Top tech CEOs snub Obama at cybersecurity summit
By Ben Wolfgang
The Washington Times
Friday, February 13, 2015
The leaders of three of the nation’s leading tech companies won’t attend a White House cybersecurity summit in California on Friday, according to media reports.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google executives Larry Page and Eric Schmidt will not attend the event, which will be held at Stanford University.
Apple’s Tim Cook is scheduled to attend.
The White House brushed off the snubs and pointed out that Yahoo, Facebook and Google each will be well represented at the event, even if their leaders won’t be there.
“I think if you look at who will be joining us over the next day or so, you’ll be looking at industry leaders in the tech industry, in the privacy advocacy community, in academia and government, and business leaders from across the board. So we are gratified and we welcome their participation,” White House principal deputy press secretary Eric Schultz told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday Night.
“Not only the engagement that we’ve gotten from tech and business leaders across the board we’re proud of, but also some of the commitments that are going to be announced over the next day or so are pretty significant,” Mr. Schultz said.
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