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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME @ 12.01.09

District 9940 Napier 2009
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday 6 March

1.00 pm Registration opens - Napier Municipal Theatre
5.15 pm DG Reception for Official Guests
6.00 pm Opening Reception - Light meal served
7.00 pm Conference Opening
8.15 pm Showtime with Off Broadway!
9.45 pm Retire

Saturday 7 March

7.00 am Conference Breakfast – Hosted by Inner Wheel
Napier War Memorial Conference Centre
Speaker – Clarence Bertram St John Fitz Montague (Bertie), Ambassador for Napier

8.00 am Registration desk opens

8.45 am Conference resumes – Napier Municipal Theatre
Keynote Speaker – Dr Ian Brooks “Change is what Rotarians Must Do”

9.35 am Innovative Community Project #1

9.50 am Message from Rotary International
Past RI Director Sushil Gupta, RI President’s Representative

10.10 am Morning coffee

10.40 am International Youth Exchange – A celebration
Featuring the District 9940 Youth Exchange Students

11.30 am Innovative Community Project #2

11.45 am Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA)
Featuring the 2008 and 2009 Intake

12.00 pm Lunch
Separate lunch for Presidents Elect and partners and invited guests

1.00 pm Conference resumes – Napier Municipal Theatre
International Connections – The Rotary Foundation
- Group Study Exchange Team Presentation – New Zealand to Brittany
- Group Study Exchange Team Presentation – Brittany to New Zealand
- Introduction of Group Study Team – New Zealand to Denver

1.55 pm Innovative Community Project #3

2.10 pm Rotary’s Ambassadorial Scholars
Presentation by Inbound and Outbound scholars

2.35 pm Meeting the Gates Challenge
The Great National Motorbike Ride – DG Tony Fryer & PDG Graham Douglass

2.45 pm Innovative Community Project #4

3.00 pm Coffee break

3.20 pm District 9940 Annual General Meeting
3.50 pm Conclude day’s business

6.00 pm Coaches depart from hotels/motels for Hawke’s Bay Opera House, Hastings
Party Time….. Ooh La La! themed reception, dinner, and celebration

10.30 pm - 12.15am Coaches return to Napier

Sunday 8 March

9.00 am Conference Resumes – Napier Municipal Theatre
Capital Musings!

The Presidents: Rotary Clubs of London, Canberra and Wellington

9.15 am Rotary World Community Service
Our Rotary New Zealand World Community Service projects

9.35 am Rotary Peace Scholarships
Keynote Speaker – Veronica Chalmers, New Zealand Peace Scholar

10.00 am Morning coffee

10.30 am Our ROMAC Story – Saving Lives!
Greig Mercer, PK Mishra, and Bill Day

11.00 am Out there – In Our Community
Keynote Speaker – Cr Henare O’Keefe “The Currency of the Future”

11.40 am Promotion of 2010 Wellington Conference
DGE David Watt and team

11.50 am Presentation of Awards and Citations
Closing addresses:
Past RI Director Sushil Gupta
District Governor Tony Fryer