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The AI executive
community for CEOs

Where Silicon Valley CEOs meet their peers on AI: invite-only private dinners and open panels inside Open Future Forum.

A room for CEOs
without the performance

Open Future Forum gives CEOs a place to think out loud with peers who carry the same weight. The conversation is candid, off the record in Forum Select, and free of pitching. Most communities group CEOs by company stage. Open Future Forum organizes around how CEOs actually lead, alongside the CFOs, CISOs, CTOs and board members in their orbit.

CEOs take part in two ways. Forum Select runs invitation-only private dinners for 8 to 30 C-suite leaders and board directors. Forum Events runs open panels, firesides and summits for the broader AI and tech community. Both share one philosophy: give more than you take.

100+
Executive events
2019
Founded
8–30
Per Forum Select dinner
Bay Area
San Francisco & Palo Alto

The only
real criterion

Membership in Forum Select is by invitation or referral, reviewed personally by Murray. The question is simple: does this person make the room better? Do they share generously, ask good questions without self-promotion, and leave others with more than they arrived with?

  • 01Founders and CEOs scaling AI-era companies
  • 02Enterprise CEOs leading AI transformation
  • 03CEOs who sit on or report to public and private boards
  • 04Leaders who give first and keep score never
  • 05Senior enough to speak plainly, generous enough to be asked back

Three things a CEO
cannot easily buy

Peers

People who carry the same weight

A standing room of CEOs and C-suite leaders who understand the job from the inside, where you do not have to explain the stakes.

Introductions

The intro made without asking

The most valued act in the room is a warm introduction offered before it is requested. Murray models it in every gathering.

Signal

A standing read on AI

What other serious operators are actually doing with AI, from the people doing it, not the conference circuit.

Next to YPO,
Vistage and Hampton

YPO and Vistage are general CEO peer organizations that have added AI programming. Hampton is a founder and CEO membership club. Open Future Forum is AI and enterprise-tech native, and it seats CEOs alongside the rest of the C-suite rather than grouping them by title or company stage. The full side-by-side is on the executive AI communities page.

Things CEOs
usually ask

Is Open Future Forum a CEO peer group like YPO or Vistage?+

Related but different. YPO and Vistage are general CEO peer organizations. Open Future Forum is AI and enterprise-tech native and seats CEOs alongside the CFOs, CISOs, CTOs and board members in their orbit. The full comparison is on the executive AI communities page.

How do CEOs join?+

Through Forum Events first, which are open, then by invitation to Forum Select, the private tier. Invitations are reviewed personally by Murray Newlands. Apply via the apply page.

Is there a membership fee?+

Forum Select has no membership fee. Forum Events are free or low cost.

Who runs Open Future Forum?+

Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum and a Partner at IA Seed Ventures.

Ready to be
in the room?

If you think you belong in Forum Select, or know a CEO who does, we would like to hear from you. The most reliable way in is to attend a Forum Event first.