<p>Our CEO, Eric L. Schmidt, spent his past week in Myanmar and we thought it would be a good idea to share some of the highlights of his interesting journey.</p>

<p>During his trip, Eric has presented winners of APAC 2017 Chamber Awards with their awards and he also took some time to meet with local Myanmar organizations and even visited some of the most famous tourist destinations.</p>

<h3>Presenting the 2017 APAC Small Chamber Award</h3>

<p><span class="feed-link ember-view" id="ember7201" role="link"><span class="ember-view" id="ember7202">This past week, CEO of Glue Up Eric L. Schmidt was in Myanmar to present CCI France Myanmar and Australia-Myanmar Chamber of Commerce with the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericlschmidteb/detail/recent-activity/">2017 APAC Small Chamber Award</a>&nbsp;at "Joint Networking Cocktail with A-MCC" event organized by CCI France Myanmar to celebrate their success in APAC 2017 Chamber Awards. These two chambers have had impressive achievements within the past year. It was a great pleasure that Glue Up could be present at the event and hand in the awards in person.&nbsp;</span></span></p>

<p><img alt="CCI France Myanmar, APAC 2017 Chamber Awards, Small Chamber Myanmar, Australia-Myanmar Chamber of Commerce" src="/sites/default/files/image_1100.png" /></p>

<h3>Meeting Local Representatives</h3>

<p><img alt="CEO of Today's Publishing and Chairman of Oglivy Myanmar" src="https://www.glueup.com/storage/app/uploads/public/5f2/118/740/5f2118740…; /></p>

<p>While in Myanmar, Eric spent some time with various local representatives from associations and chambers. As CEO of Glue Up, Eric hopes to learn more about challenges local organizations are facing and how Glue Up might help to overcome them.</p>

<p>Additionally, our CEO met with the American Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, the Myanmar Federation of Mining Associations, TODAY Publishing House, the US Embassy, and the Myanmar Forest Products and Timber Merchants Association.</p>

<p>Eric was thoroughly impressed by the quality of people that he met in Myanmar and by the work that they were doing. Through these meetings, Eric was able to more personally share how Glue Up is transforming organzations' operations.</p>

<h3>First Chamber Client in Myanmar Adopting Glue Up</h3>

<p>Most recently, the British Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar became a new user of Glue Up's&nbsp;<a href="https://www.glueup.com/association-management-software&quot; rel="noopener" target="_blank">Association &amp; Chamber Management Software</a>. Our CEO has met with Chloe Taylor, Executive Director of the chamber, and they have discussed the details of the cooperation over the lunch.</p>

<p><img alt="Chloe Taylor from British Chamber of Commerce Myanmar with CEO of Glue Up, chamber management cloud" src="https://www.glueup.com/storage/app/uploads/public/5f2/118/968/5f2118968…; /></p>

<p>CEO Eric Schmidt stated, “We are happy to have the opportunity to have the British Chamber of Commerce as our first client in Myanmar, providing them with our technology platform to transform their chamber. We hope to help even more organizations in Myanmar transform the way they engage with their communities in near future.”</p>

<h3>A Warm Thank You</h3>

<p>The Glue Up team wants to give a warm thank you to all that met with our team. Glue Up hopes to continue to help chambers of commerce and associations drive a stronger impact on their local community.</p>

<p>If you want to learn more about how Glue Up can help your association or chamber become more efficient, read about our <a href="https://www.glueup.com/association-management-software">Chamber &amp; Association Management Cloud</a> and book a <a href="//glueup.com/demo"> <strong> Demo</strong> </a> with us!</p>