by Editor | Apr 24, 2022 | Event Updates
Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
What: The conference will address the situation in Ukraine, and work to provide solutions for Peace, Security, Territory Integrity and Rebuilding Ukraine.
At the event, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will honor President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people as the 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security.
BGF will be honoring President Zelensky and all Ukrainian people through assistance and application of the concepts from “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” to rebuild Ukraine in becoming an exemplary nation.
In this event, BGF will present ideas and suggestions from BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award’s recipients to Laurel for Peace and Security in Ukraine Initiative.
Where: Loeb House, Harvard University
When: 8:30 AM – 11:30 AM EDT / 15:30 – 18:30 EEST // April 29, 2022
Who: World Leaders, Scholars of Harvard University and MIT, Members of Boston Global Forum
Co-organizers: Boston Global Forum and Latvian Transatlantic Organization
Agenda
Session 1, 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EDT, 15:30 – 17:00 EEST
Honor President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian People as 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security and Solutions for Peace, Security and Territory Integrity of Ukraine
8:30 a.m. Introduction, Harvard professor, Co-founder of Boston Global Forum, Thomas Patterson
Remarks to honor President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-founder and Chair of the Boston Global Forum
Message of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (pre-recorded video of text)
Keynote Speech of Ambassador of Ukraine to USA Oksana Markarova (online)
Latvian President Egils Levits (online)
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen (online)
A leader of US State Department (online)
Senior Fellow of Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Brigadier General Kevin Ryan
MIT professor Nazli Choucri (online)
Discussion:
Moderator: Chairwoman of the Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO), Professor of International Relations, University of Latvia, Zaneta Ozolina
Session 2, 10:00 AM – 11:25 AM EDT / 17:00 – 18:25 EEST
Rebuild Ukraine: From devastation by War to an Exemplary Nation with Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment
Leaders of Boston Global Forum: Governor Michael Dukakis, CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan, MIT Professor Alex Pentland, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig
Ukrainian former Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (online)
Discussion: Strategies to rebuild Ukraine
Moderator: Governor Michael Dukakis
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to President Obama, Harvard professor Jason Furman
Latvian former President Vaira Vike-Freiberga (online)
Bosnian-Herzegovina former Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija (online)
Former Vice President of the World Bank, Representative of BGF in London and Stockholm Mats Karlsson (online)
Assistant Secretary of Business Development and International Trade, Government of Massachusetts, Nam Pham
EY Global Tax Innovator, Jeffrey Saviano
11:30 am: Closing Remarks, Governor Michael Dukakis
Delegates and Discussants: Consuls-General in Boston: Arnaud Mentré (France), Peter Abbott OBE (UK), Nicole Menzenbach (Germany), Stratos Efthymiou (Greece), Leonard Kopelman (Finland), Jonathan Sun (Taiwan), Marek Leśniewski-Laas (Poland), Elizabeth T Lesniewski-laas (Romania) and Distinguished Scholars, Innovators who are members of AIWS.net supporting Ukraine, and honor guests.
Please register to attend the conference by sending an email to [email protected]
by Editor | May 14, 2024 | Executive Board
Quynh Nham holds the position of Vice Director and serves as a board member for a company specializing in industrial properties, ports, logistic services, warehousing, and infrastructure development in Vietnam. Since 2021, she has been actively involved with the Boston Global Forum, starting as an assistant to the CEO before taking on the role of Director of Boston Global Forum Community Development in 2023. Quynh Nham also participates as a leadership fellow of Shinzo Abe Initiative for Peace and Security, and as a coordinator of World Leader in AIWS Award Conference, World Leader in Peace and Security Award Conference, Celebration of Governor Michael Dukakis 90th Birthday and BGF Global Enlightenment Music Club. She was also a distinguished contributor to the book “From the Massachusetts Miracle to the Age of Global Enlightenment” published by Boston Global Forum in November 2023.
Quynh Nham earned her Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2018. Following her studies, she completed an internship in transaction advisory services at EY Vietnam. In 2019, she cofounded a startup in the beauty and personal care industry where she practiced marketing and branding before moving to the field of industrial property development in Vietnam.
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News, AIWS and the Age of Global Enlightenment
In the strategies and plan to rebuild Ukraine “Remaking Ukraine – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”, applying AIWS City for rebuild cities of Ukraine in becoming smart cities, connecting with global cities, supporting and contributing values of global cities to the cities of Ukraine.
BGF call governments, cities, companies, universities support and help to rebuild Ukraine through AIWS City platform. Leaders of AIWS City contribute to rebuild Ukraine include Governor Michael Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, father of Internet Vint Cerf, MIT professor Alex Pentland, Nazli Choucri, Harvard professors Thomas Patterson, David Silbersweig, former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina Zlatko Lagumdzija, former President of Latvia Vaira Vike-Freiberga.
Cities of Ukraine will be pioneering cities in applying Social Contract for the AI Age and the six pillars of the Age of Global Enlightenment. By these strategies, cities of Ukraine from devastation by war to exemplary cities for Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, News, World Leaders in AIWS Award Updates
Riksdag Speaker Andreas Norlen and former Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga will speak at the Conference to President Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award on April 29, 2022 at Loeb House, Harvard University, co-organized by Boston Global Forum and Latvian Transatlantic Organization.
Speaker Andreas Norlen, who was honored BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2021, will speak at the session 1: Honor President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian People as 2022 World Leader for Peace and Security and Solutions for Peace, Security and Territory Integrity of Ukraine.
President Vaira Vike-Freiberga was honored BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2019, will speak at the session 2: Rebuild Ukraine: From devastation by War to an Exemplary Nation for Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment.
Both Speaker Norlen and President Vike-Freiberga criticize Russia government and support Ukraine in their battle against the Russian invasion.
by Editor | Apr 17, 2022 | AIWS City and Rebuilding Ukraine, Event Updates, Global Cyber Security Day, Practices in Cybersecurity
Moderator: Francesco Lapenta, the Founding Director of the John Cabot University Institute of Future and Innovation Studies, Representative of Boston Global Forum in Italia.
Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM EDT / 14:00 – 15:30 CEST, April 21
In this Dialog, Francesco Lapenta will moderate and discuss with speakers on:
– Learning from the cyber war between Russia and Ukraine.
– International laws, policies, and regulations that should be created.
– Who should and how to contribute to the Global Alliance for Digital Governance in these works.
Speakers:
Corrado Giustozzi
Information and cyber security strategic consultant, manager, author and lecturer.
Founder and Senior Partner at Rexilience.
Member of the Board of Directors (2015-16, 2017-18, 2019-20, 2021-22) at Clusit, the Italian national association for cybersecurity.
Former senior cybersecurity expert at Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale in charge of the development of the government CERT for the Public Sector (2015-20).
Former member (2010-12, 2012-15, 2015-17, 2017-20) of the Advisory Group at the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).
Andrea Gilli
Senior Researcher, NATO Defence College
Andrea Gilli is a Senior Researcher at NATO Defence College and Affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Andrea has been visiting fellow at both Columbia (SIPA) and Johns Hokins University (SAIS) and post-doctoral fellow at both Stanford (CISAC) and Harvard University (Belfer Center). Andrea holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute.
Walter Dorn
Walter Dorn is Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and the Canadian Forces College (CFC). He teaches officers of rank major to brigadier-general from Canada and about 20 other countries. He specializes in arms control, peace operations, just war theory, international criminal law, treaty verification and enforcement, and the United Nations.
