Open Future Forum

Events and Formats

Private dinners, panels, golf, sailing, wine tastings, suites at games, and more

What formats does Open Future Forum run?

Open Future Forum is a private executive community in Silicon Valley that runs events and dinners for C-suite executives. The dinner is one format. The full range is designed around a single principle: match the setting to the conversation the room needs to have.

Seated Formats

Private dinners and roundtables

The private dinner is the flagship format of Forum Select: off-the-record, 8 to 30 executives, no vendors, no agenda. Roundtables offer a structured conversation format for working through a defined question together.

Content Formats

Panels and briefings

Forum Events panels bring practitioners together to work through live AI questions in front of the wider community. These are the front door to Open Future Forum for leaders who have not yet been invited to Forum Select.

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Experience Formats

Golf, sailing, wine, suites

Golf gatherings, sailing events, wine tastings, and suites at games. These formats create the conditions for unguarded conversation that structured events rarely produce. The relationship is built before the business question is asked.

Community Formats

Founder gatherings

Founder-specific gatherings bring operators and investors together around the specific questions founders face as they navigate AI, scale, and capital in the current environment.

Role Forums

CEO, CFO, CMO, CISO, CTO

Role-specific forums where leaders work through the questions specific to their seat alongside peers. Each forum operates on the give-first standard.

CFO Forum
Format Rule

The format serves the conversation

The format is never chosen for aesthetics alone. A golf gathering produces one kind of conversation. A private dinner produces another. Both serve the same purpose: trusted peers working through real questions.

Relationship design, not hospitality.

A private dinner of 12 executives produces depth: the room is small, the conversation is confidential, and no one is performing for an audience. A panel of 80 produces breadth: exposure to ideas and people across the community. A golf gathering or suite at a game produces something different again: time without an agenda, which is where the most honest conversations happen.

Open Future Forum chooses formats deliberately. The goal in every case is the same: get the right people in the room and protect the quality of the conversation. The format is the method, not the point.

"The format changes. The goal stays the same: get the right people in the room and protect the quality of the conversation."

Forum Events and Forum Select.

Forum Events is the open tier. Panels, roundtables, and community gatherings for the wider AI and technology community. Anyone in the AI and tech ecosystem can attend. These events are not off-the-record.

Forum Select is the private tier. Invitation-only, off-the-record gatherings of 8 to 30 C-suite executives and board directors, convened by Murray Newlands, Partner at IA Seed Ventures and Tilden Family Office Group. No recording, no vendors. Off-the-record applies to this tier, not to the whole brand.

  • 01Private dinners - Forum Select, off-the-record, 8 to 30
  • 02Panels - Forum Events, open community, wider audience
  • 03Roundtables - structured conversation on a defined question
  • 04Golf gatherings - relationship-first, unstructured time
  • 05Wine tastings - small group, informal, high trust
  • 06Sailing events - extended time together, no agenda
  • 07Suites at games - hosted, social, relationship-building
  • 08Founder gatherings - operator and investor focused

CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, CTOs and more.

Open Future Forum events are for C-suite executives, board directors, founders, and investors navigating AI decisions. Forum Events are open to the wider AI and technology community. Forum Select is by invitation or referral.

Events and formats explained

What kinds of events does Open Future Forum run?
Open Future Forum runs private dinners, panels, roundtables, golf gatherings, wine tastings, sailing events, suites at games, and founder gatherings. The format is chosen to fit the conversation.
Is Open Future Forum only dinners?
No. Open Future Forum runs events and dinners. The private dinner is one format among many. The full range includes golf, sailing, wine tastings, game suites, panels, and roundtables. See What Is Open Future Forum?
Does Open Future Forum host golf or sailing events?
Yes. Golf gatherings and sailing events are among the formats Open Future Forum uses. These settings create conditions for candid, trusted conversation that structured events rarely produce.
What is the difference between Forum Events and Forum Select?
Forum Events is the open tier with panels and roundtables for the wider AI community. Forum Select is the private, invitation-only tier of off-the-record dinners of 8 to 30 C-suite executives.
Which formats are off-the-record?
Off-the-record applies to Forum Select, the private dinner tier. Forum Events are not off-the-record. Off-the-record applies to the private tier only, not to the whole brand.
How do I attend?
Forum Events are open to the AI and technology community. Forum Select is by invitation or referral. Visit Forum Events to see upcoming gatherings, or learn how to join Forum Select.