LOS ANGELES—The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) will be returning next month to the Latin America Adult Business Expo (LALExpo). The Expo will take place February 16-20 at the Valle del Pacifico Convention Center in Cali, Colombia.
According to its promoters, LALExpo attracts a growing international and Latin American audience of approximately 1,500 business professionals from companies representing all aspects of the online and adult business world, including more than 600 models and webcam studios, and is the definitive B2B show for Central and South America.
Anthony Rivera, an organizer of the event and co-founder of AJ Studios, said LALExpo provides a significant opportunity for ASACP to reach out to professional businesses operating in the Latin American and Spanish-speaking digital media markets.
“As a hub of the global camming community, Colombia is also making inroads into the broader digital media market. As such, LALExpo promotes excellence and responsibility among the companies that are making a living and supporting their families and themselves through technology,” Rivera stated. “This is why we support ASACP and its mission to educate and professionalize the industry in the name of protecting children.”
As part of its efforts to protect children, LALExpo restricts attendance at its event exclusively to adult business professionals only.
In addition to promotion on the LALExpo.com website as a Crown level sponsor as well as in the show’s social media and industry forums, in the official show guide, on the show’s interview billboard, and through a complimentary table at the event’s Meet Market, and banner and booth on the show floor allowing the association to reach out to adult business owners and operators face-to-face, LALExpo’s promoters have also graciously underwritten ASACP Executive Director Tim Henning’s event admission and hotel accommodations.
ASACP’s Travel Sponsor, DialXS, is generously underwriting Henning’s airfare to and from the venue city of Cali, providing a much-needed level of assistance to the association’s international outreach efforts.
“LALExpo promotes awareness of child safety and doing business at the highest levels of safe and responsible operation throughout Latin America and beyond,” Henning explained. “One of ASACP’s In-Kind Media Sponsors, LALExpo and its promoters take their advocacy of child safety seriously, such as through their support of ‘Fundacion Liam’ and other initiatives that go above and beyond, and serve as an example for other organizations to follow.”
Henning said that this outreach is vital in LATAM where the live cam industry is a major driver of opportunity and prosperity for independent performers and companies of all sizes—and where both fans and the performers must be of legal age to participate.
“LALExpo’s continued support of the association sends a very powerful message and helps establish its promoters among the upper echelon of industry leaders,” Henning added. “Through their generosity, ASACP is able to reach a much broader audience of front-line operators, providing them with the education and valuable free resources they need to help keep children out of and away from adult-oriented content, and in turn, help make the global internet a safer, more family-friendly place.”
ASACP uses the generous financial and material support it receives to fund initiatives such as its internationally recognized Child Exploitation Tipline, which has processed more than 1 million reports since its inception; and its multiple award-winning Restricted To Adults (RTA) meta-labeling system that helps prevent a minor’s access to adult-oriented webpages and mobile apps. Its market-specific Best Practices and a universal Code of Ethics also help guide digital media companies toward child-safe operation and are among ASACP’s most tangible successes.
To learn how a company can make a difference in online child safety by sponsoring ASACP or to arrange a meeting with Henning at LALExpo, email [email protected].
