Boston Global Forum

Honoring World Leader for Peace and Security and Advancing Ethical Digital Assets
2025-11-04 08:15 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | MA
📅 Date: November 4, 2025
🕗 Time: 8:15 am – 12:00 pm
📍 Venue: Harvard University Loeb House, 17 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
As artificial intelligence, digital assets, and advanced technologies transform global systems, there is an urgent need to align innovation with ethics, democratic values, and peace. The Boston Global Forum (BGF) and the AI World Society (AIWS) have been pioneers in ensuring that AI and digital transformation contribute to a safer, fairer, and more enlightened world.
BGF has introduced the AIWS Bank model for digital assets, setting a global standard for ethical, transparent, and governance-aligned digital ecosystems that advance economic and societal progress in the AI Age.
This year marks the 10th Anniversary of the World Leader for Peace and Security Award (2015–2025). Alongside honoring leaders for their contributions to peace and stability, the conference will explore how finance and digital asset systems can adopt ethical and governance frameworks to support a just and inclusive global economy.
Conference Goals
✅ Honor Leadership: 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and recognize a decade of leadership shaping peace and ethics in the AI Age.
✅ Promote Ethical Finance & Digital Assets: Advance the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7, ensuring AI in finance is transparent, fair, and aligned with societal good.
✅ Establish Ethical Frameworks for Digital Assets: Build shared frameworks so that digital assets and cryptocurrencies foster inclusion, innovation, and ethical practices.
Agenda
8:15 – 8:30 am | Welcome Guests
• Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard University, Co-Founder, Boston Global Forum
8:30 – 9:30 am | Honoring 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award
• Remarks of Honor — Governor Michael Dukakis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair, BGF
• Presentation of Award — Michael Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, BGF
• Acceptance Speech — 2025 World Leader for Peace and Security Award Recipient
• Celebrating the 10th Anniversary:

Launch of World Leader NFTs for all recipients — Nguyen Anh Tuan and Michael Dukakis
Film Presentation: World Leaders for Peace and Security — Professor Thomas Patterson, Harvard, AIWS Film Park
BGF Statement on World Peace and Security — Professor David Silbersweig (Harvard Medical School) and Professor Nazli Choucri (MIT)
Tribute: Artist Bach Tra, AIWS Music Ambassador for Humanity

9:30 – 10:30 am | AI Ethics in Finance and Digital Assets
Theme: Advancing AI Ethics in Finance and Digital Assets under the Boston Finance Accord for AI Governance 24/7
• Keynote: Joseph Jye-Cherng Lyu, Chairman, International Economic Cooperation Association, Taiwan
Panelists:

Professor Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School
Elisabeth Moreno, Former French Minister
Alvaro Rodriguez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA
Jeff Saviano, Global Tax Innovation Leader, Harvard AI Ethics Contributor
Cansu Canca, AI Ethics Scholar
Q&A Session

10:30 – 10:45 am | Coffee Break & Networking
10:45 – 11:45 am | Ethical and Governance Frameworks for Digital Assets
Including announcement of AIWS and Shinzo Abe Digital Assets
• Keynote — Kanetsugu Mike, President, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) Bank
• Panelists:

Professor Alex Pentland, MIT
Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research Leader
Yasuhide Nakayama, Former Japanese State Minister
Vibhav Kant Upadhyay, Chairman, India Center Foundation
Q&A Session

11:50 am | Concluding Remarks
• Nguyen Anh Tuan, Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum

America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age
2026-05-01 08:30 - 14:00 | Loeb House, Harvard University, 17 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States
View Event Page for this conference here https://bostonglobalforum.org/america250/

8:15 – 8:30 AM
Registration and Welcome Coffee
8:30 – 8:40 AM
Opening Remarks
Thomas E. Patterson
8:40 – 8:50 AM
Presentation of the Book
America at 250: A Beacon for the AI Age

