Barack Obama to visit Silicon Valley tomorrow

US President Barack Obama will head to Silicon Valley tomorrow to a summit aimed at connecting about 1,200 entrepreneurs from 170 countries with the biggest and brightest players in the US tech sector and venture capital community.

Hot-button political issues that the White House and tech sector normally grapple with, such as the use of social media by extremists, the desire by law enforcement for a way around encryption, and cyber security, will not be on the agenda.

Obama is using



the summit, the seventh in a series which have reached a total of 17,000 people mainly in Muslim-majority countries around the world, to help bolster his foreign policy legacy as his time in offices draws closer to the end on January 20th, 2017.

The idea for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit series emerged from a speech Obama made in Cairo in 2009, which he used to signal he wanted to overhaul US policy on the Middle East and try to repair the US relationship with the Muslim world.