LOS ANGELES—The Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) has announced its return to the Latin America Adult Business Expo (LalExpo), set for Feb. 23 to 26 in Cali, Colombia. The LalExpo is a B2B trade event for Central and South American adult digital media companies and service providers.
Founded in 1996, ASACP is a nonprofit organization that works with international businesses, law enforcement agencies, and other digital media industry stakeholders, including LalExpo, to fight against child exploitation and sexual abuse in all of its forms.
LalExpo brings together key industry players in a professional and collaborative environment to address the latest digital marketing techniques and technology and the newest legal regulations. It features inspirational conferences, practical workshops, and exclusive networking opportunities to connect professionals and create collaboration opportunities and strategic alliances.
Anthony Rivera, an organizer of the event and co-founder of AJ Studios, said, "As a hub of the global camming community, Colombia is also making inroads into the broader digital media market. As such, LALExpo promotes business excellence and responsibility among the companies making a living and supporting their families and themselves through technology. This is why we support ASACP and its mission to educate and professionalize the industry to protect children."
In its effort to protect children, LalExpo only allows adult business professionals to attend its events.
In addition to promotion on the LALExpo website as well as in the show’s social media and on industry forums, in the official show guide, through a complimentary table at the event’s Meet Market, and more, allowing the association to reach out to adult business owners and operators face-to-face, LALExpo’s promoters have underwritten ASACP Executive Director Tim Henning’s admission to the event and accommodations while there.
ASACP’s executive director, Tim Henning, said, "ASACP is pleased to support LALExpo. The event and the event’s promoters play a leading role in the fight against child exploitation by helping educate operators about the need for legal compliance and the maintenance of industry protocols and safety standards to help avoid minors’ abuse and guarantee the rights of children and adolescents."
While at the event, Henning will participate in a panel on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m., addressing the issue of age verification and new regulations to prevent underage access to adult content.
This session will explore recent advances and challenges in age verification for digital platforms, with a focus on new laws that seek to protect minors from adult content, the most effective technologies and strategies to ensure that users are of legal age, as well as the responsibilities of platform operators in implementing these regulations. The panel will guide the attendees to ensure a safer and more respectful digital environment for all users. The panel will be held in English, and simultaneous translation will be provided for Spanish speakers.
Enabling Henning's attendance, ASACP’s Travel Sponsor, DialXS, will sponsor Henning’s airfare to and from the venue city of Cali.
“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 valued Sponsors, LALExpo, and its promoters take their child safety advocacy seriously and serve as an example for their peers to follow.”
Henning said that this outreach is vital in LATAM, where the live cam industry is a significant driver of opportunity and prosperity for independent performers and companies of all sizes and where fans and the performers that entertain them must be of legal age to participate.
Henning added, "LALExpo’s continued support of the association sends a compelling message and helps establish its promoters among the upper echelon of industry leaders. Through LALExpo’s generosity, ASACP can reach a much broader audience of frontline operators, providing them with the education and valuable free resources they need to help keep children out of and away from adult-oriented content."
ASACP uses the financial and material support it receives to fund its initiatives, such as the internationally recognized Child Exploitation Tipline, which has processed more than one million reports since its inception. In addition, ASACP’s Restricted To Adults (RTA) meta-labeling system helps prevent minors’ access to adult-oriented web pages and apps. Finally, its market-specific Best Practices and universal Code of Ethics guide digital media firms toward child-safe operations.
For more information, visit ASACP.org. To arrange a meeting with Henning at LalExpo in Cali, email [email protected].
