A-listers from tech, media and finance joined in Idaho for the exclusive conference
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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump attend the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference at the Sun Valley Lodge on July 8, 2026 in Sun Valley, Idaho.
More than 300 of the world’s most powerful executives have trickled into Idaho for Allen & Co’s invite-only, closed-door Sun Valley conference, where media moguls, tech titans and financiers gather every year.
Dina Powell McCormick, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Joshua Kushner, Karlie Kloss, Robert Kraft, Sam Altman, Alex Karp, Bari Weiss, Sheryl Sandberg, David Zaslav, Bob Iger, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Evan Spiegel, Josh Silverman, Marne Levine, Brian Grazer, Reid Hoffman, Adam Silver, Mitch Rales, Andy Jassy and Bobby Kotick were among those seen in Sun Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Washington figures also in attendance included Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh — who is making his first appearance in Sun Valley since being tapped for his role — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA), former CIA Director David Petraeus and former Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE).
Also spotted were Lachlan Murdoch, Nellie Bowles, David Ignatius and Jonathan Haidt.
Karp arrived at the four-day retreat days after unveiling a major partnership between Palantir and Nvidia to deploy advanced AI models for U.S. government agencies, as artificial intelligence dominates discussions among this year’s tech executives.
Weiss is at Sun Valley for the first time since Paramount tapped her to run CBS News last October.
Zaslav’s Warner Bros. Discovery recently completed a $111 billion sale to Paramount Skydance after clearing a Department of Justice antitrust review in June. After he arrived and settled in, Zaslav changed into a baseball cap bearing the “WB” logo.
Iger arrives at Sun Valley after stepping down for the second time from his post as Walt Disney Company CEO in March. He’s since taken on an advisory role at Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Josh Kushner.
Diller, chairman and senior executive of People, Inc. and Expedia Group, rolled up to the conference on an electric-blue Trek bike.
Film producer Grazer came fresh off Aspen Ideas Festival, where he insisted that his films remain deliberately apolitical, aiming for “universal themes” instead.
Below, a visual rundown of notable attendees:
Jane Lauder, Kevin Warsh and Casey Wasserman

Dina Powell McCormick and Sen. Dave McCormick

Joshua Kushner, Karlie Kloss, Diane Von Furstenberg, Garrett Langley and Megan Langley

Alexandre Arnault and Alex Karp

Gayle King, Jonathan Haidt and Nellie Bowles

Sam Altman

Marne Levine, Phil Deutch and Sheryl Sandberg

David Petraeus

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: ‘All the incredible technological leadership, the great entrepreneurship, the incredible startup community that's strong and vibrant in Israel, all of this bodes well for the future’
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee and Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter attend a signing ceremony of a U.S.-Israel MOU on AI and energy cooperation at Blair House in Washington on July 8, 2025.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed a memorandum of understanding with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Secretary of Energy Chris Wright on Tuesday, advancing U.S. and Israeli cooperation in energy and artificial intelligence research and integrating AI into the Abraham Accords.
“Artficial intelligence is the thrust of innovation now and will create unbelievable things in the future,” Netanyahu said during the signing ceremony at the Blair House in Washington. “It’s both challenging, because there could be bad things in it, but there could be unimaginable good things. I think we can lead this.”
The MOU calls for integrating artificial intelligence into the power grids of the U.S. and Israel, in addition to building joint policies around artificial intelligence usage. Regional agreements, including the Abraham Accords and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, will also be strengthened through the memorandum, according to a press release from the Prime Minister’s Office.
The move comes on the heels of the AI giant Nvidia announcing it will expand its presence in Israel, including opening a new R&D center, and the company’s acquisition of Israeli AI start-up Run:ai for $700 million.
During the ceremony, U.S. officials touted the benefits of the MOU, including minimizing the dangers within developing advanced AI models and its security-focused applications.
“This step takes us into the future around collaboration because we know that defense would not be working without artificial intelligence,” Burgum said. “But all the incredible technological leadership, the great entrepreneurship, the incredible startup community that’s strong and vibrant in Israel, all of this bodes well for the future. The first kind of agreement that Chris [Wright] and I have signed with any country is this one and we think it’s a great place to start.”
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