Ninety minutes. One question.
A room of peers.
Each session opens with members naming the specific challenge they bring. A moderator structures the exchange. Twenty minutes are reserved for candid peer comparison on the decisions under debate inside member organisations.
What happens in the room stays in the room.
The Chatham House Rule is observed without exception. No press. No recordings. No verbatim notes attributable to members. The Secretariat publishes an anonymised chapter brief within ten days; nothing else leaves the room.
Composition
Chapters convene eight to twenty members per session. Sector balance is curated to ensure peer parity — no single industry dominates the table, and no single firm is over-represented.
Cadence
Each chapter convenes four times per calendar year. Two of those sessions are dedicated to the rolling Forum agenda; two are reserved for member-proposed topics.
What a Forum session looks like.
A typical chapter roundtable runs ninety minutes, with a closed dinner held on the same evening for members travelling in.
- Opening introductions 15 min
- Moderated discussion on the convened question 45 min
- Peer exchange — comparable decisions across firms 20 min
- Action summary — what we will retest next quarter 10 min
- Closed dinner (optional) 120 min
Standing questions, quarter by quarter.
Half of the calendar follows the Forum’s rolling agenda; the other half is set by members.
Q1 — Governance & oversight
Board reporting, AI risk taxonomies, audit and red-team standards, regulator engagement.
Q2 — Infrastructure & sovereignty
Sovereign capacity, model selection, vendor lock-in, data residency, cost-to-serve.
Q3 — Talent & operating model
AI function design, the CAIO mandate, partnerships with the CIO and CRO, build-vs-buy at scale.
Q4 — State of Enterprise AI
Synthesis session. Inputs to the annual Index. Each chapter contributes one anonymised case.