The outreach marks a dramatic shift from Donald Trump's approach to the tech industry during the 2016 campaign. | Getty Tech giants to huddle with Trump transition

NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump’s senior advisers have invited executives from tech giants including Apple, Facebook and Google to Trump Tower for a meeting next week to discuss the issues facing their industry, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The Dec. 14 gathering – the most prominent outreach between Trump and Silicon Valley since the election – will bring the nascent administration face-to-face with an industry that Trump himself often skewered on the 2016 campaign trail.

Representing Trump will be Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist serving on Trump’s transition team; Reince Priebus, the former head of the Republican National Committee and the incoming White House chief of staff; and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, according to a source with knowledge of the meeting, which was first reported Tuesday by POLITICO.

A spokesman for Thiel declined to comment, and a spokesman for Trump’s transition effort did not respond to a request for comment.

A full list of tech participants has not been made public, but multiple sources indicated that top executives from Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google have been invited. Oracle CEO Safra Catz – who met personally with the president-elect last month – will attend the meeting, another source said.

Spokespeople for Apple, Facebook and Oracle declined to comment. Spokespeople for Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Twitter did not immediately respond to requests.

A spokeswoman for Uber declined to say whether the ride-hailing app had received an invite. In a statement, she said that Uber is “not sending a representative to this particular meeting but of course, we will be engaging the Administration on issues that matter for our business.”

For Trump, the outreach marks a dramatic shift from his approach to the tech industry during the 2016 campaign, when he frequently slammed companies like Apple and Amazon and their chief executives in strikingly harsh terms. Unlike his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, Trump didn’t cozy up to the Valley's elite, instead railing against major economic shifts -- like free trade, globalization and the movement of manufacturing jobs overseas -- that have fueled the tech sector's economic success.

Now that he's preparing to enter the White House, however, Trump is reaching out to the tech industry. Already, the president-elect has spoken with Apple CEO Tim Cook, he revealed in an interview with The New York Times last month.

As president, Trump will inherit a thicket of unresolved tech issues, like internet regulation, surveillance reform and the government's own use of technology -- and Thiel is handling much of that work in the transition. Spokespeople for some of Thiel’s biggest investments, like SpaceX and Palantir, did not respond to questions as to whether they’d attend the meeting.

"At present, I think [Thiel] is the only person on the transition team with any real tech connections or tech credibility," said Garrett Johnson, the co-founder of SendHub who also runs the Lincoln Initiative, a Bay Area group that works with Republicans in the industry. "I would say he is the best gateway at present if anyone in the tech world wants to have a conversation with the transition or eventually the administration."