Each year, an A-list group of CEOs, billionaire investors, university leaders, and politicians gather at Allen and Co.’s eponymously named Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, for what many have labeled a “summer camp for billionaires.” It’s an infamously private event that’s been closed to the press since it began in 1983, but the deals that are made inside this summer camp often have wide ranging impacts globally. Jeff Bezos famously hashed out the details of his Washington Post purchase at Sun Valley in 2013, for example, and Disney and ABC executives did something similar in the weeks before their merger in 1995.
This year, the guest list at the exclusive event will be as impressive as ever, with big names including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Meta cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Disney CEO Bob Iger, as well as Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and founder Jeff Bezos all planning to attend, according to a guest list seen by Variety. However, Sun Valley will also be down one oracle.
