The document outlines the agenda for the 2017 G7 Summit Initiatives event hosted by the Boston Global Forum. The event included: 1) Opening remarks by Governor Michael Dukakis and the Italian Consul-General in Boston. 2) Acknowledgements and congratulations from ambassadors and foreign representatives from Italy and Japan. 3) Two initiatives - the first on preventing cyberwar with speakers from Brown University and F-Secure, the second on coping with fake news through global citizenship education. 4) Discussion panels moderated by Governor Dukakis on each initiative with participants from universities, Congress, and the medical and analytics fields. 5) Closing remarks by Governor Dukakis wrapping up

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--Generalof 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 – CybersecurityFellow,Harvard KennedySchool

6. DISCUSSION
10:05
Discussants
Moderator
Governor Michael Dukakis – Chairman of the Boston
Global Forum
Professor Derek Reveron, Naval War College
Professor Nazli Choucri, MIT
Ryan Maness, Northeastern University Prof.
Thomas E. Creely, Naval War College Anders
Corr, Principal, Corr Analytics
Dr. David Silbersweig, Harvard Medical School

7. INITIATIVE
10:55 Initiative 2 Coping with Fake News – GlobalCitizenship Education Network
Professor Thomas Patterson
Nguyen AnhTuan,
Anders Corr

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

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