Trump to host tech CEOs over dinner for inaugural occasion in Rose Backyard

U.S. President Donald Trump will host two dozen high-profile tech and enterprise leaders for an inaugural occasion within the White Home’s renovated Rose Backyard on Thursday. 

Invitees embrace Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner, Microsoft founder Invoice Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, in accordance with a listing confirmed by a White Home official. 

The assembly is predicted to be held over dinner after a separate White Home occasion on synthetic intelligence hosted by first woman Melania Trump.

The gathering underscores what has been a detailed however sophisticated relationship between Trump and the Massive Tech sector in his second administration. 

Lots of the aforementioned executives have sought friendlier ties with Trump, usually showing at occasions alongside the president to announce strikes that align with the administration’s objectives on rising applied sciences and American reshoring. 

Invitees to the occasion additionally embrace different tech leaders, comparable to OpenAI president Greg Brockman; Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Palantir chief expertise officer Shyam Sankar; and co-founder of Scale AI and head of a superintelligence workforce at Meta, Alexandr Wang.

CEOs comparable to Google’s Sundar Pichai, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Oracle‘s Safra Catz, and Blue Origin’s David Limp have additionally been invited. 

Unsurprisingly, David Sacks, a enterprise capitalist serving because the White Home’s crypto and AI czar, is predicted to be on the occasion. Jared Isaacman, founding father of Shift4, can also be anticipated to attend regardless of Trump withdrawing his nomination to run NASA in June.

Notably, Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who beforehand served as a particular authorities worker within the first few months of the most recent Trump administration and later had a public falling out with the president, was not on the invitation listing.