planet
Become a Member
KSA brings together the people and organizations who are committed to doing big things. The Kendall Square ecosystem is recognized throughout the world because science and innovation are born here. Purpose-driven people and organizations thrive on the energy and the collaboration, the willingness to work together to solve the world’s biggest challenges. KSA builds on that energy. KSA nurtures the culture of collaboration here.
Become a MemberMembership Benefits
KSA 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. Connections. Convenings. Amplification. Promotion. Collaboration. Advocacy. Leadership. Tours. That’s what KSA membership is about.
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.
We help build relationships, and KSA members become part of something bigger than themselves.
Convenings
Our members have exclusive access to KSA Events and Programs throughout the year. Our convenings are centered on topics that matter, like innovation, sustainability, transportation, vibrancy, workforce development, as well as on fun, philanthropy, and community-building. 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, impact, and more.
We share with the Kendall community and with the world through our popular weekly newsletter and social media. 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
We advocate for Kendall Square. 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. Working collectively we make an impact. 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.
And, Tours
We offer five Kendall Innovation Tours throughout the year that are open exclusively to KSA members.
Another KSA member benefit? Each year our members can schedule their own, exclusive Kendall Innovation Tour by contacting Kendra Foley at kendra@kendallsquare.org.
You can count on KSA to bring our ecosystem together, and to advocate for a vibrant, sustainable future for all of us. KSA benefits your whole team. Every employee of every KSA member organization is a member.
“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
