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Keynote Speaker: Wally Amos • Presented by SPEAK Inc.

Founder of Famous Amos Cookies Today, his name is a household word. Wally Amos` most recent venture is Chip & Cookie, a unique cookie boutique in Waikiki and Kailua, Hawaii, and an e-commerce business, chipandcookie.com. Chip & Cookie features 5 flavors of cookies from Wally`s original recipe and the Chip& Cookie characters, originally created by Christine Harris-Amos and the venture`s mascots for literacy. Wally & Christine created the Read It Loud! Foundation in 2005 (readitloud.org). In 2008, a three-year public-private partnership with The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was formed to stimulate 5 million parents nationwide to read to their children every day. Wally also co-founded the Uncle Wally`s Muffin Company, which produces a full line of muffins. As founder of Famous Amos Cookies in 1975 and father of the gourmet chocolate chip cookie industry, he has used his fame to support educational causes. Wally was National Spokesman for Literacy Volunteers of America from 1979 until 2002 when they merged with Laubach Literacy Council to create ProLiteracy Worldwide. He now refers to himself as a Literacy Advocate. He serves as a Board Member of the National Center for Family Literacy and Communities in Schools. In addition, he serves as Chairman of the Chip & Cookie Read It Loud! Foundation. Wally Amos has received many honors and awards. He gave the shirt off his back and his battered Panama hat to the Smithsonian Institution`s Business Americana …

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Dole Food Company, Inc. is an American-based agricultural multinational corporation headquartered in Westlake Village, California and is the leading grower and packer of such food items as bananas, pineapples (fresh and packaged), grapes, strawberries, and other fresh and frozen fruits. It is a leader in ready-to-eat packaged salads and other vegetables. Dole was founded in 1851 in Hawaiʻi as Hawaiian Pineapple Company by James Dole, who opened his first pineapple plantation in the central plateau of the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu. Today the company does business in over 90 countries and takes in upwards of $5.3 billion in annual revenue. It is owned by billionaire David H. Murdock. The Hawaiian Pineapple Company was later acquired by Castle & Cooke, and was renamed to Dole Food Company, Inc in 1991. Castle & Cooke Inc, a real estate company, was spun off in 1995; it is currently a separate company but is also owned by Murdock. Dole incorporates the Standard Fruit Company, which was acquired by Castle & Cooke between 1964 and 1968. It was then the US’s second largest producer and importer of bananas. Dole and Chiquita remain the top two US banana companies. Historically, the Hawaiian Pineapple Company had a hand in the hostile overthrow of Hawaii’s last queen, Lili uokalani, and the establishment of Hawaii as a US territory. Sanford Dole, the cousin of James Dole, was briefly president of the Republic of Hawaii in the years immediately following the overthrow of the …