For the world’s high tech and media moguls, there’s just one place to be within the week after July 4: Solar Valley, Idaho. The quiet resort city has hosted the annual Allen & Firm convention, usually dubbed “summer time camp for billionaires,” for greater than 4 many years.
This 12 months’s gathering kicks off right this moment (July 8), with as many as 175 personal jets anticipated to land at close by Friedman Memorial Airport. Over the approaching days, leaders from tech, media, and finance will convene for closed-door lectures and conferences recognized for his or her secrecy and frequent dealmaking.
Among the many early arrivals are The Walt Disney Firm CEO Bob Iger, Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav and OpenAI’s Sam Altman. Dozens extra executives are anticipated on the invitation-only occasion, which is hosted by the New York-based funding agency Allen & Co. and stays some of the coveted gatherings in enterprise.
Right here’s a have a look at which who’ve been noticed at this 12 months’s Solar Valley convention thus far:
Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Firm
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery
Tim Cook dinner, CEO of Apple
Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
Tobias Lütke, CEO of Shopify
Jim Lanzone, CEO of Yahoo
Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Firm
Bobby Kotick, former CEO of Activision Blizzard
Mary Barra, CEO of Common Motors
Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix
Spencer Neumann, chief monetary officer of Netflix
Robert Thomson, CEO of Information Corp
Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Protection Fund
Sheryl Sandberg, former chief working officer of Meta, and her husband Tom Bernthal
