The MOB Directors Summit

Once a year, fellows present what boards should be asking about AI and cybersecurity — to a room of nominating chairs, chief executives, search partners, and governance counsel.

The Idea

Fellows are met as contributors before they are considered as candidates.

Board appointments follow relationships, and a relationship that begins with a candidacy rarely travels far. The Summit reverses the order of the introduction. A nominating chair encounters a fellow delivering a serious analysis of a risk for which that chair is accountable, and forms a view of the person's judgment before any question of a seat has been raised.

That is the design, and it is why the Summit is free to attend for directors and search professionals, and why fellows are asked to present rather than to persuade.

The Format

Fellow outlooks

Each fellow presents a short, rigorous outlook on a domain question boards are facing — AI incident disclosure, third-party concentration, model risk in a regulated business, the shape of the next attack surface.

The annual report

The launch of AI & Cyber in the Boardroom, the program's annual survey of how boards are actually governing these domains, co-fielded with a founding partner.

Working sessions

Small-format sessions between fellows, nominating chairs, and search partners on live governance questions rather than on candidacies.

Attendance

Fellows are expected to attend during the fellowship. Attendance is open to alumni thereafter, and free for directors, nominating chairs, and search professionals.

The First
Summit

MOB 1 presents in 2027.

The founding class convenes in fall 2026 and presents at the first Directors Summit in 2027, held in New York alongside the month-nine boardroom convening. Founding partners host, and the annual report launches from the stage.

Request an invitation Directors, nominating chairs, and search professionals attend at no cost.