SPPEDS 2023 PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 4 MARCH 2023 
TIME 
SESSION 
CONTENT 
9.30am 
30 mins 
Open networking 
Full plenary group 
10.00 – 11.10am 
70 mins 
Opening Plenary 
Opening Cultural Welcome 
Presentation by incoming governors (2022-23) 
Rotary International  – Zone Director Jessie Harman 
Ron McLuckie- Leadership key note 
BREAK – 11.10 – 11.30am 20 mins 
11.30am – 12.30pm 
60 mins  
Breakout 1 - Enhance Participant Engagement 
Review and reflect. 
Presentation 
Activity in breakout groups 
Action Plan/ Breakout room Reflection 
LUNCH – 12.30 – 1.15pm 45 mins    
1.15 – 2.30pm 
75 mins 
Breakout 2 - Doing Good in the World  
(Increase our Impact) 
Review and reflect. 
Speakers – Rotary Foundation Coordinator Peter Garnett 
  - Michelle Tanner (Polio & Give Every Child a Future) 
  - Erika Yague- Peace Scholar 
 - breakroom Reflection 
 
BREAK – 2.30 – 2.50pm 20 mins 
2.50 – 3.50pm 
60 mins 
Breakout 3 – Delivering our Service Projects 
 
Review and reflect 
Speakers 
Activities in breakout groups 
Action Plan 
3.50 – 4.00pm 
10 mins 
4.00 – 4.30pm 
Open for networking 
Close out plenary for Day 1 
 
Summary and highlights 
Logistics for next day 
SUNDAY 5 MARCH 2023 
TIME 
SESSION 
CONTENT 
9.30am 
30 mins 
Open networking 
Full plenary group 
10.00 – 10.40am 
40 mins 
Opening Plenary Day 2 
Opening 
Rotaract Panel Discussion – Working better together 
BREAK – 10.40 – 11.00am 20 mins 
11.00am – 12.00pm 
60 mins  
Breakout 4 – Telling Our Stories 
Review and Reflect 
Presentation in story Style 
Importance of Marketing 
LUNCH – 12.00 – 12.45pm 45 mins    
12.45 – 1.45pm 
60 mins 
Breakout 5- Enhancing the Member Experience 
 
Panel of District Membership Chairs with Tony Heywood as Panel Leader 
Key questions to be discussed in breakout groups 
Action Plan 
1.45 – 2.10pm 
25 mins 
Update Regionalisation Project 
Ingrid Waugh 
BREAK – 2.10 – 2.20pm 10 mins 
2.20 – 3.00pm 
40 mins 
Close at 3.00pm 
Open for networking 
Closing Plenary  
RI President Elect Gordon  McInally 
 
Reflections, acknowledgments