Obama Toasts Tech With Industry Luminaries [PICS]

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And a fine dinner it was at the Silicon Valley home of venture capitalist John Doerr, a partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Take a look at the list of luminaries who were at the dinner with President Obama, discussing how government and technology businesses can work together to "win the future."

John Doerr, partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Carol Bartz, president and CEO, Yahoo!

John Chambers, CEO and chairman, Cisco Systems

Dick Costolo, CEO, Twitter

Larry Ellison, co-founder and CEO, Oracle

Reed Hastings, CEO, NetFlix

John Hennessy, president, Stanford University

Steve Jobs, chairman and CEO, Apple

Art Levinson, chairman and former CEO, Genentech

Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google

Steve Westly, managing partner and founder, Westly Group

Mark Zuckerberg, founder, president and CEO, Facebook

Why did they get together for this high-powered hang out? Here's how a White House official described the dinner:

"The meeting is a part of our ongoing dialogue with the business community on how we can work together to win the future, strengthen our economy, support entrepreneurship, increasing our exports, and get the American people back to work. The President and the business leaders will discuss our shared goal of promoting American innovation, and discuss his commitment to new investments in research and development, education and clean energy."

Here's another shot with Zuckerberg and Obama schmoozing before dinner:

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We're still trying to identify a couple of the people in the photo at the top of the page -- let us know if you have any clues. What do you think they're toasting?