# 2023 Bilderberg Conference

The 2023 Bilderberg Conference or Bilderberg Club was held between May 18–21, 2023 at the Pestana Palace hotel in Lisbon, Portugal. The 2023 meeting was the 69th edition of the event. A Bilderberg Group press release stated that there were approximately 130 participants from 23 countries.
Established in 1954 by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Bilderberg conferences (or meetings) are an annual private gathering of the European and North American political and business elite. Events are attended by between 120 and 150 people each year invited by the Bilderberg Group's steering committee; including prominent politicians, CEOs, national security experts, academics and journalists.
The 2023 conference received some media attention due to the participation of several major players in the artificial intelligence space, such as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Bilderberg conferences operate under Chatham House Rule, meaning that participants are cannot disclose the identity or affiliation of any particular speaker. There were no press conferences during or after the event, as is customary. According to The Guardian, the paper's journalists were able to approach one high-ranking attendee, economist Victor Halberstadt, in a Lisbon pharmacy, but he denied his identity before jumping into a car and heading back to his hotel.

## Agenda

The key topics for discussion at the 2023 Bilderberg Conference were announced on the Bilderberg website shortly before the meeting. These topics included:
* AI
* Banking system
* China
* Energy transition
* Europe
* Fiscal challenges
* India
* Industrial policy and trade
* NATO
* Russia
* Transnational threats
* Ukraine

## Participants

A list of 127 participants was published on the Bilderberg website. This list may not be complete, as a source connected to the Bilderberg group told The Daily Telegraph in 2013 that some attendees do not have their names publicized. Oscar Stenström, Sweden’s chief negotiator for NATO membership, was reported to have been seen at the venue despite his name not being on the list.
Austria
* Martina Salomon
* Alexander Schallenberg
Belgium
* Koenraad Debackere
* Thomas Leysen
Canada
* Ajay Agrawal
* Mark Carney
* Chrystia Freeland
* Deborah Orida
Denmark
* Mette Frederiksen
* Connie Hedegaard
* Kristian Jensen
European Union (International)
* Josep Borrell
* Paschal Donohoe
* Paolo Gentiloni
* Roberta Metsola
* Didier Reynders
Finland
* Henrik Ehrnrooth
* Erkki Liikanen
* Sanna Marin
France
* Gabriel Attal
* Patricia Barbizet
* Valérie Baudson
* Clément Beaune
* Thomas Buberl
* Henri de Castries
* Bernard Émié
* Antoine Gosset-Grainville
* Édouard Philippe
* Patrick Pouyanné
Germany
* Paul M. Achleitner
* Martin Brudermüller
* Mathias Döpfner
* Bélen Garijo
* Anton Hofreiter
* Norbert Röttgen
* Wolfgang Schmidt
Greece
* Nicky Goulimis
* Dimitri Papalexopoulos (treasurer)
* Eftichios Vassilakis
Ireland
* Thomas Byrne
* Michael O'Leary
Italy
* Marco Alverà
* Giuliano da Empoli
* Lilli Gruber
NATO (International)
* Christopher Cavoli
* Jens Stoltenberg
Netherlands
* Ben van Beurden
* Dolf van den Brink
* Victor Halberstadt
* Sigrid Kaag
* Rolly van Rappard
* Mark Rutte
* Peter Wennink
Norway
* Kjerstin Braathen
* Børge Brende
* Øyvind Eriksen
Other (International)
* Andrei Kolesnikov
* Arvind Subramanian
* Shashank Joshi
Poland
* Kasia Kieli
* Wojciech Kostrzewa
* Radoslaw Sikorski
Portugal
* José Luís Arnaut
* Francisco Pinto Balsemão
* José Manuel Barroso
* Duarte Moreira
* Nuno Sebastião
* Filipe Silva
* Miguel Stilwell de Andrade
Spain
* José Manuel Albares
* Ana P. Botín
* José Creuheras
* José M. Entrecanales
* Esteban González Pons
Sweden
* Magdalena Andersson
* Anna Borg
* Marcus Wallenberg
Switzerland
* Ignazio Cassis
* Madeleine von Holzen
* André Kudelski
Turkey
* Mehmet Fatih Ceylan
* Refet Gürkaynak
* Ömer Koç
* Soli Özel
* Barçin Yinanç
Ukraine
* Dmytro Kuleba
United Kingdom
* Jeremy Fleming
* Demis Hassabis
* David Lammy
* Bernard Looney
* Zanny Minton Beddoes
* Dambisa Moyo
* Gideon Rachman
* John Sawers
* Rory Stewart
* Tom Tugendhat
* Shriti Vadera
* Yuan Yang
United States
* Stacey Abrams
* Sam Altman
* Anne Applebaum
* Sally Benson
* Albert Bourla
* Tarun Chhabra
* Brian Deese
* Jen Easterly
* Elizabeth Economy
* Niall Ferguson
* Kenneth Griffin
* Avril D. Haines
* Reid Hoffman
* Alex Karp
* Garry Kasparov
* Henry A. Kissinger
* Stephen Kotkin
* Henry R. Kravis
* Marie-Josée Kravis
* John Micklethwait
* Craig J. Mundie
* Satya Nadella
* Matthew Pottinger
* Nadia Schadlow
* Eric E. Schmidt
* Ashley J. Tellis
* Peter Thiel
* Jing Tsu
* John Waldron
* Thomas Wright
* Daniel Yergin