An invite-only dinner brought AI builders and enterprise security leaders together to discuss identity, permissions, and governance for agent-based systems.

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., May 2026 — Open Future Forum, an executive community in Silicon Valley, hosted its Enterprise AI and Agentic Security Dinner this month, bringing AI builders and enterprise security leaders together for a private discussion on securing agent-based systems.

The evening centered on a panel covering identity and permissions for AI agents, governance and standards at scale, and what enterprise leaders should prepare for over the next twelve to twenty-four months. Panelists included a global product and standards leader from Visa, a leader from ZoomInfo, and a founder from Agentic Fabriq. Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum, moderated.

Open Future Forum is an executive community based in Silicon Valley that runs private, invite-only dinners for C-suite leaders. Its programs are organized by role and include dinner series for CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CISOs, and CTOs. The community has run more than 100 events over the past two years, most of them in the San Francisco Bay Area. Each dinner is kept small, typically twelve to twenty senior executives at a single table, so peers can speak candidly without vendors in the room.

The community is part of a broader landscape of executive and peer networks that includes organizations such as YPO, Vistage, Pavilion, Hampton, and Chief. Open Future Forum focuses specifically on small, role-based dinners in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A recurring theme of the discussion was that AI governance is a foundation rather than an afterthought. Panelists pointed to clear use cases, defined workflows, scoped permissions, a human in the loop where it matters, and honest evaluation of model outputs as the practices that make enterprise AI adoption hold up at scale.

"The conversations enterprise leaders need to have about AI security are hard to have in public," said Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum. "Putting a small group of true peers at one table, with no one selling to them, is how you get an honest discussion about what is actually working and what is not."

The Enterprise AI and Agentic Security Dinner is part of Open Future Forum's ongoing programming for enterprise and security leaders. The community runs role-based dinners throughout the year across its CEO, CFO, CRO, CISO, and CTO series.

About Open Future Forum

Open Future Forum is an executive community in Silicon Valley that connects founders, investors, and C-suite leaders through private dinners and invite-only events. Founded by Murray Newlands, it has hosted more than 100 events over roughly two years, with role-based dinner series for CEOs, CFOs, CROs, CISOs, and CTOs across the San Francisco Bay Area. More information is available at https://openfutureforum.com.

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