This year’s Allen & Company conference is expected to be held in Sun Valley, Idaho Starting July 7thaccording to minutes from Friedman Memorial Municipal Airport, which handles the influx of private planes that descend on the resort town each summer. As always, Variety got it Guest list. This year’s list combines familiar power players in technology and media with a few notable newcomers.
Expected attendees include Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman. The media contingent includes David Ellison, Bob Iger, David Zaslav, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, and the Murdoch family.
Some names stand out as newer to the Sun Valley conversation, including new Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro, incoming Apple CEO John Ternus, and CBS News’ controversial Bari Weiss. Noticeably absent this year is Elon Musk, who just became the world’s first trillionaire after the blockbuster SpaceX IPO.; NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang; David Ellison’s father, Larry Ellison; And the new CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Greg Appel.
Here’s a look at the key players expected to attend this year’s meeting:
Technology and artificial intelligence
- Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
- John Ternos, Apple’s next CEO
- Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
- Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
- Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet/Google
- Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
- Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
- Greg Brockman, President of OpenAI
- Mackenzie Price, co-founder of Alpha School
Media
- David Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance
- Barry Weiss, editor-in-chief, CBS News
- Bob Iger, former CEO of Disney
- Josh D’Amaro, CEO of Disney
- Dana Walden, co-president of Disney Entertainment
- Alan Bergman, co-president of Disney Entertainment
- Jimmy Pitaro, President, ESPN
- Brian Grazer, co-founder of Imagine Entertainment
- Brian Roberts, president of Comcast
- Mike Kavanagh, co-CEO of Comcast
- David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery
- Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix
- Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix
- Ravi Ahuja, President, Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Rupert Murdoch, Chairman Emeritus of Fox Corp.
- Lachlan Murdoch, CEO of Fox Corp
- Neil Mohan, CEO of YouTube
- Eddie Cue, senior vice president of Apple Services
- Barry Diller, Chairman, IAC/Expedia Group
Philanthropy, retail and investment
Arts and sports
Journalists and academics
- Gayle King, CBS News anchor
- Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor
- Van Jones, CNN contributor
- Bret Baier, Fox News anchor
- Andrew Ross Sorkin is a columnist for The New York Times
- Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker
- Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist
- David Ignatius is a columnist for The Washington Post
- Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist/author at NYU Stern
- Roland Fryer, Professor of Economics at Harvard University
- Willow Bay, dean of the USC Annenberg School
