Honoring World Leader for Peace and Security and Advancing Ethical Digital Assets
November 4 @ 8:15 am - 12:00 pm
📅 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