VMware and Dell Join Tech Titans at White House Summit

President Donald Trump will meet with executives from 18 technology companies Monday on the information technology infrastructure of the federal government, a summit that includes leaders of the nation's technological titans and also less prominent but still well-known technology players as Dell Technologies Inc.

Pat Gelsinger, executive director of Dell's subsidiary VMware Inc., is representing his company at the meeting. In a statement provided to Morning Consult, Gelsinger said he was pleased to attend the summit and "discuss innovative solutions such as cloud computing and virtualization."

"When implemented securely with scalability, these solutions deliver improvements in daily government operations, but also dramatically improve long-term prospects for job creation, skills development, and citizen education," said Gelsinger. "These are critical benefits, since technology and automation are poised to strongly influence and shape society in the coming decades."

American Technology Council summit attendees include Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc., Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com Inc., and Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Alphabet Inc .. His sports companies almost universal recognition of The brand, largely favorable.

Despite Dell's inclusion at the top of technology alongside larger players like Apple, Amazon and Google, the company has not received a notable impact on brand awareness. Only 40 percent of respondents reported having seen, heard or read anything about Dell in the past two weeks, according to the latest Morning Consult brand intelligence data. It is the same number of respondents who reported hearing about the company on June 13.

But most respondents to Morning Consult have a positive view of Dell. As of Monday, 71 percent of American adults had a favorable opinion of the technology company.

Since Dell's $ 63 billion acquisition of EMC Corp. last September, Dell Technologies has seen its share increase 23 percent to $ 62.12 before trading on Monday.

This is the first meeting of the White House since Trump established the technology council through an executive order in early May. Led by the son-in-law of President and Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, the council aims to modernize and improve government technology, in part by leveraging the gains made by some of Silicon Valley's most successful companies.

The White House event comes at a precarious time in the relationship between Trump's administration and technology executives. Many of Silicon Valley's best-known CEOs have criticized Trump for his decision in early June to withdraw from the Paris climate deal, putting pressure on White House technology outreach efforts. Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk left two of Trump's advisory boards after the withdrawal of the Paris agreement, and Facebook representatives are notably absent from Monday's list.

But despite these problems, the meeting represents the first step in an ambitious effort to use advances in the technology sector to improve the rationalization of government services. Gelsinger sees Dell playing a prominent role in the expansion of advancing government technology capabilities.

"We often do not talk about how investment in technology infrastructure benefits individual US citizens working their way through school or building new skills to change careers, but it is part of the mind for us as we share our experience With the advice, Our many public sector clients across the country, "Gelsinger said.