Today (June 9) marks the start of this year’s Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. Known as the “summer camp for billionaires,” the annual get-together has since 1983 drawn in industry leaders across media, tech, politics and finance to a mountain resort in Sun Valley, Idaho. Each year, the wealthy and elite touch down in private jets at the nearby Friedman Memorial Airport, which describes the conference as its “annual fly-in event” and today experienced delays due to flight volume. Convening at the Sun Valley Lodge, attendees will spend the next few days networking and attending private lectures on topics like national security, health care and education.
Media and entertainment heavyweights like Shari Redstone, the chairwoman of Paramount (PARA) Global who just agreed to a long-awaited merger with Skydance Media, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) CEO David Zaslav, and CNN anchor Anderson Cooper are among those spotted outside the event venue. In total, more than 60 power players in media, tech and finance have been invited to the exclusive conference, which has famously been the site of mega deals like Comcast (CMCSA)’s acquisition of NBCUniversal, Jeff Bezos’ acquisition of the Washington Post and Disney acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC.
Here are the media and entertainment leaders seen at this year’s Sun Valley so far:
Shari Redstone, chairwoman of Paramount Global and president of National Amusements
David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery
Bob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company
Jeffrey Katzenberg, co-founder of DreamWorks
Brian Grazer, film and television producer
Anderson Cooper, anchor of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360
Gayle King, co-host of CBS Mornings
Candice Bergen, actress
Stacey Bendet Eisner, CEO of Alice + Olivia
Rob Manfred, commissioner of Major League Baseball
Charles Rivkin, CEO of the Motion Picture Association
Oprah Winfrey, host of the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Van Jones, political commentator for CNN
Carrie Walton Penner, owner of the Denver Broncos
Mike Cavanaugh, president of Comcast, and Bryan Lourd, CEO of Creative Artists Agency
Bill Cowher, NFL analyst for CBS Sports
Alex Taylor, CEO of Cox Enterprises
Barry Diller, chairman of IAC
Michael Bloomberg, majority owner of Bloomberg L.P.
Neal Mohan, CEO of YouTube, and his wife, Hema Sareen Mohan
Michael Eisner, former CEO of The Walt Disney Company
Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots
Casey Wasserman, chairman of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games
John Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox
Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency
