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It's always interesting to look at which topics they consider important for the current year:
72nd Bilderberg Meeting
72nd Bilderberg Meeting to take place 9 - 12 April 2026 in Washington, D.C., USA
WASHINGTON, D.C., 9 April 2026 – The 72nd Bilderberg Meeting will take place from 9 – 12 April 2026 in Washington, D.C., USA. As ever, a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and media has been invited. The list of participants is available here.
In alphabetical order, the topics for discussion this year are:
AI
Arctic Security
China
Digital Finance
Energy Diversification
Europe
Global Trade
The Middle East
Russia
Trans-Atlantic Defence-Industrial Relationship
Ukraine
USA
Future of Warfare
The West
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2026/press-release-2026
The list of participants:
https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/meetings/meeting-2026/participants-2026
Some names which caught my eye:
Applebaum, Anne (USA), Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Döpfner, Mathias (DEU), Chair and CEO, Axel Springer SE
(Axel Springer owns Politico)
Ek, Daniel (SWE), Chair, Spotify SA
Freeland, Chrystia (CAN), Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine
Georgieva, Kristalina (INT), Managing Director, IMF
Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, Google DeepMind
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.
Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
(author of Stalin's biography)
Lammy, David (GBR), Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice
McGurk, Brett (USA), Global Affairs Analyst, CNN
("served in senior national security positions under presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden")
Metreweli, Blaise (GBR), Chief, Secret Intelligence Service
Murati, Mira (USA), CEO, Thinking Machines Lab
(was in OpenAI)
Rutte, Mark (INT), Secretary General, NATO
Schmidt, Eric E. (USA), Executive Chair and CEO, Relativity Space Inc
(was in Google)
Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Smith, Brad (USA), Vice Chair and President, Microsoft Corporation
Stubb, Alexander (FIN), President of the Republic
Valtonen, Elina (FIN), Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wang, Alexandr (USA), Chief AI Officer, Meta
Zakaria, Fareed (USA), Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS
It's interesting to see what countries aren't represented. No Russians. No Swiss.
One tame that caught me was:
Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies Inc.
It's interesting how world models can be completely othogonal to each other. While the West and East fight it out there will be another war of Humans vs Killer AI. Just like the Wizard of Oz was intended to point out, some contrasts are the future way of looking at things and are more correct, and some are the past.
Three other AI-related names I noticed are:
And Eric Schmidt is also now in AI drone business, I think.
UPD Ah, and Daniel Ek from Spotify too, that's why he was invited:
https://archive.is/BNDxc (JUN 17 2025)