CMO Holiday Mixer

The year is almost done. Your team rebuilt how it works at least once, the board still wants the number, and you have tested more AI tools than you can name. Before next year’s plan takes over, spend one evening comparing notes with people who lived the same year.

Join the CMO Executive Forum for our holiday mixer in Palo Alto. It is a small room, off the record, with good food, a festive drink, and no slides or vendor pitches. Just marketing and growth leaders and the conversations that are hard to have anywhere else.

What we will talk about

• The one bet that paid off this year, and the one you would take back

• Where AI agents are doing real work in your growth engine, and where they are not

• How buyers find you now that AI assistants answer first

• Keeping the users you fought to win

• What you are hiring for, and what you are cutting, in 2027

Who should attend

CMOs and Chief Growth Officers, VPs and Heads of Marketing, growth and demand generation leaders, and product marketing and product growth leaders at venture-backed and public companies, including consumer apps and gaming.

The evening

• 5:30 PM Arrival, holiday drinks and food

• 6:15 PM Welcome from Open Future Forum and our hosts

• 6:20 PM Mixing and peer introductions

• 8:00 PM Close

This is a mixer, not a program. After a short welcome, the evening is yours, and our hosts will make introductions where they are useful. Off the record, Chatham House rules. Dress is festive business casual. Seats are limited and registration is by approval.

Hosts

• Murray Newlands, CEO, Open Future Forum

• Yvonne Newlands, Chief Business Officer, Open Future Forum

• Meena Karnani, Director of Partnerships and Events, ThinkingAI

• Dan Usedom, Founding GTM, ThinkingAI

• Harsha Vankayalapati, CEO and Co-Founder, AgentWeb

About Open Future Forum

Open Future Forum is a global executive community founded in Silicon Valley in 2019, creating spaces where leaders expand what’s possible. Through Forum Select, its private gatherings, and Forum Events, its open panels, it brings executives together to build relationships, exchange ideas and learn from peers. It runs series for C-suite leaders (CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, CISOs and General Counsel), investors (VC and Private Equity), and builders (YC Founders and AI Leaders). Open Future Forum also publishes original research based on first-party surveys and insights from its community. Learn more at openfutureforum.com.

Our Partners

ThinkingAI
ThinkingAI builds enterprise AI agents that help companies analyze live business data, identify what is changing, and turn those insights into action across growth, experimentation, and operations.

AgentWeb
AgentWeb is the company behind Emma, an AI marketing operator that helps teams research audiences, create campaigns, generate content, and manage lead follow-up while keeping marketers in control of strategy and brand.