As tradition, on December 12 every year, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) will organize the Global Cybersecurity Day at Loeb House, Harvard University. However, in the strange and eventful 2020, BGF will organize this online at AI World Society Palace of AIWS City.
The Agenda include the presentation of World Leader for Peace and Security Award 2020, AI Social Contract Index 2020, the Quad Roundtable Special Report, and the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid and Boston Global Forum Report.
This is the first time Global Cybersecurity Day is organized at the AIWS City. BGF will also introduce the agenda of 2021 in collaboration with World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid, with the Riga Conference 2021, and with NovaWorld Phan Thiet.
The first Global Cybersecurity Day was December 12, 2015 at Harvard University Faculty Club, with congratulations from Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon. Fron the second on, it was organized at the Loeb House. Governor Michael Dukakis is the moderator of Global Cybersecurity Day. Speakers from previous Global Cybersecurity Days include Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Latvian and Wolrd Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid President Vaira Vike-Freiberga, UK Member of Parliament Liam Byrne, Japanese Minister of Defense and Foreign Affair Taro Kono, Christopher Painter Coordinator for Cyber Issue, US State Department, US Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy, Professor Joseph Nye, Harvard, father of the soft power theory, Professor Alex Pentland, MIT.
AIWS City is an prestigious virtual digital city, an initiative of the Boston Global Forum and Michael Dukakis Institute, that connects notable values, world gem cities, preeminent figures, and applications of pioneering AI and digital technology, in addition to application AIWS Values to serve members.
The first announcement of AIWS City was August 21, 2020 at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable with keynote speaker Vint Cerf and speakers Governor Michael Dukakis, Mr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, and Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija.