Staff ReporterThis is “tech week” at the White House, and that means Silicon Valley’s tech giants — not to mention Recode — are all over Washington, D.C.
On Monday, President Donald Trump called for a “sweeping transformation of the federal government’s technology,” and with the help of Jared Kushner, his son-in-law and senior adviser, he officially kicked off the White House’s new American Technology Council.
We’re in town this week covering the event — so you should catch up on all of our behind-the-scenes scoops. And here’s a running list of who attended Monday’s high-profile huddle with the Trump administration. Notably missing: Facebook (which was invited but didn’t send Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg, citing scheduling conflicts), Twitter (which does not appear to have been invited at all) and Elon Musk (who was invited but declined to attend).
Tech CEOs:
Ajay Banga, MasterCard CEO
Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO
Zachary Bookman, OpenGov CEO
Safra Catz, Oracle Co-CEO
Tim Cook, Apple CEO
John Doerr, Kleiner Perkins, Chairman
Pat Gelsinger, VMware CEO
Alex Karp, Palantir CEO
Brian Krzanich, Intel CEO
Tom Leighton, Akamai CEO
Bill McDermott, SAP CEO
Steve Mollenkopf, Qualcomm CEO
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO
Shantanu Narayen, Adobe CEO
Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO
Eric Schmidt, Alphabet Executive Chairman
Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
Peter Thiel, Founders Fund Partner
From the White House:
President Donald J. Trump
Vice President Mike Pence
Jared Kushner, Senior Advisor to the President
Ivanka Trump, Assistant to the President
Chris Liddell, Director of Strategic Initiatives
Reed Cordish, Assistant to the President for Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives
Gary Cohn, Director of National Economic Council
Dina Powell, Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives
Stephen Miller, Senior Advisor to the President for Policy
General H.R. McMaster, National Security Advisor
Tom Bossert, Homeland Security Advisor
Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury
General John F. Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security
Mick Mulvaney, Director of Office of Management and Budget
Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce
Seema Verma, Administrator for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Presidents of Universities
Michael Drake, President of Ohio State University
Carol Folt, Chancellor of University of North Carolina
Rafael Reif, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
You can watch the open-door part of the event below. Many meetings were held behind closed doors.
