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High-Level Roundtable on AI Strategy with General Secretary Tô Lâm and Vietnam’s Leadership – London, October 28, 2025
On October 28, 2025, at the historic Raffles Hotel London, the Boston Global Forum (BGF) co-organized a high-level strategic event where General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Tô Lâm and senior Vietnamese leaders met with world-renowned strategists and...
Speech of Prime Minister Abe: The Framework for Global Law and Accord on A.I. and Digital
Boston, December 12, 2021 I would like to express my sincere gratitude for the invitation to speak today. I made a visit to Boston in 2015 as then Prime Minister and have good memories of visiting the Kennedy Library, Harvard University and MIT. How I wish today that...
Speech of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: “Security in Cyberspace”
To pay tribute to Prime Minister Abe, Boston Global Forum republishes his speech from the first Global Cybersecurity Day: (Excerpts of Prime Minister Abe’s speech at Boston Global Forum Conference, December 12, 2015.) “Ensuring security in cyberspace – cybersecurity –...
Canada: Federal Government Introduces New Privacy, Cybersecurity and AI Legislation
Last week, the federal government introduced two pieces of legislation proposing major privacy, cybersecurity and data governance reforms. The first, Bill C-26, would enact the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA), which aims to protect critical cyber systems...
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak to visit and discuss “Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment” in Vietnam
From August 2 to 19, 2022, Prime Minister Ehud Barak will visit Vietnam, meet leaders of Vietnam and discuss concepts of Remaking the World – Toward an Age of Global Enlightenment. The Boston Global Forum organizes and supports him on this Vietnam trip. He will visit...
Shifting sands for AI in Europe: Spain unveils Europe’s first sandbox for artificial intelligence
Since its release in April 2021, the draft AI regulations (the “Regulations”), also referred to as the EU AI Act, have acted as a catalyst of legal, political, and societal developments within the field of AI. Forming the basis of many of the developing trends for...
Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe US
A consequence relatively rarely discussed in the context of the US Supreme Court judgment on access and right to abortion, as affirmed in the earlier Roe v Wade case, is the question of the digital privacy of those who seek online information about the procedure or...