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The AI Leaders Forum

Senior AI executives from the world’s leading technology companies, convened in Silicon Valley.

The Board

AI leaders at the
frontier of the field

The AI Leaders Forum is shaped by a select group of senior AI executives across the world’s leading technology companies. They set the tone, open the room, and define what serious AI leadership looks like in practice.

Board forming now · Additional members pending
Murray Newlands
Chair
Murray Newlands
Founder, Open Future Forum
Partner, IA Seed Ventures & Tilden Family Office Group
Open Future Forum Rohit Mittal
Board Member
Rohit Mittal
Director, NVLink Fusion & AI Rack Solutions
NVIDIA
 Jerry Xu
Board Member
Jerry Xu
AI Platform Architect, Generative AI & ML Infra
Oracle
 Karthik Suresh
Board Member
Karthik Suresh
Senior Director of Product Management
ZoomInfo
 Paulina Xu
Board Member
Paulina Xu
Co-Founder, CEO
Agentic Fabriq
 Akshay Goel
Board Member
Akshay Goel
Director of Product, Foundational Models
Amazon
 Erik Norden
Board Member
Erik Norden
Executive, AGI Technology & Strategy
Zyphra
Backgrounds

The operators
behind the room

Murray Newlands
Murray Newlands
Chair · Founder, Open Future Forum

Founder of Open Future Forum and Partner at IA Seed Ventures. Helped scale Turing.com to a $4B valuation as a C-level executive. Writer for Forbes, Inc, Time, and The Guardian, and author of Online Marketing: A User’s Manual (Wiley).

Forbes Turing.com · $4B IA Seed Ventures
Rohit Mittal
Rohit Mittal
Board Member · Director, NVLink Fusion & AI Rack Solutions, NVIDIA

Director of NVLink Fusion & AI Rack Solutions at NVIDIA, leading the ecosystem behind rack-scale AI compute and interconnect. Previously drove Google Cloud’s TPU interconnect strategy behind Trillium and Ironwood as a product and engineering leader, led silicon photonics and product strategy inside Intel’s Data Center Group, and was a founding leader at Upscale AI. MS in EECS from Carnegie Mellon University, and a distinguished scholar of Stanford’s executive LEAD program.

NVIDIA Google Cloud Intel Upscale AI Carnegie Mellon
Jerry Xu
Jerry Xu
Board Member · AI Platform Architect, Oracle

AI Platform Architect for Generative AI and ML Infrastructure at Oracle. Previously built AI systems at Meta, Twitter, and Microsoft. Founder background spanning AI infrastructure and LLM platforms. Focused on scaling production AI at the enterprise level.

Oracle Meta Twitter · X Microsoft
Karthik Suresh
Karthik Suresh
Board Member · Senior Director, Agentic AI, ZoomInfo

Senior Director of Product Management, Agentic AI at ZoomInfo. Founded DoubleO.ai and Ignition — both acquired by ZoomInfo. Previously PM at Facebook Reality Labs and Facebook App, Head of Product at Craft.co, and VP of Engineering at KCG Holdings building HFT platforms with $1B+ daily volume. Began his career at Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, and Bloomberg. MS from Carnegie Mellon University.

ZoomInfo Facebook · Meta Morgan Stanley BlackRock Bloomberg Carnegie Mellon
Paulina Xu
Paulina Xu
Board Member · Co-Founder & CEO, Agentic Fabriq

Co-Founder and CEO of Agentic Fabriq (YC W26), building the identity, access, and security layer for the agentic era. MIT-trained founder with roots across MIT CSAIL, Haystack, and Kavli. First paying customer within two months of launch.

YC W26 MIT MIT CSAIL
Akshay Goel
Akshay Goel
Board Member · Head of Product, Foundational Models, Amazon

Head of Product for Foundational Models at Amazon, previously at Meta. Co-founded Explorer (AI maps for autonomous vehicles) and Kreate Labs. Holds an MBA from INSEAD and has led AI product strategy across some of the world’s largest technology companies.

Amazon Meta INSEAD
Erik Norden
Erik Norden
Board Member · Executive, AGI Technology & Strategy, Zyphra

Executive for AGI Technology & Strategy at Zyphra, and formerly its CTO and Chief AI Strategy Officer. Previously led AI compute strategy for Google Cloud TPU (Trillium, Ironwood), AI accelerator architecture at Intel, and was the inventor and chief architect of the Neural Engine inside Apple silicon. Three decades of AI silicon and systems architecture spanning NVIDIA, MIPS, and Infineon.

Zyphra Google Intel Apple NVIDIA
What It Is

A room built for
the AI seat

Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley whose network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of events through Forum Select, its invite-only private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels and gatherings, convenes peer groups and executive boards, and publishes original research built on first-party survey and qualitative data from its executive network. The AI Leaders Forum is its dedicated board for senior AI executives: the people building, deploying, and governing AI at scale inside the world’s most consequential companies.

