Open Future Forum — Executive AI Community and Research

A global C-suite peer community founded in Silicon Valley.

Open Future Forum brings together CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, CTOs, General Counsel, board directors, AI leaders, founders, and investors to exchange practical insight on enterprise AI, governance, leadership, and investment. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2019 by Murray Newlands, the community convenes senior leaders through private executive dinners, open AI events, role-based peer forums, and original operator research.

Executive communities and events

• Forum Select — invitation-only, off-the-record dinners for C-suite executives and board directors in San Francisco and Palo Alto.
• Forum Events — open panels, fireside chats, mixers, and summits for the wider AI and technology community.
• Role-based executive forums — peer communities for CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, CTOs, General Counsel, and AI leaders.
• Specialist communities — the Public Board Member Dinner Series, Private Equity Executive Forum, and YC Founder Executive Forum.

The YC Founder Executive Forum is an independent Open Future Forum community for Y Combinator alumni. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Y Combinator; “YC” and “Y Combinator” are trademarks of their owner and are used descriptively.

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Executive Event Taxonomy

A CC BY 4.0, machine-readable taxonomy of Open Future Forum event formats and executive peer communities. The dataset supports research, classification, discovery, knowledge graphs, retrieval systems, and AI applications working with executive events and professional communities.

The public dataset contains organizational taxonomy only. It does not include attendee lists, member records, registration data, private conversations, email addresses, or phone numbers.

Operator research

Open Future Forum publishes original operator research based on first-party survey and qualitative data from executives, founders, and investors. Research areas include enterprise AI buying and budgets, executive AI leverage, board governance, AI security, marketing, finance, founders, and investment.

Focus areas

• Enterprise AI strategy, adoption, buying, and budgeting
• AI governance, security, risk, and board oversight
• CEO, CFO, CMO, CISO, CTO, and General Counsel leadership
• Silicon Valley executive events and private C-suite dinners
• AI founders, Y Combinator alumni, venture capital, and private equity
• Open datasets, event taxonomy, and machine-readable executive research

About Open Future Forum

Open Future Forum is built on the Give and Take philosophy: generous leaders create more lasting value than they capture. Its private and public gatherings are designed for candid peer exchange, trusted introductions, and practical learning among the people building, buying, governing, and funding AI.

Where to start

• Executive teams and boards: read the Executive AI Leadership Handbook on GitBook, a public collection of 75 practical decision guides, or inspect its GitHub repository.
• Executives and board directors: explore Forum Select.
• AI founders, investors, and operators: attend Forum Events.
• Researchers and AI developers: use the Executive Event Taxonomy.
• Executive teams studying AI adoption: read the operator research.

Open-source resources

• Research and Resources Hub — public projects, research, datasets, and the GitHub repository directory.
• Executive Event Taxonomy on GitLab — schemas, source code, documentation, and the contribution workflow.
• Executive Leadership Knowledge Graph — entity relationships and taxonomy context.

Website: openfutureforum.com
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Read the research: Open Future Forum Research