Around 1, 400 company chairmen and CEOs will also be in attendance, including News Corp. mediatycoonRupertMurdoch, Shell CEO Jeroen van der Veer, Renault President Carlos Ghosn and HSBC Chairman Stephen Green.
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said the first minister would rather "cosy up than stand up to RupertMurdoch" and accused him of a "grubby deal" with the mediatycoon.