About us

Founders Forum is a community for the best global entrepreneurs, select inspiring CEOs and key investors, in media and technology. Our private network brings together over 3000 of the world's best, brightest and most dynamic digital entrepreneurs, who engage in open debate, brainstorming, discussion and problem solving. The invite-only forums are currently held in London, New York, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro. We will introduce Hong Kong in 2014 and more territories will be included for 2015.

Past guests have included: Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Chad Hurley (YouTube), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the www), Niklas Zennstorm (Skype), Sir Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse), Daniel Ek (Spotify), Michael Birch (Bebo), Dennis Crowley (FourSquare), Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks), Archie Norman (ITV), John Wren (Omnicom), Jason Kilar (Hulu), Natalie Massenet (net-a-porter), Ilkka Paananen (Supercell), Ashton Kutcher (investor), Hiroshi Mikitani (Rakuten), will.i.am and Sir Jonathan Ive (Apple).

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Next Event: FF NYC, Thursday 3rd October 2013

We are delighted to be holding our second event in New York City co-hosting with Sean Parker and Edgar Bronfman Jr..

Confirmed guests include: Kevin Ryan (Gilt Groupe/DoubleClick), Steve Case (Revolution/AOL), Michael Lazerow (BuddyMedia), Tim Armstrong (AOL), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Joshua Kushner (Thrive), Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (New York Times), John Borthwick (betaworks), Mike Lynch (Invoke, ex-Autonomy), Barry Silbert (SecondMarket), Steve Newhouse (Conde Nast), Neil Blumenthal (Warby Parker), Ynon Kriez (Maker Studios).

Find out more here.

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