DISTRICT 9810 ANNUAL 2020 ROTARY CONFERENCE
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Conference Program

DAY 1   FRIDAY 2nd MARCH
11:00 am - Luncheon for new members and first-time attendees
  1:00 pm - Conference begins...
     - Per Hoyen:  Welcome form the RI President's Personal Representative (RIPPR)
  1:30 pm - Dr Jordan Nguyen: One Life. Persist to Improve Many
  2:15 pm - Afternoon Tea
  2:45 pm - Focus: Indigenous Australia
    - Roll call of Clubs   
    - 
Sarah Brown: The Purple Truck - A Social Health Enterprise
    - Russell Marnock: National Trachoma Project
    - Olive Aumann: A myriad of connections
  4:30 pm - Russell Gurney: Launch of 2019 Conference  
  4:45 pm - Close for the day  
  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm  Cocktail Party (note changed time)
  7:00 pm until late - Club dinners - arranged by Clubs  
DAY 2    SATURDAY 3rd MARCH
Focus: A healthier Tomorrow
  8:45 am - In Memoriam 
  9:00 am - DGN Shia Smart (Duncan): Introduction 
       - Beth Wilson: Memoirs of a Failed Retiree
10:35 am - Morning Tea
       - Rtns Brian Martin & Merv Ericson: Walk the Talk  
       - Professor Eoin Killackey: Education and Employment - Keys to Recovery in Young People with Mental Illness
       - Jordan Fallon: Youth Suicide - Challenges for Society
       - Bob Williams: Interplast
       - Cathy Roth: Professionals with Alzheimers
       - Mary Muirhead: Learning for Life - Autism and the Future
12:40 pm - Lunch
  1:40 pm - Focus - Career & Profession
       - Tom Gleisner: Working Dog Productions - Moments in Australian Culture
       - Club Project - Satellite Scoresby
  2:25 pm - Focus - Business and our Environment
       - Pat Armstrong - Rotary Environment Committee       
       - Brendan Foran - Connecting to the Environment
  3:05 pm Afternoon Tea
  3:35 pm Focus - International
        - Club Project - Microfinance - Amazing outcomes for $250. Bayswater RC
        - Club Project - Kiriwina - Rowville RC
  3:50 pm - Focus - Rotary Foundation
       - PDG Brian Foley: Introduction to The Rotary Foundation
       - PDG Murray Verso: The Rotary Foundation - A Global Perspective
       - Rtn Mark Balla: Improving Educational Outcomes through WaSH Initiatives
       - PDG Bob Richards & AG Diane Fisher: Polio - National Immunisation Day Update
  5:00 pm - Close for the day

  6:30 pm - Gala Dinner - The Bendigo Stadium (approx 3.5 klms from the Ulumbarra Theatre, free parking)
DAY 3    SUNDAY 4th MARCH
   9:00 am Focus: Youth & Leadership
       - Bianca Lobo: Rotaract at a National Scale
       - Jenny Coburn: Membership - New Styles
       - Murray Baird: How Deep is your Love? the picture of charities in Australia
       - DRR Tegan McWilliam: Rotaractors Tomorrow
       - Salwan Shahine and students: Interact in Schools 
       - Wandin RC: Earlyact  
  10:35 - Morning Tea
      - David Burt: Transforming Australian Culture through Sport
      - Public Speaking Contest Winners
      - Youth Exchange
  11:50 am Kirsty Sword Gusmao AO: Together Towards Tomorrow
  12:30 pm RIPPR Per Hoyen: Final Address
 12:50 pm Conference Close
   1:00 pm Lunch
The 2020 District 9810 Rotary Conference will be held on the traditional lands of the  Dja Dja Wurrung, Taungurung; and Yorta Yorta people and we pay our respects to their elders past and present and to any Elders who will be attending the Conference.
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