One Broadway and 101 Main Street, Cambridge

One Broadway in Cambridge is the site of the Cambridge Innovation Center, a “Switzerland for startups” where early-stage companies—often spun off by, or started by alumni of, local universities like MIT— can rent flexible space for their ventures and mix with peers and potential investors. Many well-known companies and technologies got their start here, including Android, the world’s most popular mobile operating system. (After Google bought Android in 2005, the CIC was the longtime location of Google’s first Boston-area software engineering facility.) Since 1999 more than 8,000 companies have called the CIC home, helping to make Kendall Square what’s been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet.”

Guest speaker

Tim Rowe, Founder and CEO, Cambridge Innovation Center