Apple CEO Tim Cook and new CEO John Ternus will attend this year’s Sun Valley conference, according to Forbes.
Allen & Co., the investment firm behind the event, uses the conference as an annual excuse to bring media, technology and finance executives together in the same rooms for a week of closed-door discussions at Sun Valley Lodge. This year’s event began on July 7 and is scheduled to continue until July 11.
This is Cook’s final trip to Sun Valley as Apple CEO. Apple announced in April that Ternus would take the title of CEO on September 1, ending Cook’s 15-year tenure at the helm of the company as he moves into the newly created executive chairman position.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services and Health, will also attend this year’s Sun Valley conference. Cue was a regular at the conference in previous years.
This year’s guest list places Apple’s leadership alongside a strong concentration of AI industry figures, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, OpenAI Chairman Greg Brockman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Beyond the AI ​​contingent, this year’s participants include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav and others. Discovery, Ken Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.
Sun Valley’s reputation as a trading location dates back decades. The informal conversations at the resort are widely credited with laying the groundwork for Disney’s purchase of ABC in 1995, with Bezos taking over The Washington Post in 2013, and Verizon’s 2014 deal for AOL.
