The agenda was to include working sessions on issues such as cyber security, big data, fraud detection, artificial intelligence and cloud computing, according to a White House document outlining the program.
According to Recode, in a meeting with the White House's American Technology Council, Trump conceded that federal agencies desperately needed to catch up with the private sector when it comes to technology.
Executives from some of the world's biggest tech companies ventured to the White House Monday to take part in the first meeting of the American Technology Council, an advisory group that is supposed to help the Trump administration in its quest to modernize government.
Trump's daughter and son-in-law are both advisers to the president in the White House.
On Monday, top executives of the tech industry attended the inaugural meeting of the American Technology Council at the White House.
Kushner cited some examples of the current technology infrastructure, noting the use of floppy discs in Pentagon "legacy systems".
America's tech leaders spoke to President Donald Trump of the need to upskill U.S. citizens to meet a growing demand for digital skills yesterday.
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Earlier this year, Cook criticized Trump's executive order limiting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries.
"Strong encryption" is the phrase that supporters use to suggest that tech companies should not be technically capable of reading the content of private messages or accessing a password-protected device. Intel unveiled plans at the Oval Office in February to invest more than $7 billion in an Arizona factory, a move that Trump portrayed as a win for USA workers. The CEOs joined the American Technology Council, under its director, Chris Liddell, the White House director of strategic initiatives.
In May, Trump created an American Technology Council, his latest effort since taking office to modernise the U.S. government.
The administration drew a mix of flattery and policy requests from the assembled technology leaders and university officials. He stepped down from a number of White House advisory councils after a different controversial Trump decision - withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement.
"We have approximately $3.5 trillion of market value in this room - but that's nearly the exact number that we've created since my election", he said to laughter from the attendees, which shows what sort of brown-nosing is going on at this event.
One source who works with tech companies on policy issues stressed there continues to be issues like modernizing government where tech and Trump can find common ground even as they disagree on others.
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