What would it look like if Davos and Burning Man had a baby?

Summit, an invite-only ideas conference, is setting up a permanent home on a mountain in Utah. But can it avoid being just another meet-up for Silicon Valley tech bros?

Elliot Bisnow, the co-founder of Summit - which he calls an events community for people who are "passionate and nice and interested in doing something impactful" - said he never thought he'd be living on a mountain in Utah, but in a lot of ways, he's coming back to his roots.

The idea for Summit began there, in 2008. Bisnow had started a real estate business in college, but after graduation he was feeling isolated. So he called up 19 of the entrepreneurs who impressed him most, like Blake Mycoskie from Toms, and Ricky Van Veen, who founded College Humor, and asked if they'd want to come skiing with him. "I cold called them and said, 'I have a startup I think it would be interesting to get a group of interesting people together. I'm renting this big house at Alta, Utah.'"