White House to Hold Roundtable With Tech Executives--Update
30 Novembre 2018 - 12:06AM
Dow Jones News
By John D. McKinnon and Douglas MacMillan
The Trump administration will hold a roundtable discussion on
innovation with top tech executives, a move that marks an easing of
tensions between the White House and big Silicon Valley firms.
The panel, to be held next Thursday, will discuss "bold,
transformational ideas" that "can help ensure U.S. leadership in
industries of the future," according to a White House email.
Executives expected to participate include Microsoft Corp. Chief
Executive Satya Nadella, Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai,
Oracle Corp. co-Chief Executive Safra Catz, Qualcomm Inc. Chief
Executive Steve Mollenkopf and others, the email says. Blackstone
Group LP, Chief Executive Stephen Schwarzman and Carnegie Mellon
University president Farnam Jahanian also will take part.
The meeting will be part of a Washington tour for Mr. Pichai,
who is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee a
day earlier, on Dec. 5. That hearing is expected to cover the range
of concerns about the internet giant that have been voiced by
lawmakers this year, including its handling of data privacy, the
potential for political bias on its platform and the company's
exploration of a censored search engine for Chinese users.
Mr. Pichai agreed to testify in a public hearing in the fall,
when he met privately with GOP leaders to discuss some of their
concerns. Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc. drew
criticism from U.S. senators earlier this year when they declined
to send a top executive to a hearing that featured Jack Dorsey, the
CEO of Twitter Inc. and Sheryl Sandberg, the operating chief of
Facebook Inc.
Likely topics for discussion at next week's White House meeting
include emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G
wireless communications and quantum computing, according to the
email from White House technology policy adviser Michael
Kratsios.
In recent months, Mr. Trump has been critical of several
internet companies, including Google.
"Google search results for 'Trump News' shows only the
viewing/reporting of Fake News Media. In other words, they have it
RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news
is BAD," the president tweeted in August. "Google & others are
suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news
that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot
see."
House GOP leaders also have been critical of the internet
companies, and the House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the
topic this year.
Tech CEOs have been vocal critics of Mr. Trump's policies, from
tariffs to immigration. Last year, a group of 130 tech companies
including Microsoft, Apple Inc. and Google, joined legal action
opposing Mr. Trump's immigration ban, which proposed temporarily
barring travel from some Muslim-majority countries.
In September, Google's Mr. Pichai met with top GOP House leaders
as well as the president's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow. At
the time, the White House said it would hold a roundtable to be
attended by the president, Mr. Pichai and other "internet
stakeholders."
Representatives for all of the confirmed attendees declined to
comment or didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
White House adviser Ivanka Trump also will take part in a
Business Roundtable panel discussion on innovation next week, along
with IBM Corp. Chief Executive Ginni Rometty.
--Tripp Mickle and Miriam Gottfried contributed to this
article.
Write to John D. McKinnon at john.mckinnon@wsj.com and Douglas
MacMillan at douglas.macmillan@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
November 29, 2018 17:51 ET (22:51 GMT)
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