According to one report, sources close to the situation have already confirmed Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg as attendees. They are likely to be joined by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz.
This list is likely not full, because many invitations went out late this week, according to Recode.
Interestingly, even some of the Trump's critics, like Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos, were invited and are likely to attend. Amazon owns the Washington Post, a media outlet that was quite aggressive towards Trump during the campaign. Bezos's presence at the meeting could make things interesting.
Unlike Bezos, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman, who compared Trump to Hitler and Mussolini and called him a "dishonest demagogue," will not be present at the meeting.
Interestingly, CEO and inventor of Twitter Jack Dorsey reportedly was not invited, though Twitter seems to be Trump's favourite method of mass communication. His direct comments via Twitter, previously seen as dangerous, now appear to have been a credit to his campaign, especially given the almost complete media support for for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by the mainstream media.
While the exact topic of the meeting is undisclosed, the media speculate that Trump is going to try to convince tech companies to return their manufacturing operations to the United States, and that the tech giants will ask for tax breaks. It could be that the meeting will be the first step in what is almost certain to be a long, difficult battle to bring the hands-on work of some of America's most successful and innovative industries back home.
This has been denied by Kellyanne Conway, Trump's senior adviser who ran his presidential campaign.
"No, that's not true at all. I sat right to his left. He did not explode in anger," she said. "He's the president-elect. He won… winning solves a lot of problems. Winning makes a lot of statements."
Other media figures criticized those who attended the meeting for violating basic tenets of journalism.
