Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, is slated to host a breakfast conversation on Saturday in Southampton, N.Y., focused on global challenges including the Israel-Hamas war, as part of the Milken Institute’s Hamptons Dialogues.

Witkoff, who will sit in conversation with Michael Milken, is co-hosting the breakfast with his son Alex, two weeks after meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Abdulrahman al-Thani in Spain to discuss ceasefire and hostage-release efforts.

The breakfast is one of the few sessions during the weekend-long confab that will touch on the Middle East. According to an agenda viewed by Jewish Insider, the conversation between Witkoff and Milken will focus on how “[e]conomic, technological, and geopolitical competition is restructuring the global order” and notes that “[s]trategic rivalry with China, instability in the Middle East, the war in Eastern Europe, and shifting alliances are testing established frameworks for cooperation.”

On Friday, Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman will speak about K-12 education and the Alpha School, a project he has promoted in recent months that eschews DEI programming and focuses on AI-driven education. Later on Friday, former Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin are speaking on a panel about the U.S.’ economic advantages.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is slated to speak on a Sunday morning panel focused on U.S. economic security, followed by back-to-back sessions about the future of American cities, featuring NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Carlyle Group cofounder David Rubenstein and Related Companies’ Stephen Ross.

Rubenstein will again take the stage Sunday afternoon for a conversation about sports investments, which will also feature Len Blavatnik. 

Other figures at the annual gathering include former First Lady Jill Biden, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks, Alphabet President and CIO Ruth Porat and actor Jerry Seinfeld.