From The Hill: President Trump on Thursday will host two dozen high-profile tech and business leaders for the first event in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden, including Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, according to an invite list obtained exclusively by The Hill.
The Rose Garden gathering is set to take place after CEOs and tech leaders attend a White House event on AI hosted by first lady Melania Trump.
“The Rose Garden Club at the White House is the hottest place to be in Washington, or perhaps the world. The president looks forward to welcoming top business, political, and tech leaders for this dinner and the many dinners to come on the new, beautiful Rose Garden patio,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said in a statement to The Hill.
The event is scheduled to be held Thursday night. According to The Hill, other attendees expected to attend include:
- Sergey Brin and Sundar Pichai, founder and CEO of Google, respectively
- Safra Catz, CEO of Oracle
- David Limp, CEO of Blue Origin
- Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology
- Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI
- Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
- Vivek Ranadive, founder of Tibco and owner of the Sacramento Kings
- Shyam Sankar, chief technology officer of Palantir
- Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale.ai and head of super intelligence at Meta
- David Sacsks, venture capitalist
- Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4
- Jason Chang, founder of CSBio
- Nathalie Dompé, CEO of Dompé Pharma
- Dylan Field, founder of Figma; John Hering, cofounder of Vy Capital
- Sunny Madra, president of Groq
- Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital
- Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga
- Jamie Siminoff, founder of Ring
- Lisa Su, CEO of advanced Micro Devices
One tech CEO who is not on the invite list is Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who went rogue and made some public comments against President Trump in early June. He later apologized for some of his controversial remarks.
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