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Travel pool 7: attendees (+expected attendees)

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Cameron Joseph
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Tuesday, July 15, 2025 5:25 PM

Spotted in the audience as we await the POTUS speech: Alex Karp walking backstage, and Rick Perry sitting onstage.

Event is open press, will send along some color/highlights.

Sen. Dave McCormick's office sent out the list of attendees earlier today:

Leaders attending today’s Energy and Innovation Summit include:

  • Khaldoon Al-Mubarak, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Mubadala
  • Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic
  • Nir Bar Dea, Chief Executive Officer, Bridgewater
  • Brendan Bechtel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bechtel
  • The Hon. Scott Bessent, United States Secretary of the Treasury
  • Brandon Bishop, Secretary-Treasurer of Governing Body, North America Building Trades Union
  • The Hon. Doug Burgum, United States Secretary of the Interior
  • Joe Dominguez, President and Chief Executive Officer, Constellation Energy
  • Larry Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
  • Bruce Flatt, Chief Executive Officer, Brookfield Asset Management
  • Matt Garman, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services
  • John Graham, President and Chief Executive Officer, CPP Investments
  • Jon Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone
  • Rene Haas, Chief Executive Officer of Arm and Board Director of SoftBank
  • Farnam Jahanian, President, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Alex Karp, Chief Executive Officer, Palantir
  • Lim Chow Kiat, Chief Executive Officer, GIC
  • Jake Loosararian, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gecko Robotics
  • The Hon. Howard Lutnick, United States Secretary of Commerce
  • Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer, Google
  • Toby Rice, President and Chief Executive Offer, EQT Corporation
  • David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar, White House
  • Dan Sumner, Chief Executive Officer, Westinghouse Electric Company
  • Darren Woods, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ExxonMobil
  • The Hon. Chris Wright, United States Secretary of Energy

The White House sent out this schedule of planned speakers earlier today:

PROGRAM AGENDA

9:30AM–9:45 AM - Opening Remarks by Senator Dave McCormick

Location: McConomy Auditorium

9:45AM–10:30 AM - Panel 1: The AI Race and How to Win It

Location: McConomy Auditorium

Panelists:

  1. Jon Gray, President and Chief Operating Officer, Blackstone
  1. Khaldoon Al-Mubarak, Chief Executive Officer and Managing

Director, Mubadala

  1. Farnam Jahanian, President, Carnegie Mellon University
  2. David Sacks, AI and Crypto Czar, White House
  3. Rene Haas, Chief Executive Officer of Arm and Board Director of

SoftBank

Moderator: Dina Powell McCormick, Vice chairman BDT and MSD

Partners and Former Deputy National Security Advisor

10:45AM–11:30 AM - Panel 2: The Case for Pennsylvania:

Opportunities and Challenges

Location: McConomy Auditorium

Panelists:

  1. Jake Loosararian, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Gecko

Robotics

  1. Senator Kim Ward, President Pro Tempore, Pennsylvania State Senate
  2. Bruce Flatt, Chief Executive Officer, Brookfield Asset Management
  3. The Hon. Howard Lutnick, United States Secretary of Commerce
  4. Mike Rowe, Chief Executive Officer, mikeroweWORKS Foundation

Moderator: Toby Rice, President and Chief Executive Officer, EQT

Corporation

11:35AM–12:05 PM - Panel 3: Investing Big in Pennsylvania: A Case

Study

Location: McConomy Auditorium

Panelists:

  1. The Hon. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania
  2. Matt Garman, Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services
  3. The Hon. Dave McCormick, United States Senator from Pennsylvania

Moderator: Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, President, Pennsylvania State University

12:30PM–1:15 PM - Panel 4: Powering the AI Revolution

Location: McConomy Auditorium

Panelists:

  1. Larry Fink, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
  2. Darren Woods, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ExxonMobil
  3. Brendan Bechtel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bechtel
  1. Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic
  2. The Hon. Chris Wright, United States Secretary of Energy

Moderator: Ruth Porat, President and Chief Investment Officer, Alphabet

and Google

3:30 PM – Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit with Special

Guest President Donald J. Trump

Location: Wiegand Gym

Cameron Joseph

Senior Washington Reporter

The Christian Science Monitor

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