East Africa Chamber of Commerce To Host 11th Annual Trade Conference 11 October

11th E. African Chamber of Commerce Trade Conference starts Thurs, Oct 11 at Omni Mandalay Hotel - Las Colinas, Irving, TX. Speakers will examine local & International business opportunities.

Dallas, United States - October 2, 2018 /PressCable/ —

The East Africa Chamber of Commerce (EACC) will be hosting its 11th Annual Trade Conference at the Omni Mandalay Hotel – Las Colinas, located in Irving, Texas. The event will begin on Thursday, October 11th and run through Saturday, October 13th, 2018.

“Forging Deeper Relationships via Investment, Trade and Innovation” is the focus for this year’s event and examines avenues of enhancing business opportunities both locally and internationally.

Distinguished Guest Speakers and Presenters include:

Mr. Danny Thomas, President – Water for the World

Diamond Contributor to EACC conference and featured guest speaker Mr. Danny Thomas, Founder and President of Water for the World NLA provides various filtration solutions, i.e. biosand, desalination, agricultural, and NASA developed suitcase filtration systems, and methane gas removal. Mr. Thomas’ expertise is also recognized for his ability to identify potential funding sources and creative partnerships that can be engaged on behalf of communities. You will find he is uniquely knowledgeable to usher in changes for individuals suffering from diseases caused by poor water, sanitation and hygiene that result in occupation of half the hospital beds in developing countries. In Kenya alone, WFTW provides access to safer and affordable water to 50,000 with their partnerships. Take advantage of this opportunity to listen and talk with him during the EACC Trade and Investment Conference.

Jared Elkins – CEO Alitheia Holdings

Born a natural entrepreneur with a passion for the web, Jared Elkins has gone from early adopter in web development & SEO in ’96 to data, machine learning, and AI in ‘99 and then fully immersed himself into everything Internet by 2005. In 2011, Jared moved from Big Data to cryptocurrency. He will be discussing everything cryptocurrency in this year’s EACC Trade Conference.

Richard Lackey, CEO – World Food Bank

U.S. President Donald Trump appointee to the U.S. Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, Richard Lackey who is CEO and Chairman of the World Food Bank WFB) will be a speaker at the EACC Trade and Investment Conference. As a key member of the Trump Administration, he will be advising USAID on agriculture and food shortages in developing countries. His experience with blended capital collaboration of private, for-profit and non-profit agencies to fund emerging markets benefits the investors and communities alike. This enables East African countries to address declining food shortage resulting from soil exhaustion caused by outmoded farming practices, decrease in arable land and storing crops at home in sub-standard conditions, and finding a cure for toxic aflatoxin mold found post-harvest storage and in maturing crops. Come listen to Mr. Lackey explain how to effectively eliminate hunger and provide sustainable food solutions for developing countries.

Cory Mason, Executive Director – Dallas Safari Club

Corey Mason is extremely well connected with growth initiatives supporting African Travel and Tourism via initiatives supported by the Dallas Safari Club (DSC) and its DSC Foundation. DSC aggressively supports wildlife conservation, sustainability and peak experience tourism. Mr. Mason will be sharing African success stories of 2018 and extending opportunities for collaborations.

Robert B. Neely, Founder – InspireMore

InspireMore.com reaches millions of people weekly with inspiring media that highlights the things that make life truly great. Whether it is wisdom, innovation, endearing love, selfless heroism, astounding art, or captivating adventure, all content is meant to engender a better life, through an entertaining content platform.

Gary Barlow, B.S.R.T. (R)(T), Director, Texas Center for Proton Therapy

Gary Barlow’s passion is proton therapy and the hope it brings to cancer patients around the world. He was drawn to Texas Oncology’s patient-focused approach and community-based support and the ground floor opportunity to apply his experience to build the most integrated and advanced proton therapy facility in the world, located in Irving, Texas. This is the facility that inspired Kenya’s Kericho County Governor, Honorable Paul Chepkwony to commit to building a similar facility as the first sub-Saharan proton center in Africa.

Florin Visale, IBA (Belguim)

IBA (Belgium) guest Speaker Florin Visale is devoted to providing solutions for cancer. The Texas Center for Proton Therapy relies on IBA’s featured technology to deliver the proton therapy used for eradicating cancer tumors. This is an advanced technology that destroys cancer cells with minimal radiation damage to other body tissues or organs. Kenya is in the process of constructing such a facility. Do not miss this opportunity to listen and learn about this new technology. Your family and friends will be able to receive such treatment closer to home in Kericho County.

About East Africa Chamber of Commerce

EACC is dedicated to economically empower and sustain member communities through entrepreneurship, and to consult and promote trade opportunities in both the U.S. and East Africa via interaction with each region’s businesses and governmental sectors. The East Africa member countries represent the emerging markets of a growing economic region with a total population of 135 million people.

“We invite you to come and showcase your projects and investment opportunities at our conference,” said Elsa Juko-McDowell, Chairwoman of the East Africa Chamber of Commerce.

The event will conclude with a grand Dinner Gala on Saturday, October

13th from 6:15 p.m.-12:45 p.m. To register for the conference or for tickets to

the Gala, visit: http://www.eachamber.com

Contact Info:
Name: Benson Kasue
Email: [email protected]
Organization: East African Chamber of Commerce
Address: 5950 North Dallas Parkway , Suite 400, Dallas, TX 75248, United States
Phone: +1-855-462-3222

For more information, please visit https://www.eachamber.org/eacc18/

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