There is no sales agenda, no formal presentation and no recording. The conversations are the ones AI leaders cannot have in public, with peers who understand the weight of the decisions being made right now.

“The most important AI decisions are being made by a small number of people in a small number of rooms. This is one of those rooms.”
  • 01Private dinners and exclusive events across Silicon Valley
  • 02Senior AI executives only
  • 03Off the record, always
  • 04Curated by peers, not by algorithm
  • 05Built on the Give and Take philosophy
Who Belongs Here

The informal
selection criterion

The forum is built for AI leaders who make the room better. The question is simple: does this person give more than they take?

Members are identified by how they show up, long before any invitation is extended. If the answer is yes, a personal note follows.

  • ✓Chief AI Officers and VP AI roles
  • ✓Senior AI product and infrastructure leaders
  • ✓AI executives at leading technology companies
  • ✓Founders and executives building AI-native companies
  • ✓Leaders navigating AI governance and enterprise deployment
  • ✓Givers, always givers
How We Gather

Events built for
serious people

Every gathering is designed to produce the kind of conversation that does not happen at a conference. Small rooms, trusted faces, and the space to speak plainly.

Core

Executive Dinners

Private seated dinners for AI leaders across Silicon Valley. Small tables, curated rooms, no agenda.

Exclusive

Giants Box

Private box at Oracle Park for San Francisco Giants games. An evening for members and select guests.

Exclusive

Yacht Event

An afternoon on the Bay with a small group of AI executives. Conversation without interruption.

Exclusive

Mansion Gathering

A private evening at a significant Silicon Valley property. Invitation only, curated for the board.

Cross-Community

VC Sessions

Joint gatherings with leading investors focused on AI infrastructure, frontier models, and enterprise AI.

Cross-Community

CFO & Executive Cross-Events

Events bridging the AI Leaders Forum with the CFO, CISO, and CMO communities inside Open Future Forum.

The Philosophy

Built on
Give and Take

Like every Open Future Forum room, the AI Leaders Forum runs on Adam Grant’s Give and Take: the most generous people in the room create the most value over time.

Give

Share what you know

Members share their honest read of AI strategy, model capabilities, and enterprise deployment without holding back for advantage.

Connect

Make the introduction

The most valued act in the room is a warm introduction made without being asked.

Return

Receive without obligation

This is not a transactional network. The room holds the debt and pays it forward.

Membership

Ready to be
in the room?

If you think you belong in the AI Leaders Forum, or know an AI executive who does, we would like to hear from you. Membership is by invitation or referral, reviewed personally by the board.

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Common Questions

What people
ask us

Who qualifies for the AI Leaders Forum?
Senior executives accountable for enterprise AI: Chief AI Officers, CTOs and CIOs leading AI programs, VPs of AI, machine learning and data, senior product and infrastructure leaders, and founders of AI-native companies at scale. The forum is guided by a board of AI leaders drawn from major technology companies.
Is the forum for Chief AI Officers, technology executives or AI founders?
All three, deliberately. The useful friction in the room comes from an enterprise AI owner, a platform builder and a founder selling into enterprises sitting at the same table. Each sees a different part of the same problem, and the conversation is better for it than a room of one job title.
What enterprise AI subjects are discussed?
Moving from pilots to production, agent architecture and access, build versus buy at the model layer, evaluation and measurement in production, organizational design for AI, data and security constraints, and what to tell a board. The agenda follows what people are actually stuck on rather than a fixed curriculum.
How does the forum address governance, deployment and AI economics?
As one subject rather than three, because in practice they are. Our September security research found 67 percent of senior security leaders naming agent access as their top AI problem while only 37 percent hold a dedicated AI security budget line, on a base of 110. The gap between what a team is asked to govern and what it is funded to govern is a standing topic.
How are members and board participants selected?
By invitation, referral or direct application, reviewed by the forum board. Selection weighs seniority, direct accountability for AI work, and willingness to speak plainly about what has not worked. Board members are invited individually and serve to shape the agenda, not to represent their employers.
How do gatherings differ from technical AI conferences?
A technical conference is organized around papers, products and a stage. This is organized around decisions and a table. The questions are not what a model can do but who signs for it, how it is governed, what it costs and what happens when it fails. There are no presentations, no recordings and no sales agenda. Forum Events are the open, larger format.
How does Open Future Forum research inform the discussions?
The Enterprise AI Buying and Budget Index is read from instrument answers given by executives across the network, so it measures the same population that sits in these rooms. Findings set the agenda and the rooms test the findings. The September Executive AI Leverage Report is the current edition.
How can an AI leader request an invitation?
Apply directly and say what you are accountable for, what stage the work is at, and the problem you are currently stuck on. A referral from someone already in the community carries weight, so ask if you have one available. Apply here, and see the September Executive AI Leverage Report for the questions this room works on.