AI Executive Community Office Hours with Murray Newlands, Open Future Forum
Book a free seat for a direct conversation with Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum, the Silicon Valley AI executive community. One question, one honest answer, one to one.
Most people reach Open Future Forum through a referral. Office Hours skips that. Choose a slot, tell Murray what you are working on, and leave knowing whether the community is right for you and which room fits.
Come if:
You are a founder sizing up your next raise and want a read on story and investor fit.
You sell into the C-suite and want to know what actually gets you in the room.
You are curious about Open Future Forum and where you would belong in it.
You are thinking about sponsoring an executive dinner.
You just want a frank conversation with someone who has run more than 400 executive events.
The community
Open Future Forum is a private executive community in Silicon Valley, founded in 2019 by Murray Newlands. It pairs small, off-the-record dinners for C-suite leaders with open events for the wider AI and tech world. More than 400 events since 2021, all in service of one idea: put generous senior people in the same room and let the relationships compound.
Where Office Hours leads:
Forum Events, the open public gatherings for the AI and tech community.
Forum Select, the private invitation-only dinners for C-suite executives and board directors.
CFO Executive Forum, the invitation-only room for senior finance leaders.
CEO dinners in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
The host
Murray Newlands is the founder of Open Future Forum and a Partner at IA Seed Ventures and Tilden Family Office Group. More than a decade in Silicon Valley sitting where founders, operators, and investors meet. He writes Murray's Newsletter on Substack to over 50,000 readers, posts on his blog, Medium, YouTube, LinkedIn, and X, has written for Forbes, Inc, and Time, and wrote a book published by Wiley.
The details
Each session runs about 20 to 30 minutes, one to one, by video or in person in the Bay Area. Free to book. Spaces are limited and confirmed on request.
Next steps
To be considered for a Forum Select dinner or the CFO Executive Forum, use the apply page. Browse everything Open Future Forum is running on the full calendar.
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Host
This event is hosted as part of Open Future Forum, an executive community for the AI era founded by Murray Newlands. Open Future Forum brings together CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, founders, investors, and enterprise leaders through Forum Select, Forum Events, private executive dinners, and role-based communities including the CFO Executive Forum, CEO Executive Forum, CMO Executive Forum, and CISO Executive Forum. Learn more about Murray Newlands on the About Murray page. Murray Newlands is also Partner at IA Seed Ventures (IASV). Open Future Forum and IA Seed Ventures are separate organizations.