A community built on the philosophy of giving — one brand, two rooms, one purpose
Open Future Forum is built on a simple conviction borrowed from Adam Grant's Give and Take: givers create more value than they capture — and when you put a room full of givers together, something extraordinary happens.
For those who want to be in the room with the broader AI and tech community, we run Forum Events: open, generous gatherings in Silicon Valley where knowledge flows freely and connections are made without agenda.
For C-suite executives and board directors who need a private space to think out loud, we convene Forum Select: invitation-only dinners where the only currency is candor — and the only rule is that everyone gives more than they take.
Open Future Forum is a community of givers — people who lead with generosity, share what they know, and make introductions without keeping score. Both tiers are expressions of that same ethos, at different scales and levels of intimacy.
Intimate, invitation-only gatherings for C-suite executives and board directors. The membership principle is simple: everyone in this room is a giver. You share what you know, make the introductions that matter, and leave the room better than you found it.
Open, generous gatherings for the broader AI and tech community. We believe knowledge shared freely returns multiplied. Forum Events exist to put the right people in the same room and let the generosity flow — no gatekeeping, no transactional networking.
Open community · 50–200+ people · Panels & mixers
Invitation only · 8–30 people · Private dinners
Forum Events and Forum Select aren't parallel tracks. They're a deliberate sequence — each making the other better.
Every Forum Event is a talent scout. Murray watches who asks the sharpest questions, who the other executives gravitate toward. The best people receive a quiet personal invitation to something more exclusive.
Forum Select members appear at Forum Events as quiet presences — their participation signals to everyone in the room that something more exclusive exists above them.
In both rooms, Murray is the connective tissue — bringing 20 years of relationships across media, venture capital, and operations to bear on every conversation.
We believe, with Adam Grant, that givers — those who share freely without keeping score — create more long-term value than they capture. The AI era needs more of them in more rooms.
We believe the decisions shaping the AI era aren't being made on stages. They're being made in conversations that happen before the meeting, after the dinner, with one person you trust completely — and who trusts you back.
We believe the most powerful network is not the largest one — it is the most generous one. A room full of givers compounds. A room full of takers collapses. We curate accordingly.
We believe that public community and private intimacy are not opposites. The most exclusive rooms are built on the most inclusive foundations — and the most inclusive communities are led by the people willing to give the most.
We believe the future is built by people who can see it coming and share what they see. Open Future Forum is where those people find each other — and give generously to each other — at every level.
Murray built his career the same way Adam Grant describes the world's most successful people: by giving generously and without expectation — introductions, insights, platforms, and time — long before it made strategic sense.
He brings that same philosophy to every gathering. In both rooms — Forum Events and Forum Select — the unspoken rule is the same: lead with what you can give, not what you can get.
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Forum Select is a private executive community built on a single principle: everyone here is a giver. C-suite leaders and board directors who share what they know, make the introductions that matter, and leave every conversation better than they found it.
There is no pitch, no agenda, no transaction. Membership is by invitation or personal referral. If you believe you belong in this room — or know someone who does — we'd like to hear from you.
Adam Grant's research in Give and Take proved what the best community builders have always known intuitively: the most successful people in any field are not the best networkers — they are the most generous ones.
Givers — those who contribute to others without keeping score — consistently outperform takers and matchers over time. Not because generosity is a strategy. But because it builds the kind of trust and reputation that no strategy can manufacture.
Open Future Forum was designed with this in mind. We don't just want to bring the right people together. We want to bring the right kind of people together — and create the conditions where their generosity compounds.
Every member of Forum Select is expected to contribute their expertise, their perspective, and their honest read of the world — without holding back for competitive advantage.
The most valuable currency in this community is a warm introduction made without being asked. Murray models this in every room he enters — and it sets the tone for everyone who follows.
Open Future Forum is not a quid pro quo network. When someone gives here, they do not expect an immediate return. The community as a whole holds the debt — and pays it forward.