President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will convene a meeting on artificial intelligence on Tuesday that brings together senior government officials and top executives from the technology sector.
Confirmed attendees
An RSVP list obtained by Axios shows 31 confirmed participants for a lunch at the summit. Government attendees include:
- White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
- White House Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters
- White House counsel Will Scharf
- Vice President JD Vance
- Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick
- NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman
- White House science adviser Michael Kratsios
- National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross
- Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton
Industry participants listed include:
- David Sacks (Craft Ventures), former White House AI czar
- Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks)
- Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon)
- Brad Gerstner (Altimeter)
- Bill McDermott (ServiceNow)
- Sanjay Mehrotra (Micron)
- Elon Musk
- Satya Nadella (Microsoft)
- Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital)
- Brandon Rahbar Daniels (Exiger CEO)
- Shyam Sankar (Palantir CTO)
- Lisa Su (AMD)
- Hock Tan (Broadcom)
The CEOs of Meta, Nvidia, Palantir, Google and Anthropic are also listed as attending. From OpenAI, President Greg Brockman is confirmed to attend; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reported to be at the company’s annual conference in San Francisco.
Why the meeting matters
The gathering is significant because it brings together policy makers and the most influential private-sector leaders in AI at a time when calls for government intervention and clearer regulatory frameworks are increasing. According to the information released with the RSVP list, the Trump administration prefers a hands-off approach, relying on industry expertise and voluntary guardrails rather than immediate, prescriptive regulation.
Expectations and likely outcomes
Observers should expect a high-profile meeting with broad representation from government and industry, but few concrete regulatory commitments. The event is positioned more as a forum for discussion and exchange of views than as the venue for announcing detailed, binding policies.
Timing and context
The meeting is scheduled for Tuesday. Beyond the RSVP list, the White House has not provided additional details about the full agenda or specific policy actions to result directly from the summit.
Bottom line
The summit will assemble some of the world’s most powerful officials and corporate executives to discuss AI, reflecting an administration preference for industry-led solutions; however, participants and watchers should not anticipate immediate, specific regulatory outcomes.
