Off the record. By invitation. Small rooms of senior leaders across Silicon Valley.
A private executive dinner brings together a small group of senior leaders for the conversation they cannot have in a boardroom or a conference hall. There is no stage, no panel, and no audience. Everyone at the table holds a seat the others understand.
Open Future Forum has run these dinners across Silicon Valley since 2019. The format is simple on purpose: a good room, a long evening, and the trust that comes from speaking plainly with peers.
Every part of the evening is chosen to protect one thing: an honest conversation between peers.
Eight to thirty leaders, small enough that everyone speaks and no one performs.
No recording, no notes, no press. What is said at dinner stays at dinner.
The room is for the conversation, not the close. Vendors and pitches stay outside.
Everyone at the table holds a comparable role, so the shorthand is immediate.
The host knows the room and makes the connection each guest would want to leave with.
A long dinner and good food, with room for the conversation to get past the surface.
Open Future Forum runs dinner series built around specific roles, so the peers at the table truly match.
For chief financial officers and senior finance leaders.
For founders and chief executives.
For chief marketing officers and senior marketing leaders.
Roundtables and dinners for security (CISO), engineering (CTO), and public board leaders also run through the year. See all Forum Events →
Seats are offered to leaders who make the room better. The question is simple: does this person give more than they take?
Guests are identified by how they show up, long before any invitation is sent. If the answer is yes, a personal note follows.
Every Open Future Forum dinner runs on Adam Grant's Give and Take: the most generous people in the room create the most value over time.
Guests offer their honest read of the business, the market, the board, without holding back for advantage.
The most valued act at the table is a warm introduction made without being asked.
This is not a quid pro quo network. The room holds the debt and pays it forward.
If a private executive dinner sounds like your kind of room, or you know a leader who belongs at one, we'd like to hear from you. Seats are by invitation or personal referral.