I grew up on Guam a small island in the
Pacific Ocean and I knew I grew up to be
a businesswoman one day you see at h9 i
was actually hustling on the streets
selling kitchen magnets to japanese
tourists and selling girl-scout cookies
not by the box but by the case I left my
small village and came to MIT searching
for a home and an ecosystem would really
nurture my entrepreneurial dreams as I
was pursuing my degree in urban planning
I traveled all around the world and to
32 countries trying to understand how
ideas and inventions can become
companies turns out I didn’t need all
those stamps on my passport because by
home I was looking for was an mi t–‘s
backyard all along and it’s where we are
today Kendall Square now you might have
heard of the inventions that have kid
that have come out of Kendall Square
like the first telephone call to the
systems that landed the first man on the
moon
but how did Kendall Square become the
most innovative square mile on the
planet I’d argue it’s because the people
and institutions in Kendall Square
believe in one principle and that is
that alone you go faster but together we
could go further in fact history has
shown that companies in Kendall Square
have worked together and use competition
not as a force to tear each other down
but to build on each other’s successes
take for example Biogen which the Boston
Globe has called the largest oak tree in
the Massachusetts biotech sector not
because it’s been standing for for
decades but because of the little acorns
it’s dropped in the form of smaller
biotech companies they have chosen to
stay local
it’s what the Whitehead Institute has
done for the genomics research in this
three and what Akamai has done for the
Internet technology sector so what’s
next for Kendall Square this slice of
Cambridge has had a great pass and
present but what I see every day is that
the future lives here
thanks to incubators like the Cambridge
Innovation Center and lab central
Kendall Square remains a hotbed for
startups poised to revolutionize
industries such as wearable technologies
and immunotherapy our more seasoned
companies aren’t resting on their
laurels either their engineering smarter
and safer cities and they’re making
private space travel more affordable
these emerging technologies and so much
more are inevitably going to change our
world and how we live and amidst this
unpredictable future one thing remains
for certain the next time you hear about
a breakthrough innovation that may
change the course of humanity chances
are you saw it here in Kendall Square
first thank you [Applause]
Pacific Ocean and I knew I grew up to be
a businesswoman one day you see at h9 i
was actually hustling on the streets
selling kitchen magnets to japanese
tourists and selling girl-scout cookies
not by the box but by the case I left my
small village and came to MIT searching
for a home and an ecosystem would really
nurture my entrepreneurial dreams as I
was pursuing my degree in urban planning
I traveled all around the world and to
32 countries trying to understand how
ideas and inventions can become
companies turns out I didn’t need all
those stamps on my passport because by
home I was looking for was an mi t–‘s
backyard all along and it’s where we are
today Kendall Square now you might have
heard of the inventions that have kid
that have come out of Kendall Square
like the first telephone call to the
systems that landed the first man on the
moon
but how did Kendall Square become the
most innovative square mile on the
planet I’d argue it’s because the people
and institutions in Kendall Square
believe in one principle and that is
that alone you go faster but together we
could go further in fact history has
shown that companies in Kendall Square
have worked together and use competition
not as a force to tear each other down
but to build on each other’s successes
take for example Biogen which the Boston
Globe has called the largest oak tree in
the Massachusetts biotech sector not
because it’s been standing for for
decades but because of the little acorns
it’s dropped in the form of smaller
biotech companies they have chosen to
stay local
it’s what the Whitehead Institute has
done for the genomics research in this
three and what Akamai has done for the
Internet technology sector so what’s
next for Kendall Square this slice of
Cambridge has had a great pass and
present but what I see every day is that
the future lives here
thanks to incubators like the Cambridge
Innovation Center and lab central
Kendall Square remains a hotbed for
startups poised to revolutionize
industries such as wearable technologies
and immunotherapy our more seasoned
companies aren’t resting on their
laurels either their engineering smarter
and safer cities and they’re making
private space travel more affordable
these emerging technologies and so much
more are inevitably going to change our
world and how we live and amidst this
unpredictable future one thing remains
for certain the next time you hear about
a breakthrough innovation that may
change the course of humanity chances
are you saw it here in Kendall Square
first thank you [Applause]
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