AI Infrastructure Roundtable
An evening for the people who decide what the AI stack actually runs on. Compute, networking, storage, and the hardware and software choices underneath all of it.
Most of the conversation about AI happens a layer above this one. Models, agents, products. The harder problems sit lower down. Power and cooling limits that no budget fixes quickly. Interconnect bottlenecks that only show up at scale. Storage sized for a different kind of workload. Decisions on silicon and network fabric that lock in for years, made now, on incomplete information.
This is the first gathering of a new Open Future Forum group for AI infrastructure leaders. The week Hot Chips wraps, a small group sits down in Palo Alto to compare notes on what is actually working.
No pitches. No sales presentations. Just strong peers, real numbers, and useful conversations.
Who's in the room
Leaders making architectural and product decisions on compute, networking and storage
Infrastructure and platform engineering leaders running AI workloads at scale
Hardware and silicon leaders
Data centre and capacity planning leaders
Technical founders building at the infrastructure layer
Seats are limited and every registration is reviewed.
What we'll cover
The agenda comes from the room. The threads we expect:
Where the real bottleneck sits now: compute, interconnect, memory, or power
Buying and building decisions on silicon when the roadmap keeps moving
Networking choices at cluster scale, and what breaks first
Storage and data movement for training against inference workloads
Build, rent, or co-locate, and how people are actually running those numbers
The details
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Industrious, Palo Alto. Exact address shared on approval.
Format: Roundtable discussion, networking, food and drinks
The room: Off the record, Chatham House rules
Hosted by
Murray Newlands, Founder & CEO, Open Future Forum
Convened with a small group of AI infrastructure leaders. Names to be confirmed.
About Open Future Forum
Open Future Forum is a private executive community based in Silicon Valley, founded by Murray Newlands in 2019. Its network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of small, off-the-record dinners, panels, and mixers for senior executives and investors, including CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, private equity leaders, founders, and AI leaders. Beyond events, Open Future Forum convenes peer groups and executive boards and publishes original research built on first-party survey and qualitative data from its executive network.