Introduction to AIWS Trust Infrastructure & AIWS Lumina
Nguyen Anh Tuan
Vision, framework, and implementation pathway for trust in the AI Age
8:50 – 9:10 AM
Presentation of the 2026 World Leader for Peace and Security Award
Honoring the Leaders of the United States and the American People
Remarks by: Governor Michael S. Dukakis · Nguyen Anh Tuan · Thomas E. Patterson
Remarks delivered by Thomas E. Patterson on behalf of Governor Michael S. Dukakis, Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Thomas E. Patterson.
Symbolic Representatives Receiving the Award
Jason Carter — representing the moral leadership legacy of America through President Jimmy Carter.
Vint Cerf — representing the creativity, innovation, and civic spirit of the American people in the digital age.
Special Remarks
Jason Carter — America as a Moral Beacon: Continuing the Carter Legacy of Peace, Human Rights, and Trusted Innovation in the Age of AI
Vint Cerf (by video) — Building Information Trust for the AI Age
9:10 – 9:30 AM
Recognition of America 250: AI Pioneers
Presented by Nguyen Anh Tuan
Recipients in Person
Cynthia Dwork · Alex Pentland · Regina Barzilay · Cynthia Breazeal · Herbert Lin
Acceptance Speech by Cynthia Dwork
On behalf of the Honorees of America 250: AI Pioneers
From Differential Privacy to Trust Infrastructure: Building Trustworthy AI for Democracy
MAIN PANEL
9:30 – 11:00 AM
AIWS Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age
Co-Moderators: Thomas E. Patterson · Alex Pentland
Alex Pentland · AI Pioneers — Building Human-Centered Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age
Herbert Lin · AI Pioneers — From Influence Operations to Information Trust: Building Resilience in the AI Age
Regina Barzilay · AI Pioneers — Trustworthy AI in Healthcare and High-Stakes Human Systems
Cynthia Breazeal · AI Pioneers — Human-Centered AI and Social Trust in the Age of Intelligent Systems
Daphne Koller · AI Pioneers (by video) — From Probabilistic AI to Trusted Information Ecosystems
Q & A
11:00 – 11:15 AM
Coffee Break
BEACON DECLARATION AND BEACON PROCESS
11:15 – 11:55 AM
Beacon Declaration and Beacon Process
Founding AIWS Trust Infrastructure and AIWS Lumina
Presented by Ramu Damodaran
Commitments to Accompany and Implement the Beacon Declaration
Yasuhide Nakayama (by video) — Member of the National Diet of Japan; Director, LDP Global South
Vu Dang Vinh (by video) — Vietnam Report
Roland Schatz — Media Tenor
Bui Ngoc Duc — Dat Xanh
Commitments to Accompany and Advance AIWS Lumina
Le Hoa (by video) — Cao Tra Muc Nhan
Special Video from Nha Trang in Tribute to America 250
Thu Pham
11:55 AM – 12:00 PM
Concluding Remarks
Nguyen Anh Tuan
LUNCHEON DIALOGUE
12:30 – 2:00 PM
Storytelling, Democracy, and America at 250
Hollywood, Civic Imagination, and the Future of Freedom in the AI Age
Venue: Harvard Faculty Club
Moderator: Gita Pullapilly
Panelists: Jason Carter · Don Lee

BGF Roundtable on VNPT& AIWS Trust Infrastructure
2026-05-13 12:00 - 13:00 | MA
BGF Roundtable on VNPT& AIWS Trust Infrastructure
BOSTON GLOBAL FORUM · HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL · CHAO CENTER · MAY 1 3 , 2 0 2 6
P R O G R A M O F T H E R O U N D T A B L E
A Sixty-Minute Convening
Boston Global Forum · AI World Society · VNPTGroup
W O R K I N G L U N C H S E S S I O N
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM · Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Chao Center · Harvard Business School · Boston, Massachusetts
12: 00 PM
Opening Remarks
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum · Founder, AIWorld Society
Welcome and framing ofthe AIWS Trust Infrastructure — why trust is the decisive question of the AIAge, and why VNPT’s engagement with this work matters.
12: 05 PM
Remarks from VNPT
Mr. Huynh Quang Liem
ChiefExecutive Officer, VNPTGroup
VNPT’s vision for the AIAge — building trust infrastructure for Vietnam’s digital transformation, and the role ofa national champion in shaping a responsible AIeconomy.
12: 15 PM
Roundtable Discussion

Cynthia Dwork · Gordon McKay Professor ofComputer Science, Harvard University · Architect ofDifferential Privacy
Jason Furman · Aetna Professor ofthe Practice ofEconomic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School · Former Chair, Council ofEconomic Advisers
Tarun Khanna · Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Harvard Business School · Director, Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute

Distinguished guests ofthe Boston Global Forum, in conversation with Mr. Huynh Quang Liem and VNPTsenior leaders.
12: 45 PM
Presentation of Honors
Presented by Governor Michael Dukakis
Co-Founder &Chair, Boston Global Forum · Three-Term Governor of Massachusetts

Plaque of Honor presented to the ChiefExecutive Officer ofVNPT Group in recognition ofVNPT’s innovation, openness, and integration ofVietnam with the world.

Presentation ofthe book America at 250: A Beacon for the AIAge — co-authored by Governor Dukakis and Nguyen Anh Tuan — to Mr. Huynh Quang Liem.

12: 55 PM
Concluding Remarks
Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan
Co-Founder, Co-Chair, and CEO, Boston Global Forum
1: 00 PM
Adjournment
