The global executive community founded in Silicon Valley — events, peer groups, and original research for senior executives and investors
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. It exists because the AI era changed what senior leaders need most. The problem is not access to more information; it is access to a trusted room of peers working through the same decisions.
Open Future Forum convenes leaders across two tiers who share one standard: give first. The community is built on Adam Grant's Give and Take philosophy. The room's filter is whether someone will make it better, not whether they can pay.
Open Future Forum operates in two tiers, each designed for a different kind of conversation. Both are held to the same give-first standard.
The open tier. Panels, roundtables, and gatherings for the wider AI and technology community. The front door to Open Future Forum.
View upcoming eventsThe private tier. Invitation-only, off-the-record gatherings of 8 to 30 C-suite executives and board directors, convened by Murray Newlands. No recording, no vendors, no fixed agenda.
Learn about Forum SelectRole-specific forums where leaders work through questions specific to their seat alongside peers who share the same function and the same give-first standard.
All formatsOpen Future Forum is for senior leaders who need candid peer input, not more vendor pitches or conference content. The AI era is the shared context. The give-first standard is the shared norm.
Forum Events are open to the broader AI and technology community. Forum Select, the private tier, is for C-suite executives, board directors, founders, and senior investors making consequential AI decisions.
Open Future Forum is built on Adam Grant's Give and Take philosophy. The most generous people in any network create the most value over time. The room's filter is whether someone will make it better, not their title or the size of their company.
Every person in the room is expected to give more than they take. The community is built on generosity, not transaction.
Read the philosophyThe quality of the conversation is a function of the room. Open Future Forum keeps rooms small so conversation stays candid and consequential.
There is no fixed agenda. The conversation follows the live questions the room is working through: AI strategy, governance, talent, capital, and decisions that cannot be discussed elsewhere.
Open Future Forum was founded and is convened by Murray Newlands, Partner at IA Seed Ventures and Tilden Family Office Group. HuffPost named him number two on its Top 10 People to Know in Silicon Valley. He was previously a C-level executive at Turing.com, where the team scaled the company to approximately a $4 billion valuation. He is the author of Online Marketing: A User's Manual (Wiley).
Large membership organizations like YPO, Vistage, and EO serve important purposes. Open Future Forum solves a different problem: a curated, AI-era room of peers who share the give-first standard, across CEO, CFO, CMO, CISO, and CTO roles, on a no-fee invitation basis. Many leaders participate in both. They are not in competition.