Vendor-Saturated Conferences
The moment your badge is scanned, you become a target. Every panel, every happy hour — engineered to sell you something.
Forum Select — Private Membership
The Room Where
AI's Future
Gets Decided
Forum Select is a private, invitation-only peer network for C-suite executives shaping — not just reacting to — the AI era.
San Francisco & Palo Alto • Quarterly Dinners • Off the Record, Always
The Problem
The events you attend are not built for you.
Shallow Peer Networks
Most executive communities optimise for volume. You end up with a hundred connections and no one to call at 11pm when the board asks a question you can't answer publicly.
AI Moving Faster Than Your Board
The gap between what your board expects and what you actually know is widening every quarter. You need a room where you can say that out loud.
Membership
What Forum Select gives you that nothing else does.
01
Closed-Door Roundtables
Quarterly dinners of 8–30 peers in San Francisco and Palo Alto. No panels. No presentations. No record. Just the honest conversation you've been waiting to have with people who understand the weight of the room.
02
The AI Briefing
Members receive a curated, candid briefing on AI developments that matter at the executive level — stripped of vendor spin. What's real, what's noise, what your peers are actually doing.
03
Peer Matching
When you join, Murray personally identifies two or three members navigating the same challenge you are. Not a directory. A deliberate introduction. Built on the Give and Take philosophy that founded this community.
04
Annual Summit
Once a year, the full Forum Select community convenes for an extended, invitation-only gathering. Deeper conversations, longer relationships, and the kind of trust that takes years to build — compressed into two days.
Member Voices
Off the record. Shared with permission.
The most valuable thing Forum Select gave me was a room where I didn't have to perform. I said things about our AI strategy I've never said publicly. And got better advice than I've gotten from any consultant.
Chief Executive Officer
Financial Services, $2B AUM
I've been to every major AI conference. The signal-to-noise ratio is catastrophic. Forum Select is the only place where the conversation starts at the level where I actually operate.
Chief Technology Officer
Healthcare Technology
Murray personally introduced me to two other founders the week I joined. Both became relationships I'll carry for the rest of my career. That's not a network. That's a community.
Founder & CEO
Series C AI Company
Who Belongs Here
Membership is not for everyone. That is the point.
Forum Select is built on the premise that the quality of a community is determined by the generosity of its members, not the size of its roster. Murray reviews every application personally.
The Give and Take philosophy is not a marketing line. It is the filter. If you are here to extract rather than contribute, this is not your room.
Eligibility criteria
- CEOs and Founders at companies of 200 or more employees
- C-suite executives with meaningful P&L accountability
- Decision-makers with direct responsibility for AI investment and strategy
- Executives who value candour over performance
We do not accept vendors, consultants, or service providers.
Apply
Request Your Invitation
Every application is reviewed by Murray Newlands. There is no membership fee. Acceptance is based solely on fit.