Keynote Speakers

Tim Rowe is the founder and Executive Chairman of CIC, a global leader in building and operating innovation campuses globally, focused on supporting the growth of startups and entrepreneurs. Since 1999, he has grown CIC from a single 2,700 SF location in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts to a global company that manages more than 1.5 million SF of shared workspace, wet labs, and event space. CIC now hosts more than 3500 companies across multiple global cities,, and companies in CIC and affiliated clusters have raised over 40B in risk capital. 

Among the notable organizations that spent their early days at CIC are Google Android and HubSpot. Rowe currently serves as the chair of Venture Café Global Institute, and was the founding chair of LabCentral, MassRobotics, and the first president of the Kendall Square Association. Rowe holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a BA from Amherst College. He speaks fluent English, Spanish, Japanese, and basic Mandarin Chinese.