Davos Elite Meeting in Idaho?

Davos comes to America this week!

Although many people are now familiar with the World Economic Forum’s infamous annual Switzerland summit, there’s a little-known global elite meeting in Idaho.

Powerful players in tech, media, and business will descend upon the luxurious Sun Valley ski resort.

The low-profile meeting is heavily guarded as billionaires meet to discuss secret back-room deals.

The Sun Valley event is aptly-labeled a “summer camp for billionaires.”

Summer camp for billionaires begins in Idahohttps://t.co/1CvuBfwDTA

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 11, 2023

The New York Post reports:

In the media sector, industry mainstays like Iger, who just ordered major job cuts at Disney properties such as ESPN, and WarnerBros. Discovery’s David Zaslav, whose ratings-challenged network CNN is the subject of sale rumors, are under pressure to turn around their struggling empires.

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In tech, Meta boss Zuckerberg is set to attend just days after his company launched its Twitter-like social media app Threads in a direct challenge to Elon Musk. Threads has already gained more than 100 million users – as well as threats of legal action from Musk.

AI will surely be a key topic of discussion. OpenAI’s head honcho Sam Altman is slated to be in town for the gathering, as is Microsoft boss Satya Nadella, whose company has poured billions into the AI firm’s operations.

Apple CEO Tim Cook will be in town after steering the iPhone maker to an unprecedented $3 trillion market cap, as will Google boss Sundar Pichai, according to a guest list published by Variety last month.

Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick will be rubbing elbows even as he awaits word on whether a federal judge will side with the Federal Trade Commission in its bid to block the company’s sale to Microsoft for $69 billion. Tech investor Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman also made the cut.

From the media world, prominent figures such as Oprah Winfrey, New York Post and NewsCorp owner Rupert Murdoch and Paramount Global chair Shari Redstone were all invited to join Iger and Zaslav at the event.

Sam Altman, David Zaslav among the power players to jet into Sun Valley to attend ‘summer camp for billionaires’ https://t.co/DOEzSRRx7G pic.twitter.com/6GgdABQPlh

— New York Post (@nypost) July 12, 2023

According to the Idaho Tribune, past attendees include Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Rupert Murdoch.

Idaho Tribune included a full list of invitees to this year’s Sun Valley conference:

Politics

• Martin Indyk, former U.S. ambassador to Israel
• Amos Yadlin, former Israel Defense Forces military attaché to Washington, D.C. and head of the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate
• Yousef Al Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States
• Mario Draghi, former Italian Prime Minister
• David Petraeus, former CIA chief
• Larry Summers, former treasury secretary (1999 to 2001)
• Hank Paulson, former treasury secretary (2006 to 2009)
• Karim Sadjadpour, an Iranian-American policy analyst at the Carnegie Endowment

Tech

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• Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (META)
• Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
• Tim Cook, CEO of Apple (AAPL)
• Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft (MSFT)
• Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
• Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
• Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn

Media and Entertainment

• Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp
• David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery (WB)
• Shari Redstone, chairwoman of Paramount (PARA) Global
• Bob Iger, CEO of Walt Disney Company
• Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment
• Reed Hastings, chairman of Netflix (NFLX)
• Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix
• Greg Peters, co-CEO of Netflix
• Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision Blizzard
• Casey Wasserman, CEO of Wasserman Media Group
• Bryan Lourd, co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency
• Brian Grazer, film and television producer
• Josh Berger, founder and chairman of Battersea Entertainment
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation

Finance

• Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
• Kenneth Chenault, former CEO of American Express
• Bob Mylod, founder of Annox Capital Management
• Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal, Palantir and Founders Fund

Sports and food

• Rob Manfred, MLB commissioner
• Jay Monahan, PGA Tour commissioner
• Roger Goodell, NFL commissioner
• Adam Silver, NBA commissioner
• Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
• Terry Pegula, owner of the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres
• Hamdi Ulukaya, founder of yogurt maker Chobani
• Danny Meyer, founder and chairman of Shake Shack

Media

• Oprah Winfrey, host of the Oprah Winfrey Show
• Andrew Ross Sorkin, columnist for the New York Times
• Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings
• David Begnaud, lead national correspondent for CBS Mornings.
• Van Jones, CNN contributor
• Erin Burnett, anchor of Erin Burnett OutFront on CNN
• David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post
• Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press
• Becky Quick, co-anchorwoman of CNBC’s “Squawk Box”

Russell Brand questioned if Sun Valley is the new Davos.

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