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

President Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh to be chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve on Friday, elevating an outspoken critic of the Fed’s current leadership  who has recently indicated support for Trump’s broad goals of lowering interest rates.

“I think the Fed has the balance wrong. A rate cut is the beginning of the process to get the balance right,” Warsh said in an interview in July. But he is not a lock on reflexively lowering rates to align with Trump’s agenda. The Wall Street Journal editorial board said Friday that Warsh’s selection was notable given that his longstanding views on monetary policy could run against Trump’s desire to quickly lower interest rates.

Warsh has angled for the position for some time, first lobbying for it in Trump’s first term, before Trump selected current Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in 2017. Warsh has a personal connection to Trump ally Ronald Lauder, the World Jewish Congress president who has known Trump since they were both in college at the University of Pennsylvania: Warsh is married to Lauder’s daughter, Jane. 

The billionaire Lauder family are heirs to the Estée Lauder Companies, the cosmetics company founded by Ron Lauder’s parents. Warsh, who is also Jewish, grew up near Albany. 

Trump has made no secret in recent months of his frustration with Powell over his decision not to cut interest rates as aggressively as the president prefers. The Justice Department opened an investigation into Powell this month relating to allegations that his renovations of the Fed headquarters have gone significantly over budget — a move that prompted an unprecedented video from Powell asserting the Fed’s independence from the president. Powell’s term ends in May. 

Warsh, who was an economic policy advisor to President George W. Bush, served as a member of the Fed’s board from 2006 to 2011. He stepped down from the board due to disagreements with the body’s handling of the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and has since been an advocate for reform at the Fed.  

“Inflation is a choice,” Warsh argued in a 2025 podcast interview, where he claimed the Fed needs to reform after losing “track of what’s happening to us in the center of the country.” 

Warsh was a contender for Federal Reserve chairman during Trump’s first term, and the president had reportedly considered Warsh for the role of Treasury Secretary in his second term.

Warsh has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford and a law degree from Harvard. Before joining the Bush administration, he worked at Morgan Stanley in New York. He is currently a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and he works in the family office of billionaire hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller.