Craig Kielburger will be speaking at VIEW - a two-day virtual conference

Craig Kielburger, founder of Free The Children (www.freethechildren.com), will be making a presentation at VIEW, the two-day, completely virtual conference and trade show for professionals in HR, Compensation, Benefits, Staffing, and Training, taking place online at www.hr.com/view from 9am December 12th until 6pm December 13th, 2007. Attendee registration is free for all HR Professionals at www.hr.com/registerforview.

Sponsors at the December VIEW event are supporting Free The Children, the worldís largest network of children helping children through education. Unlike any other childrenís charity, Free The Children is both funded and driven by children and youth.

The primary goals of the organization are to free children from poverty and exploitation, as well as free young people from the notion that they are powerless to affect positive change in the world. Through domestic empowerment programs and leadership training, Free The Children inspires young people to develop as socially conscious global citizens and become agents of change for their peers around the world.

Free The Children has built more than 450 schools around the world and has reached more than one million young people through outreach in North America.

The founders of Free The Children believe that children are not the leaders of tomorrow; they are, in fact, the leaders of today.

International child rights activist Craig Kielburger founded Free The Children in 1995. Currently, there are more than one million youth involved in its innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Free The Children has a proven track record of success, and has received the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children's Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school boards and Oprah's Angel Network.

Free The Children is a children's charity registered in Canada, the United States, Japan, China, Mexico, Kenya, Sri Lanka and other countries around the world. More information can be found on their website at www.freethechildren.com.

HR.comís CEO and VIEW creator, Debbie McGrath, is delighted to have Craig Kielburger speaking at VIEW. ìThe HR community has a global interest in investing in todayís youth and helping them to develop the leadership qualities that are needed not just for social change, but also for corporate development. Corporate responsibility and philanthropy has become a key issue in todayís market, and we are pleased to be able to introduce our audience to this organization, and to hear Craigís story.î

The VIEW event in December has been designed as the vehicle to launch a series of highly focused weekly virtual conferences in 2008, and is expected to draw over 1,500 HR professionals. In addition to Craig Kielburgerís presentation, there will be daily keynote presentations from industry leaders and multiple panel and feature presentations throughout the two days, on hot topics of interest to HR professionals around the world. Additionally, Craigís presentation will be available on demand through the HR.com archives, to all participants, for seven days following the show.

ìWeíve managed to attract the top talent in the HR space to present at this show in order to help us launch this brand new concept to the industry. The overwhelming success of our unique presentation style allows us to offer live presentations and Q&A to our attendees, as well as networking and expert chats throughout the show. The opportunities for our speakers to impart their knowledge and expertise, as well as to 'get the word' out to the thousands of executives in the HR space is just mind-boggling,î McGrath says.

In addition to educational sessions, VIEW attendees are able to network with hundreds of professionals, ìhang-outî in the virtual lounge, join forums, earn valuable points towards show prizes and visit and interact with hundreds of HR industry exhibitors. Attendees may explore exhibitor booths, win booth prizes and talk with booth personnel to learn more about the company, their products, programs and career opportunities.