Big Names Descend on White House for Trump’s Technology Summit
- Focus on issues including big data, fraud detection, security
- Federal government spends more than $80 billion a year on IT
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, discusses efforts to transfer federal government administrative activities to cloud-based operations after meeting with technology executives at the White House on Monday. (Source: Bloomberg)
President Donald Trump promised “sweeping transformation” in the federal government’s use of technology as he welcomed top executives from many of the world’s largest tech companies to the White House.
The meeting Monday brought leaders of an industry whose key figures have at times openly clashed with Trump. But none of the executives criticized the president in public sessions, and Trump projected a jovial mood, touting the gains in technology stocks since he took office and expressing confidence his administration would overcome such long-running challenges as modernizing the air traffic system.