Two dozen tech CEOs will attend the first event held by President Trump in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden on Thursday.
The invite list for the event includes Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI founder Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, Google Founder Sergey Brin and CEO Sundar Pichai, Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Blue Origin CEO David Limp, Micron Technology CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Tibco founder Vivek Ranadive, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, Scale.ai founder Alexandr Wang, CEO of Shift4 Jared Isaacman, and David Sacks, a venture capitalist who is the White House czar on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency, The Hill news outlet reported.
Other business leaders who are invited to the event include 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; and Lisa Su, CEO of advanced Micro Devices.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is not on the invite list.
The Rose Garden event will occur after CEOs and tech leaders attend first lady Melania Trump’s event on AI.
“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 told The Hill.
The Rose Garden renovation included paving over the grass and placing tables with umbrellas and chairs around the new patio, which was completed early last month. The tables and umbrellas are similar to those at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida.
