Sun Valley 2022 – Guest List Includes Many Names of the Moguls, Political Leaders, and Celebrities

Once more, it’s that season. That post-July fourth period when media barons and billionaires break out the Brooks Brothers easygoing and wear their sweater vests to hit an idyllic Idaho resort town of Sun Valley for one more edition of “let’s make a deal.”

Large numbers of the names expected to rub elbows one month from now are familiar ones. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Liberty Media’s John Malone, Comcast chairman Brian Roberts, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Apple pasha Tim Cook and Berkshire Hathaway guru Warren Buffett are among the people who have indeed taken care of cut for Allen and Co’s. annual media conference.

David Zaslav, straight from joining WarnerMedia and Discovery into the shiny new aggregate Warner Bros. Yet again Discovery, is on the list of people to attend. He’s joined by any semblance of Paramount Global’s Shari Redstone, Netflix co-chairs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek. Bounce Iger, the one who Chapek replaced, is additionally still among the invited and the two Bobs aren’t precisely enthusiasts of one another.

Known as a “summer camp for moguls,” Sun Valley has enlivened a few significant media consolidations. Among the associations that were first brought forth in the mountain, the hideout is Comcast’s acquisition of NBC/Universal, the Washington Post’s deal with Jeff Bezos, and Disney’s deal for Capital Cities/ABC. It was additionally answerable for one epic disaster, making way for AOL and Time Warner’s brief consolidation, yet all the same, the less said about that…

From the world of Silicon Valley, there’s Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Elon Musk, the one who is attempting to purchase the social media platform. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, who as of late announced she will step down as head working official in the fall, is on the list, alongside Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Eventbrite prime supporters Kevin Hartz and Julia Hartz, YouTube chief Susan Wojcicki, and Spotify founder Daniel Ek. In the wake of passing on Sun Valley last year, billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel is poised to make his return.

Additionally getting the golden ticket is a few individuals from the fourth estate. They incorporate pillars of broadcast journalism such as Tom Brokaw and Diane Sawyer, alongside Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, New York Times article page staple Thomas Friedman, conservative commentator Douglas Murray, and “Squawk Box” co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin and Rebecca Quick. CNN is represented by any semblance of Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, and Van Jones.

From the Hollywood power brokers set there’s CAA’s Bryan Lourd, recuperating super agent Mike Ovitz, Oscar-winning producer Brian Grazer and Casey Wasserman, the head of sports marketing and talent agency Wasserman. They’re joined by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, late of Quibi.

There’s a cadre of sports and fashion-oriented attendees including Nike founder Phil Knight, Spanx CEO Sara Blakely, St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt, Boston Red Sox owner John Henry, Peloton CEO Barry McCarthy, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft, wrestler Eddie Edwards and Tony Bloom, sports bettor and football club owner.

Sun Valley frequently sees a crossing point of Beltway insiders, billionaires, and extremely rich people. This year is no special case. There are former CIA directors Michael Morrell and David Petraeus, former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn, Idaho Gov.

Brad Little, University of Chicago President Bob Zimmer, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia, Council on Foreign Relations head Richard Haass, and Yousef Al Otaiba, the current United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States.

Sun Valley guests gather in the first part of the day to hear addresses on political, cultural, or economic topics. Health care, science and security appear to be in front of the mind given the creation of the list of attendees.

Among those included on the list are Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, Mayo Clinic CEO Gianrico Farrugia, New York-Presbyterian Hospital head Steve Corwin, biochemist Feng Zhang, mental health advocate Anne Moss Rogers and the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller.

A couple of moguls appear to be passing on this one. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Rupert Murdoch aren’t on the list of people to attend notwithstanding having gone to a few past Sun Valley conferences. Murdoch’s children James and Lachlan are supposed to join in, be that as it may.

These names accompany a significant proviso. Being on the list of people to attend doesn’t mean the big shot or political leader or celebrity in question will actually make the trek to Sun Valley. Oprah Winfrey and Jerry Seinfeld have appeared on lists of attendees in the past without really landing in Idaho. Allen and Co.tends will in general reward the heads of companies who have done business with the investment bank with an invite and once a mogul has made the cut, they tend to come back for years, even decades.