About SECO International SECO International, LLC is a wholly owned entity of the Southern Council of Optometrists, Inc ( often referred to with the acronym, SoCO ), and is the business name used to identify the annual congress, SECO International, hosted and organized by SoCO each year in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. SoCO is comprised of the state optometric associations of the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The Armed Forces Optometric Society ( AFOS ), South African Optometric Association, Trinidad and Tobago Optometrists' Association, and World Council of Optometry are valued affiliate members of SoCO. SoCO is dedicated to promoting organized optometry and education for optometrists world-wide. SECO represents an outlet to accomplish that mission.