Boston 2024 chairman Steve Pagliuca took the stage at BostInno’s State of Innovation to discuss a range of issues that he’s now facing as one of the heads of the Boston 2024 Olympic bid with Streetwise Media co-founder Chase Garbarino. It was Pagliuca’s first public appearance in the official capacity as 2024 chairman, speaking about a number of issues as the bid enters a particularly critical period of time. The “2.0” bid is expected by the end of June, though Pagliuca downplayed it as a final plan.

Noting that there will be several “iterations” of the plan, with June being merely the latest, Pagliuca stressed the important of an evolving Olympic bid. Tokyo’s 2020 Olympic bid, as Pagliuca cited for an example, has changed more than 50 percent since its original version.

He asserted his belief that for all of its setbacks, the Boston 2024 Olympic bid is actually historically transparent.

“I would say it’s the most specific budget in the shortest period of time in any Games,” Pagliuca said.

On the financial risk, which Pagliuca recently admitted to the Globe’s Mark Arsenault “will never be zero,” he discussed how Boston 2024 is working to nonetheless protect the public.

“We try to minimize the risk,” he noted, alluding to using “every financial method” to do so.

Still, the Bain Capital managing partner is confident that like Los Angeles in 1984, a Boston 2024 Olympics would end on a profitable note, saying, “It should be doable to have a surplus for the Games.”

Touching on the strong opposition that currently exists to the bid, Pagliuca was open to debate. Talking about how bringing the Olympics to Boston could potentially be a positive force, he did concede that “I’m not dogmatic that it is.”

In a comment aimed directly at the opposition, he delivered his most striking quote of the day:

“I think the opposition is healthy,” Pagliuca said. “The unfortunate part is I don’t think they know what they’re opposed to yet.”

Given the long list of specific issues that (for example) No Boston Olympics has noted, that seems a noteworthy conclusion. Still, since the bid will inevitably change over time (as Pagliuca was quick to admit) his point is potentially more along the lines of how the opposition can’t be so firmly rooted in specifics when the specifics themselves aren’t fully established.

Bringing up the IOC’s Agenda 2020, Pagliuca said that Boston “can be a leader” in shaping future Olympics. If future bids are to come from democracies, they must be reined in from a financial and political standpoint. Displacement and cost overruns must be avoided, Pagliuca noted, and Boston’s “innovation community” could play a defining role in shaping that.

“Let’s get a plan out there,” said Pagliuca, “and have a robust discussion on that.”