Apple CEO Tim Cook is among a small group of tech leaders who plan to attend President-elect Donald Trump's reported tech summit at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to Recode. Apple CEO Tim Cook and President-elect Donald Trump (Photo: Gage Skidmore) Other attendees will allegedly include the CEOs of Google parent company Alphabet, Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was also invited, and he is likely to attend, the report noted. Bloomberg later confirmed Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt will be in attendance. There could be a few other attendees, as invites reportedly continued to be sent by Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and presidential transition team adviser and tech investor Peter Thiel late into the week. A handful of tech leaders have reportedly declined the invitation, as the report noted some of the technology companies and executives disagree with Trump on a myriad of key issues, ranging from encryption to immigration reform. In addition, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has reportedly sent mixed signals about being invited or not. Reports are similarly conflicting about whether Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will be in attendance. Attending o Apple CEO Tim Cook o Alphabet CEO Larry Page o Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt o Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg o Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella o Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins o IBM CEO Ginni Rometty o Intel CEO Brian Krzanich o Oracle CEO Safra Catz o Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (Likely) Not Attending o Uber CEO Travis Kalanick o Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky o Netflix CEO Reed Hastings o Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff o Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield o Dropbox CEO Drew Houston o HP CEO Meg Whitman o Mark Cuban The topics to be discussed at the roundtable meeting were not disclosed, but Trump has previously expressed his desires to reform the corporate tax code, reduce regulation, and negotiate better trade deals with other countries. Trump previously said he plans to offer Apple a "very large tax cut" alongside "substantial regulation cuts" that will incentivize the iPhone maker to manufacture its products in the United States, rather than in China and other overseas countries. "We're going to get Apple to start building their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries," said Trump, while campaigning at Liberty University in Virginia earlier this year. Apple did reportedly ask its Taiwanese manufacturing partner Foxconn to study the possibility of moving iPhone production to the United States, although Foxconn chairman Terry Gou was said to be less enthusiastic about the idea due to inevitably higher production costs compared to China. Meanwhile, Trump called for an Apple boycott after the company refused to comply with a court order to unlock the iPhone used by shooter Syed Farook in the San Bernardino attack last December. The FBI later dropped its lawsuit against Apple after reportedly turning to Israeli company Cellebrite to crack the iPhone. Trump said Cook congratulated him on winning the election, but the Apple chief was personally a Hillary Clinton supporter. Following Trump's victory, Cook urged Apple employees to "move forward together" despite "uncertainties ahead." Note: Due to the political nature of the discussion regarding this topic, the discussion thread is located in our Politics, Religion, Social Issues forum. All forum members and site visitors are welcome to read and follow the thread, but posting is limited to forum members with at least 100 posts. Article Link: Tim Cook to Attend Donald Trump's Tech Summit on Wednesday
This has got to be both humbling and humiliating for all these CEOs who campaigned so heavily against him. And I love it.
I don't like the connotations of this but what you've actually said is bang on: Cook is slowly destroying Apple. Craig should be CEO IMO.
Surprised that Cook is going and happy to hear it. Time for Timmy to show the other side of the aisle some love Now make me an updated Mini so I can spend some money on a new computer
Interesting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg not attending, and also not listed in the "not attending" column.
Well this is awqward. No doubt Trump will have a fun time rubbing their faces in it. The office of president is probably the only one they consider higher than the ones they arrogantly occupy, except maybe Tim Cook, he probably still thinks he's superior. If I was president I'd be digging up all the dirt on these people, their companies and how they operate like they've no doubt done on him. Knowing your opponent is how it works in business and Trump probably knows this well.
I thought Larry Ellison was going to attend on behalf of Oracle. Ellison and Trump are known for their flamboyant diva like behavior so it would have made for interesting interaction. Otherwise, I would love to be the fly on the wall in this room, especially just to see Satya and Tim interacting.
I'm on board with Trump talking with these companies to try and get them to house manufacturing here in the US instead of China.
I'd imagine the meeting will just be Donald threatening everyone that if they step out of line, he'll have Steve Bannon sit on their head and fart German folk songs.