AI Executive Community Office Hours with Murray Newlands, Open Future Forum

AI Executive Community Office Hours with Murray Newlands, Open Future Forum

📅 December 17, 2026
🕐 9:00 AM PT
📍 Palo Alto
🎟️ $850 · Approval required

About This Event

Book a free seat for a direct conversation with Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum, the Global 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.

The community

Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. Its network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of events for senior executives and investors, including CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, private equity leaders, founders, and AI leaders, through Forum Select, its invite-only private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels and gatherings. 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.

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

Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley. Its network reaches tens of thousands of executives and investors worldwide. It runs a year-round calendar of events for senior executives and investors, including CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs, private equity leaders, founders, and AI leaders, through Forum Select, its invite-only private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels and gatherings. 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.

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📍 Palo Alto, CA

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