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President Barack Obama will meet with a slew of tech company executives Tuesday to discuss HealthCare.gov progress and how the government can fix federal IT.
The administration brought in a handful of outside specialists to fix the flawed Obamacare website, but this marks the first public outreach to Silicon Valley leaders from Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and Google. Since the HealthCare.gov rollout, Obama has critiqued a cracked federal procurement system that lacks adequate management, avoids risk and often deters top talent. Obama has called federal IT “a systematic problem that we have across the board,” but he has not indicated what he will do.
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The meeting also will delve into national security, the economic impact of unauthorized intelligence disclosures and how the administration can partner with tech companies on job creation, income equality and social mobility, according to a White House official. A number of leading companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, are pushing the administration to end the bulk collection of Internet data related to NSA surveillance. They’ve grown increasingly vocal in recent weeks.
Attendees will include Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter; Chad Dickerson, CEO of Etsy; Reed Hastings, co-founder and CEO of Netflix; Drew Houston, founder and CEO of Dropbox ; Marissa Mayer, president and CEO of Yahoo!; Burke Norton, chief legal officer of Salesforce; Mark Pincus, founder, chief product officer and chairman of Zynga; Shervin Pishevar, co-founder and co-CEO of Sherpa Global; Brian Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast; Erika Rottenberg, vice president, general counsel and secretary of LinkedIn; Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook; Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google; Brad Smith, executive vice president and general counsel for Microsoft; and Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T.
