The meeting, scheduled for next Thursday at the offices of law and lobbying firm BakerHostetler, will include trade groups like the Information Technology Industry Council and the Internet Association that represent major Silicon Valley companies, according to people briefed on the meeting. The groups represent companies like Google and Facebook, among others.

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The meeting will also include other industries whose interests intertwine with tech issues. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will be sending a delegation of three lobbyists, according to another person familiar with the meeting.

The meeting was first reported by Politico on Wednesday. Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, did not respond to a request for comment.

An invitation to the meeting was sent out by transition team aide Andrew Bremberg. The invite says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is leading Trump’s transition team, will be in attendance.

“This will be an inside look on the work underway on planning for the transition,” promises the invite, which was obtained by The Hill. It is scheduled to last for one hour.

The message from Bremberg, who also served as the policy director for the GOP Platform Committee, solicits donations for the transition process.

Donors can give up to $5,000 each to Trump for America, Inc. — a non-profit that helps fund the transition team — even if they have maxed out to the Trump campaign.

“Governor Christie and the transition team have begun putting together the plans and personnel for what a Trump administration will look like. The transition team is operating in Washington, DC with offices provided by the General Services Administration but will be hiring staff and consultants to help him plan a new administration,” the letter says. “I hope you will consider making a donation to help with this effort.”

The meeting follows a similar gathering convened by the Republican National Committee earlier this year while it was developing its party platform.

But the GOP presidential nominee himself has done little to endear himself to the tech industry or engage on tech policy issues.

Trump has rarely spoken out on many of the core issues important to the technology sector, although his campaign last week announced that it was opposed to the upcoming transition away from U.S. control of the internet domain name system.

He has also insulted tech titans like Jeff Bezos, called for a boycott of Apple products and given hints that he has little personal interest in technology.

His candidacy has received very little cash from the technology sector — and many traditional Republican donors in Silicon Valley have declined to back him.

Trump does enjoy the support, though not the financial backing, of PayPal co-founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who spoke in support of the candidate at the Republican National Convention.