EDISON, N.J. - October 10, 2008 - The 2008 Fall CRO Conference's headliner-filled lineup on October 29 is proving a big draw for North America's top Corporate Responsibility practitioners, providers and influencers, and to date includes attendees from IBM, Intel, Merck, Avon, PepsiCo, Hyatt, Dow, Duke Energy, BT, GE, PNC, Baxter, Eaton, Deloitte, Grant Thornton, Oracle, Orbitz and Dell.

No wonder, since the Fall CRO event at the Stephens Convention Center, Chicago O'Hare on October 29 will take advantage of the sustainability headliner keynotes of the co-located two-day SustainPro Conference "“ now including T. Boone Pickens, billionaire energy and wind power investor and author of the Pickens Plan for sustainable energy.

With 24 headline-grabbing speakers on the one-day program, the CRO Conference on October 29 will also feature a dinner and workshop for CRO Magazine's '100 Best Corporate Citizens', and the announcement of CRO's CEO-of-the-Year Awards.

"The CRO Conference is where the $30 billion Corporate Responsibility industry and the professional service and non-profit organizations that support them gathers to learn the state-of-the-art in CSR, governance, and sustainability performance," says CRO Vice President of Membership Development & Conferences, Jonathan Campbell. "The Fall2008 CRO Conference will shine a bright light on the lessons that great companies such as IBM, McDonalds and FedEx have for everyone else."

To see an up-to-date Fall CRO Conference agenda and register online, visit www.thecro.com/conferences.

For more information on the agenda for the co-located SustainPro Conference, visit www.SustainPro.com.

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Launched August 1, 2006 by business media veterans Jay Whitehead, CEO and Michael Connor, Editor and Publisher, The CRO is the leading corporate membership media platform in corporate responsibility. The CRO's media products include CRO Magazine, TheCRO.com, CRO Conference and webinars. The CRO covers governance, compliance, ethics, corporate social responsibility, investor relations, citizenship, socially responsible investing, sustainability, philanthropy and related topics. Members include 100+ corporations including IBM, Pepsi, Citigroup, Avon, Mattel, Washington Mutual, Stanford, Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, OCEG, LRN, OPI, and others. Headquartered in New York City and Roseland, NJ. More information at www.The CRO.com.

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