Boston Global Forum Awards
These awards are nominated and selected annually by the Boston Global Forum Board of Directors, distinguished contributors, and thinkers.
BGF World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Boston Global Forum recognizes and honors distinguished leaders for their exemplary leadership and contributions in promoting peace and security in the world with the World Leader for Peace and Security Award. The first recipients of the award were Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2015.
World Leaders in AI World Society
Boston Global Forum recognizes and honors distinguished leaders for their exemplary leadership and contributions in promoting artificial intelligence for a better world with the World Leader in AIWS Award. The first recipient of the award was the OECD General Secretary José Ángel Gurría in 2018.
Global Enlightenment Leaders
Global Enlightenment Leaders are distinguished contributors to the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” and leaders, thinkers who support, practice, implement concepts, principles, ideas, initiatives, solutions of the book “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment”.
UPDATES ON AWARDS AND AWARDEES
HUMAN–AI CO-CREATION, Finding the Ideas Humanity Should Not Miss
The AI Age is producing extraordinary ideas at unprecedented speed. Yet many of the most creative and pioneering ideas remain unseen — not because they lack value, but because their […]
AI Pioneers Debate What Comes Next
Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng—honored by BGF as America at 250: AI Pioneers—join Geoffrey Hinton in a landmark conversation on the future of AI At Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas, […]
A Call to Co-Create a New Civilization in the Age of AI
Boston Global Forum · August 16, 2026 Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum and Founder and Chief Architect of AIWS, has issued an open […]
Jeff Dean Leaves Google to Launch Discovery Loop
An AI Pioneer honored at Loeb House turns to automating discovery itself On August 5, 2026, Jeff Dean, chief scientist at Google, announced his departure after 27 years to co-found […]
AI Pioneers SAM ALTMAN And JENSEN HUANG Confront The Public Responsibilities Of AI Power
On July 27, Reuters reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang would meet Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee, following OpenAI’s disclosure that one […]
Three America at 250: AI Pioneers at the San Francisco AI Summit
San Francisco, July 24, 2026 President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea convened an AI summit at The Midway in San Francisco on Friday and unveiled the San Francisco AI […]
Two BGF Honorees Meet at the G7: von der Leyen and Takaichi at Évian
At the G7 Évian Summit (June 15-17, 2026), two leaders previously honored by the Boston Global Forum came together: Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and recipient […]
The Rise of Trust in the AI Age: The AIWS Trust Order and the G7’s Trusted-Partners Debate
As nations begin to argue over who may be trusted with the most powerful AI ever built, the deeper question is the one the AIWS Trust Order set out to […]
Designing Trust into the Age of AI Agents
Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland · BGF Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026 Addressing the BGF Conference at Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland — of MIT and Stanford, a board […]
Nguyen Anh Tuan Honors Vint Cerf and Discusses Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age
On June 3, 2026, Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair and CEO of the Boston Global Forum (BGF) and Chief Architect of AIWS, visited the office of Dr. Vint Cerf at […]