Agenda of bgf g7 summit initiatve 2017

2. OPENING
8:30 Opening
Remarks
8:35 G7 Summit Italy 2017
Governor Michael Dukakis – Chairman of the
Boston Global Forum
Nicola De Santis – Consul-General of Italy in Boston

3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
8:50 BGF 2017 G7
Summit Initiatives
Introduction by Governor Dukakis
Response by Italian Consul-General in Boston

4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
9:00 Congratulations
from Japan
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, President of the America-Japan
Society
Mr. Masato Otaka, Deputy Press Secretary of Ministry of
Foreign Affair of Japan
Ambassador Shunji Yanai, Judge of Member of International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

5. INITIATIVE
9:15 Initiative 1 Preventing Cyberwar
Professor John Savage, Brown University
9:20 Speaker 1 Mikko Hypponen – Chief Research Officer, F-Secure
9:50 Speaker 2 Trey Herr – Cybersecurity Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

6. DISCUSSION
10:05
Discussants Professor Derek Reveron – Naval War College
Professor Nazli Choucri – MIT
Moderator Governor Michael Dukakis – Chairman of the
Boston Global Forum

7. DISCUSSION
10:05 Discussants Ryan Maness – Northeastern University
Prof. Thomas E. Creely – Naval War College
Anders Corr – Principal, Corr Analytics
Prof. David Silbersweig – Harvard University

8. INITIATIVE
10:55 Initiative 2 Coping with Fake News – Global Citizenship Education Network
Professor Thomas Patterson
Nguyen Anh Tuan,
Anders Corr

9. DISCUSSION
11:10
Discussants Prof. Carlos Alberto Torres – UCLA
Llewellyn King – Host, Whitehouse Chronicle
Barry Nolan – Senior Advisor, Joint Economic
Committee, US Congress
Moderator Governor Michael Dukakis – Chairman of the
Boston Global Forum

10. CONCLUSION
Conclusion Governor Michael Dukakis – Chairman of the Boston Global
Forum
11:30

11. DELEGATION
Thomas Vallely – Director of Vietnam Program, Harvard
Elliot Salloway – Chief Operation Officer, Boston Global Forum
Nobue Mita – Representative of The BGF in Japan
Nguyen Viet Phuong – Harvard Kennedy School Fellow
Professor Tran Duc – University of Massachusetts at Boston
Professor Kirk Hazlet – Curry College
John Mallery – Research Scientist, MIT
Prof. David Silbersweig – Harvard University
Dr. Mariko Gakiya, Director, Global Leadership for Health, Peace and Human Security, Harvard
Pham Khac Dung – Vice President, Petro Vietnam Insurance (PVI), Harvard Kennedy School