Where public-company board members compare notes on AI oversight: private dinners inside Open Future Forum's board series.
Public-company directors carry a specific burden in the AI era: oversight of a technology moving faster than most governance frameworks. Open Future Forum's Public Board Member Dinner Series gives directors a private room to work through it, away from the formal board setting and the public eye.
The series runs small, invitation-only dinners that pair directors with operators and experts on a single governance theme. The inaugural dinner focused on quantum computing. The format follows the same giver standard as the rest of Open Future Forum.
The room is built for directors who own the hard questions about AI, not observers. The standard is the same as the rest of Open Future Forum: come to give, and the room stays worth being in.
Other directors facing the same oversight questions, talking plainly without the constraints of a formal board setting.
Each dinner pairs directors with people building and governing the technology, so the conversation stays grounded in what is real.
What other boards are asking and where the frameworks are heading. See also AI and board governance.
Sitting directors of public companies, especially those on audit, risk and technology committees and anyone carrying AI oversight responsibility.
It is a small, off-the-record dinner, not a stage program. Directors talk candidly with peers and a few operators and experts rather than listening to presentations.
Yes. The Public Board Member Dinner Series is the board vertical of Open Future Forum, a Silicon Valley executive community founded in 2019 that runs panel events and invite-only dinners for C-suite leaders.
By invitation or referral, reviewed personally by Murray Newlands. Reach out via the apply page.
The Public Board Member Dinner Series is invitation-only. If you sit on a public-company board and carry AI oversight, or know a director who does, we would like to hear from you.